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.
They say back in the old days around Lyman lake that there was a party there and a girl got raped and killed down there. If you go out there around midnight you can hear a girl screaming and sometimes (very rarely) you can see a faint glowing light over in the trees.
Music Room – Witnesses have claimed to hear Millicent’s laughter coming from what was once known as the “Music Room.” Staff and patrons have also seen a man dressed in a tweed jacket and purple bowtie with small circular glasses mopping the floor in the basement. One librarian claimed he is the ghost of a |Read More
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.
Ridge Church is an old, abandoned church that was used by Satanists for a short time after it closed. All together, it has four graveyards and a mass gravesite, most likely containing the remains of the many victims of a fire that happened in Lowndesville years ago. People have reported seeing orbs floating over graves in |Read More
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
The Old Exchange and Provost Dungeon served as a British prison during the Revolutionary War, with its basement, the Provost Dungeon, reportedly haunted by the spirits of prisoners and pirates. Visitors have reported sightings of apparitions, hearing phantom screams, and experiencing cold spots throughout the building and its dungeon.
One Man’s Treasure was a former art business. The former owner and her two children reported several experiences. Upstairs, a bedroom door that didn’t fit – requiring force to close – would repeatedly open and shut itself. In the middle room, occupants heard very loud knocking, scratching, and a rush of leaves in the walls, |Read More
Stairs and District Clerk’s Office late night users of the law library or persons in the Courthouse have heard footsteps descending from the third and second floors. Rumored to be the ghost of the old District Clerk who was shot by the County Sheriff after a political dispute on the Court House steps.
The furniture store used to be a grocery store, and the owner of that store was murdered. The killer was never found. It’s said that the man still haunts the place, and sometimes furniture breaks for no reason. Also, there are unusual sounds heard from the back office.
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.
Pardon Miller House – RISD Outer Housing – is the home of two young children who have been seen by students working in the basement. Also, a young woman’s voice can be heard by students on the second floor of the house. She has been seen on occasion.
The haunting of Longstreet Theatre relates directly to its history of being used as a military hospital during the Civil War. It has long been rumored the morgue was housed in the basement of this building in a room that now serves as the “Green Room” for the theatre. The “Green Room” actually is three |Read More
The Old White Oak, as it is called, has many strange things happen atop that mountain, right off 11W in Surgoinsville. A black dog seems to watch over Colonel Maxwell’s grave but disappears right after being sighted. Birds erupt at night if anyone gets within a few feet of this Revolutionary soldier’s grave, and many |Read More
Farnum Hall is the home of many spirits, some of which are troublesome, some friendly. Many students also claim to have seen these ghosts. It is reported that some students have seen apparitions standing above their beds late at night, and throughout the day and night, noises of people walking and whispers can be heard |Read More
Reports of people walking and talking in the theater, only to find no one there. After cleaning and seating the theater, staff have returned to find seats down—sometimes every other row, sometimes every other seat. Additionally, ghostly apparitions have been captured in photographs.
Established approximately 60 years ago, Horace Maynard Middle School is reportedly haunted. Janitors working after hours have reported hearing the sound of girls laughing, while some have witnessed spectral figures running down the hallway of the oldest section, which houses the sixth grade.
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.
McAuley Hall is haunted by a little boy who fell out of a window while watching his parents arrive by boat. Originally built in 1882 as a red sandstone mansion known as “Vinland,” the building was commissioned by philanthropist Catherine Lorillard Wolfe, whose fascination with Norse mythology inspired its unique architecture and carvings. Following her |Read More
Witnesses report candles blowing out by themselves, footsteps echoing on a secret staircase, and the unsettling sensation of being watched. Cold spots and strange images are frequently encountered throughout the mansion, leading many to believe the spirits of the past still linger in these halls.
Sounds of a party coming from an abandoned area above guest rooms on the back side of the hotel. Guests and staff frequently report hearing these phantom celebrations at odd hours of the night when no events are planned. Other paranormal activity reported at the historic property includes sightings of a spectral young boy cleaning |Read More
Trollwood is currently home to a performing arts school and has been the subject of numerous ghostly reports. The site was once a pauper’s cemetery, and visitors can still see three locations where individuals remain buried, now marked with small stone monuments. The most common sighting is the ghost of a lady seen dancing around |Read More
Beyond the report of a man seen looking out the window, guests and staff have reported encounters with ‘Vince,’ a long-term resident who is said to continue his habit of rearranging butter knives. An elegant ‘Victorian Gentleman’ is often seen watching the plaza from the windows of Room 214. The third floor is noted for |Read More
The building is very haunted at night. An older man in a gray suit sits patiently in an office. People are afraid to be in the building at night. Many bangs and bumps are constantly heard throughout the building.
There have been sightings of ghosts in one of the occupied buildings. A woman was seen walking through a wall and another was spotted standing by the shower room. Dark figures have been seen in office areas and noises come from the kitchen when no one is in there. A mist was seen floating knee-high |Read More
There is a place known as Shafter Lake in between Seminole and Andrews. It is known to have been an Indian Burial ground. It is said that if you go there at night and park just off the road by the large rocks and flash your lights three times you will see an apparition of |Read More
During the early ’60s, there was a killer loose in Madison Heights. He used to bury his bodies in the landfill, which is now a hill used for sledding right next to Lamphere High School. Every once in a while, you can hear insane laughter around the school.
This is a place in the woods off of a remote road outside of Chelsea. It is called Pink Palace. It is an old Victorian style large pink home with dogs as gates. It is very dilapidated and not very stable yet, still stands. It is rumored that Satanists hold meetings there. It has spray |Read More
A former monastery turned juvenile detention center. Legend says monks hanged themselves in the 4th-floor attic. Now, on stormy nights, a phone at the control desk rings from a non-existent extension. You might hear heavy breathing on the line, strange noises, or see a white figure.
Ellender Hall dormitory is reportedly home to flickering lights, moving objects, and phantom scratching. While rumors of a student suicide exist, no records confirm this. The activity is often linked to the campus being built on former Civil War hospital grounds.
Screams can be heard along with sightings of ghosts that usually resemble patients that may have died there. This buildings windows and doors are boarded up partially due to the fact that people have reported seeing ghosts in the windows looking outside.
People have been known to hear strange sounds while performing maintenance on aircraft, and see lights going on and off without explanation. They say on Halloween night if it is foggy out, a WWII aircraft will appear to land on the runway, then disappear into the fog.
Staff and patrons of this 1923 library have reported a ghost, especially when working late in the evening.
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
The academy is haunted by its former owner. She is said to roam the housekeeping people from doing what they shouldn’t do. If you smoke a cigarette in the house or sit on the wrong chair, you can hear hear footsteps coming at you on the marble floors.
A woman was struck and killed on the blind corner outside this well known watering hole in southeast Alaska. It used to be known as the Kik, or Kiksaadi club, but now it is Rookies, a sports bar. The story is that the woman left the bar and was extremely drunk. She tried to wander |Read More
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
This is an old cotton mill that opened in 1896. The mill is in bad shape, but you can still get in. There are blood spots in some rooms, cold spots, and some very scary noises.
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