The crossroads where the paranormal and history meet.
Reportedly haunted by Indians. When the dorm was built in the 1970s, bones were found. When the remains were turned in, they dated back to the early 1700s, and maps showed that the land was owned by local Indians. Concordia was given the okay to keep building there, but they had to turn in all |Read More
In 1969, a young couple in their senior year of high school was brutally tortured and killed to death in the football field bleachers. Ghost sightings have been seen during football games. Two girls by the names of Elizabeth and Evelyn had once felt their legs being pulled while sitting in the bleachers. Once they |Read More
In the 1900s a little girl who didn’t have any friends killed herself by hanging herself in the girls locker room. People say that the little girl walks around the girls locker room looking for a friend to play with.
Reports of seeing a ghost of a little girl reflected in mirrors, pool balls moving , pictures been found upside down on the wall, heard the piano playing by itself, furniture moving, faint knocks on the door of the top quad, shades fly up in the middle of the night
When the building was still a church educational building, there was a large set of stairways in the back from the top floor(#3), down to the basement. In the back of the building, there is a playground. A little girl was running down the steps to get to the playground, when she tripped, fell down |Read More
One of the many classrooms in the vocational building has been condemned, because of rumors of a student killing himself there. The student now haunts the room. Students and teachers have reported hearing loud taps on the door, cold spots, and eerie footsteps when no one is around.
When there was still segregation, Montevallo had two high schools. They were called Montevallo High School and Montevallo Negro High School or Prentice High School. The principle at the Negro school was called Mr. Prentice. He had a great life. He was very sweet and was known as someone who always checked on things. Times |Read More
The gym is haunted by some children. Many people are afraid to go into the building. Odd sounds have been heard throughout the gym.
There’s a door in the girl’s locker room that leads to a classroom upstairs. A long time ago a girl was running up the stairs and she tripped, and she died. It is said that when you are in the girl’s locker room at night you can hear things coming from the stair well like |Read More
Located within the South Dakota Administration Building. A man that was a janitor in 1919, fell out of an alcove above the stage where an organ was located. The organ would randomly play for two years following his death until it was dismantled and scrapped. He causes a lot of electrical and technical problems if |Read More
Late at night around 11:00pm there is a shadow in the figure of a man that stands by the gym doors.
At night time when the lights are out teachers report to hear awkward sounds.
After leaving things locked up in the booth overnight they will be moved the next day, or the item is not in the booth at all. Cold spots, the hair on the back of your neck and arms stand up, & footsteps in the catwalk when no one is up there.
There are presences in the the area that once was a stage, strange noises are heard there. – November 2005 update: Grace has purchased new property and will be building a new Church and School in Germantown.
A boy was brutally murdered in the late 70s. He was stabbed many times in the back. People say when he they pass by it at night they can see him with the knife in his back.
People have seen mop buckets roll down the hall on their own. Some people have heard scratching coming out of a janitors closet.
Theatre/Auditorium – Voices have been heard in the auditorium and deep laughter is heard on the balcony. Erratic footsteps have been heard on the roof.
Late at night a basketball can be heard as if the person who used to play for the school team was still there. Many years ago he was killed when a group of buddies skipped school to run around. His funeral was held in the gym with his coffin located underneath the goal that the |Read More
It is said that the ghost of Miss Kelsey herself has been seen playing the piano onstage long after her death and has been heard warning an actor who was rehearsing alone late at night that he was about to fall into the orchestra pit.
Elsinore Middle School – March 2008 update/correction: Formerly posted as Elsinore High School – In the early 50’s, a freshman hung herself in the back of the stage in the theater. She had been hurt and embarrassed in a hazing by the Soccer team. On several occasions, people have claimed to hear a girl choking |Read More
Located at the corner of Sutter And Octavia, the Queen Anne Hotel is an elegant Victorian style hotel, which dates back to the 1890’s. With free access to all of the floors and some of the rooms, it’s a great place to perform an investigation. If you want you can spend a night or so |Read More
Before Smith Hall was built, there used to be lots of old Victorian houses. One house had a little girl in it. That house caught on fire one day, but the girl stayed in the house so she could retrieve her teddy bear. Some days the girls that live in Smith Hall find their locked |Read More
Reports of doors slamming, people running up and down the old staircase, apparitions of soldiers walking on the rafters in the barn and cold spots.
Sibley Hall – students on the top floor have reported to wake up in mid-air with their mattress below them. There is one hallway that no students are allowed to enter, because it is haunted. It has been boarded shut.
Rumor is that long ago a janitor died in the girls bathroom on the 2nd floor of the Language/History building ( ‘C’ Building ). Now if you are alone in the bathroom, the old man’s ghost will flush the toilet just to scare you.
The Gym – a janitor that had died on the floor and now when you walk across the floor you can hear this voice in the distance that says “don’t walk on me”.
The Band Room – Its is said that one night someone heard drums playing and when they walked into the band room there was no one there. People have also claimed to see strange glowing lights, and there’s even one report about a janitor who saw a young boy in the band room….but then disappeared.
Numerous hauntings of the campus. Ghost have been seen in the Theatre, in the steam tunnels and power plant, and in the older dorms. One ghost is known to have migrated from the former little theater to the new theater on campus, when the old theater was demolished for safety reasons.
The Jenkin and Barbara David Theater – on the Park University campus is haunted by the ghost of Jenkin David. He mostly appears two young girls in the stairwells and hallways, dressed in a gray suit.
Roberta Hall – haunted by the same ghost, Roberta Steel for nearly 40 years. Hudson Hall – South third of the building was closed for years because of strange occurrences. While closed, there were strange noises, like golf balls being rolled down the hall, and strange green lights coming from the bathroom. Since it has |Read More
Scholastic Building – The dark room in the downstairs of the Scholastic Building is boarded up to this day because of a student who committed suicide by hanging himself there back when hazing was perfectly legal. – April 2007 Additional information – it is said that lights in the top right floor near the lab |Read More
Practice parade field – said to have a single figure of a solider who would appear in the middle of the parade field, and then turn and walk into the woods behind the field house and disappear.
Hickman Hall – residents have seen apparitions at night in Hickman Hall, gray and seemingly floating through doors. One door slammed shut and it was only after they noticed that the door was PADLOCKED that they realized the door could not have possibly slammed because it couldn’t open. – April 2007 Update: A visitor to |Read More
A lot of people might not know this, but this elementary school is an eerie place. About sixty years ago, before the school was ever built and before the neighborhood around was constructed, there was a cemetery in the area where the school is now. The state ordered the owners of Leaf Brown Cemetery to |Read More
A four-year-old girl was supposedly killed here. She swings on her favorite swing in the playground, so you will see it swinging without any wind and without any of the other swings moving. Also, if you rattle the doors and wait, she’ll rattle them back at you. Late at night, she listens to music in |Read More
Epperson Hall – This house, now the architecture school at the University of Missouri at Kansas City, has been haunted by a young woman for many years. The house was formerly owned by a local businessman and his daughter-in-law killed herself in the attic when she was banned from dating a man who worked on |Read More
It is known around the school that the girls 2nd floor bathroom of the C building is haunted by a janitor that jumped out of the window. He is said to flush the toilets just to scare girls. He closes the doors for the other janitors at night when they get done cleaning.
During WWII a couple of young women hung themselves in Herr House, a dorm on campus. The room is still being used, but the closet is blocked off. Now, you can hear people walking in empty rooms and other weird things happening.
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.
In about the fall of 1969 or the spring of 1970, a group of students and the school’s basketball coach who were arriving at the schoolhouse gym for a practice of the school play, entered the gym, turned on the lights, and witnessed a figure of a woman dressed in black lying on the couch |Read More