The crossroads where the paranormal and history meet.
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 […]
Historic pub on Main Street in Ellicott City’s historic district, where the third floor is said to be haunted by the ghost of a young woman named Mary, who reportedly hung herself there. Staff and visitors have reported unexplained sounds, flushing toilets, and stomping footsteps attributed to her presence.
In 2003, there was a suicide and a murder there. The suicide involved a man who walked into an aisle and shot himself. Rumor is that if you go to that aisle, you’ll feel a cold wind rush past you and get the sense someone is behind you. A man also shot his daughter in […]
This church is supposed to be haunted by the preacher who hung himself about 17 years ago. It is said if you drive around the church at midnight, you can see him hanging in the bell tower. Reports also mention paranormal activity around the surrounding cemetery.
It has been heard that the pastor of this church hung himself in one of the rooms in the church. There has been a lot of people that have heard noises when no one or nothing was around. In pictures you can see different sizes and orb shapes. You can hear doors slam, and at […]
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 […]
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 […]
Converse Hall is haunted by a former student who committed suicide there. Though never seen, he turns radios on and off and interacts with electrical equipment. The student electrocuted himself in 1998.
Many strange occurrences have been reported over the years. Apparitions of different beings show up in the lounge on the 18th floor & in the parking garage accompanied by feelings of terror, strange smells & sounds. Rumor is that the front office is cursed – 6 suicides of people who worked in the front office […]
Wolf House Museum – Many weird sightings have taken place here, such as men in top hats appearing with canes and dishes being thrown from the walls. Voices have been heard, like conversations between families. It was once an early brothel where it is said one of the women was killed. Years later, a doctor […]
Many deaths by suicides and murders have happened here. The owners of a restaurant in the building were closing up when they heard pounding on the floor above them. They went to see but nothing was there, so checked the stairs and heard noises, which all 4 of them went to investigate and found nothing!!! […]
The Clara Ford Pavilion, formerly a live-in nursing school, is quite haunted. Security and maintenance personnel have had doors locked behind them during the early morning hours. One of the first-floor boardrooms has a particularly obvious cold spot and a feeling of dread, as well as the smell of decay. In 1926, a nursing student, […]
There is said to have been a suicide here, and at night in a certain dorm, you can wake up and see a male student standing in front of your bed wearing a pair of gym shorts.
A single sheet hangs in a room window facing the interstate. Authorities placed it there due to repeated sightings of a young girl reliving her death by hanging every night. Many witnesses have reported this disturbing occurrence. There is no power in the room, yet lights turn on at night, a rocker moves on its […]
Mary Moody Northen Theatre – There are reports of a shadow of a young man who allegedly committed suicide. According to legend, he hanged himself using the sandbag ropes. If you listen closely, you can not only see the shadow of the body swinging across the stage (even when the ropes are absent), but you […]
There have been stories of a teacher who hanged herself after her child fell down the stairs on a tricycle. Witnesses have reported hearing screams, cries, and the squealing of tricycle tires. There have also been sightings of the woman and the child together again. Bloodstains have allegedly been found in every room—on the walls, […]
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 […]
It is said a ghost haunts the fourth floor of the old Overby’s Furniture store (now a music store) at the corner of Vine and Broadway. According to accounts after the tornado of 1927 the Butler County Courthouse was destroyed and a temporary courtroom was established on the fourth floor of the building. It is […]
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 […]
Back in the 1960’s, a teenaged girl could not accept the teasing and taunting of the students at Jennings County High School. One evening around midnight, she jumped from one of the local bridges killing herself. Though her body was found, to this day people driving across the bridge at around midnight have reported seeing […]
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 […]
Has recently been purchased by a new owner – Between 1995 and 1999, many of the staff had experienced odd occurrences. A janitor, cleaning late at night when the theatre was closed for the evening, saw a dark figure floating back and forth through the aisles of the balcony. Another time, while the final movie […]
In the 1900s a little girl who didn’t have any friends killed herself by hanging herself in the girls locker room. People say that the little girl walks around the girls locker room looking for a friend to play with.
One of the many classrooms in the vocational building has been condemned, because of rumors of a student killing himself there. The student now haunts the room. Students and teachers have reported hearing loud taps on the door, cold spots, and eerie footsteps when no one is around.
When there was still segregation, Montevallo had two high schools. They were called Montevallo High School and Montevallo Negro High School or Prentice High School. The principle at the Negro school was called Mr. Prentice. He had a great life. He was very sweet and was known as someone who always checked on things. Times […]
The inn was originally built by Mr. Coleman for his daughter. She was said to have killed herself in the house because her father would not allow her to marry her true love because he was not of the upper call. Her ghost has been seen in the inn as well as other strange occurrences. […]
A very tall old brick building. People have said that as you reach the second floor where the first cellblock is located 2 or 3 ghosts follow you as you progress up the stairs. You can also look down at the cells and see a red glow as though from a cigarette. Many people are […]
There was once a 17-year-old girl who leapt from the bridge to her death. Days later, her body was found. Now, on the 5th of every month, her screams pierce the night—echoing through the air as she plunges into the water below. Then comes the splash. Then silence. Some claim that if you approach the […]
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 […]
Elsinore Middle School – March 2008 update/correction: Formerly posted as Elsinore High School – In the early 50’s, a freshman hung herself in the back of the stage in the theater. She had been hurt and embarrassed in a hazing by the Soccer team. On several occasions, people have claimed to hear a girl choking […]
Little Theatre – Along with the spirit of the stage manager who comitted suicide and the baby, there are, in addition, some 100 other ghosts haunting the theatre. For example, there are the spirits of two secretaries in the box office that like to throw things. There is even the spirit of a little dog […]
Scholastic Building – The dark room in the downstairs of the Scholastic Building is boarded up to this day because of a student who committed suicide by hanging himself there back when hazing was perfectly legal. – April 2007 Additional information – it is said that lights in the top right floor near the lab […]
Epperson Hall – This house, now the architecture school at the University of Missouri at Kansas City, has been haunted by a young woman for many years. The house was formerly owned by a local businessman and his daughter-in-law killed herself in the attic when she was banned from dating a man who worked on […]
It is known around the school that the girls 2nd floor bathroom of the C building is haunted by a janitor that jumped out of the window. He is said to flush the toilets just to scare girls. He closes the doors for the other janitors at night when they get done cleaning.
During WWII a couple of young women hung themselves in Herr House, a dorm on campus. The room is still being used, but the closet is blocked off. Now, you can hear people walking in empty rooms and other weird things happening.
A train wreck occurred in the late summer, or early fall of 1892, with sketchy fatality lists stating approx. 13-27 deaths, many being thrown into the river. Therefore, the wreck occurred near the river overpass nearly 1/2 mile from the tunnel underpass. They believe the woman’s head was lost to the river and now she […]
Cheney Hall – is said to be haunted. Around finals time, a girl living on the third floor couldn’t handle the stress and committed suicide in her bathtub. It is said that no matter how hard they scrubbed, the blood would not come out of the tub. Instead of pulling the bathtub out and replacing […]
Former insane asylum. Ghosts in the wooden room of faces. The upper part of mansion that is closed off to public is haunted by Mrs. Vaile who killed herself by overdosing on morphine after her husband Mr. Vaile went crazy and died. – January 2004 correction: Mrs. Vaile did not kill herself after her husband […]
Tower Hall – Students were reported seeing themselves doing homework and chatting in the halls. – May 2008 Additional information: Probably the most violent haunted location on campus. The fifth floor is closed due to a fire that occurred there. The elevators and stairs are locked but one day just to see if the elevator […]
Six Flags – A witness that worked at Ramada on 3rd shift doing laundry and stocking closets for housekeepers for about 3 years, experienced some very strange things. One night they saw shadows across the dryers. They were there for about 30 sec. then they disappeared. The little girl who haunts there lived there long […]