Everyone loves a good fright now and then, and luckily in a place as old and rural as New Hampshire there are bound to be plenty of creepy places just waiting to be explored. From haunted restaurants to abandoned towns, these 8 terrifying New Hampshire places will raise the hairs on the back or your neck and have you leaving the lights on!

  1. The Haunted Cemeteries

Timechaser/flickr From a grave in Portsmouth that glows at night to a finger in Hollis that points from Heaven to Hell, these seven cemeteries are NOT somewhere you want to visit after dark.

  1. New Hampshire’s Most Mysterious Site

Ryan Wike/flickr No one is quite sure who created the America’s Stonehenge site in Salem, but whether is was Vikings thousands of years ago or crooked Bootleggers during the prohibition the stone structure and sacrificial table are enough to make us want to stay away!

  1. The State’s Spookiest Ghost Towns

Suzannah/flickr From Monson Center in Milford to Livermore in the White Mountain National Forest, these towns may have been abandoned, but some spirits never left.

  1. The Creepiest Houses In The Granite State

Lucy Orlowski/flickr This house in Pittsburg is just one abandoned home in New Hampshire filled with things that we would rather not know about!

This Abandoned Tunnel Full of Bats

Georgia On My Mind/flickr As if this abandoned mine in Lyman wasn’t freaky enough, the fact that it is full of bats is enough to send it over the edge.

  1. New Hampshire’s Most Haunted Restaurant

Country Tavern/facebook An illegitimate child, a missing husband and a brutal murder are all part of the story of this New Hampshire tavern.

  1. The Island Where Two Women Were Brutally Murdered

Corps New England/flickr It’s been nearly 150 years since two women were brutally murdered on Smuttynose Island, but the small island is still associated with their gruesome slaughter.

  1. New Hampshire’s Most Haunted Hike

Roger H. Goud/flickr Are you brave enough to hike through an abandoned town in the middle of the woods?

Are you brave enough to visit them all?

Timechaser/flickr

From a grave in Portsmouth that glows at night to a finger in Hollis that points from Heaven to Hell, these seven cemeteries are NOT somewhere you want to visit after dark.

Ryan Wike/flickr

No one is quite sure who created the America’s Stonehenge site in Salem, but whether is was Vikings thousands of years ago or crooked Bootleggers during the prohibition the stone structure and sacrificial table are enough to make us want to stay away!

Suzannah/flickr

From Monson Center in Milford to Livermore in the White Mountain National Forest, these towns may have been abandoned, but some spirits never left.

Lucy Orlowski/flickr

This house in Pittsburg is just one abandoned home in New Hampshire filled with things that we would rather not know about!

Georgia On My Mind/flickr

As if this abandoned mine in Lyman wasn’t freaky enough, the fact that it is full of bats is enough to send it over the edge.

Country Tavern/facebook

An illegitimate child, a missing husband and a brutal murder are all part of the story of this New Hampshire tavern.

Corps New England/flickr

It’s been nearly 150 years since two women were brutally murdered on Smuttynose Island, but the small island is still associated with their gruesome slaughter.

Roger H. Goud/flickr

Are you brave enough to hike through an abandoned town in the middle of the woods?

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