The crossroads where the paranormal and history meet.
The “China Room” boasts several paintings of Henry Rogers, his mother, his grandmother, and other relatives. Children have often said that if you speak to them, they change expressions depending on the content. The room is also always dreadfully cold.
Many have heard people moving and talking in the basement where the bathroom is located. If you’re lucky you will see the librarian who was thought to have been killed down there on a late shift.
Music Room – Witnesses have claimed to hear Millicent’s laughter coming from what was once known as the “Music Room.” Staff and patrons have also seen a man dressed in a tweed jacket and purple bowtie with small circular glasses mopping the floor in the basement. One librarian claimed he is the ghost of a |Read More
The founder of Fairhaven, Henry Huttleston Rogers, had a daughter named Millicent. She died when she was barely seventeen of heart failure. Rumor has it that he had her buried under the foundation before the foundation was finished. People who visit the library sometimes see her walking the halls, outlined in bright blue light. At |Read More
Basement & Vaults – The hat of Heddy Green (a stingy old woman and mother to Colonel Green) lies within the vaults of the basement and some claim to have seen her after touching the hat. Some librarians will talk freely about the hauntings and offer information but most deny any and all accusations of |Read More
The former site of the city hall and morgue in the early 1900s. Visitors and staff have reported sightings of faces peering through windows, figures moving throughout the building, and books being displaced by an unseen force.
Staff and patrons of this 1923 library have reported a ghost, especially when working late in the evening.
On the 10th floor of the old section of the library, people report a distinct feeling of being watched. The elevator will sometimes open on its own and it sounds like people are getting in and out, but no one is there. The side desk areas also seem strangely busy, with the sound of writing |Read More
Some of the workers say that the elevator will go up and down by itself. They’ll hear water running in the bathrooms, and it stops when they look to see where it’s coming from. They say that the library was built over a house that was torn down in the early 1900s, and that the |Read More
Library – The old stacks of the library are said to be haunted by a workman who fell during the construction of the library in 1929. Numerous sightings have been reported over the years as documented by the Campus Time newspaper.
According to some employees, there is a ghost in the basement of the library who shoves people hard when they are walking through. According to one employee, a security guard quit because they were frightened so badly while patrolling the basement at night. Now the security guards patrol it in groups of two.
During the night, there are noises in the pipes in all the bathrooms, hot and cold spots, weird smells down by the cafeteria that are on and off, footsteps have been heard late at night by janitors, and in the Computer Lab/Library books have been tossed across the room lying everywhere.
People say the library is haunted, but it’s unclear who the ghosts are. Once, workers saw someone inside who wasn’t supposed to be there, so they called the police, but a search found no one. Reports mention the spirits of a man and a little girl lingering in the building.
After dark, apparitions can be seen of Fern Westfall, the founder of the school, knocking books off the shelves. Reports also state that a portrait of her in the elementary cafeteria contains roaming eyes that follow curious, staring students.
This campus is haunted by the spirit of Mary Sibley, founder of the college. Students have seen her apparition and heard piano music, which Mrs. Sibley was so fond of. Also, the campus theatre and library is said to be haunted.
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 |Read More
There is said to be a little boy that roams the halls and a teacher follows him. The little boy is said to be a boy named Josh, who died in the library by suffocation. No details of the suffocation seem to be known.
The old county library is haunted. Down main street, on the same side as the courthouse is the old library that was used until sometime in the late eighties or early nineties. Rumor is it’s haunted by the builder of the house to the left when looking at the library from the front. The man |Read More
The Pipestone County museum is formerly the old city hall. A little blonde girl has been seen there by several people. She is dressed in a blue 19th century dress with a white apron. Often, loud sounds are heard upstairs when no one is there (footsteps, stomping…) The old doctor’s office is located off the |Read More
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. |Read More