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Explore this county on the map →Aaron Burr House
The Aaron Burr House stands at Bridge and Chestnut streets in New Hope. Its name recalls the local tradition that Vice President Aaron Burr hid in…
Inns & businessesAMC Neshaminy 24
Neshaminy Mall in Bucks County had an older cinema before the 24-screen theater opened at a different location in 1998. A regular visitor who…
Beechwood Cemetery
Sharon G. described an investigation at Beechwood Cemetery in Bensalem, Bucks County, on July 30, 1998. She and Rachel were at the back of the group…
Inns & businessesBlack Bass Hotel
The Black Bass Hotel in Lumberville dates to the 1740s and overlooks the Delaware River in Bucks County. Its ghost stories draw on its long life as a…
Historic homesBolton Mansion
Bolton Mansion in Bucks County grew from the Pemberton family’s home, completed in 1687. Successive additions and alterations produced the large…
OutdoorsBordentown Road causeway at Van Sciver Lake
Midnight Mary is the vanishing hitchhiker of Bordentown Road and the lakes near Bristol. Drivers supposedly pick up a young woman, only to find her…
CemeteriesBowman’s Hill
Bowman’s Hill in Bucks County takes its name from an early settler, Dr. John Bowman, whose reputation became entangled with pirate treasure. In the…
Bristol Cemetery
Bristol Cemetery in Croydon, Bucks County, was established in 1882. Paranormal investigators have connected the burial ground on Bristol Pike with an…
Outdoors · AI illustrationBuckwampum Hill
Buckwampum Hill in Bucks County was associated with a white hare that hunters could never seem to catch. William J. Buck recorded the tradition in…
Historic homesCraven Hall
Craven Hall is a historic house in Warminster, Bucks County, whose appearance reflects an eighteenth-century core and later additions. Its best-known…
Schools · AI illustrationDark Hollow
A small stone schoolhouse once stood beside the stream in Dark Hollow, Bucks County. William J. Buck recorded a former pupil’s story about its harsh…
Inns & businessesDelaware Canal towpath beside 4358 River Road
Devil’s Half Acre is a strip of land beside the Delaware Canal near Lumberville, where a stone house stands between the canal and River Road. Its…
CemeteriesDelaware River waterfront
Bristol’s contribution to the Jersey Devil scare of January 1909 came from its postmaster, E. W. Minster. In the account attributed to him, he was…
OutdoorsDurham Furnace area near the mouth of Cooks Creek
Durham Cave, also called Devil’s Hole, lay in the limestone near the mouth of Cooks Creek in Bucks County. Air rushing from its entrance and flights…
CemeteriesEagle Road
In an October 2006 television report, WPVI reporter Don Polec described nearly striking an unfamiliar animal while driving on Eagle Road in Upper…
Historic homesFonthill Castle
Fonthill Castle in Doylestown was the home of Henry Chapman Mercer, an archaeologist, collector, and tile maker. Built in the early twentieth century…
Ford Road at Newportville Road
The crossing of Ford and Newportville roads near Neshaminy Creek in Bucks County has a tradition about two horse thieves. In the local story, they…
Schools · Aerial viewFormer Andalusia College site
In December 1886, The New York Times reported a strange overnight visit to the old Andalusia College in Bucks County. Philadelphia lawyer Horace W.…
Inns & businesses · AI illustrationFormer Cornell–Gallagher house
John and Margaret Gallagher lived with their children above a candle-and-gift business in Richboro. Ghost-story collector Adi-Kent Thomas Jeffrey…
Historic homes · Historical imageFormer Cyrus Stover House
A house built in 1858 for Cyrus Stover and his wife, Anna Bunstein, later became a Riegelsville office building. Stover died during the Civil War.…
Former Eastern State School and Hospital grounds
Eastern State School and Hospital was a Bensalem institution that closed in 1996. Its grounds were later redeveloped for offices, but stories about…
Historic homesFormer Lenox–Keene mansion site
The Grundy Library’s riverfront site in Bristol was once occupied by the Lenox–Keene mansion, where Sarah Lukens Keene entertained Joseph Bonaparte.…
Former Mary W. Devine Elementary School grounds
The former Mary W. Devine Elementary School in Croydon, Bucks County, had a woodland ghost story posted in September 2002. It described bonfires and…
Inns & businessesFormer Old Mill Flea Market
At Hulmeville’s Old Mill Flea Market, owner Kathy Loeffler told reporter Carol Robidoux about strangers who seemed to disappear inside the building.…
OutdoorsGhost Tours of New Hope meeting point
New Hope’s blue-eyed hitchhiker is a teenage boy said to appear along a wooded stretch of Bucks County road. Drivers describe blond hair, brown…
Historic homesGrowden Mansion
Growden Mansion in Bensalem, also known as Trevose, belonged to Grace Growden and her husband, Joseph Galloway. Galloway was a friend of Benjamin…
Hansell Road
Hansell Road in Buckingham Township has a tradition of unusual lights in the adjoining woods. In February 1999, Thomas Roeder sent a ghost-story…
Schools · Historical imageHartsville Professional Village
The old building incorporated into Hartsville Professional Village in Warminster began as a boys’ school in 1832. In 1850 it became the Roseland…
OutdoorsHaycock Mountain
Haycock Mountain in Bucks County is known for its diabase boulders and the rock formations reached by Top Rock Trail. Historical photographs show…
Historic homesHistoric Bucks County Almshouse grounds
The historic Bucks County Almshouse grounds near Doylestown included a farm as well as institutional buildings. A former resident, writing as…
Inns & businessesHistoric Bucksville House and White Horse Tavern
The Bucksville House in Nockamixon Township, Bucks County, was once the White Horse Tavern and later operated as a bed-and-breakfast. Lawrence…
HollyHedge Estate
Room 7 at HollyHedge Estate in Bucks County was the setting of an investigation on March 9, 1999. Sharon G., Rachel and Jen were sitting in darkness…
Historic homesJoseph Pickett House
Joseph Pickett was a self-taught painter and shopkeeper who lived and worked on West Mechanic Street in New Hope. His general store occupied the…
Inns & businessesKing George II Inn
The King George II Inn overlooks the Delaware River in Bristol, Bucks County. Its long life as a place to eat, drink, and gather has produced a…
Inns & businessesLogan Inn
The Logan Inn in New Hope has several ghost traditions, with Room Six especially associated with a woman called Emily. Haunted Rooms America…
CemeteriesMount Gilead African Methodist Episcopal Church and Cemetery
Mount Gilead African Methodist Episcopal Church stands on Buckingham Mountain, where a Black congregation replaced its log chapel with a stone church…
Neshaminy Target
Workers at the Neshaminy Target on Rock Hill Drive in Bensalem told stories about the electronics stockroom, a staff area behind the store’s sales…
Inns & businessesOriginal site of Chez Odette at Lock 8
Chez Odette was a restaurant and cabaret in an old stone tavern beside the Delaware Canal in New Hope. Its Paris-born proprietor, Odette Myrtil,…
Historic homesPearl S. Buck House
The Pearl S. Buck House in Bucks County was the Pennsylvania home of the author whose life and writing bridged the United States and Asia. Its…
Historic homesPen Ryn Mansion
Pen Ryn Mansion on the Delaware River in Bensalem has a Christmas Eve legend about Robert Bickley, a son cast out of the family home. In the story,…
Inns & businessesPineville Tavern
Pineville Tavern on Durham Road in Bucks County drew fresh attention to its ghost stories in January 2024, when its owners shared security footage of…
Riegelsville Fire Company building
Riegelsville’s fire company occupies a building on Delaware Road that previously served as a church and school. Its firefighters have reported…
OutdoorsRinging Rocks County Park
Ringing Rocks County Park near Upper Black Eddy contains a field of boulders that can produce a surprisingly metallic sound. Some ring like bells…
Roberts Mill historic district
Roberts Mill stood beside Mill Creek in Lower Merion, where John Roberts III built a grain mill in 1746. During the Revolution, a story spread that…
CemeteriesSt. James the Greater Episcopal Churchyard
An iron chair beside Merritt Wright’s grave in the churchyard of St. James the Greater in Bristol is known locally as the Witch’s Chair. The parish…
Outdoors · Aerial viewStone Row on West Ferry Street
The old millworkers’ houses along West Ferry Street in New Hope are associated with a legend of a missing baby. One version concerns a mill foreman’s…
Schools · Historical imageTate House
Tate House at George School in Bucks County has a campus legend about a Hessian soldier buried in its cellar. In the story, Dr. James Tate and his…
Inns & businessesTemperance House
The Temperance House on South State Street in Newtown has several stories involving children seen or heard in its guest rooms. Innkeeper Jim…
Inns & businessesThe Inn at Phillips Mill
The Inn at Phillips Mill stands across River Road from the old gristmill in Bucks County. Its building began as a barn on Aaron Phillips’s farm…
Inns & businessesThe Narrows
The Narrows inn near Upper Black Eddy, formerly the Indian Rock Inn, was the setting of an account posted by J. C. Grant in October 2009. Grant and a…
Trum Tavern
Trum Tavern in Trumbauersville, Bucks County, traces its tavern license to Elisha Parker in 1752. By 1799 it was known as Jacob Fries Tavern and had…
Historic homesTyler Hall (George F. Tyler Mansion)
Tyler Hall at Bucks County Community College was once the home of George and Stella Elkins Tyler. Stella helped shape the mansion's interiors,…
Schools · Historical imageUlman Hall
Ulman Hall at Delaware Valley University has housed students since 1923. Some of its stone came from Pioneer Hall, the National Farm School’s…
Bridges & railwaysVan Sandt Covered Bridge
Van Sandt Covered Bridge crosses Pidcock Creek in Bucks County and dates to 1875. It is also known locally as Cry Baby Bridge, a name attached to a…
Villa Barolo
Villa Barolo occupies the historic crossroads at Bristol and Easton roads in Warrington, Bucks County. The township dates the inn there to 1782, when…
Inns & businessesWedgwood Inn
The Wedgwood Inn in New Hope occupies a house built by Mary Ann Slaughter in 1870 on the foundations of an older home. Its best-known ghost is a girl…