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Category: Legend

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 →
Dover Lights

Dover Lights

The ghosts of Spanish Conquistadors search for their lost gold in a valley in the Ozark foothills.

February 28, 2024 Read More →
Barry’s Chapel

Barry’s Chapel

Off Route 77 and down a long dirt road, there are the remains of an old church. It was built by a man with the last name of Barry many years ago. His wife had mysteriously died. In a separate incident, his church burned down around the same time as his wife’s death. He later […]

February 28, 2024 Read More →
Mt. Gilead Church

Mt. Gilead Church

If you run around this church 10 times prior to going to Main Street Graveyard and Crybaby bridge (see Anderson and Markleville listings) you will conjure up spirits which will make your evening trip a little more interesting. Take SR 38 east out of Pendleton to County Road 50 West. Then turn south about 3 […]

February 26, 2024 Read More →
San Gabriel Civic Auditorium

San Gabriel Civic Auditorium

The San Gabriel Civic Auditorium’s past is very long and there are many stories of hauntings. Back while it was being built underground tunnels were built under the length of the building. They were built so that the owner (nicknamed Uncle John) could go from backstage to the foyer. When Uncle John died the tunnels […]

February 24, 2024 Read More →
Main Street Graveyard (Hays Cemetery)

Main Street Graveyard (Hays Cemetery)

It is located in the outskirts of Pendleton, Indiana. Anderson is at least 20 miles away from it. And Main Street Graveyard is located a half mile down the road from that. It is where a little girl is suspected to be the devil. On top of her grave there has been a plant growing […]

February 24, 2024 Read More →
Hookman’s Cemetery

Hookman’s Cemetery

No matter what time of day you go there is a fog that sits at the top of the hill with no breeze, no birds, or insects present. If you go there Hookman is not buried where it’s marked, you have to walk 1.5 miles back. You’ll know when you get there because it’s like […]

February 23, 2024 Read More →
Old Pea Ridge Mine

Old Pea Ridge Mine

Sixteen men died in the Pea Ridge Mine during its 40 years of operation from 1961 to 2001. Why this place closed down is still unclear. Around 80% of the richest Iron ore deposits in North America is still under the ground at this location. It is like everyone just left the place for no […]

February 22, 2024 Read More →
Old Fort Benton/ Old Patterson school

Old Fort Benton/ Old Patterson school

People get some really weird feelings around that area it was used by the Confederates back when the War Between the States was going on.

February 20, 2024 Read More →
Gobbler’s Knob

Gobbler’s Knob

Warren Hardin is known as the ghost of Gobbler’s Knob. People say they have seen the ghost wandering around the cemetery with a jug of whiskey in his hands and every once in a while he will take a drink and smile.

February 18, 2024 Read More →
Gray Road

Gray Road

Named after an officer in the Civil War. The old mile and a half long road is a well-known urban legend in the area. An old barn is still present in the woods, and sounds can be heard at night. While in the barn at night visions of dead slaves can be seen through the […]

February 11, 2024 Read More →
Dog Face Bridge

Dog Face Bridge

Back in the 1950’s a couple were driving over a bridge heading out on their honeymoon, When a dog ran out in front of them the couple swerved and ended up driving off the side of the bridge still killing the dog. Now there are 2 stories, one where both died, and the there the […]

February 11, 2024 Read More →
Camp Cedarledge – Girl Scout Camp

Camp Cedarledge – Girl Scout Camp

As you first enter the gate to the camp, The first set of tents you come to is to the left. Many years ago it was storming very bad one night one of the girls needed to a shower. So she walked to the shower house about 6 or 7 yards from the tents. In […]

February 9, 2024 Read More →
Joe’s Cave

Joe’s Cave

In the early 1900’s a black man named Joe was accused of raping a young white girl. He protested his innocence saying, “God would prove I didn’t do it”. Legend has it that he survived the electric chair but a group of vigilantes took him to the cave where he was tarred and feathered and […]

February 9, 2024 Read More →
Goat Man’s Grave

Goat Man’s Grave

Is supposedly haunted by the “Goat Man” and others, reported policemen have been spotted appearing out of no-where and then disappearing out of nowhere. There are a lot of scary stories about this place that will make the hair on the back of your neck stand up!! It is pretty freaky! take it from the […]

February 8, 2024 Read More →
Palmer

Palmer

An old civil war town that is haunted by the Palmer ghost. She died in the 1850s and supposedly if you say her name three times she will appear and terrorize you.

February 8, 2024 Read More →
Platte City Cemetery

Platte City Cemetery

It has been said that if you go to the graveyard during the bewitching hour, you can see dead people, actual dead people in the ground.. Not moving, just laying there. Under ground about 6 ft. or so.

February 8, 2024 Read More →
Old Fredericktown Road off of Hwy OO

Old Fredericktown Road off of Hwy OO

If you drive about a half mile down this gravel road and look off into the woods on the right side, you can see where there is a cleared off place in the woods and an old tire swing hanging from a tree. It is said that an old man and his daughter lived there […]

February 8, 2024 Read More →
George Brett Bridge

George Brett Bridge

On the night the Royals won the world series a drunk driver ran over a man and if you stand on the bridge after a game you can see him wearing his KC Royals hat.

February 8, 2024 Read More →