Field Notes & Dev Logs
Dev logs, database updates, and deep dives into the weirdest Bigfoot, UFO, ghost, and cryptid cases we map onto Phantom-Finder.
I Spy, From Space: 100 Strange Places in Satellite Images
A 40 km eye in the Sahara. A crater that has been burning for decades. A city emptied in one afternoon. Our new I Spy pins put a live satellite view of 100 strange places right on the map. Five are free, and Premium unlocks the other 95.
Read I Spy, From Space →The Fresh Air Cure: Four Tuberculosis Sanatoriums and the Stories Left in Their Wards
Fresh air in open-air pavilions was the treatment at four tuberculosis sanatoriums, from a Louisville hilltop to the Arizona desert. The real history of Waverly Hills, Nopeming, San Haven and Acadia Ranch, the legends set against the records, and the Ghost Adventures episodes filmed in them.
Read more →No Vacancy: Seven Frontier Hotels Where the Old Guests Never Left
A 1908 gold-camp hotel, a copper company hospital that sat empty for 44 years, a Harvey House by the Santa Fe tracks and a Route 66 base for Hollywood westerns. Seven frontier hotels across Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico, the history behind each one, and the episodes filmed inside.
Read more →Cell Block Tour: Ten Prisons on the Map That Never Let Anyone Leave
A Quaker experiment in enforced silence. The bloodiest 47 acres in America. A 36-hour riot in Deer Lodge and a Texas prison farm on old sugar plantation land. Ten prisons, the history behind each one, and the episodes filmed inside.
Read more →Spirits of 1776: Expedition X and Pennsylvania's Revolutionary War Ghosts
The season 12 finale puts Phil, Heather and Jack Osbourne on the worst ground of 1777. Fort Mifflin, Brandywine and Sandy Hollow, three new Pennsylvania pins with the history behind each one.
Read more →Haunted Guam: Expedition X "Ghosts of Guam"
Expedition X S12 E04 follows Phil and Heather from Guam's WWII battlefields into a jungle the Chamorro people say belongs to the taotaomo'na. The real history behind the haunting, Destination Truth's 2010 visit, and our first international pin open to free members.
Read more →Top 10 UFO Sightings in American History
The Roswell press release retracted a day later. A police officer's egg-shaped craft outside Socorro. Two deputies chasing an object 86 miles across Ohio and Pennsylvania. The ten UFO cases that actually moved the record, ranked and mapped.
Read more →Top 10 Bigfoot Sightings of All Time
Frame 352 at Bluff Creek. Five miners under a rock barrage on Mount St. Helens in 1924. Two brothers hospitalized in Fouke, Arkansas. The ten cases that actually moved the record, ranked and mapped.
Read more →Haunted Salt Lake City, Utah
The Great Saltair curse, Fear Factory at 666 West 800 South, a hidden basement ritual site, and Antelope Island's Ghost Island. Four Ghost Adventures lockdowns in one valley, all mapped.
Read more →Haunted South Dakota
Wild Bill Hickok's Deadwood, a suicidal bride at the Hotel Alex Johnson, a top-hat Bigfoot in the Black Hills, and a radar-confirmed UFO over Rapid City. The strangest frontier in America, mapped.
Read more →Haunted New Orleans, Louisiana
Madame LaLaurie's torture attic. Marie Laveau's tomb, where the Voodoo Queen reportedly still takes requests. Portals to Hell and a seven-location French Quarter sweep, all mapped.
Read more →Haunted Washington State
Stephen King's Rose Red castle. A funeral home turned Irish pub with a child on the stairs. A doctor who starved patients to death. Ghost Adventures, Ghost Hunters, and The Dead Files, every site mapped.
Read more →Haunted Key West, Florida
Robert the Doll. A hanging tree through a bar roof. A man who stole a corpse for seven years. America's southernmost haunted city, fully documented.
Read more →Haunted Savannah, Georgia
America's most haunted city, built on top of its dead. Ghost Adventures investigated twice, Expedition X returned in 2024, and the spirits are still there.
Read more →Bigfoot - Seney National Wildlife Refuge
A spotlight series on our favorite locations. Here we cover one of the most famous Bigfoot sightings ever officially recorded.
Read more →Top 10 Michigan Paranormal Hotspots
From Eloise Asylum to the Dogman territory and the Paulding Light, the most active Michigan locations backed by TV investigations and witness reports.
Read more →How Phantom-Finder Began
Phantom-Finder started as a late-night idea: put every TV-investigated haunting, UFO hotspot, and cryptid encounter onto one interactive map. This is where we share what's new in the database, what shows we're adding next, and the strangest locations we've come across so far.
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