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96 free Haunted Places trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
10 free Haunted Places trivia questions with answers. Welcome to our Haunted Places Trivia Quiz! Challenge yourself with five spine-tingling questions about the world's most notorious haunted locations. From ancient castles to abandoned asylums, discover how much you really know about these paranormal hotspots.
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Q 01Which Estes Park, Colorado, hotel inspired the Overlook in Stephen King's The Shining?
The Stanley
The Stanley: the Kings checked in on the eve of its winter closure and found themselves the only guests in the echoing hotel, the night that gave him the novel.
Q 02Which 1910 Louisville tuberculosis hospital is billed as one of the world's most haunted?
Waverly Hills
Waverly Hills Sanatorium began as a two-storey hospital for 40 to 50 patients and closed in 1961, once the antibiotic streptomycin had made tuberculosis hospitals largely unnecessary.
Q 03What nickname did the ocean liner now moored at Long Beach earn as a fast WWII troopship?
The Grey Ghost
The Grey Ghost: repainted a dull wartime grey, she was quick enough to sail without a convoy, and her speed and zigzag courses made her almost impossible for U-boats to catch.
Q 04Which San Jose mansion did a wealthy widow keep enlarging for decades, reportedly on a medium's advice to appease spirits?
Winchester Mystery House
Winchester Mystery House legend has a Boston medium telling Sarah Winchester to build for the ghosts of rifle victims, yet her own letters show she often halted the work for months.
Q 05Which former liner and WWII troopship, docked in Long Beach, is called one of the world's most haunted ships?
RMS Queen Mary
RMS Queen Mary sliced through her own escort cruiser, HMS Curacoa, in 1942 and, under orders never to stop, steamed on; Long Beach bought the retired liner in 1967.
Q 06Which Philadelphia prison, whose 'Pennsylvania System' used separate confinement as rehabilitation, became a museum in 1994?
Eastern State Penitentiary
Eastern State Penitentiary held each inmate alone in a heated, sky-lit cell, but overcrowding forced prisoners to share and the solitary system was officially abandoned in 1913.
Q 07Which gangster was sent to Philadelphia's landmark 1829 penitentiary in August 1929 for carrying a concealed weapon?
Al Capone
Al Capone pleaded guilty and drew a year; weeks after his release in March 1930 he headed a widely publicised list as 'Public Enemy No. 1'.
Q 08Which Civil War battle site, where three days in July 1863 left about 50,000 casualties, is now famous for its ghost tours?
Gettysburg
Gettysburg: it was the costliest battle of the war, and Lincoln came that November to dedicate a national cemetery for its dead.
Q 09Which island prison, closed in 1963, is said to echo with the banjo of a gangster from its inmate band?
Alcatraz
Alcatraz: the gangster grew so cooperative that he was let into the prison band, the Rock Islanders, which gave regular Sunday concerts for the other inmates.
Q 10What nickname was given to the punishment cells 9 to 14 at the end of Alcatraz's D-Block?
The Hole
The Hole: troublemakers were shut in these cold bottom-tier cells for anything from three to nineteen days, fed in the cell and barred from work.
Q 11Which Tower of London tower, built as a water-gate, was originally known as the Garden Tower?
The Bloody Tower
The Bloody Tower, first called the Garden Tower, took its grim name in the 16th century, when it was believed to be where the Princes in the Tower were murdered.
Q 12Which Long Island village's Dutch Colonial house did the Lutz family flee in January 1976 after just 28 days?
Amityville
Amityville: Ronald DeFeo Jr. had shot six of his family in the house 13 months before, and the Lutzes' account of their stay became a bestseller and a run of films.
Q 13Which Essex house did ghost hunter Harry Price call 'the most haunted house in England' before it burned in 1939?
Borley Rectory
Q 21The Myrtles Plantation, a reputedly haunted home built in the 1790s on then-Spanish land, is in which state?
Louisiana
Louisiana: its builder, David Bradford, was a leader of the Whiskey Rebellion who left Pennsylvania when Washington sent in troops and started again as a planter far to the south.
Q 22Lizzie Borden's Fall River home, site of the 1892 hatchet murders, is in which state?
Massachusetts
Massachusetts: Lizzie Borden was acquitted in 1893 of killing her father and stepmother, and the Fall River house now takes overnight guests as a bed and breakfast.
Q 23San Diego's reputedly haunted Whaley House doubled until 1871 as the county's what?
Courthouse
Borley Rectory: the Society for Psychical Research later went through Price's reports and rejected most of the sightings as imagined or fabricated.
Q 14The Edinburgh Vaults, a ghost-tour fixture, lie beneath which structure completed in 1788?
South Bridge
South Bridge hides about 120 vaults in its arches: taverns and cobblers' workshops used them for some 30 years, then the city's very poorest moved in.
Q 15Poveglia, the notorious island in the Venetian lagoon, was long used by Venice as what?
A quarantine station
A quarantine station: in 2014 Italy auctioned a 99-year lease on the abandoned island, but a businessman's top bid of 513,000 euros was turned down and the lease never went ahead.
Q 16Aokigahara, the forest reputed to be haunted by yūrei, grows on the lava flank of which mountain?
Mount Fuji
Mount Fuji's lava, poured out by an eruption in 864, lies under the 'Sea of Trees'; the porous rock soaks up sound, which gives the forest its unnerving hush.
Q 17Bhangarh Fort, often called India's most haunted place, stands in which state?
Rajasthan
Rajasthan: the ruins are widely thought haunted, and visitors are forbidden to enter between sunset and sunrise.
Q 18Which Romanian castle, once Queen Marie's favourite retreat, is marketed to tourists as 'Dracula's Castle'?
Bran Castle
Bran Castle: there is no evidence Bram Stoker knew anything about it, and Vlad the Impaler's ties to it are slight, yet the label stuck.
Q 19Roughly how many people's bones lie in the Catacombs of Paris?
6 million
6 million: from the 1780s the bones were carted by night from overflowing cemeteries such as the Holy Innocents into the city's old quarry tunnels.
Q 20The Island of the Dolls lies in the Xochimilco canals of which capital?
Mexico City
Mexico City: caretaker Julián Santana Barrera hung the dolls from the trees to appease the spirit of a girl he believed had drowned in the canal.
Courthouse: Thomas Whaley rented rooms to the county, in a house built where 'Yankee Jim' Robinson was hanged in 1852, the first ghost he claimed to hear.
Q 24Which queen reportedly ran screaming through Hampton Court's Haunted Gallery after being confined to her rooms there in 1541?
Catherine Howard
Catherine Howard, legend says, broke from her guards and ran down the gallery to beg Henry for her life, only to be dragged back; she was beheaded in February 1542.
Q 25Which future president is said to have ridden out to investigate Tennessee's Bell Witch, only for his men to be scared off?
Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson: the story of the general's visit comes down through a single letter written in 1894, recalling what the writer's grandfather had told him.
Q 26Monte Cristo Homestead, long billed as Australia's most haunted house, stands in Junee in which state?
New South Wales
New South Wales: Reg and Olive Ryan bought the derelict Junee manor in 1963, restored it and for decades showed visitors round 'Australia's most haunted house'.
Q 27Which Tasmanian penal colony, begun in 1830 as a timber station, now sells ghost tours of its ruins?
Port Arthur
Port Arthur: the only way off the peninsula was a narrow neck of land watched by soldiers and a chained 'dog line', and the water around it was rumoured to be full of sharks.
Q 28Which Gloucestershire inn, bought by the Humphries family in 1968, is billed as England's most haunted building, with some twenty ghosts?
The Ancient Ram Inn
The Ancient Ram Inn: the family ran the old pub as a guesthouse until, by its owner's account, guests' unexplained experiences turned it into a venue for paranormal events.
Q 29Which Kent village entered the 1989 Guinness Book of Records as Britain's most haunted, with 12 reported ghosts?
Pluckley
Pluckley won its Guinness entry in 1989, but Guinness has since dropped the category, and a Daily Telegraph reporter who visited in 2008 doubted the ghost stories.
Q 30The Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield, now a ghost-hunt venue, was the main location for which prison drama?
The Shawshank Redemption
The Shawshank Redemption shot most of its scenes in the castle-like prison, which a federal court ruling had closed in 1990; it now runs ghost walks and overnight ghost hunts.