10 Scariest Haunted Houses in the United States

4. Winchester House

There have been a number of strange events reported at the Winchester House in San Jose, California. It all started in 1884 when a wealthy widow named Sarah L. Winchester began a construction project of such magnitude that it was to occupy the carpenters and craftsmen lives until her death 38 years later. This mansion is filled with many unexplained oddities that it is often referred to as the Winchester Mystery House. This house has 160 rooms, modern heating, sewer system, gas lights, 3 working elevators, and 47 fireplaces. There are windows built into the floor, staircases that lead to nowhere, a chimney that raises 4 floors, doors that open to blank walls. It’s said that Sarah along with other tormented spirits still wonder the great maze of rooms.

3. The Whaley House

The Whaley House is located in San Diego California. It was built in 1857 by Thomas Whaley on land that was once a cemetery. Because of that, the house has since been the locus of dozens of ghost sightings. Some ghostly encounters include a spirit of a young girl who accidently was hung on the property. The ghost of Jim Robinson who was clubbed to death can be heard on the stairway where he died. The red-haired daughter of Whaley sometimes appears in a very realistic form, that she is sometimes mistaken for a live child.

2. LaLaurie House

This famous private residence in old New Orleans got its title the haunted house from tales that were told about tortured slave spirits clank their chains during the midnight hours in remembrance of awful punishment they face by their mistress. There are even reports of the ghost of the Madame being seen there. Ghosts are often seen running and slamming doors and shouts are heard repeatedly. Furniture moves around by itself, people often feel the touch of unseen hands, and people even see ghosts peering from the upper windows.

1. Myrtles Plantation

The Myrtles Plantation is the number one haunted house in the United States. It is located in West Feliciana Parish Louisiana. It’s said that the actual haunting take place at 3am. “At that exact hour each dark night, Chloe’s restless ghost roams the great dark haunted plantation. Chloe is a slave mistress who was kept by judge Woodruff. When he grew tired of her, she started to eavesdrop on him to learn of her fate. When he caught her at this, he cut off her left ear. She wanted to regain affection of him and the family so she boiled poisonous oleander leaves and baked them into a cake. She thought this would just make the children sick and she would get to attend to them. But as it turns out, she used too much and his wife and two children died that night from the poisoning. When the other slaves learned of this, they hung her from a tree then threw her in the Mississippi River. Chloe and the children can be seen and heard to this day in the plantation.