The crossroads where the paranormal and history meet.
When driving along old Hwy 100, going toward Villa Ridge from Washington, MO, there is a mysterious hitchhiker wearing a hiking pack. When picked up, he will talk to you and ask to be taken to the truck stop about five miles ahead. But before reaching the truck stop, he always vanishes. Rumor has it […]
A shadowy figure has been observed near the rear of the cemetery, lingering by a tree that looms over a memorial headstone. Witnesses report the figure snapping a thick tree branch – roughly six inches in diameter—before chasing visitors. Families in the area have recounted unsettling occurrences: some claim to have seen mysterious lanterns floating […]
Used to be a farm until it was sold to the state in the 50’s or 60’s. Apparently a stable hand died in the barn (now used as the park office). Staff has shut off lights and closed doors only to find them on or open when they come back a few hours later, but […]
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. […]
Once when one of the patients were badly sick and about to die, one of the nurses reported seeing a woman coming down the hallway going into the patients room but when they got there the patient had died and there was no sign of the woman they had seen in the hallway.
A ghost truck has been seen chasing people from the graveyard. The truck speeds at the cars getting right up on the bumper then is just gone as if it were never there. Strange sounds have been heard in the cemetery as well as a fog that is there one minute and gone the next.