The crossroads where the paranormal and history meet.
A former monastery turned juvenile detention center. Legend says monks hanged themselves in the 4th-floor attic. Now, on stormy nights, a phone at the control desk rings from a non-existent extension. You might hear heavy breathing on the line, strange noises, or see a white figure.
Ellender Hall dormitory is reportedly home to flickering lights, moving objects, and phantom scratching. While rumors of a student suicide exist, no records confirm this. The activity is often linked to the campus being built on former Civil War hospital grounds.
A plantation owner’s daughter reportedly lost her leg after a fall caused by her hoop skirt; visitors now feel pinches on those same stairs. The ghost of the owner’s wife is also seen riding her horse through the famous oak alley, searching for her husband.
Screams can be heard along with sightings of ghosts that usually resemble patients that may have died there. This buildings windows and doors are boarded up partially due to the fact that people have reported seeing ghosts in the windows looking outside.
Heading home from Hanauma Bay at night? Keep your eyes on the road. Locals report seeing mysterious fireballs, known as Akualele, shooting overhead as they drive back toward town. The legend warns that if you see these lights, whatever you do, don’t look back toward the bay or Koko Head. Glancing back is said to […]
Room #9 – built in the 1700’s is supposedly haunted by Jeshua. Jeshua waited her whole life waiting for her love to return from England. He never did. She seems to respond to men who stay in the room around 3:00 AM. But only if you’re very quiet. Also room #9 is home to one […]
The Willow Steak House, historically known as The Willow Hotel, has reportedly been haunted since the 1800s. According to legend, an old gold mine collapsed beneath the building, killing 23 miners whose spirits now haunt the location.
Henrion Gymnasium, now known as Henrion Hall, housing the Sculpture/Ceramics departments, it is said to be haunted by a maintenance worker who was accidentally electrocuted in the 1950s. The story goes that the worker stood up into a live wire without his hardhat and was killed. His apparition is sometimes seen late at night or […]
Some people have reported encountering blue-gowned dwarves in the park and nearby along the White River at Noblesville. According to Delaware Indian legend, they are the Pukwudgies, a tribe of little people that still inhabit the forests.
The ghost of a young man has been seen by several in the band and choir wing of the school. He appears at any hour and then vanishes just as quickly.
During the Civil War, a mysterious lady in a flowing lace dress was looking out her window when Confederates bombed the place. She was so frantic, she took one last look at her room on the very top floor, and jumped out the window. She hit an open window on the way down, splattering blood […]
According to local legend, if you drive out to Old Foamy Road at night, turn off your headlights, and honk three times, a goat man will appear in front of your car. Others say strange things happen to the car itself.
On January 18, 1970, two West Virginia University freshmen, Mared Malarik and Karen Ferrell, left a movie theater screening of “Oliver!” in downtown Morgantown and were never seen alive again. The students had been attempting to hitchhike back to their dorms on Evansdale Campus. Eighty-eight days later, on April 16, 1970, their decapitated bodies were […]
Ghosts of monks and Native Americans have been seen. At one time a large group of riders who looked like civil war soldiers rode by a group of men. Their cabin shook from the force of the horse’s hoofs hitting the ground. When they had passed, no one plant had been damaged.
Paradise Park is a trail leading into the mountains in Manoa Valley. It is surrounded by deep foliage on both sides. Many people have reported hearing a banshee or some other specter screaming on the trail.
A woman was struck and killed on the blind corner outside this well known watering hole in southeast Alaska. It used to be known as the Kik, or Kiksaadi club, but now it is Rookies, a sports bar. The story is that the woman left the bar and was extremely drunk. She tried to wander […]
Mary Stringfellow, the hospital’s founder, was an organ player. Nurses working the third shift report hearing the organ playing in the chapel, but find no one there when they investigate. Another haunting involves a man who reportedly committed suicide by shotgun in one of the rooms. Patients have claimed to see the apparition of a […]
McCandless Hall is reportedly haunted by Abigail Burns, a young actress who performed at the building’s dedication in 1914. Legend says she died in a carriage accident that night and returned to keep her promise to stay. Madame Childs is also said to haunt young women who stay out past curfew.
The legend of the Anniston High School locker room is well-known throughout the student body. Upperclassmen often share the story with incoming freshmen to give them a scare, warning them of a vengeful ghost that haunts the area. While the specific details vary from person to person, the core facts remain consistent: the haunting is […]
During the spring season, there is a giant puddle under the museum from all the melted snow. A young boy named Alex was playing with a basketball near the museum, and his ball went under the building. When he tried to get the ball, he slipped under the building and couldn’t get out, drowning in […]
The Baker Hotel in Colorado City, Texas, is what remains of a once-proud establishment in a town that was, in its heyday, the largest community between Fort Worth and El Paso. Built in the 1920s as part of Theodore Baker’s broader hotel enterprise across West Texas, the building still stands today — though it is […]
The Lady in White is said to roam here, searching for her daughter, who was supposedly attacked and murdered by unknown assailants. While there are many versions of the story, it is a well-known local legend.
Local legend says a construction worker was killed during the building of the new gymnasium and can still be heard roaming through it.
It is said that a janitor got stuck in the boiler room of the school and died, and now he haunts it at night. When someone goes by the boiler room after dark, you can sometimes hear him screaming for help.
There is a hill that on some nights, you can see a lit up cabin, but when you try to drive to it you cannot find it anywhere. In the late 1800s there was a witch that lived there, and it is said that her ghost is still there trying to attract people so she […]
The house sits alone and people have told stories of hearing noises, but nothing has been confirmed — it is located by the doughboy statue.
A figure in white has been seen on the first floor by the old water fountain. A man with red eyes has been seen in the upper balcony. Noises have been heard on stage, as if workers are present. The stage sounds are rumored to be the ghost of a man who fell off a […]
Lilburn Mansion in Ellicott City has been called one of the most haunted locations in Maryland. Visitors report instant creepy feelings just looking at the place.
Years ago, at the house across from the bridge, a man cut out a woman’s heart and threw it into a stream by the bridge. To this day, if you go there and turn off your engine … you can still hear her heartbeat, off of Bonnie Branch Road.
Memorial Hall is home to one of Hood’s most persistent ghost stories — the spirit of a student named Sheila. According to legend, Sheila was killed near the elevator by a rejected suitor who chased her through the first floor. Her ghost is said to haunt the elevator to this day. The doors open and […]
A student was reportedly attacked and stabbed while doing laundry in the basement of Shriner Hall. Despite her injuries, she managed to drag herself up the stairs before dying near the door of her dorm room. Some versions of the story say she scratched at the door for help; others say she called her mother […]
Brodbeck Hall is the oldest building on campus, built in 1868 on the site of a former German biergarten. Late at night, laughter, music, and the sound of boots scraping across the floor have been heard coming from empty rooms. Strange orbs of light have been spotted floating near the stage, and misty figures have […]
Barry Hall – In the nights there are ghosts seen in the girls’ dorm, Barry Hall, on the 2nd floor, and one is reputed to be evil. She was called Mary Walker, and it turned out she did exist back in the 1800s — she is interred at the nearby cemetery up the road from […]
On a full moon, you can hear the sounds of gunshots.
In 2003, there was a suicide and a murder there. The suicide involved a man who walked into an aisle and shot himself. Rumor is that if you go to that aisle, you’ll feel a cold wind rush past you and get the sense someone is behind you. A man also shot his daughter in […]
A railroad overpass near Clifton, Virginia known as the Colchester Overpass — and widely called the Bunny Man Bridge — is said to be haunted by the ghost of a killer in a rabbit costume. According to the legend, an escaped mental patient survived in the woods near the bridge by eating rabbits, and eventually […]
Said to be haunted by a woman killed by Satanists in the basement. The building has a long, dark history tied to a slaughterhouse, mob activity, and alleged occult rituals dating back to the late 1800s.
The surrounding woods – a long dead figure of a lady dressed in a white dress appears. She was reportedly killed by a robber.
On the old side of the base there is a cemetery where many soldiers are buried. Security police on patrol have reported soldiers wandering through the cemetery and the neighboring crematorium (building number 666).
Macdonough Hall is one of the oldest residence halls at SUNY Plattsburgh and is widely considered the most haunted building on campus. Many students and faculty have reported seeing apparitions and hearing strange noises. A popular legend claims the basement was once a morgue for the old Plattsburgh Hospital, though the building has served solely […]