What Ghost Towns Can You Visit in Idaho

With Halloween upon us, lurking just around the corner, probably waiting to jump scare us, you may have spooky plans on your calendar.

There are plenty of haunted locations in Idaho, or ‘allegedly haunted’ if you believe chairs can move themselves without the help of a ghost. Some of the more haunted locations are open to the public, and others are sealed off so not even the craftiest of spirits can escape.

Where Are the Best Ghost Towns in Idaho

In Idaho, you can visit the obviously haunted Idaho Penitentiary, check out the most-famous haunted location in the state at the Pocatello High School, and you can rent out the old Gooding tuberculosis hospital for a family event and pretend the walls don’t talk.

Or, ghost towns are easy places to go to get close to possible hauntings. Crazy stuff happened back in the day in these towns, and most of them have a story of some lost or stuck soul that haunts the grounds.

What Ghost Towns Can You Visit in Idaho

I found a list of eight ghost towns in the Gem State that you could put on your terrifying-trip list. Before you make the trip, check online or with the host to make sure they are accepting visitors.

Visit 8 of Idaho's Creepiest Ghost Towns, At Your Own Risk

These Idaho ghost towns are full of history, but are spooky enough to give even the strongest of heart the heebie jeebies.

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I’m not sure that I believe ghosts actually haunt any of these locations, but I also know that I would not want to be the one to find out while there in the dark.

Have you been to any ghost towns or haunted places in Idaho, and did they deliver on the spookiness?

Eerie Video Shows What's Left of One of Idaho's Most Unique Ghost Towns

The back of one of these historic postcards describes Burke, ID like this "This quaint show-piece of the area’s early-day mining is jammed in a canyon with hardly room for its street, railroad and stream. Shoshone county is one of the world’s great mining regions and has produced over 2 billion dollars - mostly in lead, silver and zinc." Burke's mining operations came to a halt in 1991 and the remaining residents left town. Today, the structures that have survived look like the town that time forgot. Read more about the history of Burke HERE.

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