About HauntStay

The world is haunted.Go experience it.

HauntStay brings together places with a haunted reputation, the people who open their doors at night, and the people who want to be there — to find a place, go when its doors open, and keep a record of the nights you were there.

01 · Origin

It started with a problem we actually had.

HauntStay is built by a working paranormal investigator who runs an investigation team — which is to say it was built out of irritation as much as ambition.

If you want to spend a night somewhere with a genuine history, the finding is harder than the going. Dates live in a Facebook group you have to already know about. A one-off ticket page turns up three weeks after the night sold out. The people who run investigations are scattered across the internet, and the places that open their doors often don’t say so anywhere you’d think to look.

So you chase it through a dozen tabs, or you don’t go. HauntStay is what we wanted to exist: one place where the history is written down, the dates are real, and the person you book with is the one running the night.

02 · Today

More than a booking.

Booking a night is one part of it. This is what HauntStay does now.

Discover
Profiles of places with a haunted reputation: their history, and what people have reported there. We keep the two apart, and a report stays labelled as a report.
Browse the places
Experience
Overnight investigations, ghost tours, daytime tours and investigation blocks, run by the operators who offer them — booked and paid for on HauntStay, on their dates and at their prices.
See experiences
Follow
Follow a place or an operator, here or by scanning their QR code, and we’ll email you when new dates open for booking.
Remember
When the operator running the night checks you in at the door, a place that carries a Passport collectible goes into your Passport — dated, and private to you.
Your Passport
Go together
Teams keep a shared list of places they want to go, and a team profile where nights recorded at the door sit apart from what the team logs itself. Each member’s record stays their own.
Teams
Keep exploring
Haunted Trails are hand-picked routes through a region — recommendations, not packages we sell. Places to stay nearby are listed with how to reach each property.
Haunted Trails

03 · Passport

Your paranormal history should belong to you.

The nights you’ve spent in these places shouldn’t disappear into a camera roll. Your Passport keeps them.

When the operator running the night, or their door crew, checks you in on a HauntStay booking — and the place carries a Passport collectible — it goes into your Passport with the date. Your Passport is private to you.

Go with your team and the night can count toward the team’s history too. It doesn’t move anything out of yours: your record stays yours, even if you leave.

It records who arrived,
never what anybody found.

A collectible goes to the guest a booking can identify: the person who booked, or a guest who accepted their seat invitation.

The HauntStay Passport — Passport collectible 0001The Haunted Ritz Theatre

04 · Preservation

Buildings close.History shouldn’t.

Today: A place in your Passport stays in your Passport if the building later closes, is converted, is demolished or can no longer be visited. And a place with history on HauntStay — bookings, reviews, a Passport collectible — is archived when it is withdrawn, not deleted. What happened there is kept.
Where we’re headed: We’re building toward keeping the public record of these places readable after their doors close — so a building that is gone is still somewhere you can learn about.

05 · Operators

Built for the people holding the keys.

We help you run the night.

HauntStay is built for the people who open these places after dark: property owners, paranormal operators and investigators who run their own events, tour operators, and owners of historic buildings who want their history known.

It isn’t a listing with a checkout bolted on. Dates and bookings, guest lists, and a door view that checks people in from a seat pass or a QR scan. Your own waiver, when you want one. Door crew who can work the night without seeing your money. A message to everyone on a night, a public profile, a follow link and QR code that bring people back when you post new dates, links that show which placement worked, booking on your own website, and payouts through Stripe.

You set your dates, your group sizes and your prices, and choose your cancellation terms — within HauntStay’s booking rules.

List your haunt

06 · What we hold to

The HauntStay standard.

Documented is not reported: History that can be sourced is presented as history. What people say they experienced is presented as their account. We keep the two in separate places on a page, label reports as reports, and don’t launder one into the other because it reads better.
History before sensationalism: A prison, an asylum, a house where something terrible happened: real people lived and died in these buildings, often badly and often without a choice. We write those histories straight, and we don’t sell a death for a better listing.
Private means private: When owners list their place on HauntStay, its exact address stays private until a booking is confirmed, and public maps show only the approximate area — unless the owner has chosen to publish a public meeting point.
The operator holds the keys: The people who run the night decide what they offer, when, for how many, at what price and on which cancellation terms — within HauntStay’s booking rules. We don’t tell anyone how to run their building.
Investigate responsibly: These are old buildings, in the dark. Hazards and access are listed as the people running each place declare them, and operators can require a waiver before anyone walks in. Nobody is served by pretending an unlit stairwell at 3am is a theme-park queue.

07 · Direction

Where we’re going.

One place where you can find somewhere you’ve never heard of, follow it, know when its doors open, go with your team, and keep the night as part of your history.

Much of that works today. We’re building the rest of the journey around it — the travel between the nights, and the record of places after their doors have closed.