Moon Mausoleum
An online magazine about the paranormal, haunted and macabre. We collect the ghost stories from all around the world as well as review horror and gothic media.
A grieving wife and mother took her life when her husband and son lost theirs to the Canyon. Now The Wailing Woman is said to haunt the Transept Trail as well as the Grand Canyon Lodge in the northern rim of the park.
Once a prosperous mill, now the ruins of the Wonderland Ranch and Wall Street Mill in Joshua Tree National Park are said to be haunted by the former workers who died in their search for gold.
On the trails leading up to the abandoned Lost Horse Mine in Joshua Tree National Park, people talk about a ghost said to haunt the place, the spirit of a miner who died starving as he was looking for his lost gold.
The sound of thundering hooves and whinnying of abandoned mustangs in the Canyonlands National Park and the Dead Horse Point State Park is said to haunt the canyons. Left by the cowboys trying to break them in, Ghost Horses were left to starvation and thirst.
The Mammoth Cave National Park is said to be haunted, by both the spirit of the first tour guide, the slave Stephen Bishop as well as the tuberculosis patients that were put in the caves and died in an experiment.
On misty mornings on the Grand Lake in the Rocky Mountain National park in Colorado, it is said that the ghosts of the Ute tribe are haunting the cursed water after drowning in it after a bloody battle.
In the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, a ghostly lantern is said to haunt the Norton Creek Trail. It is said that the helpful light, guiding lost hikers to safety is the ghost of a farmer who died years ago when looking for his lost daughter.
The Lady of the Lake said to haunt the Lake Crescent in Olympic National Park. The ghost said to linger in the water is said to be the spirit of Hallie Latham Illingworth, who was murdered and dumped at the bottom of the lake.
Disguised as an old woman or a loved one, the liver eating Spearfinger has terrified the Cherokees for centuries. She hides in the mountain, attacking children to eat their livers.
At the old Lake Quinault Lodge in Olympic National Park, it is said that the ghost of Beverly, the former employee that died in a fire, still haunts the suit named after her.
Nature can create strange shapes, and our human eye often looks for their reflections in things. In Olympic National Park, the Goblin’s Gate has made people look twice to the faces staring back from the river.
For years the notorious outlaw Edgar Watson lived in the Everglades where his workers had a habit of ending up dead or disappearing around payday. When the authorities ignored their plea, the villagers took law into their own hands, and are now forever haunted by the man they took out.
Today the traces of Anemone Cave, otherwise known as the Devil Den or The Devil’s Oven, have almost been erased from the park. Dangerous because of the tide submerging the cave completely, stories about strange things happening around the cave have been told for centuries.
It is said that a plane crashed in Yosemite and the pilot was rushed to Wawona Hotel in the park. Although he was quickly found, he died while waiting for a doctor and now it is said that he is haunting the same place he died.
By the crystal clear waters of Grouse Lake, there is allegedly a ghost of a Native American boy who drowned many, many years ago. Now he calls out for help, but don’t be fooled as he supposedly drags those approaching down to the bottom.
In the motel styled lodgings by the Merced River, you are as close to the Yosemite Valley as you can get. And according to the people that have stayed at the Yosemite View Lodge, many tell tales about shadow silhouettes by their beds and strange interactions with the paranormal.