50 Best Country Songs About Ghosts
Haunting Country Songs that Linger Long After the Last Note
There’s a strange kind of thrill in hearing a voice spin a ghost story over a steel guitar. It’s not all midnight moaning and creaky floorboards. Sometimes the phantom is a lover who never left your head. Sometimes it’s a piece of land where the air still carries the past. These tracks pull you into worlds where the dead keep talking and the living can’t look away. They lean into the quiet chill that follows you home after a late drive, headlights catching the mist and your brain replaying verses you can’t shake.
Not every haunting feels the same. Some tracks come wrapped in soft harmonies that feel safe until the meaning catches up with you. Others rattle the windows with fiddle and banjo like something’s chasing you down the hallway. The singers sound like they’ve been carrying these tales for decades. You start to realize the ghosts are never the same thing twice. They might be a whisper in the trees or a face you swore you saw in the crowd. Even in a genre built on memory, loss, and longing, these songs twist those feelings into something stranger.
Country has a way of making spirits feel personal in a way pop, rock, country, and R&B songs rarely can. These tracks stay in the room after they’re done, hanging around like they’ve got unfinished business. The ones worth knowing don’t play it for camp or for shock. They sit in that space where a good story and a chill up your spine meet. Here are the best country songs with ghosts woven into their core.
Top 10 Country Ghost Songs
1. 'The Ride'—David Allan Coe
2. 'Long Black Veil'—Lefty Frizzell
3. 'Midnight in Montgomery'—Alan Jackson
4. '(Ghost) Riders in the Sky'—Johnny Cash
5. 'Riding with Private Malone'—David Ball
6. 'The Legend of Wooley Swamp'—The Charlie Daniels Band
7. 'Ghost Story'—Carrie Underwood
8. 'Ghost in This House'—Alison Krauss
9. 'Phantom 309'—Red Sovine
10. 'Scarecrow in the Garden'—Chris Stapleton
More Country Songs with Ghost Themes #11—20
11. 'Ghosts of Mississippi'—The Steeldrivers
12. 'The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia'—Reba McEntire
13. 'The Silver Ghost'—Merle Haggard
14. 'Ghosts of Highway 20'—Lucinda Williams
15. 'Haunted (Taylor's Version)'—Taylor Swift
16. 'The Ghost of Tom Joad'—Bruce Springsteen
17. 'Marie Laveau'—Bobby Bare
18. 'Ghost'—Jack Ingram
19. 'Creepin''—Eric Church
20. 'Haunted Mountain'—Buck Meek
Spooky Country Songs You Should Hear #21—30
21. 'Mountain Angel'—Dolly Parton
22. 'Bones'—Little Big Town
23. 'Ghost on the Canvas'—Glen Campbell
24. 'Ghost in My Guitar'—Alana Springsteen
25. 'This Haunted House'—Loretta Lynn
26. 'Ghost Trains'—Hank Snow
27. 'The Ghost Who Walks'—Karen Elson
28. 'Sleeping with a Ghost'—Ryland Fisher
29. 'Haunted House'—John Anderson
30. 'The Ghostman Trucker'—Sonny George
Finding Country Songs About Ghosts #31—40
31. 'The Ghost of Hank Williams'—The Kentucky Headhunters
32. 'The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald'—Gordon Lightfoot
33. 'Ghost Town'—Sam Outlaw
34. 'The Dead Don't Die'—Sturgill Simpson
35. 'The Devil Had a Hold of Me'—Gillian Welch
36. 'The Unquiet Grave'—Jean Ritchie
37. 'Haunted House'—Matt Schuster
38. 'The Cold Hard Facts of Life'—Porter Wagoner
39. 'Ghost Train'—Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit
40. 'Haunted Heart'—Sammy Kershaw
Your Go-To Country Ghost Music #41—50
41. 'Long Black Veil'—Sammi Smith
42. 'Haunted'—Miranda Lambert
43. 'This Old House'—Little Jimmy Dickens
44. 'Old Tige'—Jim Reeves
45. 'The Hanging Tree'—Marty Robbins
46. 'Haunted'—Brandi Carlile
47. 'Grave Digger'—Willie Nelson
48. 'The Little Girl'—John Michael Montgomery
49. 'Where the Wild Things Are'—Luke Combs
50. 'Porter Wagoner's Grave'—Marty Stuart
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