The crossroads where the paranormal and history meet.
This campus is haunted by the spirit of Mary Sibley, founder of the college. Students have seen her apparition and heard piano music, which Mrs. Sibley was so fond of. Also, the campus theatre and library is said to be haunted.
In the main building, at night, a presence can be felt following you. Also, there is an elevator shaft no longer in use where one can feel cold spots and a presence watching them. Presence can be felt in the basement and also on the roof. The building was once a bank and there is […]
Some people say that if you go on the famous day of Halloween at midnight and shut off your car, soon after you can hear a baby crying. This story is similar to the Hart Cemetery.
There is a bridge over the river over on a road there. A long time ago, a farmer, his wife and his kid lived there. The dad was gone to town, and the mother was doing laundry. Her child had wandered out into the river. The mother heard her child crying and she herself couldn’t […]
“The Colonel” has been seen by almost all the hotel staff that work in the Convention Center. He is seen late at night between midnight and 4am. Staff will see him in the ballroom and in the back hallways. He is an older man dressed all in black. The most infamous sighting was by a […]
The legend goes that if you go down Spook Hollow Road that you will end up at a cemetery. If you go into the cemetery at night, no matter what time of year it is the weather is nice and cozy. The legend also says that there were a group of children that were going […]
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.
People have seen ghosts and heard strange noises like guns and cannons. Apparitions of Confederate soldiers are seen more often.
Site of a Civil War battle in southwest Missouri. At night, you can hear soldiers walking and talking in the woods at the site.
On Halloween nights it is known for an old guy who lived in the caboose years ago and died there. Appears to be seen whittling things with a knife. He also throws it at you. He opens and closes the door to the caboose a lot too even at daytime.
A very creepy old bridge sits near the end of this road. The lake below is haunted by the spirit of the little boy who fell off the bridge a long time ago. It is said that late at night if you go on the bridge and look down you can see something swimming in […]
Go to Valles Mines and take a left on the very first road on your left. Possibly a gravel road, and it’s hard to see. Awhile down, there is a sign on your right that says Valles Mines tours. Go during the day, and you can get a tour. Such things have happened as we […]
In the largest auditorium a man died of a heart attack. The doors to this auditorium will not stay open after 11 P.M. and an eerie presence can be felt inside. April 2008 Correction – This theater was not on the site of the Old Ronnie’s Drive in
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.
Footsteps through the leaves are heard. Feelings of being watched and reports of apparitions.
On the 4th floor balcony, if you are very quiet and still you can hear footsteps and even low murmurs sometimes.
A janitor is believed to have died in this theater during a fire in the early twentieth century. His ghost has been seen in the upper balcony by lone actors on the stage. There is also a story about a baby that was accidentally dropped from the upper balcony one evening. It is said to […]
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 […]
There are several places upon this lake that are supposed to be haunted. In one of the places, there are road signs that appear to bleed and have bullet holes in them. They disappear though when people get close. There have also been reports of strange occurrences at a place called Devil’s Bridge. Devils bridge […]
Cold spots and apparitions have been reported.
It is said a ghost haunts the fourth floor of the old Overby’s Furniture store (now a music store) at the corner of Vine and Broadway. According to accounts after the tornado of 1927 the Butler County Courthouse was destroyed and a temporary courtroom was established on the fourth floor of the building. It is […]
On a rainy night there is a headless woman that walks the river bank. It is said she was in a covered wagon that turned over and rolled down the hill and she was decapitated.
Reports of yelling and no one around.
Strange lights have been seen floating in this old graveyard.
This road has constant twists and turns throughout it. There are no street lights but woods on both sides lining the edge of the road. It has a age-worn brick wall along the side that looks like a old, overgrown cemetery. A valuable source has said they saw a cemetery on either side of the […]
Carl, a former shuttle bus person, still haunts the grounds. He has been seen in the kitchen and in the halls. Things fall off of the shelves. You see legs on the other side of the work table, but when you crouch down to see who it is and no one is there. Out of […]
The spirit of former star athlete haunts this high school. On random nights, people in the building have heard basketballs bouncing in the gym when no one is there. There are also reports of strange whisperings, eerie lights, and other strange occurrences.
There was a young man who committed suicide here on a Saturday night. People say that when you go out there on Saturday nights that you can see his ghostly figure haunting the park. He usually hangs around the old gazebo. That is where he ended his life. August 2004 correction: formerly posted as Ashley […]
When approaching Jenkins road from the north heading south one can stop and see the road and trees surrounding it moving away like running water. Mysterious lights appearing out of nowhere coming towards you, as soon as one stops on Jenkins road and gets out of car. It is said that an old farmer who […]
On hot summer nights you can occasionally hear the train whistle blowing. They tore the tracks out to put in a rail trail and there has not been a train through there for at least five years if not more.
Several strange stories of hauntings going on at this house by those who are on staff there as well as residents living around the house.
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.
The Casey’s on McArthur was built on the site of an old home. The elderly people who had owned the home had died there. Ever since Casey’s has been built, the employees have reported the walk-in doors opening and shutting, things in the back room falling off of shelves. Things taken off of shelves and […]
Over 60 Years ago an old woman and her little girl used to live in a house here until it burned down. Around 2am each night if you wait by the front of Subway you can hear small cries of the child and screams of the woman. – June 2008 Update: The Subway burned to […]
The old mill that is off of 291 hwy in Liberty Missouri is haunted. Reports of hearing footsteps, tools missing, strange noises, in pictures…there have been unexplained splotches on them, most paranormal investigators call them “orbs” these “orbs” have also reportedly be seen, at times, floating down from the elevator shaft when watched through a […]
It is said that slaves were taken through an underground tunnel to the house. The house sits on top of a hill, and it is rumored that the slaves were buried at the bottom of the hill. Now homes sit at the bottom of the hill, and weird noises and incidents occur in some of […]
Eyewitnesses report seeing the apparition of a striking young woman with long, flowing brown hair. She walks toward them, dressed in a sleeveless white wedding gown, carrying a water bucket. Her features suggest she may have been part Native American. One night, as she passed a man, she brushed against him, spilling water down his […]
Across the Missouri River from Boonville, MO stands the faithfully restored 12,000 Sq. Ft. Rivercene Mansion built by Captain Joseph Kinney. Originally built in 1869 as a place to entertain and impress, this recent bed and breakfast, now private residence, became the original owners’ family home after his retirement in the 1880s. Within the downstairs […]
People have seen mop buckets roll down the hall on their own. Some people have heard scratching coming out of a janitors closet.
Sixteen men died in the Pea Ridge Mine during its 40 years of operation from 1961 to 2001. Why this place closed down is still unclear. Around 80% of the richest Iron ore deposits in North America is still under the ground at this location. It is like everyone just left the place for no […]