Walkup Grove Cemetery
A little girl was seen by an old school house. Strange occurrences have taken place such as cars starting or not running in the area. Strange lights appear in photographs.
The crossroads where the paranormal and history meet.
A little girl was seen by an old school house. Strange occurrences have taken place such as cars starting or not running in the area. Strange lights appear in photographs.
Searcy Hall – A student gave birth to a child and then for unknown reasons, left it in a locker to die. Students have heard what sounds like a baby crying at night.
The ghost of the female cadet can be seen jogging around the track and disappears near where she was killed on a bridge. The bridge is further back than that spot.
You can see civil war solider in a doorway. It was the old band barracks also known as female barracks – Ghost clad in black known as “The Shadow” seen in hallway will open windows and slam doors. Can hear footsteps walking on the stairs.
The Music building – Lights and shadows have been seen, and doors have been heard slamming as well. Witnesses have seen figures walking down the hall that dissolved when they got close; and heard doors slamming hard as though they had been slung against the door frame. Investigation proved all doors locked and because of […]
The Rose Theatre – is haunted by the jilted wife of a French trader who murdered him on the grounds before the theatre was built. “Mary” (as we fondly referred to her) is very temperamental and causes mischief whenever a play with a violent theme is produced. There has also been an old man seen […]
Osborne/Phillips Hall – a residence hall that is shut for an undisclosed reason. Rumors of it being haunted, – October Update: The hall was shut down for financial reasons and low resident numbers, not for anything supernatural. Though an orb has been reported.
North Ellis – first floor, north end of the hall, feelings of being watched, One witnesses alarm clock fell off the dresser and skidded into the far wall, and another time it flew from the dresser shattering, they also say they witnessed an apparition appear in the mirror.
Hawkins Hall – Residence hall where a student hung himself.
Diemer Hall – It was on the second floor, was a private room with a private bath on the south end of the hall. Feelings of being watched. Two witnesses experienced the bathroom sink turning itself on and filled up with hot water.
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 […]
Cottey College is haunted by 2 ghosts: (1) Vera: a student from long ago that was making candy in Rosemary Hall when her nightgown caught fire, and resulted in burning down the hall. Now she haunts the entire college, comforting some girls and tricking others (2) a man in black (or a black man) that […]
A woman was murdered by a janitor back in the 80’s and ever since than there have been sightings of her roaming the hallways late at night saying. You have the wrong man. The janitor who confessed may be innocent.
There are countless stories of hauntings at the location. The Bell Tower, which was said to be haunted, had been closed for reconstruction and was inaccessible at the time the submitter visited. There have been reports of a little boy who would appear late at night to salute the helicopter on the grounds before vanishing. […]
The Barracks – The barracks on the far edge of the campus are also said to be haunted. loud footsteps have been heard coming down the hall in the staff hall of the cafeteria building, and open and shut the bathroom door.
The Bell Tower – is haunted. An apparition with a pale face pacing the bell tower has been reported. No lights where on in the bell tower.
Marine Hall – ghosts inhabit one of the barracks for the cadets. A student accidentally committed suicide by hanging himself. Ever since reports of strange noises, showers turning on by themselves and strange apparitions have appeared. The showers come on by themselves and hear footsteps coming down the hall but nobody was there. Marine Hall […]
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 […]
The Ghost of A.T. Still is reputed to walk the halls of the College and the Hospital it is connected to.
Campbell Apartments – The ghost of an elderly lady has been seen in these apartments.
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 […]
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.
Now an abandoned school building, sounds have been reported and the area around the building is surrounded by a cold spot.