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Drury University – Clara Thompson Hall

Drury University – Clara Thompson Hall

The origin is not known of this ghost, but many people have seen pianos playing by themselves and doors closing.

February 7, 2025 Read More →
Central High School

Central High School

The first high school in Springfield was built in the late 1800s. Old room 311 is supposedly haunted by sounds and a door that locks itself, but renovations of the school have renumbered the rooms and straightened out the hallway. Many places in the basement have been said to be haunted as well as the […]

February 7, 2025 Read More →
Lindenwood University

Lindenwood University

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.

February 4, 2025 Read More →
Crybaby Bridge

Crybaby Bridge

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 […]

February 4, 2025 Read More →
University Plaza Hotel

University Plaza Hotel

“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 […]

January 6, 2025 Read More →
Craighead Forest Lake

Craighead Forest Lake

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, […]

January 6, 2025 Read More →
Old “Houn Dawg” rendering plant

Old “Houn Dawg” rendering plant

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.    

January 5, 2025 Read More →
Wilson’s Creek Battlefield (Listing 2)

Wilson’s Creek Battlefield (Listing 2)

People have seen ghosts and heard strange noises like guns and cannons. Apparitions of Confederate soldiers are seen more often.  

January 5, 2025 Read More →
Wilson’s Creek Battlefield

Wilson’s Creek Battlefield

Site of a Civil War battle in southwest Missouri. At night, you can hear soldiers walking and talking in the woods at the site.  

January 5, 2025 Read More →
Old Rehobeth High School (Now Elementary)

Old Rehobeth High School (Now Elementary)

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.

January 5, 2025 Read More →
Consolation Church (Burned Down)

Consolation Church (Burned Down)

The church is no longer used because of Banshees. If you sit inside of the gates you can hear Confederate soldiers marching. There is an outhouse in the back of the church, and if you go inside by yourself, the door will shut behind you and lock. You can only get out if someone comes […]

January 5, 2025 Read More →
Enocks Knob Road

Enocks Knob Road

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 […]

January 5, 2025 Read More →
Toys “R” Us (closed – Now REI)

Toys “R” Us (closed – Now REI)

Toys “R” Us is supposedly haunted by a young boy or man, believed to be Jonny Jonson (pronounced: Yonny Yonson), a farm worker. . Employees report finding toys in aisles when opening up the store in the morning, and balls rolling down aisles when nobody else is around, and bicycles being ridden around at night. […]

January 4, 2025 Read More →
Cottey College – Blanche Skiff Ross Memorial Library

Cottey College – Blanche Skiff Ross Memorial Library

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 […]

January 1, 2025 Read More →
Valles Mines

Valles Mines

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 […]

January 1, 2025 Read More →
Nellie Cashman’s Restaurant (Closed)

Nellie Cashman’s Restaurant (Closed)

Customers here have reported countless instances of playful pranks since frontier days. Expect the usual crashing sounds, and objects that move on their own volition.

January 1, 2025 Read More →
Cheesman Park

Cheesman Park

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 […]

December 1, 2024 Read More →
Blockbuster

Blockbuster

The store was robbed and two of the employees and 2 patrons who where brothers were killed. The killer was caught, but the store closed down and has remained standing ever since. Many years before the Blockbuster incident, the land on which the building sets was occupied by a gas station. In the late 1960’s, […]

November 13, 2024 Read More →
Memory Hill Cemetery

Memory Hill Cemetery

If you ever go to this cemetery, you’ll know that it’s haunted. When you go to the middle of the cemetery, you always feel a cold chill down your back. A girl one time found three squirrels dead & frozen under a tree in the middle of the summer. At night you can hear a […]

November 12, 2024 Read More →
Negtemuit High School

Negtemuit High School

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 […]

November 5, 2024 Read More →
Marcus Ronnie’s Cinema

Marcus Ronnie’s Cinema

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

November 4, 2024 Read More →
St. Lukes Hospital

St. Lukes Hospital

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.  

November 4, 2024 Read More →
Lynstone Park

Lynstone Park

Footsteps through the leaves are heard. Feelings of being watched and reports of apparitions.

November 4, 2024 Read More →
Mount Saint Charles Academy

Mount Saint Charles Academy

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.  

November 3, 2024 Read More →
The Governor’s Mansion

The Governor’s Mansion

This building is quite haunted. Residents have reported, among others: a bewigged 18th century gentleman; a “tippling ghost” that will empty wineglasses left in a certain place; a chain-rattling ghost in the basement (supposedly the place was a stop on the underground railroad; and it’s said that some slaves were sold out and recaptured); and […]

November 3, 2024 Read More →
Richmond High School – South East of Woodward on Highway 270

Richmond High School – South East of Woodward on Highway 270

Richmond is an old high school that was said to have burned in the mid 1900’s. If you go into the old gym you will hear either a pep rally or basketball practice. Be careful if you go up the stairs, the upper floors are rotting but you will see lights looking down at you […]

October 26, 2024 Read More →
Old Woodward Hospital

Old Woodward Hospital

Apparitions, sightings, and voices have been reported here.

October 25, 2024 Read More →
Greenwood Cemetery

Greenwood Cemetery

Long ago at a lake across from the cemetery, a wealthy family lived in a large house. The wife was stricken with an illness and had to be put in a wheelchair. Her husband fell in love with another woman and pushed his wife into the lake killing her. Some nights she can be seen […]

October 13, 2024 Read More →
The Pump House

The Pump House

There is an old pump house in Lake Shore.  It used to be used to regulate the irrigation flow to the farmers.  It is said that there where two workers, working there by themselves one night, one of the men got caught in one of them machines, got pulled in and died, the other man […]

October 13, 2024 Read More →
Capitol Hill Methodist Church

Capitol Hill Methodist Church

A presence haunts the church and its origin is not known.

October 12, 2024 Read More →
Old Roy High School Gym

Old Roy High School Gym

There was originally a high school in the town of Roy, Where the elementary school now stands. All that remains of this is the Gym, the rest having burned to ground in the 50’s. In the Old Gym, there are many cold spots and an altogether spooky feeling. The old locker room lies frozen in […]

October 12, 2024 Read More →
Old School House

Old School House

Toilets flush when no one is there, lockers slam at midnight, pencils fly across empty rooms, according to numerous reports, walking into the guys locker room, you can feel someone grabbing your neck and hear them yelling ‘Get away from me!’

October 12, 2024 Read More →
Virginian Hotel

Virginian Hotel

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

October 9, 2024 Read More →
University of Wyoming – Knight Hall – Third Floor

University of Wyoming – Knight Hall – Third Floor

Feelings of always being watched after dark.

October 8, 2024 Read More →
Paschal Aldrich Home

Paschal Aldrich Home

Dr. Paschal Aldrich’s ghost haunts his former home.

October 7, 2024 Read More →
Hilbert Road

Hilbert Road

Reports of a man with a lantern in his hand and he only has one side of his face he will try stopping you and asking you if you’ve seen his daughter because she was killed on that road in the 1900’s. Then when driving down the road on the right side of the road […]

October 7, 2024 Read More →
Renton High School

Renton High School

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 […]

October 5, 2024 Read More →
Mr. Gatti’s Pizza

Mr. Gatti’s Pizza

A man named Carl is rumored to haunt this business. Years ago, this Mr. Gatti’s was a saloon and Carl was shot in the head by an jealous man in the old apartment (now abandoned) above the store. Employees have reported seeing strange figures moving around the store, mostly during closing hours. Also voices and […]

October 4, 2024 Read More →
Reed Academy (aka Reed Middle School)

Reed Academy (aka Reed Middle School)

On the 4th floor balcony, if you are very quiet and still you can hear footsteps and even low murmurs sometimes.  

October 4, 2024 Read More →
Little Theater

Little Theater

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 […]

October 4, 2024 Read More →