5 AAA 4-Diamond Haunted Hotels for a Spine-Tingling Overnight Stay

This Halloween, adventure seekers can experience an unforgettable night at some of America's most haunted AAA 4-Diamond hotels. From Vermont to Texas and California, these historic properties are renowned for spectral guests who never checked out.

The Equinox

Manchester Village, Vermont: Dating back before the Revolutionary War, this historic inn is among the nation's most haunted. Mary Todd Lincoln, who frequented the resort with her family to escape Washington, D.C.'s summer heat, is the most famous spirit. Guests still report sightings of her apparition wandering the third-floor halls with one of her sons.

Hotel del Coronado

Coronado, California: In 1892, Kate Morgan checked into this iconic San Diego oceanfront resort awaiting a lover who never arrived. Heartbroken, she took her life on the beach after five days. Her shadowy figure haunts the halls; the light above the stairs where she died mysteriously burns out, and electrical devices in her original room flicker inexplicably.

Driskill Hotel

Austin, Texas: This legendary property is haunted by its founder, cattle baron and Civil War Colonel Jesse Driskill. He spared no expense on the Romanesque building featuring marble floors and a stained-glass dome, dying just four years after its opening amid financial woes. Cigar smoke lingers in the lobby, and Room 525 is visited by spirits of two brides who tragically ended their lives there two decades apart.

Le Pavillon Hotel

New Orleans, Louisiana: Paranormal investigators report contact with up to 100 spirits here. Guests experience floating apparitions and eerie bedfellows at midnight. A young woman killed by a carriage outside often appears, heralded by rose perfume, asking for a ride to the ship terminals.

Hay-Adams Hotel

Washington, D.C.: Once the homes of Secretary of State John Hay and journalist Henry Adams, the site gained a haunting after Adams' wife, Clover, died by suicide in 1885. After the 1928 hotel conversion, her spirit lingers: housekeepers feel invisible embraces, and guests hear soft crying amid self-opening doors.