Browse Haunted Locations by State in the Southwest
Discover haunted locations, ghost tours, historic sites, abandoned places, supernatural hotspots, and verified paranormal reports across the Southwestern United States.
Arizona
A desert region marked by frontier towns, historic hotels, mining sites, and long-running multi-source haunt reports.
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New Mexico
A high-desert landscape where missions, adobe districts, and centuries-old settlements anchor recurring paranormal accounts.
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Oklahoma
A plains state with oil-boom towns, historic theaters, and documented haunt activity across older urban corridors.
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Texas
A vast region defined by missions, battle sites, frontier forts, and widespread reports from major cities and rural towns.
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Browse Haunted Categories in the Southwest
Ghost Tours in the Southwest
Walking tours, haunted missions tours, mining town tours, Old West ghost walks, desert investigations, hotel tours, and nighttime supernatural experiences.
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Haunted Places in the Southwest
Historic hotels, missions, theaters, mining towns, forts, pueblos, cemeteries, prisons, saloons, trading posts, and public sites with long-standing paranormal activity.
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Haunted Houses & Attractions
in the Southwest
Seasonal haunted houses, year-round horror attractions, immersive haunted walkthroughs, scream parks, and indoor/outdoor fright venues.
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Paranormal Podcasts in the Southwest
Podcasts covering Indigenous stories, frontier hauntings, desert legends, cryptid encounters, historic missions, and regional investigation reports.
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Paranormal Conventions & Events in the Southwest
Midwestern conventions and events featuring apparitions, shadow figures, unexplained sounds, residual energy, poltergeist activity, and location-based encounters.
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Escape Rooms in the Southwest
Horror-themed escape rooms, supernatural puzzle rooms, and haunted adventure experiences in cities and desert towns across the region.
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Haunted Places, Ghost Tours & Paranormal Sites in the Southwest
The Southwest is one of the most historically layered and paranormally active regions in the country. With Indigenous histories, Spanish colonial settlements, frontier towns, trading posts, mining camps, missions, desert outposts, and 19th-century districts, the Southwest has a long record of hauntings and unexplained encounters. The region includes major cities, small desert towns, mountain communities, tribal lands, and historic corridors known for documented paranormal events, recurring sightings, and persistent folklore.
Southwest Region Highlights
● Desert mining-town apparition hotspots tied to boom-and-bust history
● Long-standing reports from frontier forts, mission sites, and early settlement regions
● Cities with active paranormal teams investigating desert, canyon, and high-plains haunt locations
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Top Haunted Cities in the Mountain West
Phoenix, Arizona
A sprawling desert city with historic hotels, theaters, and long-standing haunt reports tied to early urban districts.
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Tucson, Arizona
A historic Southwest city where missions, hotels, and frontier-era sites anchor recurring paranormal accounts.
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Albuquerque,
New Mexico
A high-desert city marked by Old Town corridors, theaters, and multi-source reports across historic locations.
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Santa Fe, New Mexico
An ancient capital with adobe landmarks, missions, and enduring haunt claims linked to centuries-old sites.
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Oklahoma City,
Oklahoma
A regional hub featuring theaters, hotels, and documented haunt activity throughout historic downtown areas.
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Tulsa, Oklahoma
An oil-boom city with Art Deco districts, old hotels, and sustained reports centered on preserved urban blocks.
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Dallas, Texas
A major metropolis where historic buildings, districts, and cultural landmarks produce recurring haunt accounts.
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Fort Wort, Texas
A high-desert city marked by Old Town corridors, theaters, and multi-source reports across historic locations.
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San Antonio, Texas
A historic city shaped by missions, battle sites, and widely documented haunt phenomena across its core districts.
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Houston, Texas
A sprawling Gulf-region city with theaters, hotels, and long-term paranormal claims within older urban corridors.
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Frequently Asked Questions
1. What types of haunted businesses are included in this region? This region page lists haunted attractions, ghost tours, haunted houses, paranormal experiences, escape rooms, themed events, and other independent businesses with a documented haunted or paranormal focus.
2. How are businesses selected for this region? Listings must be independently owned, meet Hauntica’s basic vetting standards, and fall within the state or regional boundaries shown. Chain operations and low-quality submissions are filtered out.
3. Is the information on these businesses user-generated? No. Hauntica indexes documented, non-user-generated information from business websites, public sources, and verified references. User submissions do not create listings.
4. Do all businesses listed here operate year-round? Not always. Some operate seasonally or offer limited schedules. Each listing notes when the business is open, closed, or running specific event periods.
5. Can a business in this region request to be added or updated? Yes. Haunted businesses can request inclusion or updates, but all submissions go through Hauntica’s vetting process to confirm legitimacy and category fit.
6. Why does this region have more or fewer haunted businesses than others? Business density varies by tourism demand, population size, event markets, and the number of operational haunted attractions or tours in that area.
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