How haunted is your state? New study ranks ghost sightings across the US

It’s a sedate caller ranking for New York.

The Empire State is officially nan astir haunted authorities successful America, a spine-chilling caller study found. 

Researchers from Casino.ca pinpointed nan astir communal spots for phantom sightings by analyzing much than 1.8 cardinal Ghosts of America records — a bid of books and related websites for paranormal stories — complete nan past century, positive reports from societal media platforms for illustration Facebook, TikTok, X and online forums. 

New York racked up a hair-raising 160,198 spirit encounters — aliases astir 81 run-ins per 10,000 residents — complete nan past 100 years, researchers found. 

“New York seems to person nan cleanable operation of history and ambiance to support spirits lingering,” said information expert Katt Rodrigues. “It’s not wholly astonishing fixed nan state’s heavy history and countless older buildings pinch stories of their own.”

The spookiest spot successful nan authorities is Manhattan’s storied Morris-Jumel Mansion, which was built successful 1765 and is celebrated for being nan borough’s oldest house.

The Washington Heights spot astatine 65 Jumel Terrace, which is now a museum, has hosted historical legends from first US president George Washington and 3rd vice president Aaron Burr to jazz euphony icon Duke Ellington on with, apparently, a fewer guests who ne'er left. 

Paranormal Investigations NYC laminitis and head Dom Villella didn’t spot immoderate spirits during an hours-long sojourn to nan mansion successful October 2009 — but he felt them, he told The Post.

“I felt very uneasy there. You cognize erstwhile you locomotion into a room and nan room’s conscionable sewage a really dense emotion to it, and nan power feels weird? That’s nan Morris-Jumel Mansion. You locomotion successful location and you conscionable consciousness very uncomfortable until you leave,” he said.

“In my opinion, what you consciousness astatine nan mansion is residual power — it’s not virtually haunted, it’s conscionable replaying power of group who were location complete time. Structures, particularly aged buildings, will sorb nan energies of group who walk a batch of clip there, and if nan conditions are perfect, it will replay it,” explained Villella, who has investigated much than 1,000 buildings successful Manhattan since 2003.

“I deliberation that’s astir apt why group spot images aliases perceive voices there. And particularly because of each nan artifacts that [the mansion] contains, it’s much apt to person that residual power replaying,” he continued, and noting his electromagnetic section detectors sewage “high readings” astatine nan mansion.

The landmark has often been cited successful paranormal cycles and is rumored by tone seekers to location 5 chopped ghosts, researchers noted.

Overall, astir 1 successful 4 Americans declare to person seen a shade complete nan past century, pinch a bone-chilling 1.84 cardinal encounters logged nationwide, aliases astir 2,329 per 10,000 residents.

Texas classed 2nd for tone spottings, pinch 77 encounters per 10,000 people, followed by Louisiana (74), California (72) and Utah (65). 

Ghost run-ins were hauntingly little communal northbound of nan border. 

Yukon led Canada pinch 39 sightings per 10,000 residents, followed by British Columbia (34), Ontario (33) and Alberta (32).