Haunted things to do in Butte
Looking for haunted places & dark-history spots in Butte? These 8 are the genuinely strange ones — Historic Dumas Brothel Museum, World Museum of Mining - Haunted Underground (Orphan Girl Mine), Spooks & Spirits Haunted Trolley Tours and more — each hand-vetted and sourced, not pulled from a top-ten list. Great for an unusual date, a weird afternoon, or showing a visitor the side of Butte they'd never find on their own.
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Historic Dumas Brothel Museum
The Dumas operated continuously as a house of prostitution for 92 years until 1982, making it the longest-run…
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World Museum of Mining - Haunted Underground (Orphan Girl Mine)
A tour that takes you 100 feet down into an actual historic mine shaft, the Orphan Girl, where 43 men died ov…
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Spooks & Spirits Haunted Trolley Tours
Butte native and retired longtime Butte High history teacher Chris Fisk runs these roughly 2.5-hour tours abo…
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Old St. James Hospital Ghost Hunt & Sleepover
Founded in 1881 by the Sisters of Charity, the Old St. James cared for Butte's poor miners and migrants for d…
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Granite Mountain / Speculator Mine Memorial
On June 8, 1917, a foreman's carbide lamp accidentally ignited an oil-soaked electrical cable in the Granite…
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Dumas Brothel Museum
Built in 1890 and run continuously as a brothel until 1982, the Dumas claims the longest stretch of any broth…
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Berkeley Pit Viewing Stand
You walk through a short dim tunnel and emerge on a platform staring down into a flooded open-pit copper mine…
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Elkhorn State Park (Elkhorn Ghost Town)
Montana's smallest state park preserves the remnants of a silver boomtown that peaked at roughly 2,500 people…