In
Rhode Island
Barrington - Saint Andrews School - In the
building McVickar it is said the old headmaster haunts it supposedly.
He wears a red cape; he is seen walking around the building. You can
feel a cold breeze and presence before you are able to see him. Many
students as well as faculty members have claimed to have sighted him.
Block Island - Strange
lights have been reported to appear at the south tip of this island.
People have also claimed to hear the sound of a child crying. The
occurrences are believed to be linked to the story of a ship that
caught fire many years ago.
Block Island - Harbor Side
Inn - Woman dressed in 19th century black dress
on 3rd floor seen entering room 302. Desk clerks have reported a
sensation on being grabbed around the waist from behind, as if someone
were trying to move them out of the way.
Bristol - Colt School - It is said to be haunted by the ghosts of the family
that have their pictures in the auditorium. In the boys bathroom
strange smells and voices are heard and at night you can sometimes see
ghosts wondering the halls.
Bristol - Colt State Park
- Used to be a farm until it was sold to the
state in the 50's or 60's. Apparently a stable hand died in the barn
(now used as the park office). staff has shut off lights and closed
doors only to find them on or open when they come back a few hours
later, but nothing much more than that. One witness reports he was
going to his car from the beach at what is called "Suicide Hill" and
saw two little girls walking up the path towards him. They vanished as
he got closer. A guy who works there confirmed one of his ex-coworkers
saw the same girls and heard giggling in the woods in that area.
Supposedly two young sisters drowned in the waters off the point back
in the 70's. The park closes at dark and is patrolled so you can't be
in there late.
Bristol - Roger Williams
University Theatre - The Barn -
Originally two separate 19th century barns the Roger Williams theatre
is home to a ghost sometimes referred to by the students as Banquo. I
was told that a farm hand froze to death in the hayloft of one of the
barns before it was the theatre. There have been accounts of cold spots
where the temperature is significantly colder in a localized area. Also
have the heavy stage 'blacks' blowing in the wind when there is no
wind. Names being called by no one.
Central Falls - Cartie's
health center - a nursing home that was built in
the 50's. A temporary nurse working the graveyard shift reports - First
night there, a well-dressed, friendly woman unlocked the door to
cheerily let her in & gave her directions to the unit. Later en
route to the candy machine on the ground floor, she passed the smiling,
humming woman. The nurse commented to an aide that she wished that she
was as "bright-eyed & bushy-tailed" as the lady downstairs. The
aide said that there was no way that anyone was in the locked building
& there were no employees or residents that fit that description.
At the end of the shift this was confirmed.
Central Falls - Mansion
Nursing Home - Report of a little girl spirit
sighting. Staff, patients seeing shadows, hearing noises, reports of
being touch and slapped when no one is around. Patients who normally
don't speak French, are speaking French to a little girl. Nurses who
walk in and ask the patient who they are speaking to and they claim a
little girl, but the nurses don't see a little girl and three days
later the patient would die.
Coventry - Nathaniel
Greene Homestead - Feelings of cold spots,
hearing doors slamming and people walking. Witnesses have reported the
sensation of cannons firing and screaming.
Coventry - Phoenix
(Harris) Fire Station - This fire station was
built in 1887 and was used for a village meeting place as well as a
fire department. Many gatherings where held within the station such as
weddings and wakes in the early 1900s. Numerous people who work at this
station as well as visitors have seen aberrations passing through the
entrance to the stairwell on the first floor. Voices are often heard
but never understood. People will often say they have the feeling of
not being alone when in the dayroom. Personnel within the station
openly speak of this haunting but can't say for certain who it may be.
Cranston - Park View
Middle School - Reports of a male ghost haunting
school after dying in pool.
Cranston - Rhode Island
Prison - Guards have reported seeing a man jump
off the side of the building of Maximum Security.
Cranston - Sprague Mansion
- haunted by numerous ghosts in various rooms.
Cumberland - Cumberland
Monastery - The ghost of a monk who has been
known to move books or close books when people get up to do something.
along the back trail has a phantom horse rider which will come upon you
out of nowhere. A third apparition is of a child has been seen running
in the swamp area and along some of the back trails.
Cumberland - Wets Wrentham
Colonial House - Haunted by an old man who
appears in dreams, makes rapping noises, makes appearances, and creates
strange noises.
Cumberland - Tower Hill
Road - Various numbers of Ghosts have been
reported on this Road. Most common is the Ghost of a little Girl
whom is spitted in the front yard of one of the houses. The road
is narrow and twisting with a lot of Hills, the Deadliest curve, it's
been reported that the Ghost of a little boy running with his
dog. Also, in this area sometimes a Toddler on a tricycle is
spotted. Many have spotted various, strange apparitions in the
woods and fields along the road. Often when traveling this road,
people get a strange watched or haunted feeling.
Exeter - Chestnut Hill
Cemetery - A young girl, Mercy Brown, died on
Jan. 18, 1892. Her father later dug up her body thinking that she had
become a vampire. With local help they removed her body and the medical
doctor drained her organs of the remaining blood. This violation of her
grave has caused Mercy to appear in the graveyard at night. Many
witnesses report seeing strange blue lights moving in the graveyard.
Exeter - Vampire's Grave -
A long and winding road where you go over two
mini bridges and at the end there is a church and cemetery where there
is a lady vampire buried. As you leave, supposedly when you go over the
second bridge the vampire appears to be in front of your car. a truck
comes from nowhere and follows you all the way to the highway and then
disappears. .
Exeter - Joseph P. Ladd
Center - aka: Ladd School (mental and
rehabilitation hospital (1902-1982) - A compound
of 10 buildings located in dank and barren meadows scattered with
random sickly, creature-like trees surrounded by acres of dense
coniferous woods in Exeter, RI. Comprised of a Recreational
Center containing a theatre, basketball courts, locker rooms, bowling
alley, indoor swimming pools, classrooms, cafeterias and kitchens, and
a sub-basement, 6 story Cylindrical Shaped Infirmary containing a
padded cell, dental clinic, operating rooms, morgue, and x-ray clinic.
Administration buildings, Dormitories, Classroom buildings,
Crematorium, and Community building w/ greenhouse, and a room entirely
filled with x-rays and incident reports of patients dating 1968 to
1987. But the Hospital was supposedly closed in 1982. Anyway, a
400 foot elevated water tower amidst a grouping of trees overlooks the
compound. Hauntings have been orbs, streaks, and hazes of light
recorded on film, both video and 35 mm print film, sounds of breathing
and shuffling on tape recorders, wheelchairs and beds moved to
different locations, feeling of being watched and
followed throughout Infirmary and Recreational Center. One
person has had a camera smacked out of her hand and when she picked it
up & smacked out of her hand a second time, music on car radio when
driving into the compound even when the radio was off. Outdoors,
shadows of people move across fields in the distance into the woods;
these shadows have been known to sneak up sometimes, and sort of
disappear. Leaves blow in the most mild and calm of
weather. One July 3rd, 2002 a group of explorers were in the 3rd
floor nurses station at 11:30pm when from darkness of the long causeway
connecting the infirmary to another building, came the sound of
something slowly dragging what sounded like a piano with it's chords
echoing for about 4 seconds...it suddenly stopped...and all four of us
suddenly looked at each other with panic written all over our faces.
They all watched the color drain out of each others faces as they knew
they all heard the same thing, then left immediately.
Foster - Dolly Cole's
Grave Site - Dolly Cole, a suspected witch, lost
her daughter to a house fire set by her neighbors thinking Dolly was in
the house. She swore revenge on them all, and is seen wondering
along the dirt road near her gravesite. Hauntings also include a spirit
appearing to hunters on a private sportsmanship club while hunting and
upon the lake on opening day of trout season.
Kingston - Alpha Phi
Sorority - A spirit named Patrick haunts the
third floor and the basement floor. Water turns on and off, shelves are
thrown from the walls, unexplained noises such as footsteps and loud
banging against doors. Patrick, who was killed when he was very young,
is rumored to be the son of the owner of the House.
Kingston - Chi Omega
Sorority - A woman has appeared standing near
the fire escape at the end of the third floor. Doors and windows have
been known to open and close on the third floor. And the house father
heard his name being called when no-one was home. The resident spirit
is unknown.
Kingston - University of
Rhode Island - Sigma Pi House - A few
of the rooms have had TV unexpectedly turn on and off, lights have been
know to just blow up at times. Occasionally there has been a figure
seen through windows sitting in the chapter room when the doors have
been locked all night.
Kingston - University of
Rhode Island - Theta Delta Chi Fraternity - A ghost named Barbara haunts the third floor of this
building. Her child has been seen bouncing a ball down the main aisle
of the third floor sleeping decks.
Kingston - University of
Rhode Island - Will Theatre – Theater J - There
has only been one occasion of violence regarding George - a teacher who
will remain nameless whom a lot of the students did not like was
standing at the top of the steps leading down into Theatre J (next to
Will) when she felt 2 hands shove her from behind; she fell down the
stairs. Nobody else was in the vicinity.
Mapleville/Burrilville -
Woods in Maureen Cir - The Swamp Bride - This
true story happened during the month of august in the 1810s Katherine
Donahue was a tall dirty blonde haired lady. She was in love with
Jonathan Cuttle who she was to marry in September. Her life was as you
could say perfect except for one thing there was one man who lived
right near her he lived alone and was obsessed with Katherine. His name
was David Jones. Besides him Katherine loved her life. One day
Katherine and her younger brother Charles went down to a nearby swamp.
Katherine went to get water for the family and Charles went hunting
pheasant. At David s house David went mad. He knew Katherine would
never love him and David charged out the door with a black knife. He
stopped at Jonathan s farm first. Jonathan was picking hay with a
pitchfork. He put it down and turned around. David slowly grabbed the
fork and jabbed the fork into Jonathan s back. Katherine was sitting by
the water David saw her and threw his knife at her which went
right threw her neck. She started screaming in pain as she dropped to
the ground and died.Rocking chairs have been heard rocking in the halls
and voices and noises are heard late at night in the halls.
Narragansett - Old
Wedderburn House - the ghost of a small woman
in a black veil haunts this house.
Narragansett - South
County Museum - Figures seen walking from room
to room in the main office building (that was once and old farm
house). Creepy feeling in the basement of the museum hall.
Things reported being moved overnight in the museum hall by the only
person who had the key. A former employee reported seeing a full
apparition outside via the reflection on a computer monitor. The
apparition was thought to be a real person that was coming into the
office...no one came in, and no one was in the parking lot. The
"person" was reported to have been wearing early 1900's garb,
plaid/pastel blazer with kakis, a tan round flat straw/wicker? hat,
with a matching breif case. The museum is located where the beach
house/mansion of former Governor Sprague used to be. And very
close to Narragansett town beach, the "it" beach to be in victorian
times."
Newport - Agassiz Mansion
on Castle Hill - This large home, now used as an
inn, is haunted by a female spirit that is supposedly related to the
house's builder, Mr. Agassiz. The ghost has appeared to various staff
members over the last 25 years and has even been known to throw china
in the pantry.
Newport - Belcourt Castle
- Chapel - There is a statue of a monk
in the chapel of the castle. Before it was placed in the chapel, it was
near the stairs. A person going through the house would sometimes see a
man dressed as a monk near the stairs. He hasn't been seen since he was
moved to the chapel. Also, reportedly all the ghosts come from these
antiques. The castle was built by Oliver Belmont in the late 1800's
during the gilded age of Newport.
Newport - Belcourt Castle
- Gothic Ballroom - there are 2 Chairs
in the have spirits in them. Put your hand near the chairs, your hand
gets cold and prickly, try to sit in one, there is resistance, try to
sit in the other, it might throw you out. There is suit armor in the
Gothic ballroom whose owner died when a spear went through the eye slot
and out the other end. He can be heard screaming in and around March.
Newport - Bretton Point - There is an old, abandoned stable and widow's walk on
a tower top in the back of the "kite-flying" field. There are noises
and voices such as banging, horse trotting, and conversations. Many
people have experienced a wide variety of phenomenon.
Newport - Elks Lodge - There is a portrait of a woman and her child at the
top of a staircase in the building. If you look at the portrait
sometimes you cant see the child as well. This supposedly means that
she is walking around in the second floor of the lodge. There has also
been sightings of the child and footsteps moving around upstairs. There
has also been strange occurrences such as lights flicking on and off.
Newport - Le Petite
Auberge - This is documented on A&E TV
special. A cook was alone in the locked restaurant and passed an
upstairs room. She saw a man sitting there at the table. She went to
tell him the place was closed and then noticed he was dressed in an
oldtime uniform. He vaporized before her eyes. Silverware often rattles
on the tables and the owner’s wife saw the ghost sitting behind her
when she turned while doing her books. She ran out petrified.
Newport - Porter Mansion -
Richard Washburn Child haunts this building in
which he died.
Newport - Salve Regina
University - Carey Mansion - supposedly
a nun hung herself. The room is boarded up and every month a priest has
to come in and bless the house.
Newport - Salve Regina
University - McAuley Hall - is haunted
by a little boy who fell out of a window while watching his parents
arrive by boat.
Newport - The Astors'
Beechwood mansion - Candles blowing out by
themselves and foot steps on a secret stair case. Strange images and
sounds. Cold spots and just "knowing" that someone was watching you.
Newport - Viking Hotel - Sounds of a party coming from an abandon area above
guest rooms on the back side of the hotel.
North Kingstown - Scallabrini
Villa - haunted by the ghosts of children that
have died there. It is presently a nursing establishment composed of
two building facilities. The new building was erected in 1995. However
the older building completed way back, unsure of the date, was
originally a Rhode Island Hospital children's facility. It is said that
children could be heard laughing, crying, or playing. Particularly,
room 103 is said to be the room where many spirits stay. Keep in mind
that it presently houses retired nuns and priests, and is under
direction of the Scallabrini Fathers, so you may not be able to gain
access.
North Kingstown - School
Street - the graveyard at the beginning of
school street near post road is very haunted. People have seen people
walking through the graveyard at night and have seen lights flashing
with no explanation
Pawtucket - Author St. - On the floor of an apartment there are hauntings. The
apartment building was built over the cemetery, and at night you can
see and hear a man playing the piano.
Providence - Benefit
Street - Historic Benefit Street, with it's
historic homes, is said to be the most haunted location in RI. There
have been numerous sightings along this street. One in particular, is
of a horse drawn carriage, seen by several people over the years. There
have also been sightings of an old woman in the attic window of one of
the historic homes that line this street. There has even been reference
to the spirit of Edgar Allen Poe walking the streets of this area
during the early morning hours. Apparently, Poe had been dating a woman
from this area before his death.
Providence - Fairfield Inn
- On the bottom floor in one the rooms closer
to the front, a ghost dressed in old clothes from approx the late
1700's with a triangle shaped hat. Weathered, leathery looking face.
Dressed as a farmer not military. Stands in face and mumbles no words
could be made out.
Providence - Johnson and
Wales University - A dormitory that used to be
a monastery is supposedly haunted by a nun that went crazy nearly 60
years ago. She is seen walking on all the floors late at night. Also
one of the rooms on the second floor has walls that bleed.
Providence - Johnson and
Wales University - Xavier Hall - Formerly
St. Xavier Rectory - Students have reported
furniture moving in their dorm rooms. Some have felt tremendous cold
feelings and almost audible anger coming from some rooms. This has not
been documented, but it seems that a nun may have been murdered by a
priest there at some time.
Providence - Providence
College - Aquinas Hall - is one
haunted dorm in particular that was the setting for a fire, which took
place in 1977. Many girls lost their lives in this fire. 5 of the girls
died of smoke inhalation and 2 by falling out the window of the fourth
floor while trying to escape. The fire started near room 405. To this
day things are found missing only to turn up in strange places. A
number of strange occurrences happen too such as doors opening and
closing, faucets turning on by themselves, cold spots, radios that turn
on mysteriously, and strange forms have even turned up in photographs.
Providence - Providence
College - Dore Hall - This dormitory
used to be an infirmary for the fatally ill with a morgue in the
basement. Strange figures have often been seen roaming the halls.
Warwick - The Aldrich
Mansion - supposedly one of the Aldrich
daughters killed herself by jumping off a balcony. There have been some
sightings there by employees.
Providence - Rhode Island
School of Design - Barstow House -
-Barstow House's Tourquoise and Red rooms are said to be haunted by
demonic beings that cause bouts of depression as well as extreme cold.
Also, the rest of the house has rather large eerie mirrors that are
Said to reflect ghosts late at night.
Providence - Rhode Island
School of Design - Dexter House -
-Dexter House was once an old morgue, now many spirits still roam about
the building, however most of these apparitions are friendly.
Providence - Rhode Island
School of Design - Dunnel House -
-holds many spirits, the most menacing is in the basement. This ghost
has been seen by many people and felt by almost everyone who has gone
downstairs. It has been known to knock over trash cans, play with the
light fixtures and television, and bring chills to anyone in the room.
It occasionally appears in the form of a large shadow. In the back
stairwell on the second floor, there resides a female spirit who
appears to students through the window.
Providence - Rhode Island
School of Design - Farnum Hall - - is
the home of many spirits, some of which are troublesome, some friendly.
Many students also claim to have seen these ghosts. It is reported that
some students have seen apparitions standing above their beds late at
night, and throughout the day and night, noises of people walking and
whispers can be heard throughout the building.
Providence - Rhode Island
School of Design - Homer Hall - there
are two spirits that reside on the fourth floor. One is a male entity
that has been known to be seen in the bathroom. He also is known for
playing with people's music selections and breaking windows. It is said
that a young man killed himself by jumping off of the balcony back in
the 70's when the hall was new. The other Homer four ghost is a woman
who has been seen in a few of the rooms. She turns on faucets in the
girls bathroom, and reportedly blood has been randomly seen there late
at night in the shower stalls. On the ground floor lounge, students
claim the VCR and Television sometimes work on their own will, and also
visible shadows move about the room. Homer two is the home of the ghost
of an old man who wanders the halls at all times of the day. An angry
entity haunts the ground floor of Nickerson Hall. When walking through
the underground passage between Homer and Nickerson, students can hear
something banging on the metal doors in one of the storage rooms. The
poltergeist has been known to move about the ground floor of Nickerson
on occasion.
Providence - Rhode Island
School of Design - Nightengale House - has
a tricky poltergeist that inhabits the basement and first floor lounge.
It has been known to move furniture, and cause issues with electrical
circuitry. It also has been reported that the spirit will try to push
people down the stairs. Photos taken outside the home have been seen
with multiple orbs.
Providence - Rhode Island
School of Design - Pardon Miller House - RISD Outer Housing - is the home of two young children who have been seen
by students working in the basement. Also, a young woman's voice can be
heard by students on the second floor of the house. She has been seen
on occasion.
Providence - Ridgeway
avenue - People who live in the house around
this street claim to see ghost walking around in the woods 1 house in
particular is haunted by numerous spirits
Riverside - Charles Loof
Carousel - The Charles Loof Carousel, also known
as Crescent Park Carousel is over 100 years old and at once had an
amusement park, and a ballroom. Now all that is left is the Carousel
because in the 1960's the Ballroom burned to the ground. Its has been
said that people were burned to death in this fire. An employee reports
when she opens up in the morning, sometimes the music turns on without
anyone else being there and the lights flicker. They also report seeing
woman in bellhooped skirts walking around down near the water. There
also used to be train tracks where now is the bike path. At night you
can hear the trains and see lights flashing wildly. Not only has all of
this happened in the past in this small town but at the Crescent Park
beach a man murdered his wife in 1989 and buried her in the sand.
Whenever you go to sit near where he had buried her, you get a feeling
of anger and you feel like your freezing up because of a coldness that
hits you.
Rumford - Wannamoisett
country club - At night if you drive on bent
road, and step out of your car and walk about 20 steps onto the 18th
fairway of Wannamoisett country club you will 2 Indians riding on
horses that will come chasing towards you if you are seen. They have
been known to run to the people watching and disappear right before it
hits you.
South Kingstown - Great
Swamp - This was a place of a massacre that took
place during the colonial era. There was a battle between the colonists
and the Indians. This was called a massacre because the Indians were
not prepared against the advanced weaponry of the colonists. Now this
place has been a burial ground of the Indians at night you could still
hear the war cries, and gunshots and screaming and crying that took
place and see Indians dressed in war regalia walking through the swamp.
Wakefield - Allen Avenue -
A protective ghost haunts the top floors of this
old Victorian. It slams doors, sometimes emits an odd stench,
turns up the heat, and turns on electrical appliances. The ghost
is unknown but referred to as "Satan" because of its need for hellish
temperatures.
Warren - Kickemuit River -
School house roads - It is said that there are
seven haunted heads there if u go at the right time u can see them. The
head are seen floating above seven poles where they were posted as a
warning to all English pioneers not to go on the land. this warning was
put up by the Native Americans that didn’t want the English invading.
Warren - Mechanics Fire
Station#2 - during the night when people sleep
over a grayish blue cloud is seen in the second flomr hovering around,
going through solid objects ie.. Couch pool table. There is a odor of
burnt wood after a sighting, and there is cold areas located around
after and during visits.
Warwick - Fairfield
Marriot Inn - Apparition of a man in Farmers
clothing seen at 4:00 A.M. on the fifth floor. Children have been heard
running on the fourth floor when there are no children in the inn. A
couple of the rooms are also known to be haunted and cold spots have
been felt, and unknown voices have been caught when using a tape
recorder.
Warwick - The Old Veteran
Cemetery - Reports of hearing twigs
snapping, shadows moving by the lake, and seeing strange shapes
kneeling behind the graves have been reported. Also, at night the
is a tree in the center of the cemetery that looks like a demon.
West Greenwich - Matteson Farm - In the
1830's farmhouse residents often hear heavy footsteps, windows that
open and close, and water faucets which turn themselves on and off. The
house, retaining most of its original construction materials and
situated across the street from the Matteson family cemetery, is
creaky, drafty and very dark in the winter evenings. While the
goings-on in question may be attributed to bad water pressure, settling
beams, etc., there is a charming atmosphere, which almost demands the
presence of a nineteenth-century farmer's ghost.
West Warwick - Kent County Times Building - Several employees of the Times reported strange
sensations and feelings of panic when working in a storage room on the
third floor of the building. The same has happened in the men's
lavatory on the same floor. One employee quit after being
"followed" by someone she couldn't see. It is rumored that a man
killed himself by hanging in the third floor stairwell.
West Warwick - St. Mary's Church - This
is the first Catholic church built in Rhode Island. The building
of it was met with resistance by the local Protestants who were the
majority at the time. The builder and his wife Mary completed the
church anyway despite warnings that if the ground was broken for the
church, the person who dug the first shovel of earth would lie beneath
it. That unfortunate person was Mary. It is her spirit who
supposedly haunts the church. Lights have been turned on and off,
candles have inexplicably gone out and items have been moved from
various areas of the church. She seems to be a benevolent spirit
and the priests at the church accept her as part of the parish.
Woonsocket - Mount
St. Charles Academy - The ghost of an
elderly brother (priest) is said to roam the halls of the 4th
floor after dark. Apparently he was murdered by a student way
back in the early 1900's when the Academy was an all boy’s boarding
school.
Woonsocket - Woonsocket
High School Auditorium - It was said that
2 people got killed falling off the scaffolding during the original
building of the high school. One of the two who were killed has been
seen and felt in the auditorium on multiple occassions by kids in the
band and chorus. It shuts down lights, turns on the spotlights, turns
on the music and other audio equipment.. and it has been heard that it
sometimes makes noises during nightly rehersals, etc.. It once shut the
curtains half way during a senior assembly. (there is a ladder that
leads to a dark tunnel near the ceiling to get to the spotlight room).
The spirit has been seen in the spotlight room and everyone is now too
afraid to actually go up there.
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