The crossroads where the paranormal and history meet.
According to local legend, if you drive out to Old Foamy Road at night, turn off your headlights, and honk three times, a goat man will appear in front of your car. Others say strange things happen to the car itself.
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 […]
Brodbeck Hall is the oldest building on campus, built in 1868 on the site of a former German biergarten. Late at night, laughter, music, and the sound of boots scraping across the floor have been heard coming from empty rooms. Strange orbs of light have been spotted floating near the stage, and misty figures have […]
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.
It is said that late at night, if you go over the Sunflower River Bridge, turn off your car, and roll down your windows, then cries for help and people yelling can be heard.
Late one night, it is said a guy killed a little boy and hid him in the church. At midnight, you can see where he hid the kid in the front of the church. At the very top, there is a window, and if you climb to the top of the church and look in […]
This legend started when the ride was simply named “Colossus”. There’s supposedly a child in a striped shirt who occasionally can be seen at night running through the supports underneath Colossus. That, and sometimes at night the lift chain can be heard running and the clanking of the anti-rollbacks, despite the ride being shut down […]
Shear Hall is a dormitory (football dorms) and there is a ghost on the 3rd floor. It is completely locked up, so no one is able to get up there unless you have a key. It is said that a young student went crazy and shot several people then turned and shot himself. Today people […]
Late at night on certain nights, as you’re leaving this retirement community, if you’re driving over the speed limit (15mph), as you approach a stop sign, an old lady—almost glowing—appears on the left side of the road wearing a flowing pink nightgown and motions you to slow down. As you pass her, she stares at […]
Simpson Hall hosts the spirit of a man who stalked a girl, followed her to her dorm one year. He now resides in Simpson. Late at night students wake up with a sense they are being watched, usually the room becomes icy cold when it happens. Very rarely some wake up freezing at night with […]
At this location, you get a really bad feeling and can see a single red eye on a full moon.
According to some employees, there is a ghost in the basement of the library who shoves people hard when they are walking through. According to one employee, a security guard quit because they were frightened so badly while patrolling the basement at night. Now the security guards patrol it in groups of two.
Rumors of a little boy and a tall man are said to haunt Oak Ridge anytime from about 9:00pm to 3:00 am.
Some say they have seen a young girl walking around this school. The story is that the girl died there during construction of the building. It seems she only comes out during the early morning and late at night. Janitors and some young children have said they’ve seen the young girl. They say she looks […]
Apparitions have been seen and heard. Employees and security are all afraid to go upstairs alone. Sometimes if you go out late at night alone the lights will be on and loud music playing though no one is there and all was quiet earlier. The building is alarmed so it is impossible for someone to […]
Off of National on Bennett is Phelps Grove Park under the third bridge late at night you can see a woman in a wedding dress known as “Bride under the Bridge” that was killed on her wedding day.
“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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
On a rainy night there is a headless woman that walks the river bank. It is said she was in a covered wagon that turned over and rolled down the hill and she was decapitated.
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
The spirit of former star athlete haunts this high school. On random nights, people in the building have heard basketballs bouncing in the gym when no one is there. There are also reports of strange whisperings, eerie lights, and other strange occurrences.
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 […]
On hot summer nights you can occasionally hear the train whistle blowing. They tore the tracks out to put in a rail trail and there has not been a train through there for at least five years if not more.
When you go here at night between 7PM and 12AM, rocks and sand will mysteriously be thrown at you. You will also hear footsteps and screams, and see shadows.
It is said that “Two Feathers,” an Indian (Chief?) was killed after a fight in the saloon. Two Feathers controls ONE nickel slot machine. On the 2nd or 3rd (?) floor, there is evidence of a doll, and if you change her clothes, they will be changed back to original dress. It is said that […]
Just drive up and down this road at night and you will feel the strange energy. This road was part of the original Alabama interstate highway over 100 years ago.
Room 218 – The building is haunted by an Irishman named Michael. On the second floor, the ghost of a nurse is seen, pushing a person on a bed. Examples of other sightings are of a business man walking around in the lobby, a man pushing his wife down a flight of stairs, and a […]
It has been said if you go to Kimberly Crest after hours, you can see a woman in the top floor window sitting in a rocking chair. Perhaps Kimberly herself?
Various haunted rooms, and two ghostly Victorian women who roam the hallways at night.
Late at night around 11:00pm there is a shadow in the figure of a man that stands by the gym doors.
At night time when the lights are out teachers report to hear awkward sounds.
The San Gabriel Civic Auditorium’s past is very long and there are many stories of hauntings. Back while it was being built underground tunnels were built under the length of the building. They were built so that the owner (nicknamed Uncle John) could go from backstage to the foyer. When Uncle John died the tunnels […]
At night you hear voices and people walking around but no one is there. Lots of orbs and in the middle of summer it gets really cold at night and names and symbols appear in the dirt.
Sixteen men died in the Pea Ridge Mine during its 40 years of operation from 1961 to 2001. Why this place closed down is still unclear. Around 80% of the richest Iron ore deposits in North America is still under the ground at this location. It is like everyone just left the place for no […]
About forty years ago a little girl fell off the cliff next to the bridge and her ghost is now seen there. The man named Gudgeon, which the place was named after, supposedly beat his mule to death because it refused to cross the bridge, you can hear the hooves and bays on certain nights. […]
It is said that the ghost of Miss Kelsey herself has been seen playing the piano onstage long after her death and has been heard warning an actor who was rehearsing alone late at night that he was about to fall into the orchestra pit.
There is an old cemetery alongside this road people have been seen in the cemetery all hours of the night people have gone out there and come back with blood on their hands and arms and report strange feelings of cold breezes on hot summer nights. Strange apparitions of what some say is the Virgin […]
At night, as you drive up the main drive of the graveyard, a headless woman appears for a brief instant. Then, as you turn, a head is visible on the roadway.
There are several stories in which employees late at night have seen a woman dressed in 1920s clothing walking around the main hotel. It is believed that this lady is very likely the Countess Portales, wife of Count Portales who built the original casino which had been moved and then used as a golf club […]