13 sourced records. Reports are attributed claims, not proof of supernatural activity.
Witnesses reported faces at courthouse windows and an apparent woman at the jail doorway. Site manager Robert Orrison invited Ghost Hunters while expressing skepticism. Investigators reported footsteps and an indistinct thermal image, but other rooms produced little activity. The team left the case open rather than reaching a firm verdict about the claimed haunting.
Local accounts describe whispers, moans and chanting from this York River cave. Its supposed use as shelter during the siege remains uncertain; the tourism account states that the entrance is closed because of safety concerns.
The Exchange Hotel became a receiving hospital during the Civil War and is now a museum. Virginia tourism associates it with reports of faint cries and moans attributed to soldiers. These are later haunting claims alongside a documented medical history, not proof that the patients remain present.
Volunteers describe finding third-floor lights on after switching them off at closing. In the 1980s, caretakers reportedly saw an elderly man kneel at a wall; restoration later exposed a fireplace there. Other witnesses describe children on the landing. Names assigned through recordings are interpretations, not historical identifications.
The tavern’s haunting tradition concerns the Female Stranger, a woman said to have died while visiting Alexandria. Virginia tourism links reports to a room at the tavern and her grave. The identity mystery and alleged apparition should remain separate questions rather than evidence for one another.
During 2016–2017 renovations, staff reportedly received calls from an unoccupied sixth-floor area. Other accounts describe cold spots, whispers and figures in corridors. Adolph Coors died after a fall from the hotel in 1929, but connecting later experiences to him is a paranormal interpretation rather than a documented causal link.
Betty Washington Lewis and Fielding Lewis lived at Kenmore in the eighteenth century. Local reports identify an upstairs apparition with Fielding, supposedly still examining financial papers; other experiences include unexplained steps, whispers and turning doorknobs.
In a published interview, manager Mary Lin Brewer describes visitors reporting apparitions and investigators identifying a child spirit called Clara. She explicitly acknowledges having no historical documentation of Clara’s existence. The property also operates theatrical Halloween attractions, which should be distinguished from these reported experiences and the Ghost Hunters investigation filmed there in 2012.
The Martha Washington Inn’s building served as a Civil War hospital. Virginia tourism records traditions about a phantom horse, returning bloodstains and a romantic ghost narrative. These accounts form the lodging property’s haunting reputation; the building’s wartime use does not establish their supernatural interpretation.
Thomas Nelson Jr.’s home is linked to a local story about a British soldier killed inside a concealed staircase during the siege. Virginia Tourism also records reports of soldiers’ spirits associated with its later hospital use.
Virginia tourism repeats accounts of footsteps and a young male apparition at the Peyton Randolph House. A story connects the figure with a student who became ill while lodging there. Treat that association as a reported explanation requiring corroboration, distinct from the house’s documented Colonial Williamsburg history.
The Page family’s plantation mansion survives as fire-damaged ruins. Virginia Tourism records accounts of inexplicable music, lantern-carrying figures and a woman on the vanished entrance steps, alongside visitors’ reports of voices and abrupt cold.
At the site of the British surrender, visitors have reported spectral soldiers, artillery sounds and unexplained voices. Virginia Tourism recounts claims of distant military music as well, placing these experiences within Yorktown’s continuing battlefield folklore.
