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98 free Haunted Places trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Aug 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 hosted King and his wife Tabitha for a single night in 1974 while they were living in Boulder; it later hosted filming of the 1997 TV miniseries.
Q 02Which 1910 Louisville tuberculosis hospital is billed as one of the world's most haunted?
Waverly Hills
Waverly Hills Sanatorium opened in 1910 as a two-storey wooden building for 40 to 50 tuberculosis patients and closed in 1961 after streptomycin made such hospitals largely unnecessary.
Q 03What wartime nickname did the liner at Long Beach since 1967 earn for evading U-boats?
The Grey Ghost
Her speed and zigzag courses made her almost impossible for U-boats to catch; on one 1943 crossing she carried more than 16,600 people.
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 says a Boston medium told Sarah Winchester to build for the ghosts of rifle victims; she often paused work for months, but did reportedly rebuild one tower 16 times.
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 was retired by Cunard in 1967 and bought by Long Beach as a hotel and museum; Time magazine put her on its 'Top 10 Haunted Places' list in 2008.
Q 06Which Philadelphia prison, whose 'Pennsylvania System' used separate confinement as rehabilitation, became a museum in 1994?
Eastern State Penitentiary
Eastern State Penitentiary, John Haviland's radial design, isolated each inmate in a cell with running water and central heating; overcrowding ended the solitary system by 1913 and the prison closed in 1971.
Q 07Which Chicago gangster was moved into Philadelphia's landmark 1829 penitentiary in August 1929?
Al Capone
Al Capone was moved to Eastern State Penitentiary in August 1929 to serve a concealed-weapon sentence; his cell had rugs, fine furniture and a radio, and he was released in March 1930.
Q 08In which numbered cellblock of Eastern State Penitentiary did a locksmith report tormented faces in the 1990s?
Number 4
Ghost-hunters assign each block its own speciality: faces in Cellblock 4, darting shadows in 6 and cackling voices in 12; the site itself runs a Halloween attraction once called Terror Behind the Walls.
Q 09Which former federal prison in San Francisco Bay is rumoured to be haunted, with apparitions in its D-Block cells?
Alcatraz
D-Block was converted into isolation cells in a 1939-41 refit; its corridor was nicknamed Sunset Strip, and the prison library sat at its far end.
Q 10What nickname was given to the punishment cells 9 to 14 at the end of Alcatraz's D-Block?
The Hole
Cells 9 to 14 of D-Block were called The Hole: solid-doored solitary cells kept dark, and the last one, the Strip Cell or Oriental, had only a hole in the floor for a toilet.
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, gained its grim name in the 16th century as the supposed murder site of Edward V and his brother; built as a water-gate, it lost that role to St Thomas's Tower.
Q 12How many days did the Lutz family last in the Amityville house before fleeing in January 1976?
28
The Lutzes moved in on 18 December 1975 and fled after 28 days, on 14 January 1976; Ronald DeFeo Jr. had shot six family members there in 1974, and the Lutzes paid a bargain $80,000.
Q 13Whose 1929 Daily Mirror visit made Borley Rectory 'the most haunted house in England'?
Harry Price
Q 21The Myrtles Plantation, billed as one of America's most haunted homes, is in which state?
Louisiana
The Myrtles Plantation is in St Francisville, Louisiana; General David Bradford built the Creole cottage in 1796, and its 125-foot veranda runs the full length of the facade.
Q 22Lizzie Borden's Fall River home, site of the 1892 hatchet murders, is in which state?
Massachusetts
Fall River is in Massachusetts; Lizzie Borden was acquitted in June 1893 of the August 1892 hatchet murders of her father and stepmother and lived in the town until her death in 1927.
Q 23The Whaley House in San Diego, a celebrated haunted site, holds what architectural distinction?
Psychic researcher Harry Price first visited Borley Rectory in June 1929 at the Daily Mirror's invitation and later dubbed it the most haunted house in England; it burned in 1939 and was demolished in 1944.
Q 14The Edinburgh Vaults, a ghost-tour fixture, lie beneath which structure completed in 1788?
South Bridge
The vaults are the 120 or so chambers inside the arches of Edinburgh's South Bridge, completed in 1788; former rugby international Norrie Rowan rediscovered them in the 1980s, complete with signs of habitation.
Q 15Poveglia, the notorious island in the Venetian lagoon, served for over a century from 1776 as what?
A quarantine station
It later housed a psychiatric hospital that closed in 1968; in 2014 Italy auctioned a 99-year lease on the island.
Q 16Aokigahara, the forest reputed to be haunted by yūrei, grows on the lava flank of which mountain?
Mount Fuji
Mount Fuji's northwestern flank holds the 'Sea of Trees', whose porous lava absorbs sound and can throw off compasses, adding to the eerie atmosphere.
Q 17Bhangarh Fort, often called India's most haunted place, stands in which state?
Rajasthan
Bhangarh Fort stands in Rajasthan's Alwar district, on the edge of the Sariska tiger reserve in the Aravalli hills; it was built for Madho Singh, younger son of Raja Bhagwant Das of Amber.
Q 18Which queen's art collection is displayed at Bran Castle, Romania's so-called Dracula's Castle?
Queen Marie
Bran Castle was given to Queen Marie of Romania in 1920 and became a favourite royal residence; returned to her heirs in 2009, it displays her art and furniture collection as a museum.
Q 19The Catacombs of Paris hold the remains of roughly how many people?
More than six million
The Paris Catacombs hold the bones of more than six million people, moved by night from overflowing cemeteries such as the Holy Innocents beginning in the 1780s; regular public visits began in 1874.
Q 20The Island of the Dolls lies in the Xochimilco canals of which capital?
Mexico City
The Island of the Dolls sits in the Xochimilco canals of Mexico City; caretaker Julián Santana Barrera hung dolls there for decades until his death in 2001, and visitors arrive by trajinera boat.
Oldest brick building in Southern California
Oldest brick building in Southern California: completed in 1857 for over $10,000, it was a battleground in the Old Town versus New Town rivalry.
Q 24Which of Henry VIII's wives reportedly ran screaming through Hampton Court's Haunted Gallery?
Catherine Howard
Catherine Howard is said to have broken from her guards and run screaming down the gallery to reach Henry, who was at Mass in the chapel, in November 1541; she was beheaded in February 1542.
Q 25The Bell Witch, which tormented a Tennessee farming family from 1817, answered to what name?
Kate
The spirit called itself Kate, after neighbour Kate Batts; it focused on daughter Betsy and father John Bell, and disapproved of Betsy's engagement to Joshua Gardner.
Q 26Monte Cristo Homestead, long billed as Australia's most haunted house, stands in Junee in which state?
New South Wales
Monte Cristo Homestead is in Junee, New South Wales; Christopher Crawley completed the Victorian manor in 1885, and the Ryan family, who bought it in 1963, restored it and opened it to visitors.
Q 27Before becoming a notorious penal colony, Port Arthur in Tasmania began in 1830 as what kind of settlement?
A timber station
A timber station came first; from 1833 Port Arthur held the empire's most hardened re-offenders, and in 1996 it was the scene of a massacre in which a gunman killed 35 people.
Q 28The Ancient Ram Inn, billed as England's most haunted building, reputedly hosts how many ghosts?
Around twenty
Around twenty ghosts are claimed at the Ancient Ram Inn in Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire, including a witch and an incubus; John Humphries bought the building in 1968 and ran it until his death in 2017.
Q 29Which Kent village entered the 1989 Guinness Book of Records as Britain's most haunted, with 12 reported ghosts?
Pluckley
Pluckley's spooks include the Red Lady in the churchyard, a phantom highwayman at Fright Corner and the 'Screaming Woods'; the ITV series The Darling Buds of May was filmed in the village.
Q 30The Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield was the main location for which 1994 film?
The Shawshank Redemption
The Shawshank Redemption used the reformatory for most of its scenes; built between 1886 and 1910 in a castle-like Romanesque style, it closed by court order in 1990.