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.
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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.
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, […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
