Walk Newport News's most haunted locations. 13 stops, self-guided. 3 stops free. No guide, no schedule — just you and the dark.
The USS Monitor sank off Cape Hatteras in 1862, taking 16 crew members to the bottom in an iron coffin. When the turret was raised in 2002, the Mariners' Museum got more than artifacts—security guards report wet boot prints and a dripping sailor standing beside his own grave. The most haunted places in Newport News, Virginia cluster around Civil War battlefields and shipyard death. Lee Hall Mansion served as a Confederate field hospital during the 1862 Peninsula Campaign, where surgeons amputated without anesthesia on dining room tables. The Spanish Flu hit Hilton Village in 1918 the same year its Arts and Crafts bungalows were built—entire families died before the paint dried. This free self-guided tour covers 13 stops from colonial-era earthworks to the massive dry docks where workers vanish into the hulls they built.
You're standing on the grounds where Lee Hall became a makeshift Confederate hospital during the Peninsula Campaign. Soldiers screamed as surgeons amp...
You're overlooking Hampton Roads where history changed on March 9, 1862. The USS Monitor and CSS Virginia (Merrimack) fought the first battle between ...
You enter the museum housing the turret and artifacts recovered from the USS Monitor, raised from the ocean floor in 2002 after 140 years underwater. ...
You walk among weapons that killed thousands—muskets, bayonets, cannons, machine guns. Each artifact carries the violence it inflicted. Staff working ...
You're walking through the charming Arts and Crafts bungalows of Hilton Village, built in 1918 to house Newport News Shipbuilding workers. It looks id...
You're near Fort Eustis, an active Army base that guards a dark secret: a forgotten cemetery dating to WWI, where soldiers who died in training accide...
You're near Dry Dock 12, one of the largest shipyards in the world, where aircraft carriers and submarines are born. But building these monsters costs...
You're standing at the oldest earthen dam in America, built in 1610 by enslaved laborers and indentured servants. The work was brutal, deadly. Men dro...
You're at the site of the old Warwick County Courthouse, where justice was selective and brutal. Witch trials in the 1600s, slave auctions in the 1700...
You're walking among the preserved earthworks where Confederate soldiers dug in during the 1862 Peninsula Campaign. More men died here from disease, s...
You're near the abandoned tuberculosis wing of Riverside Hospital, sealed since the 1960s. Before antibiotics, TB was a death sentence. Patients were ...
The Newport News ghost tour includes 13 documented haunted locations.
The first 3 stops are completely free — no account required. To unlock all 13 stops, a History Nearby premium subscription is $4.99/month or $49.99/year.
No. This is a self-guided walking tour. Each stop includes the address, a map pin, and the full haunting story. Walk at your own pace, start anytime, and take any route you like.
Plan for approximately 2.5 hours. This accounts for walking between stops and reading each haunting story. You can also split it across multiple evenings.
The most visited stop on our Newport News tour is Lee Hall Mansion - Confederate Hospital at 163 Yorktown Rd, Newport News, VA 23603.
3 stops free in Newport News. No guide, no schedule — walk at your own pace after dark.
Last updated February 22, 2026. Researched by the History Nearby editorial team.