The golf course is built atop the former Venango Trail, a Native American ‘highway’. Indians in period dress supposedly emerge from the forest to cross the fairway before disappearing into thin air.
The story goes that a couple who just got married were passing through the park on their way to their honeymoon. When all of a sudden the groom lost control of his vehicle and crashed into an old tree, the impact was so devastating that the bride was ejected from the car and fell next […]
Wood County Historical Museum, County Home Road. The museum was once an infirmary and nursing home. Ghostly noises have been heard in and near the shed where insane patients were locked long ago. Also, a padlock on a door was once seen to spin without being touched.
Long tied to the town’s cycles of birth and death, the old Fitzgibbon Hospital site is notorious for inducing intense physiological reactions in those nearby.
Visitors attending gravesites have reported seeing fully manifested family members sitting inside parked vehicles across the grounds. In one documented instance, a mourning driver was spotted accompanied by a woman and an older man who tipped his hat to onlookers—only for the driver to confirm he had arrived completely alone to clean his late relatives’ […]
The Pink Lady was a benevolent spirit believed to be a young former patient buried in a pink gown. She is said to have appeared to help ease the passing of current clients. A worker in the 1980s saw her looking down from a second-story window. Another night-shift worker on L2 South Hall heard noises […]
Old Botany – Closely related to Schwab Auditorium’s stories, Old Botany may be haunted by the president’s wife. She is occasionally seen, sitting near a window on the second floor, rocking and knitting. Also, Old Botany is one of the oldest remaining buildings on campus, and there have been many stories of noises and sightings […]
There have been sightings of a woman standing in the window screaming for help.
Central Pattee Library – Students have reported odd feelings of a presence and being watched on the top floor of Central Pattee (Murder of a librarian years ago?). According to a January 2004 update/correction, the #1 ranked haunted place at Penn State, Pattee Library, was the site of a murder in 1969. A girl named […]
When the concert hall was built during the early 70s, a workman fell headfirst from the still unfinished catwalks. Every once in a while, theater workers catch a glimpse of him during shows.
Schwab Auditorium – is supposedly haunted by a few separate ghosts. One of them may be Charles Schwab. The other may be President Atherton who was president of the school and is buried beside the building. There has also been a soldier seen. An article about this was written in the last alumni newsletter. January […]
Employees report a man walks around the plant, reported to be a worker who was beheaded by a train in the early 1930s. He can be seen walking the plant, and he turns on and off equipment. He turns off the plant lights in the middle of shifts; you can see his flashlight beams on […]
Every once in a while, you can see the ghost of a sick, old, hunchbacked man walking through the hallways of this inn. He is sometimes even seen walking down the street. While alone you will hear the baby cry, or while upstairs on 2nd floor you’ll hear the creaking and sounds of the ghost […]
A woman in a white formal gown haunts the cemetery on clear summer nights, she will appear and then dissolve in a short time. Looks to be in a dress from the 20s.
Bunce Hall (the first building constructed on campus) is where a ghostly lady haunts the upper floor and bell tower area.
The PACAF Headquarters building is a historical site of WWII because of the bullets holes on the outside from the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Inside many soldiers were killed. Moans of dying soldiers can be heard, and bombing sounds. Doors open and closing on their own and ghosts of dead soldiers are known to roam […]
A ghost has been seen sitting in the seats.
Information is hard to find on this place, but there is some out there and I have found it. Back when the canal started construction in 1857, many men worked on its complex structure. The man who was head of this operation caught wind of the government shutting down the Canal Fulton operation. He was […]
There is said to be a ghost of one of the Biology Professors roaming the halls of the science building. He appears to be in his sixties and walks through the labs wearing a white lab coat and carrying a beaker and apothecary bottle. He has also been known to put away glassware and models […]
There is a mansion set off the road in Brunswick, that is said to be haunted in the bay windows at the front of the house, there have been sightings of figures moving to and from the window. Anyone who dares to go there will in some cases be chased out by a ghost who […]
Whitall House is noted for hauntings from the American Revolution. Dead soldiers from 1776 are in the attic; the house was used as a hospital. Check it out.
Construction workers were fearful during the renovation of The Biltmore Hotel, a historic landmark building in Miami. It was once a veteran’s hospital and had other previous uses. There are stories of things moving inexplicably and the sort. A receptionist who works there and lives nearby told of how she once got into the elevator […]
On the Old Santa Cruz Highway, going toward Los Gatos, the spirit of a young woman of about 17 or 18 roams around. She can often be seen sitting on the side of the road or walking at twilight.
There are reports of a residual scene of a murder. The apparition of a woman is seen running, followed by a man chasing after her. When they reach the edge of the overpass, he grabs her to strangle her and throws her over.
The Blockbuster on Atlantic Blvd. and Coral Ridge Drive is haunted by a little boy. Employees have seen him in the backroom, and tapes are often rearranged just after being organized after hours.
In the late 1930s and early 1940s Clearwater Beach stationed not only the Coast Guard, but also had a Military Police Training Barracks. There Army MPs would train there for deployment to WWII. There are sightings of a young woman in her early 20s running down the beach while wearing an all-white dress. It is […]
Keller Dorm – This dorm was the site of a student’s suicide years ago. He hanged himself in a stairwell. Perhaps related to that, and perhaps not, there are a couple of rooms (rumors are that they’re near his old room, but then again others say that’s not so) that have had some freaky things […]
Rippe Hall is haunted by a little girl who lived in a house that was located on the site before the dorm was built.
Built in the mid-1800s by Gen Robert Scott, the house has many incidents of paranormal activity. Gen Scott can be seen walking down the steps in his suit and top hat. There are reports of levitation of people sleeping on the 3rd floor bedrooms, sounds of people walking through the hallways, cold spots, and infants […]
The inn is so large that many ghosts visit the place. The old owner who first opened it still runs the now-empty inn. October 2003 Update: Iona Lake Inn was sold and turned into an Italian restaurant; it is now called Jake’s Italian Restaurant. (No longer accurate – See notes below.)
The park used to have a house that sat there on the lands of the park. The house caught on fire and the man burned alive in the house. Witnesses report of the sounds they would hear in the house before the house was torn down.
Sieker Hall is haunted by a pre-seminary student who died of pneumonia many years ago.
Feth Hall is said to be inhabited by a ghastly Rev. Dr. Henry Feth.
A running figure can be seen along the track of the high school. This person was said to be running at a time late at night when some gang members saw him, and chased him with their car, killing him. Now this runner haunts the track. Another haunting at Wilson is in one of the […]
The Nunica Cemetery is a small cemetery located east of Spring Lake on M-104, just off I-96. It is very small, but the large sign out front gives it away easily. Many people have reported strange occurrences, such as dark figures behind tombs and a rope that appears out of nowhere. A spirit entity by […]
The vaudeville-era Palace at 6th and Broadway is said to be extensively haunted by spectral stage workers and theatre guests. One of the seats near the front of the house supposedly is haunted by a man who was shot there when discovered out on a date with the wrong woman. Two old stage hands bicker […]
Students living in this residence hall have reported numerous unsettling occurrences, including locked dorm room doors suddenly unlocking on their own and waking up to find their bedsheets ripped. Others have experienced terrifying nightmares involving an elderly woman, accompanied by visual sightings of an apparition of an old woman roaming the hall. Campus police have […]
Not to be mistaken for Raceland-Worthington. In the basement, in the old Shop Classroom, there is a guy who wanders around mainly at 2:45 when in 1956 he cut off his hand with a table saw. People have tried to go in the old room to investigate, but they come out frightened, unable to go […]
There was a man who died in the projection booth from a fatal heart attack. He now haunts the theater and if you look down the vents on stage, you can see a picture of “Oscar.”
Lilly Hall – Second Floor Suite: Strange and unusual noises have been heard from this room. There is a mechanical room in the back where scratching and moaning take place at night. The girls who live there have seen shadows of an unknown figure.
