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Gallows Hill Road

Gallows Hill Road

Located at the corner of Gallows Hill Road and Brookside Place was the huge tree from which spies were hanged during the Revolution. The tree was cut down a few years ago, but the rusty iron and concrete post which the rope was tied to still stands. Movement around the area can be seen late […]

September 23, 2026 Read More →
Marshall City Court (Disused)

Marshall City Court (Disused)

This building has been reported to cause occupants to have a general feeling of unease. In 1859, 2 men were hanged and another was burned at the stake during a lynching. This event occurred just a bit to the east of the building in a ravine behind Davis Lawncare.

September 20, 2026 Read More →
W.C. Schultz Junior High

W.C. Schultz Junior High

A girl hanged her self in the bathroom and is said to haunt it.

September 4, 2026 Read More →
Bunny Man Bridge

Bunny Man Bridge

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 […]

March 9, 2026 Read More →
Highline Cafe and Saloon (Formerly – Mountain Muffin Restaurant)

Highline Cafe and Saloon (Formerly – Mountain Muffin Restaurant)

The building that this cafe was located dates back about 100 years.  There was a hanging in the back room of this building.  There was an ice cream parlor in the early 1900’s.  A new cafe was then put into this building.  There was talk of a person who hanged himself after killing another man […]

February 18, 2026 Read More →
Old Court House

Old Court House

The only woman legally hanged in Texas was Josefa Chipita Rodriguez. She lived in a shack on the Aransas River where she cooked for weary travelers and let them sleep on cots on her porch. When a traveler named John Savage fell victim to an axe murder, Chipita was the prime suspect. $600 in gold […]

November 15, 2025 Read More →
V & S Sandwich Shop

V & S Sandwich Shop

A former employee reported seeing a teenage girl hanging and gutted at the top of the staircase. The basement is now closed off.

September 25, 2025 Read More →
Former Apple Valley Inn Property

Former Apple Valley Inn Property

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 […]

May 7, 2024 Read More →
Cedar Hill Mental Institution (Cedarcrest Hospital)

Cedar Hill Mental Institution (Cedarcrest Hospital)

There is an old mental institution which is now boarded up. Many people committed suicide in this place. A man hung himself. You can see little orbs and figures glowing. You can also hearing moaning and other noises. There is now a new mental institution, which has patients in it right now, but this old […]

February 23, 2024 Read More →
Little Dixie Lake

Little Dixie Lake

On the north side where the parking lot is all gravel there are two trails that eventually merge at a thick tree line. There are then two continuing trails running parallel to one another. Following the lakeside trail will eventually take you to a huge tree just past a green pond on the side of […]

February 3, 2024 Read More →
Workman’s Chapel

Workman’s Chapel

There is a presence felt at this church. It has been engulfed in flames before and no damage has occurred. There is a story about someone seeing some old cars around there like a funeral was going on and the roof of the vehicle that this person was in started to crush in until they […]

January 31, 2024 Read More →
Stephens College – Senior Hall

Stephens College – Senior Hall

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.

January 30, 2024 Read More →
Slagle Cemetery/Bridge

Slagle Cemetery/Bridge

Mr. Slagle was one of the first settlers in Livingston County. He built a mill and was a wealthy man. He had several wives and several children, but most of them died mysteriously. Mr. Slagle is said to have murdered them all, but since there was no law in Livingston County yet, he was never […]

January 30, 2024 Read More →
Hunter’s Point

Hunter’s Point

Screams and an apparition of a hanging man witnessed.

January 27, 2024 Read More →
Old 94 Bridge

Old 94 Bridge

The second bridge on Old 94 highway is hard to find, but does exist. Local rumor has it that during the Civil War, an entire family of white abolitionists were hung on the bridge, including their young twin son and daughter, who were no more than 7 or 8. Sounds of screaming can be heard, […]

January 14, 2024 Read More →
Festus Middle School

Festus Middle School

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.

January 14, 2024 Read More →
University of Central Missouri – Hawkins Hall

University of Central Missouri – Hawkins Hall

Hawkins Hall – Residence hall where a student hung himself.

January 7, 2024 Read More →
Wentworth Military Academy – Multiple

Wentworth Military Academy – Multiple

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. […]

January 6, 2024 Read More →
9 Mile Bridge

9 Mile Bridge

Supposedly, a long time ago, black women were hung there, and slave children were drowned in the creek. When you shut your car off on the bridge or near the church and cemetery, and go to start it again, it makes funny noises. If you turn the engine off while on the bridge it will […]

November 26, 2023 Read More →
Sugar Shack Road

Sugar Shack Road

About 100 years ago on this road there was a woman that lived here by herself for many years. They accused her and two others of using witchcraft so they hung them with chains and on every Halloween around midnight you can drive down the road and hear the chains dragging on the top of […]

November 26, 2023 Read More →