Home security system Vivint has just released a list of the spookiest states in the U.S. and we feel ourselves trembling looking for our own home state while perusing the ranking.
The company specifically analyzed the number of ghost sightings and eerie attractions across 100 cities within all 50 states to identify the regions where we will be most likely to see a ghost in 2025.
Wonder what state most people have seen a ghost in? It’s a heavily wooded area with a dramatic Atlantic seashore, known for an epic horror author… a place where an enormous St. Bernard, a distraught prom queen, a boy with second sight and a malevolent sentient car can all feel at home. Yep, it’s Maine!
Maine boasts the highest number of ghost sightings. According to Vivint’s study, 116 out of 100,000 residents have reported seeing someone who just shouldn’t be there: ethereal, tortured and just plain dead. That’s just a little over 1 percent of Mainers who’ve had to shudder and look up Ghostbusters on Yelp.
Next on the list is North Dakota, where 104 people out of 100,000 have had brushes with the beyond, followed by Oklahoma, where 98 folks had to question what their eyes were telling them.
A few other fun takeaways from this report include the fact that Google searches for “ghost tours near me” have surged 128 percent year over year. Clearly, there's something going on.
These are the 10 states with the most ghost sightings per 100K residents:
1. Maine
2. North Dakota
3. Oklahoma
4. South Dakota
5. Vermont
6. Wyoming
7. West Virginia
8. Montana
9. Iowa
10. Kansas
11. Alaska
12. Indiana
13. Nebraska
14. New Mexico
15. Michigan
16. Kentucky
17. Arkansas
18. Missouri
19. Wisconsin
20. Idaho
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