The crossroads where the paranormal and history meet.
Lenfel Hall is said to be haunted by the ghost of Peter Sanmartino, founder of Fairleigh Dickinson. Reports mention lights turning on and off, and occasional sightings, especially in connection with historic Mansion events.
The arboretum is said to be haunted by the Lady in Blue who appears near a lake in the back of the woods. She appears most often during sunset, but also during the day, which is kind of unusual. She appears filmy and no one has ever seen a face or body, just a bluish |Read More
The Great Hall at Drew University is a castle-like building in the campus center where faculty offices are. The upper floor has a long, red-carpeted room that used to hold religious services. It’s wood-paneled with carved beams, a large fireplace, and seamless paneled doors. Reports include faces in ceiling carvings, chandeliers swinging without cause, strange |Read More
Lambertville High School was built in 1854. A fire destroyed much of it in 1926, but it was remodeled in 1927. Another fire in 1992 destroyed the school for good. The official closing date is June 1960. Local legends tell of “Buckeye Billy,” a New Hope football player who died during a game against Lambertville. |Read More
Based at Lakehurst, this site includes the Naval Air Engineering Station (NAES) Lakehurst, known for the Hindenburg crash and Seabee training. Visitors report unexplained sightings, doors closing on their own, and other strange phenomena.
This popular inn and restaurant hosts several ghost stories. Guests and staff report mischief, strange noises, and objects moving unexpectedly. Pots and pans sometimes fall from hooks, and pictures won’t stay on the walls.
Apparitions of priests and nuns are seen in the halls.
The hauntings reported here are associated with the former El Paso Museum of Art building on Montana Street. The museum has since relocated to One Arts Festival Plaza in downtown El Paso. An old woman has been sighted multiple times looking at visitors from a window on the upper floors of the old building. Lights |Read More
A single sheet hangs in a room window facing the interstate. Authorities placed it there due to repeated sightings of a young girl reliving her death by hanging every night. Many witnesses have reported this disturbing occurrence. There is no power in the room, yet lights turn on at night, a rocker moves on its |Read More
A dance team practices here in the late afternoon, always hearing thumps and bumps when they’re the only ones in the museum. A creepy presence is felt in the museum area of the building.
After dark, apparitions can be seen of Fern Westfall, the founder of the school, knocking books off the shelves. Reports also state that a portrait of her in the elementary cafeteria contains roaming eyes that follow curious, staring students.
The capitol is haunted by a maintenance man who changed a light bulb on top of the tower, fell, and died. He now haunts the fourteenth floor. The storage levels and narrow rotating stairs leading up to them are haunted by a worker from way back in the day. She was afraid of heights but |Read More
It’s rumored Circuit City was built over an Indian burial ground. At night, workers have reported returning to find items knocked to the floor after cleaning up. Some also claim to hear unexplained voices.
Reports of feeling a presence, hearing the squeaking of floorboards, and seeing the apparition of a man.
Many sightings of a ghostly cat figure have been reported in these woods. My boyfriend’s cat disappeared here under strange circumstances; no evidence was ever found. Some locals blame a creature called “Ames.” At night, witnesses have heard a man calling for his dog, seen a dog running loose, and report the animal vanishes or |Read More
A lone white-haired man seems to wander the cemetery and surrounding gravel road, searching for something. He appears lost, but when anyone returns to offer help, he disappears.
Visitors have reported hearing voices and whispering at the Verendrye Monument site. Strange activity, eerie lights, and unusual reflections have also been observed in this historic area where the Verendrye brothers buried a lead plate in 1743.
The grounds of this Episcopal seminary have been inhabited since the 1500s and have been haunted by a ghost since the mid-1700s. When an acolyte to the Episcopal priesthood attended this seminary, his wife had an affair with the Dean. To accommodate this affair, the woman hanged her husband, though it was ruled a suicide. |Read More
Carrington Rock is a high sandstone formation used as a Civil War lookout and is known for eerie sightings. Visitors have reported Confederate and Union soldier ghosts, phantom orders, and a mysterious woman who paces before vanishing over the edge—her screams allegedly echo across the valley. The nearby golf course claims soldier sightings and strange |Read More
Alpha Xi Delta House is a historic home on Fifth Street. Built in 1855 by William P. Skinner, it later belonged to George White, an oilman and banker who became Ohio’s governor in 1930. Since 1955, it has served as the Alpha Xi Delta sorority house. Residents report a spirit called “George” who knocks items |Read More
The Avenue Theatre in downtown West Plains has been host to many strange events. Built in 1950 as a movie theater, it has a balcony section that was originally segregated. On quiet nights, a baby’s cry can be heard near where the old projection booth was located. Objects sometimes go missing and reappear in different |Read More
This old school is haunted by a woman in a white dress. She plays with band instruments, appears in empty hallways during summer, and turns classroom lights off. She’s known to scare people, not harm them. Most teachers mention a female ghost rising through the floors, though others dismiss it as hocus pocus.
As you drive into the cemetery, a road turns north toward the main area. After about 300 feet, you’ll see a large Angel statue. On overcast or moonlit nights, you may hear the sound of an adult female weeping. If you face the Angel and ask, “What is wrong?” the Angel replies, “Nothing.” Some have |Read More
Witnesses have claimed many different things happening. Doors open or shut without reason, things will be “misplaced”, and voices have been heard on occasions.
Built on a cemetery site, this nursing home experiences numerous strange occurrences during the 3rd shift. Nurses report feeling unseen touches on their backs. On particularly active nights, multiple phenomena occur simultaneously: lights blink, the fire sprinkler near the nurses’ desk briefly activates, doors close on their own, and voices echo through the halls. Apparitions |Read More
The Loretto-Hilton Theater at Webster University is haunted. It is known to be the site where a technician named David Hitzer died. Notably, as a ghost, David once saved someone dangling dangerously from a catwalk who felt an unseen force pull him back. Additionally, the theater is said to be haunted by a construction worker |Read More
Witnesses have reported something jumping on them and jumping on beds to find a figure run straight through the door into the hallway.
Nestled in St. Joseph, Missouri, the Old Park Floral Building at Krug Park holds a special place in local history. Once home to a beautiful glass conservatory and formal flower gardens, Park Floral was a beloved landmark gifted to the city by Henry Krug in 1890. Though the conservatory is long gone, replaced by playgrounds |Read More
Apparitions have been seen and heard. Employees and security are all afraid to go upstairs alone. Sometimes if you go out late at night alone the lights will be on and loud music playing though no one is there and all was quiet earlier. The building is alarmed so it is impossible for someone to |Read More
A former employee reported seeing a teenage girl hanging and gutted at the top of the staircase. The basement is now closed off.
Myers Hall was a Civil War hospital. A dying soldier demanded to see his horse. The horse was brought in, but upon finishing the task the horse refused to go down the stairs to leave so he was shot. The horse’s spirit still roams the halls.
Years ago, a young boy was struck in a late-night hit-and-run. His spirit is said to linger at the exact spot where it happened. According to local legend, if you pull over at the site, which is marked by a leaf-shaped sign on the road, turn off your engine, and wait five seconds before trying |Read More
In the Lafayette Lounge objects have been known to move of their own accord. Hotel and restaurant staff have reported mysterious goings on with the small elevator in the lobby, among other happenings elsewhere in the building. Sense of being watched. Sometimes the scent of rosewater perfume can be detected.
Harpo Studios – Originally believed to be haunted by victims of the Great Chicago Fire, the building now known as Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Inc. main studios has long carried a reputation for paranormal activity. Many refuse to stay in the building after dark, citing fear of ghostly encounters. Correction – February 2005: The true haunting |Read More
Graceland Cemetery is one of Chicago’s oldest graveyards and boasts several hauntings. The most famous is the spirit of Inez Clark. Inez was just shy of seven years old when she was struck by lightning at a family picnic. Her parents, distraught over the loss, had a life-size statue of the child erected at her |Read More
In the small town of Beverly located in Chicago’s Southside, there is a castle that an Irish man named Givins built for his wife while she still resided in Ireland. She died before she got to live in her castle. She lives there now and can sometimes be seen walking up the hill that leads |Read More
Numerous flashlights going off and not working at the same time, people screaming, and a woman in a white robe running down the stairs. See Haunted Lineage notes below.
Corrected: Firehouse located on North Waller Avenue, approximately one block from North Central Avenue. It has been told and seen by many that there is a ghost walking around and protecting the firehouse from crime and bad happenings, due to the fact that a lot of people were saved from fires by firefighters in what |Read More
When driving along old Hwy 100, going toward Villa Ridge from Washington, MO, there is a mysterious hitchhiker wearing a hiking pack. When picked up, he will talk to you and ask to be taken to the truck stop about five miles ahead. But before reaching the truck stop, he always vanishes. Rumor has it |Read More
Sightings in the rotunda area have been limited. It was closed to the public following the hotel’s re-opening but was later converted into retail space around 1997 or 1998.