Throw a stone anywhere in Great Britain and you'll hit a haunted house. But there are plenty in every corner of the U.S., too. That's why for the 24th of our 31 specials for the 31 days of Halloween we're hitting the road to visit houses in our own backyards that have ghost stories attached to them. The tours and the official Web sites may not say too much about the specters seen in the houses, but the legends persist.

The Biltmore Estate
It looks like a gothic palace that time-warped from the French Revolution, and it's visited more than Elvis' house. The Vanderbilt widow talked to her dead husband's spirit long after he died in 1914. People hear maniacal laughter through the 250 rooms, see a headless orange cat, spot a woman in black in second-floor windows and have been served champagne by a waitress who then vanishes. Hey, as long as the bill disappears, too.
http://www.willowwinds.com/biltmore-estate-guide.htm
http://hubpages.com/hub/A-Great-American-Haunting


The White House
Presidents Andrew Jackson and, more famously, Abraham Lincoln, drift through the hallways of the White House, and so does a ghost who hangs laundry—even now that washing machines have been put in. All references to the ghost stories were removed from the official Web site after the Obamas moved in.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/history/
http://www.rense.com/general43/ghoststorieshauntwh.htm

The Amityville Horror House
Green slime, black toilets and swarms of flies erupted from the house after a family was murdered there. That resulted in eight movies and a 2005 remake, as well as a slew of hoax theories. The coolest thing is that the house looks like it has a big smiling face.
http://www.amityvillemurders.com/
http://franksreelreviews.com/shorttakes/amityville.htm

The Whinchester Mystery House
An addled rifle heiress kept building this massive discombobulated Victorian mansion, believing that she would die if the work stopped. Well, she died, and people still report hearing banging doors and rattling windows and seeing her spirit on staircases that lead nowhere—she's probably trying to figure out how to get out of this giant maze.
http://www.winchestermysteryhouse.com/story.html
http://taholtorf.wordpress.com/2009/10/01/ghost-stories-winchester-mystery-house/

The Chandler Estate
Marilyn Monroe lived there, but it's not just her ghost that lingers in this ruin, which looks like it's from The Blair Witch Project. Devil worshippers congregate in the ruins to contact a particularly evil character nicknamed "Whacker," and that's probably creepy enough.
http://www.liparanormalinvestigators.com/hauntedLI.shtml#chandler
http://www.lioddities.com/Satans%20Trails/index.html