The crossroads where the paranormal and history meet.
Many have heard people moving and talking in the basement where the bathroom is located. If you’re lucky you will see the librarian who was thought to have been killed down there on a late shift.
A little girl with long hair haunts this bed & breakfast. You can often hear her playing the piano. Sometimes guests can see her. She says she wants to go home.
This was the former high school and then Grapevine Middle School which has now been moved as well. The building began as a mental hospital and then was changed to a normal hospital after malpractice charges. The lights in rooms would randomly shut off and voices were heard in the hallways. Basketball practices used to |Read More
You can hear people in the weight room when investigated, though it is always empty. It is rumored someone hanged themselves up there. Typing has been heard in the typing room, and in the library, there is a feeling of being watched.
On the bottom floor, in one of the rooms near the front, a ghost appears dressed in late 1700s attire, including a triangle-shaped hat. The spirit has a weathered, leathery face and is dressed as a farmer rather than a soldier. It stands in one’s face and mumbles, though no intelligible words have been heard.
Supposedly, one of the Aldrich daughters committed suicide by jumping from a balcony. There have been multiple reports of sightings by employees on the property.
Located within the Technology Department at Starcher Hall, this location is known for reports of a disembodied man’s arm appearing near the floor in the second-floor graphics darkroom. Students frequently report a brooding presence and a feeling of being watched. Additionally, a separate haunting involving a young woman and the scent of floral perfume has |Read More
The community of Indian Meadows and its sister community Shady Grove, are both built over an ancient Cherokee Indian burial ground. The two have had several hauntings reported over the last two decades. At night, dark figures have been seen scurrying about in the woods on the outskirts of the neighborhoods. Some brave souls who |Read More
A plantation owner’s daughter reportedly lost her leg after a fall caused by her hoop skirt; visitors now feel pinches on those same stairs. The ghost of the owner’s wife is also seen riding her horse through the famous oak alley, searching for her husband.
It is said that the ghosts of a student and a teacher haunt the fourth floor of this building. Supposedly, they were involved in a relationship that ended tragically after the teacher’s husband discovered them; the two lovers then reportedly hanged themselves in a final act of undying love. It is also said that a |Read More
Henrion Gymnasium, now known as Henrion Hall, housing the Sculpture/Ceramics departments, it is said to be haunted by a maintenance worker who was accidentally electrocuted in the 1950s. The story goes that the worker stood up into a live wire without his hardhat and was killed. His apparition is sometimes seen late at night or |Read More
The ghost of a young man has been seen by several in the band and choir wing of the school. He appears at any hour and then vanishes just as quickly.
Local lore states that during the building’s time as the Athens Female Academy, a young student sneaked out at night to meet a suitor. While descending the main interior staircase with a lantern (or candle) in hand, a draft blew sparks onto her clothing, catching her on fire. In her panic, she tumbled down the |Read More
Staff and patrons of this 1923 library have reported a ghost, especially when working late in the evening.
On January 18, 1970, two West Virginia University freshmen, Mared Malarik and Karen Ferrell, left a movie theater screening of “Oliver!” in downtown Morgantown and were never seen alive again. The students had been attempting to hitchhike back to their dorms on Evansdale Campus. Eighty-eight days later, on April 16, 1970, their decapitated bodies were |Read More
Ghosts of monks and Native Americans have been seen. At one time a large group of riders who looked like civil war soldiers rode by a group of men. Their cabin shook from the force of the horse’s hoofs hitting the ground. When they had passed, no one plant had been damaged.
On the 10th floor of the old section of the library, people report a distinct feeling of being watched. The elevator will sometimes open on its own and it sounds like people are getting in and out, but no one is there. The side desk areas also seem strangely busy, with the sound of writing |Read More
Paradise Park is a trail leading into the mountains in Manoa Valley. It is surrounded by deep foliage on both sides. Many people have reported hearing a banshee or some other specter screaming on the trail.
It has been reported several times in the local newspaper that Warren’s City Hall building is haunted. A cleaning lady within the last two years ran from the building after seeing a figure walking inside while she was cleaning. There have been several reports within the past few years of sightings with this figure.
Mary Stringfellow, the hospital’s founder, was an organ player. Nurses working the third shift report hearing the organ playing in the chapel, but find no one there when they investigate. Another haunting involves a man who reportedly committed suicide by shotgun in one of the rooms. Patients have claimed to see the apparition of a |Read More
McCandless Hall is reportedly haunted by two distinct spirits. The first is Abigail Burns, a young opera singer who performed La Traviata at the auditorium’s dedication in 1914. After her performance, legend states she was killed in a carriage accident during a severe thunderstorm when her horses were spooked, sending the carriage off a bridge. |Read More
Haunted by a former owner, the ghost does not like renovations. Beer glasses and bottles often move across the bar on their own. Footsteps are heard walking across the porch of the rental cabins.
Some of the workers say that the elevator will go up and down by itself. They’ll hear water running in the bathrooms, and it stops when they look to see where it’s coming from. They say that the library was built over a house that was torn down in the early 1900s, and that the |Read More
In the 4-South section of the hospital there have been reports of a ghost on the night shift. Mostly just trash cans being turned over (the most common report) but once or twice a month screams may be heard coming from one of the rooms.
The Baker Hotel in Colorado City, Texas, is what remains of a once-proud establishment in a town that was, in its heyday, the largest community between Fort Worth and El Paso. Built in the 1920s as part of Theodore Baker’s broader hotel enterprise across West Texas, the building still stands today — though it is |Read More
Back in the early 70s, a black preacher died of a heart attack in his room while getting up to use the bathroom. His wife didn’t discover this until the morning. Ever since then, the piano upstairs plays music. As soon as you open the door to walk up the stairway, you can hear the |Read More
There is a hill that on some nights, you can see a lit up cabin, but when you try to drive to it you cannot find it anywhere. In the late 1800s there was a witch that lived there, and it is said that her ghost is still there trying to attract people so she |Read More
Haunted by the pilots of the old planes. Security guards hear planes start up at night and some have seen ghosts lurking around the museum during their night shift.
There are two parts to this cemetery on West River Rd. — a new part and an old part. In the new section, pretty much any time after dark, there is a little girl that will skip to a tombstone and then stop and kneel down at it and disappear.
Many soldiers who died were buried in the prison cemetery and it is here that the “Lady in Gray” still walks and leaves gifts of flowers behind usually on the grave of an unknown soldier. She is said to be a young woman who wears a gray suit in the style of the Civil War |Read More
DuBois Hall is a dormitory at Mount St. Mary’s University with a history of reported paranormal activity. Students have reported toilets flushing on their own, window shades being pulled up and down, and unexplained voices coming from empty rooms. The building is named for Father John DuBois, the founder of the university.
A student was reportedly attacked and stabbed while doing laundry in the basement of Shriner Hall. Despite her injuries, she managed to drag herself up the stairs before dying near the door of her dorm room. Some versions of the story say she scratched at the door for help; others say she called her mother |Read More
An old man dressed in a black suit and black top hat has been seen by most of the elderly living there. Lights in the basement have been known to go on and off by themselves. Also, a young blond-haired nurse has been seen by the residents — she is known to make them feel |Read More
A railroad overpass near Clifton, Virginia known as the Colchester Overpass — and widely called the Bunny Man Bridge — is said to be haunted by the ghost of a killer in a rabbit costume. According to the legend, an escaped mental patient survived in the woods near the bridge by eating rabbits, and eventually |Read More
The Old Gym at the former Plattsburgh Air Force Base once served as a morgue for mangled body parts during wartime, and was also used as an insane asylum. Before that, the site was an old Army base connected to the Battle of Plattsburgh in 1812. There have been reports of screams throughout the night |Read More
On the old side of the base there is a cemetery where many soldiers are buried. Security police on patrol have reported soldiers wandering through the cemetery and the neighboring crematorium (building number 666).
Reports of cold spots and strange strobe-type light, apparitions of children, and a window that will not be covered. The base also has a haunted sound throughout certain unpredictable times of horses and soldiers marching — the noise is very loud and overwhelming. Alarms going off on their own, typewriters clicking on their own, sounds |Read More
It was said that a boy named David was killed on the front lawn of Plattsburgh High. And till this day he walks around during school and bumps into freshman and wanders the yard at night.
While walking in, you will often hear a young girl’s voice say hello, and then later, if you stay long enough, you can see a dark shadow figure run and what seems to be hiding behind the gravestones. Then, when you are leaving, you will again hear the young girl’s voice but be unable to |Read More
It’s an old restaurant that has the spirit of a woman, who is described as friendly, residing there. The employees like to tell stories about her; she does stuff like shut off lights if they’ve been left on, closing doors at closing time, that kind of thing.