Witnesses have claimed many different things happening. Doors open or shut without reason, things will be “misplaced”, and voices have been heard on occasions.
Witnesses have reported something jumping on them and jumping on beds to find a figure run straight through the door into the hallway.
Strong presences are felt throughout, particularly in the northeast cloister near the Lincoln bust. The mission-themed Glockenspiel was designed by Alice Miller, who died just before its completion. The clock is notorious for misbehaving.
A bar once stood on this spot. It’s long gone now, replaced by a Dairy Queen. But according to the staff, something from the past might still linger. They often report strange noises and lights acting up—doing the kind of odd, playful things only lights seem to do without someone causing it.
The echoes of a past tragedy, a life lost to fire, still linger here. An unseen presence makes itself known in chilling ways: doors creak closed on their own accord, and the distinct sound of phantom footsteps can be heard when no one else is present. Electronic devices are not immune; a radio, once playing, […]
A couple of spirits are said to linger here. One seems particularly drawn to the Auditorium, while another, known for mischievous pranks, primarily haunts the bathrooms. Many students and faculty members, especially a group of girls, have reported unexplained flooding in the bathrooms on the main, second, and third floors. The Theater Arts Teacher and […]
During odd hours of the days, footsteps can be heard running down the hall on the third floor. Knocks on doors, and unlocking door sounds can be heard, all while no one is around. This used to be the location of a hospital and then a convent. There are tunnels that connect this building with […]
Willard Carpenter, of Willard Library, occasionally adds a bit of excitement for PBS Station WNIN staff and volunteers. Mostly strange noises, objects mysteriously shifting when no one’s looking, and fleeting sightings just out of the corner of the eye.
The sinks in every bathroom would turn on by themselves at the same time. Also, when in the shower, sometimes the shower curtain would open up.
It is said that if you go to the third floor at night and try to walk down the 200-foot hallway, books will be thrown at you. It’s also rumored that if you walk down the hall and yell, lockers will start opening, and you’ll hear voices over the intercom – voices coming from the […]
If you walk along the high, wide brick wall surrounding the cemetery, it’s said that before you make it halfway, you’ll be pushed off by unseen hands. Many voices can be heard within the cemetery, and several murders have reportedly occurred on that very spot. It is very desolate and located deep in the woods—difficult […]
In employee housing, Room 51 is said to be haunted by a baker who died there. Orbs have been captured in photos, footsteps are often heard, and many report sensing a strong presence. At the north end of the resort, the King’s Crown restaurant is haunted by a former manager who died on the premises. […]
There have been stories of a teacher who hanged herself after her child fell down the stairs on a tricycle. Witnesses have reported hearing screams, cries, and the squealing of tricycle tires. There have also been sightings of the woman and the child together again. Bloodstains have allegedly been found in every room—on the walls, […]
At night some of the guards have said to see the door of the guard shack open and the sound of footsteps as if someone was coming into the guard shack. One guard said he was doing his rounds and saw someone walking out back by the back fence and that sounds come from the […]
The Sheldon is thought to be haunted by its architect, who died before the place was finished; he also plays with the lights, has been known to change the levels on sound equipment, and makes strange noises. Sometimes he plays with the lights even during performances.
The Powell Ghost (dubbed “George” by stagehands) makes noises, plays with the lights and elevator, and is sometimes seen as a man in a white suit and white hat. He is thought to be a former vaudevillian.
A housekeeper on the 5th floor reports sightings of people walking down the hall but when they get close enough to touch they disappear. Others report hearing the elevator door ding randomly, a presence, voices and footsteps walking towards them all when no one is there.
One of the most haunted buildings in the city, this location is known for unexplained cold spots, electrical anomalies, the eerie sensation of being watched, and a piano that mysteriously plays a note in the night. Visitors have also reported vibrations from the floors, overwhelming feelings of sadness, taps on their shoulders, and numerous photographic […]
Reports of strange feelings of being watched cold spots, rancid smells that disappear as soon as the appeared, footsteps of children running & playing sounding like they where on the roof at 2 or 3 in the morning.
Lights flickered at night. Some have said it was the ghost of “Bob”. Strangely, the theater was dedicated to Bob Wilhoit.
The first high school in Springfield was built in the late 1800s. Old room 311 is supposedly haunted by sounds and a door that locks itself, but renovations of the school have renumbered the rooms and straightened out the hallway. Many places in the basement have been said to be haunted as well as the […]
A former employee of the plant who was killed in a workplace accident is known to turn lights on and off and is a nuisance to the businesses that occupy the building now by tossing paper and rubbish around.
Toys “R” Us is supposedly haunted by a young boy or man, believed to be Jonny Jonson (pronounced: Yonny Yonson), a farm worker. . Employees report finding toys in aisles when opening up the store in the morning, and balls rolling down aisles when nobody else is around, and bicycles being ridden around at night. […]
Customers here have reported countless instances of playful pranks since frontier days. Expect the usual crashing sounds, and objects that move on their own volition.
Cheeseman park was the cemetery for Denver and there are graves left in the park. Upkeep and care during that time period was terrible. If someone did not have a grave they may have been thrown in another with someone else or just left lying until a mass grave was dug. If someone was buried […]
It is said that there is a little girl roaming and haunting the whole school. Staff members and students have seen and heard her. She would sometimes hum, appear in both the boys and girls bathrooms, turns lights off and on, and bounce a basketball. No one really knows how she died but it is […]
Children’s ward is haunted. A patient stayed there and has seen a few strange things. The pen container on the nurses desk will slide to the other side. Children’s bedroom doors will close by themselves, slamming shut. Late at night there is crying of children and laughing in the play room.
This building is quite haunted. Residents have reported, among others: a bewigged 18th century gentleman; a “tippling ghost” that will empty wineglasses left in a certain place; a chain-rattling ghost in the basement (supposedly the place was a stop on the underground railroad; and it’s said that some slaves were sold out and recaptured); and […]
There is an old pump house in Lake Shore. It used to be used to regulate the irrigation flow to the farmers. It is said that there where two workers, working there by themselves one night, one of the men got caught in one of them machines, got pulled in and died, the other man […]
Toilets flush when no one is there, lockers slam at midnight, pencils fly across empty rooms, according to numerous reports, walking into the guys locker room, you can feel someone grabbing your neck and hear them yelling ‘Get away from me!’
A ghost is said to haunt the rooms and restaurant. Employees have reported items mysteriously moved around, and have reported sightings of ghosts through out the old hotel. haunt,hotel,restaurant,move,apparition
In the library, there have been many sightings of walls shaking and stuff falling off the walls.
This ghost is known as the Phantom of Renton high. The story of how the phantom came to be is that a girl was raped and murdered by an old janitor who hung her body from the rafters in the old auditorium, which has recently been torn out. She would make herself known to small […]
A man named Carl is rumored to haunt this business. Years ago, this Mr. Gatti’s was a saloon and Carl was shot in the head by an jealous man in the old apartment (now abandoned) above the store. Employees have reported seeing strange figures moving around the store, mostly during closing hours. Also voices and […]
Formerly a mental facility, there have been many sightings and sounds blames on a ghost they call “Oscar”. Oscar was a patient in the mental facility and before he died he swore to never leave and to make everyone’s lives there hell. My fiance worked as a CMT (med-tech) there, she didn’t believe in ghosts […]
Footsteps can be heard upstairs in the main house. Several people have also witnessed ghostly apparitions of a male and female, thought to be former owners of the house. Employees have witnessed loaves of bread flying toward them in the kitchen. The present owners have repeatedly had to reposition furniture to its proper position.
The hotel receives strange calls from extensions that don’t exist. A female apparition has been sighted and the moaning of a male is heard.
An ex-tenant reports faucets turning on by themselves in the bathroom when she was alone in the house, only to turn back on when she would shut them off. She also reports hearing her record player playing by itself.
Voices are heard often. Shadows of people walking. The sound of high heels down the hallway in the back. A woman in dark clothing wearing white nylons and black heels. Things have been reported to fall for no reason.
An apartment on the first floor of the M building is haunted by the spirit of a woman. Muffled voices are heard, phantom music emanating from the kitchen, lights turned on and off, cabinet doors opened, and she has appeared as a full apparition. Apparently there was a death in the apartment that could contribute […]
