haunted
Inhabited by spirits
Haunted describes a place supposedly inhabited by ghosts: a haunted house, a haunted cemetery.
More broadly, haunted means troubled or preoccupied by persistent memories or feelings: haunted by regret, a haunted look in her eyes.
The word suggests something that won't leave you alone—whether supernatural presence or psychological weight.
Disturbingly strange
- unsettlingCausing unease or discomfort
- chillingCausing fear or cold
- ominousSuggesting something bad approaches
- forebodingFearful anticipation of harm
sinister · macabre · ghostly · spectral · shadowy · mysterious · gothic · uncanny
Mentally elsewhere, not present
- fixatedObsessively attached or focused
- consumedFully used or eaten
- plaguedPersistently afflicted
- tormentedSubjected to severe distress
gripped · burdened · troubled · disturbed · restless · sleepless · driven · compulsive
Of or like devils
- poltergeistDisruptive supernatural entity
- entityIndependent existing thing
- exorcismRitual to expel demons
- séanceSpirit communication ritual
medium · paranormal · infested · curse · occult · spirit · clairvoyant · exorcist
Severely emotionally distressed
- torturedCaused intense suffering
- sufferingSustained experience of distress
- traumatizedEmotionally damaged by experience
- grief-strickenOverwhelmed by profound loss
troubled · disturbed · scarred · wounded · nightmares · flashbacks · memories · guilt
Spirits of the deceased
- spiritsLiquor or apparitions
- apparitionsSupernatural visible manifestations
- spectersVisible ghostly presences
- phantomsApparitions, especially illusory
wraiths · poltergeists · banshees · revenants · afterlife · paranormal · ethereal · manifestation
creepy
Disturbingly strange
- unsettlingCausing unease or discomfort
- chillingCausing fear or cold
- ominousSuggesting something bad approaches
foreboding · sinister · macabre · ghostly · spectral · shadowy · mysterious · gothic · uncanny · otherworldly
preoccupied
Mentally elsewhere, not present
tormented · gripped · burdened · troubled · disturbed · restless · sleepless · driven · compulsive · relentless
demonic
Of or like devils
- poltergeistDisruptive supernatural entity
- entityIndependent existing thing
- exorcismRitual to expel demons
séance · medium · paranormal · infested · curse · occult · spirit · clairvoyant · exorcist · conjure
anguished
Severely emotionally distressed
- torturedCaused intense suffering
- sufferingSustained experience of distress
- traumatizedEmotionally damaged by experience
grief-stricken · troubled · disturbed · scarred · wounded · nightmares · flashbacks · memories · guilt · regret
ghosts
Spirits of the deceased
- spiritsLiquor or apparitions
- apparitionsSupernatural visible manifestations
- spectersVisible ghostly presences
phantoms · wraiths · poltergeists · banshees · revenants · afterlife · paranormal · ethereal · manifestation · ectoplasm
house
Residential building
graveyard · castle · hotel · prison · hospital · attic · basement · ruins · abandoned · decrepit
- Halloweenjack-o-lantern, trick or treating, pumpkin, trick-or-treat, ghost
- fearfear, dread, afraid, fright, frightened
- supernaturalghosts, ghost, witches, spirits, vampire
- Gothicgargoyle, gothic fiction, pointed arch, gothic architecture, flying buttress
- Gothic castledungeons, towers, turrets, battlements, drawbridges
- Ghost Huntingghost hunting, apparition, EVP, spirit box, ghost box
hauntedunhaunted
Without ghostly inhabitants
blessed · consecrated · sanctified · exorcised · cleansed
haunteduntroubled
Free from disturbance
at peace · carefree · serene · unburdened · tranquil
- haunted houseDwelling believed spirit-inhabited
- haunted mansionSpirit-occupied grand residence
- come back to hauntPast mistakes resurface painfully
- haunted mazeAttraction with scares, turns
- haunted locationsSites of alleged paranormal activity
- haunted sitesPlaces with reported ghosts
haunt, haunting, haunts, haunted house, unhaunted, haunters, haunted houses, hauntedness, hauntable