America’s Most Haunted: 13 Spots Where the Dead Supposedly Refuse to Check Out

Photo: RMS Queen Mary, now a stationary hotel in Long Beach, CA. Photo credit: Mark Doliner via Flickr. CC BY-SA 2.0. Article by Paul Jebara. Observer – October 2025.

Americans spent over $11 billion on Halloween last year, yet somehow we’re still pretending our fascination with the macabre is seasonal. The truth is, dark tourism—you know, that peculiar urge to vacation where terrible things happened—has become a year-round industry, and nowhere does it better than the United States, where we’ve commodified our ghosts with the same enthusiasm we bring to craft beer and artisanal donuts. […]

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