Here’s The Creepiest Place In VA, New List Says

VIRGINIA — The creepiest place in Virginia isn’t the Halloween display or haunted house that emits blood-curdling screams and ghostly images.

It’s the 300-year-old Peyton Randolph House in Williamsburg. That’s according to HGTV, whose list of the creepiest places in all 50 states includes rundown prisons, defunct hospitals and hotels where ghosts are said to appear in guest rooms and halls.

The colonial-era home makes the list because, HGTV wrote:

“Built in 1715 and restored in the 1900s, the Peyton Randolph House is one of the oldest homes in Williamsburg — and one of the most haunted. It’s said that a slave named Eve cursed the house in retribution for cruel treatment. Since then, many people died on the property, including a Civil War soldier with a mysterious illness, a boy who fell from a tree, a girl who fell from a window, and two men who shot and killed each other during a heated argument. These tragic incidents seem to have had a lasting effect on the house; over the years, visitors have reported hearing strange voices, seeing objects move on their own and being touched or pushed.”

Tours are offered at the home, which is open daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is part of the Colonial Williamsburg package.

"Explore the Randolph property, home to 27 enslaved people and the Randolph family. Learn more about the paradox of American slavery and how the household's enslaved members reaffirmed their humanity daily while surrounded by the calls for freedom and revolution by those who owned them," the tourism site said. "Explore some of the places the enslaved people lived and worked on the property of the President of the First Continental Congress."

Here are a few examples of other creepy places on the list:

• Police in Birmingham, Alabama, have taken more than 100 reports of paranormal activity in the Sloss Furnaces, a National Historic Landmark that was once the world’s largest manufacturer of pig iron. About 47 workers died under the brutal work conditions pushed by the graveyard shift foreman, and workers reported an “unnatural presence” and being pushed from behind or told to “get back to work.”
• The Ax Murder House in Villisca, Iowa, the site of the gruesome murder of six members of the Moore famiy as they slept, is said to be haunted by spirits that pinch and shove. It’s available for daytime tours and overnight stays for reservations.
• The Lemp Mansion in St. Louis, now a restaurant and inn, is said to be haunted by the spirits of at least four members of the doomed Lemp Brewing Co. who died in the house. Guests on weekly ghost tours have reported encountering them.

Explore the full list.