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Category: Legend

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 →
Joplin Spook Light

Joplin Spook Light

This place has been haunted since Civil War times. A few different stories circulate. This stretch of dirt road in the country outside of town has even been featured on Unsolved Mysteries. A mysterious light wanders the road. – September 2004 additional info: Spook Light Road is also known as Devil’s Promenade. There are several […]

February 7, 2024 Read More →
The Village

The Village

An old village of 8 houses back in the woods said to once have been a hotel. The so-called lobby you can see from the road is the largest building. All of the windows are boarded up. Also it has been said to been their as slave houses during the civil war. One of the […]

February 2, 2024 Read More →
Cuba Middle School gym

Cuba Middle School gym

A ghost supposedly by the name of “Joe Beisly” haunts our school. He was a very loyal janitor and he fell off a ladder and now people say that if you call his name 3 times he will appear.

January 31, 2024 Read More →
Dumas – Multiple Listings

Dumas – Multiple Listings

A train wreck occurred in the late summer, or early fall of 1892, with sketchy fatality lists stating approx. 13-27 deaths, many being thrown into the river. Therefore, the wreck occurred near the river overpass nearly 1/2 mile from the tunnel underpass. They believe the woman’s head was lost to the river and now she […]

January 31, 2024 Read More →
Vineland Road

Vineland Road

If you travel down that road day or night there is said to be a house that used to be owned by a man that owned slaves. They say you can hear voices and see lights and if you walk in the house be very careful because it is very old and not in good […]

January 31, 2024 Read More →
Unmarked Grave

Unmarked Grave

Legend says that a woman was thrown off the train and drug on the railroad tracks. Somebody found the body and buried her there. The area is mowed down today and there are flowers on the grave along with rocks to mark the spot. Orbs have been spotted.

January 31, 2024 Read More →
Workman’s Chapel

Workman’s Chapel

There is a presence felt at this church. It has been engulfed in flames before and no damage has occurred. There is a story about someone seeing some old cars around there like a funeral was going on and the roof of the vehicle that this person was in started to crush in until they […]

January 31, 2024 Read More →
Truman State University – Library

Truman State University – Library

Library – Back when Truman University was Northeast Missouri State, there was supposedly a ghost in what was once Laughlin Hall. Residents remember hearing sounds when there was no one else in the building. Laughlin Hall was torn down in 1986 and it’s bricks were used in the building of the new library in 1988. […]

January 30, 2024 Read More →
Old Hwy 94

Old Hwy 94

A stretch of old highway on the outskirts of Jefferson City, Missouri, is notorious for being haunted. The road is lined by cornfields, and there is a light that follows you for approximately four-five miles. The ghost of a mischievous old man named Ofie is known to haunt the road. Several people have reported hitting […]

January 30, 2024 Read More →
Excelsior Springs Middle School

Excelsior Springs Middle School

During the school year a boy named Donny passed away from carbon monoxide poisoning and had his funeral in the gym. It is said that if you go into the gym at 2:30 you will see him playing his guitar.

January 30, 2024 Read More →
Sullivan – The Blob

Sullivan – The Blob

Glaser Road and Meramec State Park – There was a “mist” appeared to many teenagers in the late 50’s and early 60’s on Glaser Road. They nicknamed it the Blob. Also on the same road starting in the 60’s and goes on today but only on occasion a light appears and dances around in the […]

January 30, 2024 Read More →
Thayer Elementary School

Thayer Elementary School

Once in the early 1980’s a teacher left to take a note to the office leaving a girl as a room monitor. During this time the students still sitting in their seats giggled as a chalkboard eraser scooted back and forth by itself along the little rail running along the bottom edge of the blackboard. […]

January 30, 2024 Read More →
The Light

The Light

Just right off of BB Hwy. There’s a site where the old railroad tracks used to be. It is reported a man fell asleep on the railroad track back in the 1930’s. The man supposedly walked to try to find his light and got tired and fell asleep, after walking so far. As the story […]

January 30, 2024 Read More →
Break Neck Hill

Break Neck Hill

Break Neck Hill – On this steep dirt road near the Christian County/Stone County Line, a headless horseman can be seen riding a specter horse. Sometimes the sound of a horse’s hooves can be heard. More than one rider has been killed on that hill over the years.

January 30, 2024 Read More →
Hwy Old 213

Hwy Old 213

Over 10 years ago a young women died in a car accident when she ran off the road into a light pole. It is across the street from a sign that tells you what highway you are on. The light while sitting under it will go off and as you move out from under it, […]

January 30, 2024 Read More →
Vaile Mansion

Vaile Mansion

Former insane asylum. Ghosts in the wooden room of faces. The upper part of mansion that is closed off to public is haunted by Mrs. Vaile who killed herself by overdosing on morphine after her husband Mr. Vaile went crazy and died. – January 2004 correction: Mrs. Vaile did not kill herself after her husband […]

January 29, 2024 Read More →
The Traveler of the Knob

The Traveler of the Knob

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.

January 29, 2024 Read More →
Hunter’s Point

Hunter’s Point

Screams and an apparition of a hanging man witnessed.

January 27, 2024 Read More →
North 17 Highway

North 17 Highway

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, […]

January 27, 2024 Read More →
Trestle

Trestle

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 […]

January 26, 2024 Read More →
Katy Trail

Katy Trail

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.

January 14, 2024 Read More →
Vineland Elementary

Vineland Elementary

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 […]

January 14, 2024 Read More →