Haunted things to do in Helena
Looking for haunted places & dark-history spots in Helena? These 7 are the genuinely strange ones — Old Montana Prison, Grandstreet Theatre, Benton Avenue Cemetery 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 Helena they'd never find on their own.
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Old Montana Prison
Montana's territorial-and-state prison held inmates from 1870 until 1979, and the empty sandstone cell blocks…
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Grandstreet Theatre
This granite Romanesque building opened in 1901 as a Unitarian church, later served as Helena's public librar…
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Benton Avenue Cemetery
Established in 1870, this ten-acre Protestant burial ground is Helena's oldest, with some graves moved here i…
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Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts
This 26-acre former brickyard has been a ceramics residency since 1951, and decades of resident artists have…
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Marysville Pioneer Memorial Building Museum
In the near-ghost town of Marysville, an old mining community born of the Drumlummon gold strike that in the…
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Elkhorn State Park (Elkhorn Ghost Town)
Montana's smallest state park is really just two surviving buildings inside a privately owned silver-mining g…
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Marysville House (in Marysville ghost town)
A rustic steakhouse and bar housed in a relocated 1800s "Silver City" Great Northern railroad station, trucke…