Ghost stories, cryptids, UFO sightings, live paranormal cams, and an interactive haunted map of America — updated every week.
Each week we feature the most haunted places in one US state going alphabetically. Click any pin to read the haunted history and visiting info. Add your own scary place with the form below.
Current states: Alabama, Arizona & Arkansas | Next week: California | Green pins = your submissions
Click a card or a map pin to read the full story. Alabama and Arizona pins remain on the map from previous weeks.
"America's Most Haunted Hotel." A fake cancer hospital, a basement morgue, and a stonemason's ghost.
A floating ghost light drifts along an old railroad bed said to mark a 1931 murder.
A daughter's suicide by cyanide, a sealed bedroom, and a face caught in a mirror photo.
Little Rock's oldest cemetery, resting place of governors and Confederate generals -- and reported apparitions among the headstones.
A murdered actor in a top hat and cape reportedly still flips the lights on and off backstage.
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Live feeds from some of North America's most documented haunted locations — running 24/7. Keep your eyes on the shadows.
Willard Library is one of Indiana's oldest public libraries — a stunning Victorian Gothic building of steep roofs, turrets, and Gothic arched windows, built in 1877 by wealthy philanthropist Willard Carpenter. It's also, by most accounts, one of the most reliably haunted buildings in America.
The ghost known as the Grey Lady has been reported since at least the 1930s, when a janitor claimed to encounter a woman in a grey veil near the basement bathroom — and fled the building, never returning. Since then, hundreds of staff, patrons, and paranormal investigators have reported her presence: a cold mist, the faint scent of perfume, books displaced from shelves, and the unmistakable feeling of being watched in the stacks.
Theories about her identity vary. Many believe she is Louise Carpenter, daughter of the founder, who sued the library board in the 1890s after her father's will left her nothing — and lost. Others point to a former librarian said to haunt the children's section, keeping watch over young visitors. Psychics who visited in 2007 confirmed a strong presence, and EVP recordings have captured voices in the basement hallway and on the staircase.
Willard Library launched their ghost cams in the early 2000s and they became an instant global phenomenon. The cameras run around the clock — watch carefully. The Grey Lady has been sighted most recently in the basement hallway and, chillingly, the children's room.
Few buildings carry as much dark history as the Rock Island Road House. Originally built as a YMCA, the building quietly became a hub for illegal activity during Prohibition — a speakeasy with ties to local mob boss John Looney, whose grip on Rock Island was so total that he was said to have controlled the police, the courts, and the press. Looney's associate Helen Van Dale ran operations from within these walls, and the building saw violence, blackmail, and deals that were never meant to see daylight.
The building's most disturbing mystery involves John Dickerson, a YMCA resident who committed murder during his stay. There are also unconfirmed reports of a drowning in the building's pool, and of remains found during later renovations. The weight of these events seems to have left something behind.
Today paranormal investigators and cam watchers regularly report shadow figures in the bar and lounge, objects shifting in the infamous Doll Room on the third floor, and a persistent sense of unease in the fourth floor hallway near what was once Looney's private room. The Doll Room in particular is considered one of the most active areas — with dolls reported to move between sessions without explanation.
All four cameras stream live. If you spot something, visit spiritrealm.net to file a sighting report.
⚠️ Rock Island Road House cams are hosted via Spiritrealm.net / ivideon. If a feed shows offline, it may be temporarily down for maintenance — check back shortly or visit spiritrealm.net directly.
Watch the legendary waters of Loch Ness around the clock. Nessie has been reported for nearly 1,500 years — and these cameras are your front-row seat.
Loch Ness is a vast, dark, glacially-carved lake in the Scottish Highlands — over 22 miles long, nearly a mile wide, and reaching depths of 755 feet. Its waters are so peat-stained they are almost completely opaque below a few feet, and its volume is so enormous that it contains more fresh water than all the lakes in England and Wales combined. It is the perfect place to hide something enormous.
The legend of the Loch Ness Monster, affectionately known as Nessie, stretches back to 565 AD, when the Irish monk St. Columba reportedly encountered a large aquatic beast in the River Ness and commanded it to retreat. Modern sightings exploded in 1933 when a local couple reported a large creature crossing the road near the loch — the story was picked up globally, and the world has been watching ever since.
The famous 1934 "Surgeon's Photograph" — appearing to show a long-necked creature rising from the water — shaped the public image of Nessie for decades, even after it was revealed to be a staged photograph using a toy submarine. But credible sightings from pilots, scientists, and tourists continued: sonar contacts, unexplained wakes, large dark shapes beneath the surface.
In 2023, the largest Nessie search in decades was organised, using thermal drones and hydrophone arrays. They detected unexplained sounds deep in the loch — but no definitive answer. The mystery endures. These three live cams watch the loch 24 hours a day. The cameras belong to local hotels and lodges on the loch's banks — if something breaks the surface, one of them will catch it.
Loch Ness cams are operated by local businesses via ipcamlive.com. For more Nessie cam options visit visitinvernesslochness.com.
The skies above us are full of unanswered questions. Watch around the clock — from curated UFO sighting compilations to a real-time sky cam pointed at the stars over Queensland, Australia.
For most of the 20th century, reporting a UFO sighting was a reliable way to be dismissed. That began to change in 2017, when the New York Times published a bombshell investigation revealing that the U.S. Department of Defense had been running a secret program — the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) — studying unidentified aerial phenomena since at least 2007.
The release of three declassified Navy videos — FLIR1, Gimbal, and GoFast — showing encounters between U.S. fighter pilots and objects exhibiting flight characteristics beyond known technology changed the conversation permanently. In 2021, the Pentagon officially established the UAP Task Force and published a preliminary assessment acknowledging 144 unexplained incidents. By 2023, Congressional hearings included testimony from decorated military officers describing craft with no visible propulsion, no wings, and the ability to move from 80,000 feet to sea level in seconds.
Today, a global network of private sky watchers, former intelligence officials, and grassroots researchers trains cameras at the sky every night. Some of the most compelling footage now comes not from governments, but from ordinary people — exactly like you — watching and recording. The Queensland Sky Cam below streams live from Australia's southeast coast, pointed upward 24/7. The HauntTV stream runs continuous UFO footage and sighting compilations around the clock.
For those who want to watch U.S. skies specifically, the Colorado Webcam Network (coloradowebcam.net) runs dedicated star-gazing and UFO watch cams with night vision across the Rocky Mountain region — they can't be embedded but are well worth bookmarking.
Have you experienced something you can't explain? A haunting, a sighting, a strange encounter in the middle of the night? Freaky Fridays is where your stories come to life — Jennifer reads every submission and may feature yours on the show.