Christopher Dr.
Reports of seeing the ghost of Christopher covered in blood screaming and shouting.
April 4, 2025
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Category: Haunting
Triumph Foods
At night some of the guards have said to see the door of the guard shack open and the sound of footsteps as if someone was coming into the guard shack. One guard said he was doing his rounds and saw someone walking out back by the back fence and that sounds come from the […]
April 4, 2025
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The Union Covered Bridge
It is said there was a death there in the mid-1800’s of a boy falling and drowning in the Salt River. At night one can see the boy, and he will try to touch anyone who attempts to walk across the bridge in the dark. To get there, follow the brown signs found on Hwy […]
February 27, 2025
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Sheldon Concert Hall
The Sheldon is thought to be haunted by its architect, who died before the place was finished; he also plays with the lights, has been known to change the levels on sound equipment, and makes strange noises. Sometimes he plays with the lights even during performances.
February 8, 2025
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Powell Symphony Hall
The Powell Ghost (dubbed “George” by stagehands) makes noises, plays with the lights and elevator, and is sometimes seen as a man in a white suit and white hat. He is thought to be a former vaudevillian.
February 8, 2025
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Drury Inn & Suites 270 & Olive
A housekeeper on the 5th floor reports sightings of people walking down the hall but when they get close enough to touch they disappear. Others report hearing the elevator door ding randomly, a presence, voices and footsteps walking towards them all when no one is there.
February 7, 2025
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Edgewood Children’s Center
The ghost of a 10 year old girl is seen floating near a tree here.
February 7, 2025
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Lemp Mansion
One of the most haunted buildings in the city, this location is known for unexplained cold spots, electrical anomalies, the eerie sensation of being watched, and a piano that mysteriously plays a note in the night. Visitors have also reported vibrations from the floors, overwhelming feelings of sadness, taps on their shoulders, and numerous photographic […]
February 7, 2025
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Old City Hospital (Now – The Georgian Condominiums)
Has been closed since the 1985. Reports of people in the non-boarded windows. Reports of screams nearby. Feelings of being watched. WARNING – No Trespassing – The building is being renovated into codos the name will be The Georgian Condominiums.
February 7, 2025
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The Book House
The old house has been transformed into a book house, where a little girl named Valerie is said to have lived according to a newspaper article. Her favorite room is the poetry room, though she also spends much of her time in the basement. Legend has it that she fell into the well years ago.
February 7, 2025
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Phelps Grove Park Bridge
Off of National on Bennett is Phelps Grove Park under the third bridge late at night you can see a woman in a wedding dress known as “Bride under the Bridge” that was killed on her wedding day.
February 7, 2025
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Drury University – Wilhoit Theatre
Lights flickered at night. Some have said it was the ghost of “Bob”. Strangely, the theater was dedicated to Bob Wilhoit.
February 7, 2025
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Drury University – Clara Thompson Hall
The origin is not known of this ghost, but many people have seen pianos playing by themselves and doors closing.
February 7, 2025
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Central High School
The first high school in Springfield was built in the late 1800s. Old room 311 is supposedly haunted by sounds and a door that locks itself, but renovations of the school have renumbered the rooms and straightened out the hallway. Many places in the basement have been said to be haunted as well as the […]
February 7, 2025
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St. Charles Nursing Home
The sounds of footsteps from an unoccupied floor can be heard.
February 4, 2025
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Lindenwood University
This campus is haunted by the spirit of Mary Sibley, founder of the college. Students have seen her apparition and heard piano music, which Mrs. Sibley was so fond of. Also, the campus theatre and library is said to be haunted.
February 4, 2025
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State Offices Buildings
In the main building, at night, a presence can be felt following you. Also, there is an elevator shaft no longer in use where one can feel cold spots and a presence watching them. Presence can be felt in the basement and also on the roof. The building was once a bank and there is […]
February 4, 2025
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Sewer by Lee Hunter
Some people say that if you go on the famous day of Halloween at midnight and shut off your car, soon after you can hear a baby crying. This story is similar to the Hart Cemetery.
February 4, 2025
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Crybaby Bridge
There is a bridge over the river over on a road there. A long time ago, a farmer, his wife and his kid lived there. The dad was gone to town, and the mother was doing laundry. Her child had wandered out into the river. The mother heard her child crying and she herself couldn’t […]
February 4, 2025
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University Plaza Hotel
“The Colonel” has been seen by almost all the hotel staff that work in the Convention Center. He is seen late at night between midnight and 4am. Staff will see him in the ballroom and in the back hallways. He is an older man dressed all in black. The most infamous sighting was by a […]
January 6, 2025
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Craighead Forest Lake
The story is that one night a few teenagers were out at the lake drinking, when one of them went out into the water at a non-swimming area and drowned. They say that if you go out there and look across the lake, you can see a young man trying to stay above the water, […]
January 6, 2025
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Spook Hollow Road – Pine Hill Cemetery
The legend goes that if you go down Spook Hollow Road that you will end up at a cemetery. If you go into the cemetery at night, no matter what time of year it is the weather is nice and cozy. The legend also says that there were a group of children that were going […]
January 5, 2025
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Old “Houn Dawg” rendering plant
A former employee of the plant who was killed in a workplace accident is known to turn lights on and off and is a nuisance to the businesses that occupy the building now by tossing paper and rubbish around.
January 5, 2025
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Wilson’s Creek Battlefield (Listing 2)
People have seen ghosts and heard strange noises like guns and cannons. Apparitions of Confederate soldiers are seen more often.
January 5, 2025
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Wilson’s Creek Battlefield
Site of a Civil War battle in southwest Missouri. At night, you can hear soldiers walking and talking in the woods at the site.
January 5, 2025
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Old Rehobeth High School (Now Elementary)
If you ride by the front of the school at midnight, you will always see a janitor ghost that died there while cleaning bathrooms. He waves at you when you drive by.
January 5, 2025
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Enocks Knob Road
A very creepy old bridge sits near the end of this road. The lake below is haunted by the spirit of the little boy who fell off the bridge a long time ago. It is said that late at night if you go on the bridge and look down you can see something swimming in […]
January 5, 2025
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River Falls Slave Prison (razed)
If you go north on River Falls Street (US Hwy 84) away from Andalusia, you cross a bridge. Turn to the right, as if you were going to Point A. Go to the boat ramp and look to the left. There is a road that goes beside a field. Walk down the road. The road […]
January 4, 2025
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Toys “R” Us (closed – Now REI)
Toys “R” Us is supposedly haunted by a young boy or man, believed to be Jonny Jonson (pronounced: Yonny Yonson), a farm worker. . Employees report finding toys in aisles when opening up the store in the morning, and balls rolling down aisles when nobody else is around, and bicycles being ridden around at night. […]
January 4, 2025
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Cottey College – Blanche Skiff Ross Memorial Library
They say that the Cottey Library sits on top of an old civil war field hospital and then in the 1880’s a home was built for the Cottey Family. Either way there is loads of activity in this library with books falling and carts rolling and music coming from the back stairs. Various people have […]
January 1, 2025
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Valles Mines
Go to Valles Mines and take a left on the very first road on your left. Possibly a gravel road, and it’s hard to see. Awhile down, there is a sign on your right that says Valles Mines tours. Go during the day, and you can get a tour. Such things have happened as we […]
January 1, 2025
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Nellie Cashman’s Restaurant (Closed)
Customers here have reported countless instances of playful pranks since frontier days. Expect the usual crashing sounds, and objects that move on their own volition.
January 1, 2025
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Cheesman Park
Cheeseman park was the cemetery for Denver and there are graves left in the park. Upkeep and care during that time period was terrible. If someone did not have a grave they may have been thrown in another with someone else or just left lying until a mass grave was dug. If someone was buried […]
December 1, 2024
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Blockbuster
The store was robbed and two of the employees and 2 patrons who where brothers were killed. The killer was caught, but the store closed down and has remained standing ever since. Many years before the Blockbuster incident, the land on which the building sets was occupied by a gas station. In the late 1960’s, […]
November 13, 2024
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Memory Hill Cemetery
If you ever go to this cemetery, you’ll know that it’s haunted. When you go to the middle of the cemetery, you always feel a cold chill down your back. A girl one time found three squirrels dead & frozen under a tree in the middle of the summer. At night you can hear a […]
November 12, 2024
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Negtemuit High School
It is said that there is a little girl roaming and haunting the whole school. Staff members and students have seen and heard her. She would sometimes hum, appear in both the boys and girls bathrooms, turns lights off and on, and bounce a basketball. No one really knows how she died but it is […]
November 5, 2024
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Marcus Ronnie’s Cinema
In the largest auditorium a man died of a heart attack. The doors to this auditorium will not stay open after 11 P.M. and an eerie presence can be felt inside. April 2008 Correction – This theater was not on the site of the Old Ronnie’s Drive in
November 4, 2024
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St. Lukes Hospital
Children’s ward is haunted. A patient stayed there and has seen a few strange things. The pen container on the nurses desk will slide to the other side. Children’s bedroom doors will close by themselves, slamming shut. Late at night there is crying of children and laughing in the play room.
November 4, 2024
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Lynstone Park
Footsteps through the leaves are heard. Feelings of being watched and reports of apparitions.
November 4, 2024
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Mount Saint Charles Academy
Supposedly one of the former Brothers of the Sacred Heart (The brothers that run the high school) had died and was so disliked that the students stuck pencils in his eyes at his funeral. For revenge he is known to haunt the 4th floor and walk in and out of the rooms.
November 3, 2024
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