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Category: Legend

The Book House

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 Read More →
Drury University – Soccer Field

Drury University – Soccer Field

The soccer field off of Bennett Street was built over sacred Native American ground. There have been reports of a presence there.

February 7, 2025 Read More →
Winoka Lodge (torn down)

Winoka Lodge (torn down)

Correction (May 2005): It was previously stated that this location was a former Girl Scout camp. However, this is incorrect. While the area is believed to be haunted due to unexplained sounds and other occurrences, these are not connected to Girl Scouts. The property, once the site of an old hunting club, is located just […]

February 4, 2025 Read More →
Sewer by Lee Hunter

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 Read More →
Crybaby Bridge

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 Read More →
Spook Hollow Road – Pine Hill Cemetery

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 Read More →
Old Elementary School Caboose

Old Elementary School Caboose

On Halloween nights it is known for an old guy who lived in the caboose years ago and died there. Appears to be seen whittling things with a knife. He also throws it at you. He opens and closes the door to the caboose a lot too even at daytime.

January 5, 2025 Read More →
Consolation Church (Burned Down)

Consolation Church (Burned Down)

The church is no longer used because of Banshees. If you sit inside of the gates you can hear Confederate soldiers marching. There is an outhouse in the back of the church, and if you go inside by yourself, the door will shut behind you and lock. You can only get out if someone comes […]

January 5, 2025 Read More →
Enocks Knob Road

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 Read More →
River Falls Slave Prison (razed)

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 Read More →
Glen Haven Memorial Park

Glen Haven Memorial Park

There is an alleged gravity hill and there is a statue next to the mortuary building that walks around at night.

January 4, 2025 Read More →
Cottey College – Blanche Skiff Ross Memorial Library

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 Read More →
Valles Mines

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 Read More →
Cheesman Park

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 Read More →
Negtemuit High School

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 Read More →
Mount Saint Charles Academy

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 Read More →
Red Ash Cemetery

Red Ash Cemetery

There is a good 10 mile stretch in which several paranormal sightings have occurred.  Witnesses report a red half human, half goat figure that was nearly 8 feet tall with a pentagram in it’s forehead. As they sped away, they had to cross a set of railroad tracks. Directly in front of them, there was […]

October 13, 2024 Read More →
American Fork Canyon

American Fork Canyon

Legend states that if you do three circles at the top of Tibble Fork parking lot, when you come to the fork when exiting the canyon a hearse will follow and chase you with red lights.

October 13, 2024 Read More →
Donaldson Mansion

Donaldson Mansion

The Donaldson mansion was a quiet home until something happened. At night lights come on by themselves, you will hear screaming and this fog lies all the way around the outside of the house. It was once told that no one will go up to the mansion, she will invite you in but you will […]

October 5, 2024 Read More →
Morehead State University – Button Auditorium

Morehead State University – Button Auditorium

In the 1980’s a janitor was cleaning a large clock hanging off the balcony and apparently he fell off the balcony and a chair broke his back and sometimes if you’re sitting in the area he fell on you get a crushing sensation and a very odd smell.

October 4, 2024 Read More →
Kaw River (aka Kansas River)

Kaw River (aka Kansas River)

On a rainy night there is a headless woman that walks the river bank. It is said she was in a covered wagon that turned over and rolled down the hill and she was decapitated.

October 3, 2024 Read More →
Auto City Junk Yard (closed & mostly cleaned up)

Auto City Junk Yard (closed & mostly cleaned up)

During the 1980’s and through the 1990’s many bodies were dumped in this junk yard. Most of them were due to professional killings. Since this place was once a hotspot to dump bodies it has become very haunted. There have been reports of screams coming from the junkyard during the night. Also many police reports […]

August 21, 2024 Read More →
Daniels Park

Daniels Park

There is an old 19th century armory on the south face of the hill, below and to the left of the park facilities, it’s where a ghost named “Kether” dwells. She was sacrificed on this spot as punishment for disobedience of her coven whose beliefs were loosely based on worship of the Egyptian god “Set”. […]

August 5, 2024 Read More →
Rickey Road

Rickey Road

This road has constant twists and turns throughout it. There are no street lights but woods on both sides lining the edge of the road. It has a age-worn brick wall along the side that looks like a old, overgrown cemetery. A valuable source has said they saw a cemetery on either side of the […]

August 1, 2024 Read More →
Atchley Park

Atchley Park

There was a young man who committed suicide here on a Saturday night. People say that when you go out there on Saturday nights that you can see his ghostly figure haunting the park. He usually hangs around the old gazebo. That is where he ended his life. August 2004 correction: formerly posted as Ashley […]

August 1, 2024 Read More →
Dogface Bridge

Dogface Bridge

Supposedly a couple was murdered here, and at midnight you can hear the lady screaming and a dog howling. The car that they supposedly drove still sits there, and the road has been shut down. Rumor is if you go out there alone, your car turns itself around and you can see car headlights coming […]

May 23, 2024 Read More →
Haunted Bridge

Haunted Bridge

Back in the 1960’s, a teenaged girl could not accept the teasing and taunting of the students at Jennings County High School.  One evening around midnight, she jumped from one of the local bridges killing herself.  Though her body was found, to this day people driving across the bridge at around midnight have reported seeing […]

May 23, 2024 Read More →
Chain Grave

Chain Grave

A slave owner from the 1800’s beat one of his slaves to death with a logging chain. The wife of the slave had a local shaman put a curse on the slave owner. The curse was that he would bear the reminder of his murder for eternity. After he was buried, a chain appeared on […]

May 22, 2024 Read More →
Fort Ontario – Post Cemetery

Fort Ontario – Post Cemetery

Locals claim the ghost of soldier George Fikes will haunt the person you name if you perform a ritual that involves jumping over the grave, spitting, and lying on the grave while reciting the appropriate chant. None of the kids I grew up with was ever brave enough to perform the entire ritual, but the […]

April 27, 2024 Read More →
Orpheum Theatre

Orpheum Theatre

Has recently been purchased by a new owner – Between 1995 and 1999, many of the staff had experienced odd occurrences. A janitor, cleaning late at night when the theatre was closed for the evening, saw a dark figure floating back and forth through the aisles of the balcony. Another time, while the final movie […]

April 22, 2024 Read More →
The Overpass to the Alamo Compound (AKA Gravity Hill)

The Overpass to the Alamo Compound (AKA Gravity Hill)

If you park your car on the bridge, put your car in neutral and something pulls your car over the bridge.  

April 21, 2024 Read More →
Cherryfield Road

Cherryfield Road

Drayden residents tell many ghost stories. One is about a large black dog who travels Cherryfield Road dragging a chain.  

April 21, 2024 Read More →
“Gates of Hell” or the Seven Gates

“Gates of Hell” or the Seven Gates

Off Pleasant Hill Road in Athol, MA, there’s a chilling location known for its dark past. Deep in the woods, 400 yards from the road, a cult once resided. They performed sacrificial rituals involving both animals and humans. The entrance to their eerie clearing is marked by seven gates, leading to an altar and a […]

April 21, 2024 Read More →
Adeline Manor Bed & Breakfast (Previously – The Rock House)

Adeline Manor Bed & Breakfast (Previously – The Rock House)

It is said that slaves were taken through an underground tunnel to the house. The house sits on top of a hill, and it is rumored that the slaves were buried at the bottom of the hill. Now homes sit at the bottom of the hill, and weird noises and incidents occur in some of […]

April 9, 2024 Read More →
Kimberly Crest

Kimberly Crest

It has been said if you go to Kimberly Crest after hours, you can see a woman in the top floor window sitting in a rocking chair. Perhaps Kimberly herself?

March 25, 2024 Read More →
Burrage Mansion (aka House of 1,000 Stairs)

Burrage Mansion (aka House of 1,000 Stairs)

A large house with 100 stairs outside and 900 stairs inside. It is said that nuns haunt the place, and that it once was a convent. People live there today, unlucky for them they’re not the only ones.

March 25, 2024 Read More →
Winterdale Lanes (Closed)

Winterdale Lanes (Closed)

The former bowling alley is supposedly “cursed”. The land it sits on used to be swampland, and people say gangsters used to dispose of bodies there. No one who has owned the bowling alley supposedly has been able to make a go of it. Some say the building is haunted.

March 21, 2024 Read More →
Witches Hollow

Witches Hollow

It’s called Witches Hollow by the townspeople because legend has it that, in the abandoned like village houses, a witch practiced her magic. It is said that she murdered her husband, and died later. Many people have reported seeing her walking along the road. You can still visit the old village and houses.

March 19, 2024 Read More →
Hell’s Church (aka Hightower Baptist Church)

Hell’s Church (aka Hightower Baptist Church)

There is a long narrow road going back into the woods that is very difficult to get down. You then come upon a small one room white church, out in the middle of nowhere. Located directly across the road is a cemetery with graves dating back to the 18th century. Although there have been accounts […]

March 9, 2024 Read More →
Bethel Cemetery

Bethel Cemetery

There are rumors that if you go to the Bethel Cemetery in Hymera at night and go up to the Nathan Hinkle grave and monument (a local soldier of the Revolutionary War that died in the war) and walk around the monument 3 times and say “Nathan Hinkle”, “Nathan Hinkle”, “Nathan Hinkle”, he will answer […]

March 3, 2024 Read More →