The crossroads where the paranormal and history meet.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Reports of cold spots, noises, doors locking, & lockers open and shut.
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. […]
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.
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. […]
Senior Hall – A young lady watched her Confederate soldier lover that she was hiding while nursing back to health be discovered and killed by hanging as a deserter. She then hanged herself from the rafters of her dorm building and haunts it today, searching for her lost love.
Weird noises, footsteps, and voices and night. Also sounds of doors shutting. Usually and night around 12:00 a.m.
Cheney Hall – is said to be haunted. Around finals time, a girl living on the third floor couldn’t handle the stress and committed suicide in her bathtub. It is said that no matter how hard they scrubbed, the blood would not come out of the tub. Instead of pulling the bathtub out and replacing […]
St. Louis – Seton Hall – During odd hours of the day, 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 […]
St. Clair Hall – January 2007 Correction Formerly listed as Miller Hall – when the college was founded in the mid 1800’s as a girl’s Christian school Miller was the main building and the students’ dorm was in the attic. There was a fire in the dorm room and supposedly one of the girls died […]
Tower Hall – Students were reported seeing themselves doing homework and chatting in the halls. – May 2008 Additional information: Probably the most violent haunted location on campus. The fifth floor is closed due to a fire that occurred there. The elevators and stairs are locked but one day just to see if the elevator […]
Footsteps can be heard. During refurbishing, the footsteps could be heard, and when investigated, nothing found, even though there was dust and dirt on the floor, and footprints would have been made, but no footprints were found there.
On an old bridge leading to the golf course the apparition of a female cadet has been spotted.
Locker Doors open and close on their own. In the high school art room many hear the sounds of a young girl crying. Many young high school kids from this school died in car wrecks, swimming accidents, electrical shock, and other mysterious accidents.
Pillsbury/Roblee Dorm Hall – There are three women that will sing to you at night and tuck you in, they have been affectionately named, “The Blue Ladies.” Many students residing in these dorms report hearing lullabies being sung.
There have been multiple sightings in and around the high school, including reports of a little girl who was allegedly locked inside back in 1972. Televisions turn on and off by themselves. Some visitors have experienced unexplained bleeding. In the basement, several witnesses claim to have seen a bloodied man lingering near the old storage […]
Supposedly when the old locker rooms under the gymnasium collapsed or burnt down, a girl was caught and died. To this day she has been seen at night near the restrooms and in the hallways of the school. Her name is Maude (not sure how to spell it). The other story is where the Ag […]
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 […]
A little boy was hung in the gym while doing Peter Pan. Students have gone down there when it is dark and they have been contacted by the ghost of this little boy.