Spend The Night At Iowa’s Most Haunted Campground For A Truly Terrifying Experience

What’s more exciting than camping? How about camping with the possibility of a ghost sighting while you’re sitting out under the stars? Count us in! Spook Cave & Campground is a tourist attraction with an established campground, but it also has a scary and supposedly haunted past. Legend has it that the cave near the campground is haunted by the souls of early explorers. One thing is for sure: this haunted campground in Iowa is equal parts beautiful and spooky.

Spook Cave & Campground is about seven miles outside of McGregor, Iowa, and you can camp primitively there or hook up your RV.

It's spooky for sure; dark and hidden away, you just never know who you'll run into...dead or alive.

A flooded cave next to the campground was became a tourist attraction in 1955.

You can take a guided boat ride through the haunted cave.

Bloody Run Creek, a tributary of the Upper Mississippi, feeds the cave. With a water source with a name like that, how could it not be spooky?

The cave is said to be haunted by the lost souls of early explorers.

So, what do you think? Is this haunted campground in Iowa really haunted, or is it all legends and tall tales? What are your favorite haunted places in Iowa? Tell us all about your picks in the comments section - maybe yours will be featured someday!

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