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.
“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 story is that one night a few teenagers were out at the lake drinking, when one of them went out into the water at a non-swimming area and drowned. They say that if you go out there and look across the lake, you can see a young man trying to stay above the water, […]
People have seen ghosts and heard strange noises like guns and cannons. Apparitions of Confederate soldiers are seen more often.
If you ride by the front of the school at midnight, you will always see a janitor ghost that died there while cleaning bathrooms. He waves at you when you drive by.
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 […]
If you go north on River Falls Street (US Hwy 84) away from Andalusia, you cross a bridge. Turn to the right, as if you were going to Point A. Go to the boat ramp and look to the left. There is a road that goes beside a field. Walk down the road. The road […]
They say that the Cottey Library sits on top of an old civil war field hospital and then in the 1880’s a home was built for the Cottey Family. Either way there is loads of activity in this library with books falling and carts rolling and music coming from the back stairs. Various people have […]
Cheeseman park was the cemetery for Denver and there are graves left in the park. Upkeep and care during that time period was terrible. If someone did not have a grave they may have been thrown in another with someone else or just left lying until a mass grave was dug. If someone was buried […]
It is said that there is a little girl roaming and haunting the whole school. Staff members and students have seen and heard her. She would sometimes hum, appear in both the boys and girls bathrooms, turns lights off and on, and bounce a basketball. No one really knows how she died but it is […]
Footsteps through the leaves are heard. Feelings of being watched and reports of apparitions.
Supposedly one of the former Brothers of the Sacred Heart (The brothers that run the high school) had died and was so disliked that the students stuck pencils in his eyes at his funeral. For revenge he is known to haunt the 4th floor and walk in and out of the rooms.
Apparitions, sightings, and voices have been reported here.
A ghost is said to haunt the rooms and restaurant. Employees have reported items mysteriously moved around, and have reported sightings of ghosts through out the old hotel. haunt,hotel,restaurant,move,apparition
This ghost is known as the Phantom of Renton high. The story of how the phantom came to be is that a girl was raped and murdered by an old janitor who hung her body from the rafters in the old auditorium, which has recently been torn out. She would make herself known to small […]
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 […]
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 […]
Footsteps can be heard upstairs in the main house. Several people have also witnessed ghostly apparitions of a male and female, thought to be former owners of the house. Employees have witnessed loaves of bread flying toward them in the kitchen. The present owners have repeatedly had to reposition furniture to its proper position.
The site of a major civil war battle, many trenches are still visible and people venturing there at night have heard cannon fire and seen apparitions of soldiers
In 1997 the theatre was haunted by an old man with a bad temper. Employees were teased and tormented, many quit. Even customers noticed him wandering around. Management had to bring in a specialist.
There is an old 19th century armory on the south face of the hill, below and to the left of the park facilities, it’s where a ghost named “Kether” dwells. She was sacrificed on this spot as punishment for disobedience of her coven whose beliefs were loosely based on worship of the Egyptian god “Set”. […]
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 […]
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 […]
Some have reported hearing children playing, smelled roses, heard chains rattling, hot spots where it would be warmer than the rest of the cemetery and on the way out witnesses have seen three figures which seemed to be guarding the gates, and four figures walking toward them.
The ruins of the settlement that later grew into Pomfret, along with the old cemetery used by the small settlement, hide in the CT woods but hold many surprises for those who take the time to find them. Reports include human voices, animal sounds, children’s’ laughter, sightings of a baby reclining in the branches of […]
The hotel receives strange calls from extensions that don’t exist. A female apparition has been sighted and the moaning of a male is heard.
Back in the 1960’s, a teenaged girl could not accept the teasing and taunting of the students at Jennings County High School. One evening around midnight, she jumped from one of the local bridges killing herself. Though her body was found, to this day people driving across the bridge at around midnight have reported seeing […]
An apartment on the first floor of the M building is haunted by the spirit of a woman. Muffled voices are heard, phantom music emanating from the kitchen, lights turned on and off, cabinet doors opened, and she has appeared as a full apparition. Apparently there was a death in the apartment that could contribute […]
Haunted by Sarah Norton, also known as the “White Witch”. She was a midwife and on her way to deliver a baby her carriage fell over and she was crushed. She is seen in the graveyard floating around the tombstones.
Used to be the old Apple Valley Inn. Reported to have 3 ghosts, the man hanged himself, one woman was murdered, and no one really knows what happened to the third one. She is always dressed in white and is seen only at a certain part of the old building. The man is sometimes seen […]
A benevolent wraith called “Photy” lives in the main darkroom most often seen standing by the northern-western-most enlarger. Usually the most sensitive students see his outline, which appears lighter than the surroundings. Sometimes moving into the photo-finishing room after closing and violently shaking the pictures hanging from the wall. Students report a feeling of calm […]
Davis PD moved to a new building recently, after having been in the old City Hall that was built in 1938 or so. Downstairs, after it was vacated, in the Women’s restroom, there was seen a wild haired redheaded woman rushing toward the 2nd stall door in an ‘attack’ posture with outstretched arms and claw-like […]
There is a cemetery on the left hand side of the road when going up Graham Hill Road right off of Highway 17 in Santa Cruz. This cemetery is pretty strange there is a lot of action going on in here. You can see faces and things moving inside of the cemetery. If you pull […]
This restaurant is haunted by a ghost named Charlie. Built in the 1880’s, it was a stage stop, post office, and a brothel.
Students and coaches have heard people playing basketball in the gym. Games from the football field being announced when no game is taking place.
Said to be haunted by a custodian who was killed in a fire many years ago.
The home was originally owned by the Townsend family. The house was used as a base for the British during the Revolutionary War. John Andre was a British Major during the war and visited often. One day Townsend’s daughter overheard Andre and John Simcoe (Commander of British Forces) talking about a payment to Benedict Arnold […]
The Jewish cemetery is over a century old, and has hardly been taken care of. Though many have passed it on the A train, at Boyd Ave. It has been vandalized so often that the caretakers are forced to close it down at 4 PM. The graveyard is a group of 3 cemeteries. If you […]