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For the video games, see Haunted House (video game) or Haunted House (pinball).

A haunted house is a building that supposedly is a centre for supernatural occurrences or paranormal phenomena. Ostensibly it may be populated by ghosts, ghouls, witches, poltergeists, or even demons. It commonly serves as a plot device in horror fiction or, more lately, paranormal-based fiction.

The actual structure can be anything from a decaying European feudal castle to a newly occupied suburban ranch house of fairly recent construction, though many authors and movie directors prefer that the architecture be from the 1900s or earlier. The key feature of a haunted house, however, is the presence of one or more ghosts, often due to a murder or other tragic death having occurred on the property, or to an owner of the house elsewhere, at some time in the past.

Legends about haunted houses have long appeared in literature. Roman-era authors Plautus, Pliny the Younger, and Lucian wrote stories about haunted houses, and more modern authors from Henry James to Stephen King have featured them in their writings. Haunted castles and mansions were common in gothic literature.

A popular dark ride at Disney theme parks, The Haunted Mansion, references many of the stereotypes associated with haunted houses.

In North America, an event open to the public which simulates the experience of visiting a haunted house is itself called a haunted house. These events are commonly held in the autumn, most frequently late in the month of October, as a Halloween activity. Notwithstanding the name, such events are not necessarily held in houses, nor are the edifices themselves necessarily regarded to possess actual ghosts. A Hell house is a similar frightening attraction put on by members of evangelical churches during the Halloween season, meant to depict the sufferings of the damned in Hell, though these are not common.

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