In
Idaho
American Falls -
Hospital - The hospital is
also a nursing home and many have died there. The night staff has had
call buzzers go off in the nursing home; the hospital is so old that
the buzzers cannot be reset at the nurses station and have to be reset
in the room. The buttons have been pushed in the men?s and ladies
restrooms and the patients aren?t able to go and push the button
without being moved by staff, in other words they aren?t mobile. Also
the doctor for whom the hospital is named visits sometimes and leaves
behind a smell of cigar smoke. As well as various elderly residents who
appear as a flicker from the corner of your eye or seated in a chair
down a long dark hall. There is also a tall man who seems to like to
stand near the entryway and monitor that everyone is doing their job.
Athol - The Brig at
Farragut State Park - This location was said to
be the site of a homicide and at least one suicide during World War II,
when Farragut Naval Base was home to more than 300,000 servicemen. The
former brig, which is the only original building remaining on what is
now a state park and camping area, has been the scene of several
apparitions, all described in detail by at least half a dozen state
employees. These employees worked in the brig building, which was for
many years used as a state parks maintenance building. All of the
employees who encountered a ghostly visitor talked about a balding man
who might have been in some kind of uniform - possibly prisoner's garb.
Others, who did not see the apparition, talked about hair-raising
experiences with large objects being mysteriously "relocated" or
objects flying across the cells - which still exist in the building,
bars and all.
Arco - old cafe - sometimes if you walk into the cafe in mid afternoon
and find a piece of paper and a pen laying beside each other knock them
off of something. Come back about fifteen minutes later and sometimes
you will see writing, Write, ?what is my name? hold the piece of paper
tightly to your chest and hold the pen out as far as you can in front
of you. Chances are it will say your name.
Baker Creek - The Wood
River Camp - is supposed to be haunted by a well
known immigrant miner some call Russian John. The sightings of the
apparition began in the 1920's.
Boise - Boise State
University - dorm room - A young girl
hung herself after finding her love with someone else. She is said to
still make her presence known.
Boise - Boise State
University - The Murder House - Now a
Frat House - The house, located off of
Broadway and Linden had a brutal murder about 30 years ago. A man cut
up a number of people and dragged their mutilated body parts around the
neighboring area. Bloodstains on the walls can still be seen, and
blinds on the front window will open and close randomly. Sometimes if
you go at night, and the blinds are open in the front window, you can
see a lady standing there, looking out the window. The house is now a
Frat house for Boise State University.
Boise - Centennial Golf
Course -This golf course is one of the oldest in
Idaho. It has been around since prohibition times. As my wife was
cleaning the upstairs of the main office area there was a presence
felt. There was also a shadow that would follow her around.
Boise - Cottonwood
cemetery - Reports of children buried in the
cemetery roaming around the area. Also the ghost of a woman has been
seen in the cemetery and in the school near the cemetery.
Boise - Discovery St. and
Chinden - In the area of Joplin Cemetery on
Chinden rd, and the surrounding six block radius, there has been
supernatural presences seen and felt around that area. some of the
specters there may even be related to me. my friend used to work in
that area and has also reported odd things happening after 9 o?clock.
Boise - Dry Creek Cemetery
- any time past 2:15am,if you walk to the edge
where the canal is on the high cliff, you can hear a horse running on
the canal bank but cannot see it.
Boise - Loon Creek - ghost of Manuel Sato haunts the hills around the
creek.
Boise - Night Moves
Gentlemen's Club - Employees and patrons of this
club have reported many sightings of apparitions, cold spots, ghostly
mischief such as swinging chandeliers, thrown objects, and even
appearing in photographs. Managers refuse to talk about the spirits;
they have been scared too many times. It is believed several spirits
haunt this club, including a little girl. Supposedly the building site
is a former warehouse. The club is located at 4348 W. State Street.
Boise - Old State
Penitentiary - me and my friends go out there at
night and climbed under the fence so we could explore. Witnesses have
felt strong feelings of uneasiness and also felt presences. And reports
in a room and there was no way any light could have come in but there
were flashing lights.
Boise - The Field - The Field is located on Fairveiw and Milwaukee
Streets. It contains unmarked graves and people have claimed to hear
strange laughing here during the night. Local myth says that the skulls
of people cremated, that do not burn all the way, are stored in a room
with boarded up windows. Many strange things have occurred here.
Bonner County - Colburn -
Colburn Creek - Once in a while, usually during
the summer nights, you can sometimes see a shadowy figure walking along
the train tracks near the creek. The figure seems to be carrying a
lantern. You can never get to close to him though, because he
disappears.
Caldwell - Canyon Hill
Cemetery - When you park between the trees
facing the cemetery the midnight jogger will appear and tap on your
window. She's runs around the cemetery at night but has no legs and
just seems to hover there.
Caldwell - Canyon Hill
Cemetery - Once you park in the middle of two
trees facing the cemetery just like the midnight jogger turn your
lights on high beam. Once we waited a while two of our friends decided
to roam around the cemetery for fun one of them dared the other to walk
forward and touch three that was a short distance away well she did and
that is when we saw something black with it's arms crossed and it's
head lying down like it is laying in a casket, at the very tip of the
tree.
Caldwell - River Road
Bridge - A long time ago a woman hung herself
and if you drive out there at night, and turn off you car lights before
crossing over the bridge you will see her shadow up on the side of the
bridge. Also many people have jumped off the bridge and you can hear
their splashes, but you wont see anything. There is also a light on the
island out there that comes on at 7:00 pm every night, but there is not
a house or even power lines going out there.
Caldwell/Nampa - Lake
Lowell - Various shadows, sounds, and presences
Canyon County - Caldwell -
Old Saratoga Hotel/Restaurant - It is said that
the upper floors, the restaurant and bar areas were haunted. Reports of
a chilling cold feeling upon opening doors to some of the guest rooms.
Many nights, employees that were left to close up after hours
experience moving chairs, swinging glass racks, and footsteps. After
demolition of the ruins, a new office strip mall was built and many
employees complain of strange noises.
Colburn - Colburn Cemetery
- Colburn cemetery. Ghost of an old woman has
been seen since the 1920s.
Couer D'Alene - The Bates
Motel - Sherman Ave - Most of the rooms have
shown some level some level of activity. Rooms #1 and #3 seem to be the
most active with ashtrays falling off tables, lights flickering on and
off and items left on tables changing positions. People have often
reported "creepy feelings" in these two rooms. All activity seems to be
non-threatening and somewhat benevolent. Before being turned into a
motel in the early 50's it was an officers quarters for the Farragut
Naval Base.
Couer D'Alene - Couer D'
Alene High school - This is haunted by a strange
apparition that haunt the auditorium of the school right before we turn
out the lights for a play. After clean up from a production and right
before; at the back of the auditorium is a ghostly figure that walks
paces behind the last row of seats. The next day storage room doors are
open and things are strewn about.
Coeur D'Alene - Senor
Froggy - March 2008 update: Has been torn down
to make way for town homes. - This favorite "Old
Town" Mexican restaurant is built around an original structure that
stood in the original "old town" of Coeur D'Alene near the lake.
Restaurant workers often see "shadows" and feel a strange, "cold
presence" while retrieving supplies in the cellar. Rumors have it that
a construction worker lost his life when he fell while the foundation
was being poured. His saw was left between the wall where he is said to
have fallen. Last sighting was 7-06-2002. Public restrooms are across
the basement hall from the stockroom where the shadows are spotted at
any time of day. Guests will often be seen making a running exit up the
basement stairs without any explanation. The most common remark to the
restaurant manager is: "You know, that basement is really creepy!"
Emmett - Emmett Middle
School - A former music teacher has, supposedly,
manifested himself several times in various parts of the school.
Emmett - Plaza Bridge - Reports of strange sounds like a woman being dumped
off the bridge by a mysterious old truck with no lights. Also babies
crying and their mother looking for them and trying to shush them.
There has also been reports of fingernails tapping and scratching on
campers tents and partiers cars when they are sleeping in them down
next to the bridge.
Fort Hall - The River
Bottoms - Reports of hearing babies crying &
report seeing a woman in white, with no face.
Genesee - Joyce Building -
numerous spirits have been seen in this building.
Glens Ferry - old high
school - ghost of old school-worker who died
when she fell down the stairs haunts the school. There have been
sightings and sometimes very late at night you can hear her screams.
Grangeville - Forest
Service Building - there was a very old house on
the site where the present day forest service building is. Witnesses
heard footsteps, a voice singing, and someone speaking in a foreign
language. Also reports of a shadow of something that walked right in
front of them. It was darker than the room they were in. 1 witness
swears that someone pulled his hair. Rumors that numerous Chinese slave
laborers had been killed in the old days of the railroad being put into
the area.
Idaho City - Boot Hill
Cemetery - many of the people who met violent
deaths and were buried here, still walk the grounds.
Idaho Falls - Ammon
Cemetery - Many believe that it is a girl but
after visiting the location several times in the last six months, there
is no doubt that that is a boy in the tree. If you stop the car or get
out you are not able to see him. But if you drive slow enough he will
wave at you and sometimes get out of the tree and run up to the fence.
We have never seen him past the fence. Legend has it that the ghost of
a little girl haunts a tree in the cemetery. This tree is close to her
grave and is a perfect climbing tree. The little girl reportedly sits
in the tree and waves to passers-by. The little girl was an avid
tree-climber and loved to play with the neighborhood kids before her
death. Most accounts list her cause of death a drowning. Many people
speculate that since she was so open and friendly in life, and her
death was such a lonely one, she feels lonely and tries to make friends
of the people who drive past on their way to or from the hills
surrounding the town.
Idaho Falls - The China
House - In the 1940's, a china couple moved in
there. The husband found out that his wife had cancer. Later she died
and it broke the husbands heart. In a rage, he lit the house on fire
and hung himself on a tree next to the house. Reports of hearing
footsteps and a man crying at night.
Idaho Falls - Eagle's
Lounge and Rio theater - both right next to each
other and part of one building more than 100 years old. The basement of
the Eagle's Lounge was a mortuary and the very top floor was once a
ballroom many many years ago. Many people claim that very strange
things happen in both the theater and the ballroom.
Idaho Falls - The Lot - Legend has it that a house once stood on the spot
where now is only a deserted lot, fenced in and hidden by the
overgrowth of trees. There is no longer power or water service to this
lot, but many people walking by have heard the sound of running water
and seen the leaves of the trees light up as if the house were there
and the rooms were lighted. Several witnesses have been inside and have
reported that there are spirits of a family murdered by the father
roaming around the yard. After roaming and exploring, a young man and
his brother were spooked by sudden screams and tried to leave the lot,
he knocked the ladder over and tried to climb the inside of the wall.
He felt as if there were nails hammered through to the inside and he
was being scratched. When his brother righted the ladder, they both
climbed over the fence and escaped. The young man still has the scars,
but there are no nails or nail holes in that fence and none of the
neighbors had heard a thing. Also on several occasions that the
'apparition' of the house that stood there would appear with lighted
windows. Upon further surveillance, figures could be seen passing by
the windows and opening the front door. Children could be heard playing
in the front yard, but could not be seen because of the high fence.
Idaho Falls - Near the
falls in down town an old building next to the river - around 9-12 at night if you look toward the top of the
building you can see a man jumping from the window to his death, every
Wednesday of every week.
Idaho Falls - O'E Bell Jr
High School - This school is the oldest school
in Idaho falls that still stand's it was abandoned for a long time now
it is offices and that heaven that they didn't make it into apartments
like they wanted to. Before they started to fix it up. Witnesses say
they could here children talking and laughing. legend has it that after
the school shut down they would perform devil worshiping there. December Update: that O.E. Bell has been completely
remodelled and now serves as an office building.
Idaho Falls - Rose Hill
cemetery - There are two stories associated with
Rose Hill cemetery, the first is in regards to a large square monument.
Rumor says that if you knock on this large above ground tomb, that the
inhabitant will knock back at you. The second states that there is a
monument that says the name Wolf and has a large bite taken out of it.
It is rumored to be the grave of a werewolf.
May 2005 Update: A visitor investigated this site and reports,
"concerning the tomb we only found one that matched the description of
the tomb of which we knocked on but sadly there was no reply secondly
after looking through the cemetery we could not find any stone with
bite/scratch marks, though we didn?t look through all of it, so the
wolf headstone could still be real" - April 2008
The description of the warewolf haunting comes as a result of 2 graves
side by side in the Rose Hill Cemetery. One of a gentleman by the last
man of Wolff and the other a gentleman by the name of Wear. The
cemetery has since removed one of the headstones to a new location in
the cemetery.
Kimama - old town site and
desert - Late spring, summer and fall, when in
the desert, you can sometimes hear whistling and singing. It sounds
Russian. The desert is very quiet there. Watch out for snakes!! The old
town was a water stop for Russian-Germans coming from South Dakota at
the turn of the last century.
Kimberly - Stricker Ranch
- Stricker Ranch was at one time part of the
Oregon Trail where many people died because of the long journey. There
is still today this day a small cemetery out in an open field. Where at
certain times of the night people have sited ghosts running through the
field. There is a particular cabin that people have sited the doors
open and lights flickering inside. As soon as you are on the property
you can immediately feel the presence of the people that once died
there.
Lapwai - Nez Perce Head
Start Program - it is a two story, red brick
building, with a 100 x 50 foot courtyard in the middle. It is located
on the west side of an open field, which is about the size of a
football field. Directly across from this building (on the eastern-most
side) used to stand an identical building, which burned down about 20
years ago. Finally, on the northern-most part of the field is another
building, which was part of the other two, which has since been
remodeled into the local school districts office. The point behind all
of this, is that these buildings were once used as offices, dormitory's
and also a TB hospital and sanitarium by the U.S. Calvary during the
early settlement days. This area was called "Ft. Lapwai". The building
has now been remodeled-extensively- and contains a total of 11 head
start classes, with 4 of those classes for the ages of 0-3 years. it is
these downstairs, baby rooms that have some of the most "activity" one
particular incident occurred about a year ago, conveniently around
Halloween! The last persons out of the building are usually the
janitors. They usually run a check thru to make sure all of the night.
early the next morning, the first person downstairs in the morning is
the lead teacher. When he arrived in the morning, there was children's
reading books, put into two separate lines on the floor, side-by-side,
leading from one room to the office. No one had been in the building,
nothing was missing, toys are often found as if they had been played
with-after they had been put away, lights have been witnessed
downstairs, apparitions have been seen, rocking chairs move without
anyone in them, and other strange occurrences. Other rooms also have
activity, but one room seems to have the most.
Lewiston - Lewiston Civic
Theatre - Several years ago two girls were
murdered in the theatre which used to be a church. Also that night the
janitor disappeared and they still can't find him to this day. At night
you can see the youngest girl climb up the stairs. She will also play
tricks on you. There is also a phantasm there of a woman who was left
at the altar when it was a church. You can see her roam through the
seats crying. Also one of the old directors who passed away will
sometimes come in late at night and sit down to watch a play. Strange
feeling can be felt all around. September 2004
addition: there are, at any given time, no less than 70 spirits in the
theatre. There's a trap door in the light booth that goes up to the
rafters that has opened on its own. Lights turn on and off on their
own. The chandelier spins in one direction for ten minutes, stops for
five, and starts spinning is the same direction. Visitors lit candles
on stage. Some blew out on their own. The ones that didn't blow out
didn't burn when you put your hand in the flame. There was wailing that
started from stage right and moved inhumanly fast to stage left.
Floorboards move inexplicably. All the spirits there are harmless, of
course, but it's still an exhilerating experience.
Lewitson - Waha Lake - An old Native American woman wanders around along the
shore of the lake. When approached she recedes into the lake and
disappears into a whirlpool.
The Malad City - Idaho
Cemetery - has been know for years to have an
old man walking around at night, at one time an old man had worked
there for many years when released from his job he killed himself at
the cemetery, some folks still see him at times pulling grass, or doing
other things to make the cemetery look up kept. Also it has been known
that a young woman walks around the cemetery at night, she is wearing a
red dress.
Marsing - Homedale Marsing
cemetery - Apon entering the cemetery at night a
feeling of being closed in and severe saddness comes over you. Flashes
of dancing lights appear over the headstones.There are alot of young
people buried there. Eighteen years and younger.
McCall - Devil's Pond - spirits and apparitions have been reported at this
site.
Meridian - Kit Kat Klub - Workers report seeing apparitions, hearing strange
pounding sounds around the moments of the sightings.
Mullan - Pavilon - if you are down stars swimming you will hear people
playing basketball or running when no one is there. Sometimes you can
hear people from the locker rooms. some say there was a funeral held
there for a kid that died from drinking and driving. some say a kid
died in the pool down stars.
Murtaugh - Sidewinders Bar
& Grill - Sidewinders was built in 1908.?
Murtaugh, its townspeople, nearby Milner damn and irrigation workers,
as well as Union Pacific workers suffered losses and unimaginable
hardships back then.? For most of its existence this historic building
served as the towns main gathering spot, message center, watering hole,
gamblin' joint, not to mention, place of ill repute.? Through the
years, many have witnessed a passing shadow, heard laughter, or tuned
in to the saloon's piano playing at a distance.? These experiences most
generally happen at different times, when patrons clear, leaving one
sometimes two people to witness.?? Most notably and occurring
frequently, the volume of the stereo or jukebox will peak to the max
without warning or help from anyone close by. Rich in history and
revered as a place to unwind, visit, and relax, no haunting experience
at Sidewinders has ever been deemed threatening, violent, or
harmful.???
Nampa - Gots Point - Lake
Lowell - It is legend that a girl was killed
while skiing here in the late 1970's. Many people have said to see her
ghost sitting on the rocks of the shore, watching the water. Upon
approaching her she disappears.
Nampa - NNU - A building now owned by the school used to be a
hospital. There are some strange goings on that happen there
occasionally.
Pierce - Bars and cafes - In this old mining town there seems to be a lot of
spirits still stopping by for a visit, almost every one of the old bars
and cafe have there own tales. some are at the Timber Inn, Cedar Inn
has spirits and sounds of footsteps, Cedar used to be the Key Bar. The
Flame bar has a couple ghosts also.? One of the most haunted seemed to
be the Clearwater Hotel and bar, many customers have mentioned strange
noises and seeing things.? The Clearwater is?now gone, but the ghosts
still seem to hang around.
Pocatello - Ammon Park - The Idaho Ghost Hunters say that Ammon Park is haunted
by a young girl in a blue dress that swings on the swings late at
night.
Pocatello - Idaho State
University - Frazier Hall - This
building, which houses the speech and theatre departments, is
supposedly haunted by a ghost the locals call Alex. Stories include
phantom piano players, spectral audience members, and footsteps up and
down the hall on the 4th floor.
Pocatello - Kraft Building
- It is believed that a woman was tied up there
and tortured and raped, and now in present day it is said that an
occult forms there and sacrifices animals. So the city of Pocatello has
closed it off to all visitors and public. -
November 2003 Update: they have torn down most of it, and what was left
of it has been renovated into offices.
Pocatello - Pocatello High
School - while working late at night teachers
have heard an alarm go of at the stroke of midnight, lasting for about
30 seconds in the vicinity of the old gymnasium. Janitors and
administration have no explanation as the alarm sounds different from
the modern motion detector alarms installed in the buildings.
Apparitions have also been seen.
Pocatello - Stanfard
Mansion - Is haunted by a girl who was locked in
the tower of the mansion when she fell ill. My friends and have seen
apparition of a man on the side of the front porch and a young boy in
old century clothing sitting at the dining room table eating.
Potlatch - Old woman
(ghost) seen walking around town lost in the middle of the night.
Story- an old woman was declared missing about six or seven years ago
and her body was recently discovered outside of town. They had to use a
physic to find the body. She also wanders around the town park trying
to find her home.
Preston - Bear river
Massacre - There was a huge Indian massacre at
bear river in the winter. The US Calvary killed men, women, and
children as they starved to death. Now in the winter you can see
footprints and hear babies crying.
Rexburg - Ricks College - Near the hart building, there was a little girl
murdered. She still walks from the east door of the hart building to
the Romney building, and then back to the hart again. She gets mad if
you get in her path.
Roberts - B.J.'S Bayou
Restaurant - Numerous spirits evidently inhabit
this old building that once was a hotel. The building was flooded and
abandoned after the Teton Flood of 1976. It was purchased and renovated
in the 1980's and now houses a Cajun restaurant, bar, and residence of
the owners. The owners report seeing and hearing evidence of haunting
all of the time. They report the appearance of the spirit of a young
girl, and the spirit of an old gentleman, possibly in a uniform.
Rupert - Kelly Bean Inc .
- Witnesses report while they were working they
saw and felt a strange presents and saw a black figure out of the
corner of their eyes every night. They would see this between 7:00 and
9:30. This happened in the bean sorting room across the street from the
main warehouseman other times they could smell food cooking when there
was no way to cook in this room, There was nothing cooking out side our
building or any other building close by.
Soda Springs - Enders
Hotel - The hotel is very old but has had at
least 4 million dollars put in for remodeling and such. Many go to the
hotel not knowing of it's haunting history, but some people experience
and others don't! The thing about the place is that there was a
prostitute murdered in room 207... (women don't leave your husbands
alone!), they say she wanders the halls at night looking for single
men. And there is also a MEAN!!! ghost in the basement... NO BODY GOES
IN THE BASEMENT!!! They say he was also murdered.
Soda Springs - Hooper Springs - There
is a park with a pavilion, teeter totters, and some swings. The park
use to have a set of swings on the north side of the pavilion and a
swing with a big clown on. If you were to go out on certain nights the
swings would be swinging so hard they would rap themselves around the
top pole also if you were to drive around the pavilion three times,
shut your vehicle off and flash the lights a few times and weight you
would see a ghostly figure walk back and forth across a bridge
Shoshoni - Ice
Caves - Employees and tourists have heard
strange voices and footsteps inside the caves.
Twin Falls - River
canyon near Singing Bridge - Multiple
hand carved stairs down to a platform where there is a hand carved
statue 0f the "devils Henchman" and carvings of 8 abducted children?s
faces in the cave behind the Henchman.
Twin falls - Twin
Falls Brewing Company - An old building,
listed on the national historical register, now a brewery, pub and
restaurant, used to be an old flour mill. Employees mentioned hearing
footsteps and other strange noises. Reports of presences felt and
unexplainable apparitions and disturbances also took place here. this
activity has been given a the name of Flour Fred. There is a myth
suggested about an occupational accident responsible for the lingering
presence.
Wallace - Ghost
Town - In the old mine there was a big
rock fall in 1890. 78 miners died in the incident. Miners often say the
rock fall was caused by a man with a load of dynamite seeking revenge
with a person in the mine. After the event was over the mine was shut
down for about a year. After that they figured it wouldn't happen
again. Miners claim to have seen figures in windows looking out at
them. They describe the figure as a middle-aged man with a trucker hat.
His skin is a dark gray. In some cases miners have heard a screeching
sound and then seeing flashes of gray and black and a high-pitched
scream. Also, miners claim to have been hit hard across the head with a
hard rock. BUT it is a good idea to go to the mine. ?
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