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.
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. […]
