The crossroads where the paranormal and history meet.
During a stormy night, on the Knob there can be seen a ghostly light that seems to travel up and down the bluff. It spawns from and old legend of a hermit that lived on the Knob, who was struck by lightning carrying a lantern. Its said that he still roams the hill.
Screams and an apparition of a hanging man witnessed.
A small bridge located north of West Plains is said to be haunted. If crossing the bridge at night during a rainstorm you stop your car and turn off your lights a child’s head will appear next to your car asking for help to find his mother. Another place would be the haunted stop sign, |Read More
About half a mile into the woods there is a creek that an old set of train tracks used to go across, and one night a homeless man was walking down the tracks sometime around midnight and he had sat down to catch his breathe and fell asleep. The man woke up to the vibration |Read More
Under a bridge on the Katy Trail only on full moons you see a young man with a missing left arm walk back and forth with no facial expressions.
It is said that a ghost roams the hallways at night! and the staff has seen weird things at night! A Grandmother tells the story of many years ago as a girl, she had snuck out of her house to see her boyfriend in the middle of the night and walking past the school she |Read More
There is an old, abandoned house that is out on an old road. When you pull up you get a sense of chills and shivers. This is the place where the KKK used to hang the African Americans that they tortured. When you walk up to the house you sometimes hear sounds and see things |Read More
There’s a statue of an angel (one that is a woman, not a child). The legend has it, that if you go there at midnight on a full moon only, that the statue cries bloody tears. It sometimes lasts till 1:00 A.M. And during this “witching” hour, it’s said that you can walk through the |Read More
Creve Coeur is French for “broken heart”. In the late 1800’s a beautiful daughter of an Indian chief married a strong warrior. They were madly in love but the warrior, like many of the Indian men did, had to go off in hunting parties. These hunting parties would go on for at least 6 months. |Read More
Many people think this road is evil. There is a restaurant located on this road where Satanism is believed to be practiced. Disappearances have frequently occurred here. On a bridge named Black Tram, legend states that if you drive across it and flash your lights three times, a ghost car will chase you away. There |Read More
Old residence hall – locked up now, but there is no electricity to it, yet every night a light shines. Electricians have tried to find a power source, and never have. – May 2004 Update: A graduate from SLU reports to have no recollection of any unused residence halls or buildings on campus. The post |Read More
The soccer field behind East Barracks has always had reports of a band company being seen there in the middle of the night. If you saw it, you could hear cadence being played softly. The band would be in their barracks asleep every time this happened, and the instruments were all locked up in the |Read More
Located off DD hwy. just outside Crocker, if you go there between 11:50P.M. and 12:20 A.M. you will see a flash of light like a door opening and hear a baby crying and screams, then hear the mother crying for her child , all the while there are sets of evil looking red eyes in |Read More
There are the remains of a burned down house on the paved section of this road. Rumor has it that a family died in the fire, and people have felt cold chills when passing by the house. – June 2008 Update / Correction: The house was burned by some kids partying inside in the late |Read More
Off Sycamore Church Road off 248 Hwy near Branson, the old trail used to pass by this road, near the old town of Garber. People have witness the imprints of saddle blankets and handprints in the dust on the backs of cars after driving this road.
The Pi Kappa Alpha Lodge just south of Cape Girardeau, Missouri has its own little ghost. For this old school house, now a fraternity social palace, there is a resident that doesn’t want to go away. Myth is that in the early 1900’s a little girl was accidentally killed in the school. Not much has |Read More
Bridal Cave – Chanting and singing from the Osage Indians who frequented this area hundreds of years ago can be heard, along with drumbeats and the occasional appearances of Native American Apparitions.
This is a small cemetery located outside of town, it only contains about 30 or less graves. It is said that if you see a blue light moving in the cemetery you will have a terrible accident soon after. Several people have reported this to be true.
You can see figure standing in window at night on the floor that was closed down is ghost of cadets that died in the infirmary during the early days (late 1800s and early 1900s) because medicine had not advanced.
If there is someone there and you look in the graveyard you will see glowing grave and some ghosts walking.
Supposedly, a long time ago, black women were hung there, and slave children were drowned in the creek. When you shut your car off on the bridge or near the church and cemetery, and go to start it again, it makes funny noises. If you turn the engine off while on the bridge it will |Read More
About 100 years ago on this road there was a woman that lived here by herself for many years. They accused her and two others of using witchcraft so they hung them with chains and on every Halloween around midnight you can drive down the road and hear the chains dragging on the top of |Read More