In Iowa
Ackley - Hazzl Green Cemetery - It's an
old cemetery about 5 miles south of Ackley out in the country. There?s
a gazebo and there is said to be and old lady sitting in a rocking
chair holding a baby.
Algona - Gypsy Grave Yard
- Just north of town is a small graveyard with
an even smaller graveyard fenced off toward the back. It is said that
when the Gypsy wagon trains would pass through town back in the 1800's,
and one of their flock was sick and dying, instead of taking them
further on the journey and not having Gypsy hollowed ground to bury
them in they would just bury them there, while still alive. Many
ghostly figures have been seen hanging around, and if you cross the
small fence and walk on the hollowed ground you will be cursed. This is
a favorite haunt for the local teens.
Algona - Plum Creek Pits -
Back in the far corner there has been a little
boy said to be playing near the waters edge legend has it that the
little boy was running back to the river on the other side of the pits
when he tripped on a stone and was stabbed by a stick he had fallen on.
The local fisherman who use to fish their say they have seen this boy
walking on the bank of the pit when they yelled to him he seemed to
have looked up and ran back towards the river and disappear nobody
knows what this boys name is or even his age.
Alton - Floyd River - It is said that three teenagers hung themselves in an
old broken down house just off the Floyd River. You can still see three
ropes hanging from the rafters of the house. There is a path elading to
the house with a No Trespassing sign on it and when you cross it the
haunting starts. Legend has it, the haunting never stops.
Amana - Ghost Corner- in a cemetery there. there is a stone that is said on
the last minute of every year a light blue figure hovers over her
grave.
Ames - Iowa State
University - C. Y. Stephens Auditorium - The
auditorium is haunted by the benevolent ghost of C. Y. Stephens. He is
especially present in the basement tunnels that run between the
auditorium and the coliseum and Fisher Building. Cold drafts and
footsteps are among the ways he makes himself known. He can also be
seen from the stage sitting in the back right corner of the third
balcony whenever the house lights are on and the stage lights are low.
His presence is thought of, at least by dancers in the annual
Nutcracker production, to be a sign of good luck for the performance.
Ames - Iowa State
University - Memorial Union Hall - pays
tribute to graduates of Iowa State that died in various wars. There is
a low, eerie moan that can constantly be heard in this hall. No one can
figure out any logical reasons for this moan (and the college is
flooded with engineering and architectural majors). Rumor has it that
the moan is the voice of the only woman to graduate from ISU and die in
WWI.
Anamosa - Holy Cross
Cemetary - behind this small graveyard on a hill
there is a grouping of trees that will lead you to one big tree. where
it is said that many hangings occured. The area with the trees is said
to be an old Indian burial ground as is much of Anamosa. Some have seen
orbs and shadowey figures.
Appanoose - Centerville -
Railroad Tracks - If you park your car on these
tracks, turn it off, and put it in Neutral, little kids will push you
off the tracks.. You will hear foot steps in the rocks while they are
pushing you...
Avon - The track - Apparition of a man holding an old lantern walking the
tracks, then disappears.
Bertram - Campbell
Cemetery - Trunkless Tree - If you go there at
night and shut off your headlights there is a tree that looks like it
is floating and has no base to it.? There used to be two trees right
next to each other that looked that way but one was cut down.
Bloomfield - Davis County
Middle School and Elementary - If you are in the
building at night you can see weird shadows and sometimes hear voices
and moaning. Up by the 5th grade there is a corner and if you are up
there sometimes you can see a shadow around the corner and hear a moan
but if you look around the corner nothing is there. Also in the big
storage room aka "bowling alley" you can hear moans and see shadows
when nothing is there.
Boone - The Boone News -
Republican - Working at night in the old
newspaper office you can hear footsteps running up or down six or so
steps to and from the production area. No one is there. Also, once and
awhile you might here your name called and people walking upstairs.
Again the place is empty.
Boone - Kate Shelly High
Bridge - Kate Shelly was famous for saving a
train from going off of the tracks on the bridge that is now known as
the Kate Shelly high bridge. It is said that if you look up at the
tracks (bridge) at night you can see a mysterious outline of a person
and a dim light like a lantern running on the tracks. People around
here say that it's Kate forever reliving the incident that saved a
train and lots of people. - September 2004
CORRECTION: located west of the City of Boone, is not the bridge where
Kate Shelley saved the passenger train. It was actually first
structured in early 1900's and was named "The Boone Viaduct". It was
renamed for Kate Shelley in the 1960's. The bridge has wonderful tales
of "Specter" Steam Engines and ghostly "watchmen" that walk it. The
original bridge that Kate Shelley crossed was demolished in the 1930's.
Kate Shelley's ghost, accordingly, haunts the hamlet of Moingona, Iowa,
South West of City of Boone, where the story took place.
Boone - State Nursing Home
& Hospital - Yelling and screaming has been
heard & seeing apparitions of different people walking around.- September 2004 Update: the old structure is falling in
on its self and will be slated for demolition soon. The county has
involved a no trespassing rule, since some people for Des Moines and
the surrounding area decided to use it as "paint" ball battlefield two
years ago. The home has several structural issues to it, including a
collapsing floor. In regards to haunting and "things", yes, there's
something to it. A lot of people suffered there, and the sadness of
that place can be felt today.
Buckeye - House - There is a house and this only happens at night. This
house is really old almost 100 years. At night, in upstairs the
floorboards creek as if someone was walking up them one after another.
The door in one of the rooms open on its own, but it jams shut.
Burlington - National
Guard Armory - Reportedly there are doors that
won't stay shut and that slam shut by themselves. People working there
late at night have heard sounds of Horses and footsteps when there is
no one there. A witness saw a reflection of a face of a man with a
handle bar mustache in a computer screen and turned around to find no
one there.
Burlington - Stony Hollow
- Urban Legend - It is said that if you go to
that bluff and say the ghosts name 3 times she will appear and if she
drops a rose you will die the next day. It is said that a boy did it
and died the next day.
Carroll County - Carrollton
- June 2008 has been removed due to vandalism.
Cedar Falls - University
of Northern Iowa - Lawther Hall - Was
believed to be haunted by the spirit of a soldier named Augie, who died
there when the building was being used as an infirmary. Students in
this residential hall have reported strange noises, cold spots, and
movement of objects. Lawther Hall has always been a women's dorm, and
at no time was it ever used as an infirmary. During the war it was used
partially as a dormitory for WAVES- definitely not men. In fact, the
stories told of Augie center largely around the fifth (or perhaps
fourth) floor attic areas. These were never used as rooms, but were
originally recreational areas for the women in the dorm. In the early
70's, these rooms were closed (1972, I believe) because they were
deemed in disrepair and quite unsafe. For a few years, a hall Halloween
Haunted House called "Augie's Attic" was held there until a fire
started accidentally one year, and the activity was banned. In fact, to
say that Lawther is the dorm that is primarily haunted could be
entirely incorrect. Next door to Lawther, in fact attached to, is
Bartlett Hall. Bartlett has an identical layout, and though is now
coed, was once all female as well. To suggest that the two have been
confused is not unlikely.
Cedar Falls - University
of Northern Iowa - Bartlett Hall - Bartlett
shows all signs of being haunted. This past Halloween, a "not exactly
prohibited but very extremely hush hush" haunted house was held in the
attics of Bartlett. Whilst setting up, students underwent lights
flickering, doors shutting, and vast temperature changes. It got to the
point that they were ready to stop bothering with their set up; simply
take money and usher people through the rooms. However, to their great
disappointment, subsequent trips have yielded nothing in comparison to
October 30th.
Cedar Falls - University
of Northern Iowa - The Strayer-Wood Theatre - is haunted by a ghost known affectionately by the
theatre students as "Zelda", who apparently haunted the old theatre
building before moving with the department into the new structure. Many
theatre students have reported strange noises, including mysterious
piano music (when no one else was in the building), and equipment has
mysteriously worked by itself.
Cedar Rapids - Brucemore -
A glowing entity has been seen in the library of
this building.
Cedar Rapids - Coe college
- There have been reports that a ghost named
"Helen" haunts the place. She died of influenza in the epidemic of 1918
and her parents donated a grandfather clock, which used to be in her
dorm. Students say sometimes at night the her spirit leaves the clock,
plays the piano in the parlor and stands by kids beds and pulls covers
off of them.
Cedar Rapids - Domino's
Pizza - Workers report cold spots, hearing foot
steps walking around the store when you are the only person in there,
pans started flying at us like someone was throwing them, but there was
know one there. ?We ran out of the store and when we got brave enough
to go back in we found all the pans had been put back on the shelf.?
Cedar Rapids- Linn County
- Mckinley Middle School - At night when the
janitors are working they hear things and footsteps and they feel
things touching them and cold spots when no ones around.
Cedar Rapids - Mount Mercy
(Stello Preformance Hall) - A nun hung her self
from the balcony of the choir loft. She is said to haunt the whole
building of Warde Hall. Supposedly she wander the halls, people have
been said to feel the presence of another entity behind them. Also she
has been reported to been seen in the halls.
Cedar Rapids - Oak Hill
Cemetery - It is said that Tillie, a small Czech
girl, can be seen at night caring a flickering candle, and has said to
have tried to pull people into a nearby Mausoleum.
Cedar Rapids - Parkers
Grove - There is a gravestone with a carving of
a face here and when you go there at night, you can see the face cry
and his eyes are wet!!
Cedar Rapids - Rawsons
Flatland - This a supposed to be haunted by a
two to three year old girl, named Josephine, wearing a white t-shirt
and has short hair about to her cheeks. If you see her you will
remember quite a bit about her, then by the time you turn to take a
second look she will be gone.
Cedar Rapids - Westdale
Mall - A young girl was working a late night
shift, when she was about to close and turn all the lights off. The
freezer door, which was shut & locked, Flung open for no apartment
reason. The young girl ran and has never been alone again. It is said
it is a ghost of a man whom died while building the mall.
Cedar Rapids - wildwood
apartments - It is said that about 20 years ago,
there was a convicted child molester living in one of the buildings.
Years later one of the victim?s parents confronted the man and beat him
to death. His body was found 3 days later. It is rumored that you can
still hear the innocent cries of his victims echoing in the halls late
at night in wildwood apartments.
Charles City - Iron Hill -
In these woods behind the old white farm there
have been sightings of a little girl dressed in white, also various
girls have been heard. Around Halloween you can hear faintly a chanting
that is something like this, "ring around the rosy..." and "wanna come
burn with me". Around 1920 there was a train car full of orphans that
burned down on the railroad tracks that run through there. a burned rag
doll has been found. They say it is there graveyard yet no family ties
have been found.
Charles City - Riverside
Cemetery - This cemetery next to the river is a
very strange and eerie place, sensing the darkness and windy roads.
Dark figures have been seen walking around and standing over graves and
a few people have been attacked or approached by figures that refused
to step into light. An Indian has also been seen out there, it is a
place that you feel someone is watching you at all times. Being by the
mausoleum is probably the best place to see or hear things or along the
river bank.
Charlotte - Hickory Hill
Cemetery - the cemetery is located down a dirt
road that is between two cornfields.? the road comes to an end at the
top of a hill of trees.? The cemetery is located to the left in the
trees. it is said that if you walk into the cemetery you will hear
babies crying and will see a little girl pointing at the gates
indicating you to LEAVE!
Cherokee - American
Theatre - East Main St. - It has been said by
the employees that work in this old movie theatre that the former
owner, Mr. Goldie, haunts it. A previous theatre manager related a
story about an incident that occurred to him, when he was all-alone in
the theatre. Apparently on day as he was walking across the stage he
looked out at the seats where the customers would sit. And he saw one
seat about 3-4 rows from the front and 2 seats in rocking slowly all by
itself. There are other stories to be told of the hauntings there, but
all you need to do...is come, and visit with the staff at the American
Theatre.
Clarion - George - It all started when these two friends that loved to
prove people wrong. The story goes that if you go in this house and go
up stairs there will be pictures on the floor you are suppose to pick
it up and take it home and put it on your chest and go to sleep. When
you wake up and it will be gone. you go back to the house and go up
stairs and you will see it right where you got it. In the pic is a
black figure. He is called George and you shouldn't let him touch you
because it is said that after he dose he takes part of you with him.
How we know is about this one of the boys got touch and went crazy and
is gone for the rest of his life in a asylum and the other still see
George even though the house is gone!
Clarinda - Clarinda
Academy - There are a lot of tunnels under the
town and the Academy. They used these tunnels along time ago for the
mentally ill. They starved them down there for years. It is said that
five boys have disappeared when walking through the tunnels. Many
people have seen and heard footsteps and screams.
Conover - 4 shadowy
figures said to have been seen along Conover road, against a stand of
evergreen trees. Supposedly a family died there years ago.
Conroy - Mechanists Hall -
Mechanists Hall used to be a school, but now is
sometimes used for meetings and such. Sometimes at night lights inside
the building flicker, but if you drive a car up it usually doesn't
happen. If you go behind the building you can sometimes hear voices,
but you can't make out what they are saying.
Coon Rapids - Elk Grove
Cemetery - There is a little headstone. If you
get in the right angle and just wait a couple minutes it will start to
glow.
Council Bluffs - Fairview
Cemetery - This cemetery is home of the "Black
Angel." Dodge's wife died and in her remembrance they made a statue of
the angel that she dreamt of before she died and put it in the front of
the cemetery. The statue is known as The Black Angel. Her eyes follow
you no matter what direction you go. Whoever is "blessed" by her is on
the sickly side from then on. Small lights have been seen in the trees
behind the older grave sites. Feelings of someone walking on the heels
of visitors.
Council Bluffs - General
Dodge's House - The Dodge House was owned by
General Dodge and his family. The community has tours go through it, to
make some money off of its beauty and age...The real story is that
General Dodge is still there wandering around or sitting in his rocking
chair. Around dusk everyday, you can hear 2 men arguing if you stand in
the middle of the street. Late at night you can see small flashes of
light around the dodge house lawn, and get a very faint smell of fire.
Dodge's wife died and in her remembrance they made a statue of her and
put it in the front of the cemetery. The statue is known as The Dark
Angel. Her eyes follow you no matter what direction you go. Whoever is
"blessed" by here is on the sickly side from then on.
Council Bluffs - Lewis and
Clark monument - Feelings of getting sick, major
emotions and disorientation are felt.
Council Bluffs - Old
library-Now Union Pacific museum - This is the
old Council Bluffs library, which has now been restored to a wonderful
looking and brand new Union Pacific railroad museum. Before the
renovation occurred, many people were hesitant to venture into the
basement of this Carneige structure due to books literally flying off
the shelves. Many experienced items mysteriously disappearing, only to
have them return later. Also, some have reported dark-shadowy figures
being seen in the basement. Not too many folks want to go into this
basement alone.
Dakota City - Historical
Museum - It is said to be that the Dakota City
Historical Museum is to be haunted at night. Some nights you can drive
by it and see shadows, and lights going on and off in the windows. An
old lady gives tours there in the summer and says that it could be
haunted by the founders of Humboldt County or by the famous wrestler
Gotch. - December 2003 update/addition: The
submitter to the addition has heard of a fisherman walking around
there, possibly he is there because the Des Moines river is right next
to the museum and there is a story of a fisherman drowning to death
there many years ago. Another story that is true is that if you walk up
to the front sign of the museum and ask it any question it will move to
the right-meaning yes or it will move to the left-meaning no. please
note it is a hanging sign on hinges. Some people might think it is the
wind doing this but it only happens on calm nights when there is no
wind or gusts at all. There is a lot of history at the museum.
Davenport - Blackhawk
Hotel - There has been many circumstances of
seeing a lady roaming the halls wearing a red or blue evening gown.
There has also been instances of pianos playing in the main ballroom
misc. disturbances with employees. Acter Cary Grant also died on the
8th floor and has been seen walking the halls.
Davenport - Masonic
Temple, Brady St. - Currently owned by Palmer
College. Security reports many types of haunting phenomenon at all
hours of the day.
Davenport - Palmer College
of Chiropractic - One of the lecture halls
which were built in the middle 1800's is residence to several ghosts
which have been known to fly around the ceiling, causing the hanging
lamps to swing back and forth. There are no air vents nor fans even
near the ceiling. The occurrence happens on a regular basis and has
been witnessed by many classes of soon to be chiropractors.
Davenport - police station
- Bell Tower - When the station was
first built the guards used to hang prisoners in the bell tower so no
one could hear or see what they were doing. If you go east behind the
police station at night and look up to the bell tower you can see a man
still hanging in the first window.
Davenport - Scott - City
Hall - A heavyset man reportedly sits in the
city council chamber. They call him Hal. The legend of Hal goes like
this. Hal was a citizen who was extremely upset with city government.
He ran for alderman of his ward.(3) He lost by a landslide to the
incumbent, but Hal wasn't going to let that stop him. He attended every
city meeting that was held in the chamber until he died of a heart
attack at 63. Hal has been seen at least 100 times. He also has been
said to walk around city hall, and former mayors have said they have
seen them in their office on more than one occasion. Often times Hal is
smoking a cigar.
Davenport - St. Ambrose
University - Ambrose Hall - When there
are only a few professors left in the building late at night, they have
heard strange noises. They have heard foot steps and seen lights
flickering on and off. It's said that it is an old priest that died
many, many years ago.
Davis City - Cemetary - can be seen shooting across the cemetary very late at
night. Animal sacrifices have also been known to be practiced in the
early nineties. As you enter the cemetary a sudden feeling of pressure
is often felt.
Davis County - Mars Hill -
It's the only extant log church in Iowa now.
There is a graveyard to the right of the church. Rumors are that is a
hot spot for seeing UFOs, but other things have gone on there
too--Black Mass has been held in the abandoned church; evidence has
been left behind, like inverted pentagrams in red paint or blood on the
floor. I've been there and there is a positively suffocating force
there--it's like you can't breathe and you get the impression there are
tons of eyes watching you. Very creepy! And, just down the hill from
the church is Crybaby Bridge, where at midnight if you turn off your
car on the bridge, you can hear the sounds of babies and small children
crying.
Decorah - Luther College -
Larsen Hall - The ghost's name is
Gertrude. She has been known to open and close doors in rapid
succession and move pencils and other small objects when students
aren't looking.
Decorah - Luther College -
Regents Center - Regents Center is an
athletic facility. In the 90's janitor killed himself and other staff
members report seeing his ghost.
Decorah - Porter House
Museum - Supposedly you can see people in the
upstairs part of the house, standing in the windows.?
Des Moines - Air Lanes - Be hind the bowling alley lanes there is an upstairs
that is rumored to have been used to be used for illegal gambling in
the 1920's. Well if you go up stairs, down the hallway, and into this
room up there and wait a few minutes you can hear noises. Some of them
are alot of people talking, or you can hear dice rolling. you could
hear your name being called.
Des Moines - Des Moines
International Airport - The Cloud Room - In
offices that were originally a restaurant named the Cloud Room during
the 60's and 70's. Supposedly haunted by a deceased young flight
attendant who materializes usually in the Autumn walking empty halls
with a bag as if confused looking for her flight. The occasional noise
of laughing and glasses clinking at the bar early and late when the
offices are quiet. Many cold spots and unexplained noises in and
outside the Cloud Room.
Des Moines - Des Moines
International Airport - The Farmer -
Construction began in 1932 over family farmland on the south side of
the city that was owned by a family (buried in a small, private
cemetary on SW 31st St) who lost their land against their will. Since
the basement was constructed, shadows and the image of a malicious
looking middle aged man in farm attire. have been witnessed by various
individuals. Moans, foot steps and stomping, shadows, images and cold
spots are his style.
Des Moines - Dowling high
school - Reports of a purple orb seen.
Des Moines - Drake
University Observatory - The Drake University
Observatory is said to be haunted by Dr. Robert Morehouse. He was the
first Chairman of the Astronomy and Physics Department and his claim to
fame was discovering a comet in the 1920's. His remains, along with
those of his wife, are interred in the wall of the entryway. Students
have reported many strange things happening in the basement, such as a
feeling of being watched and an unknown force correcting the
calculations in their observation logs.
Des Moines - Lincoln High
School - Mainly occurs in the balcony of the
auditorium. Unexplained lights flashing on and off in the light booth
when it has been locked and nobody is in there. Seats of the wooden
folding chairs swinging up and down when nobody is around. Cold spots
in certain areas. The curtains on the stage will rustle in a seemingly
non-existent breeze when there is nothing that could cause it. There is
no air conditioning in the school. There have also been unexplained
noises such as tapping on the wooden floor of the stage, and banging on
the seats in the balcony. If you go into the Paint Room, which is
located in one of the wings of the stage, you get the feeling of
someone watching you, and running their fingers up and down your back.
Des Moines - East High
School - There has been seen a glowing blue
light in a restroom there. The light flashed right behind two students
who witnessed it in the mirror and disappeared before they could turn
around. Before the flash there was a spark of electricity on the faucet
when one of the students reached for it. This school is over 150 years
old and there are at least 4 deaths.
Des Moines - Old
Red Horse Armory - Was an old Cavalry
armory. It is now the city school bus barn. When the National Guard was
in the building soldiers who worked full time and were in there after
hours reported hearing the clip clop of horses hooves and the jingle of
harnesses off the small drill floor where the stables were. They also
would catch glimpses of an older man dressed in an old cavalry uniform
in the long back hall that only had a small light bulb at each end of
it. They were not fanciful people who seen and heard these things. They
were hardworking soldiers with their heads on straight who would never
in a million years make up things like that.
Des Moines - Polk
- Merle Hay Mall Tower - Merle Hay Mall,
and a building in the mall known as the Merle Hay Tower, is built over
the site of a Monastery that was closed in the 1950's. Rumor has it
that on occasion a nun would become pregnant, with the pregnancy
resulting in mis-carriage. These babies were buried in unmarked graves
on the Monastery grounds, where the mall stands today. My grandfather
used to drive an ice cream truck, and would deliver to the Monastery,
and witnessed one of the nuns nursing (feeding) an infant in the
kitchen of the Monastery. In present day, the Merle Hay Tower is said
to be haunted by a figure wearing a very old style habit, who cries as
she carries a dead child. People who have offices in the Tower report
an elevator that moves between floors with no one aboard late at night.
When the elevator stops, footsteps can be heard, but when the sounds
are investigated, no one is around. Cold spots are frequent and a
feeling of being watched when alone is also reported. Others report
hearing someone walk into an office and when they turn around, no one
is there.
Des Moines - Saydel
High School - there is a little girl that
sings around the hallways at night.
Des Moines - Terrace
Hill - There have been witnesses who have
seen a transparent little girl, eyes in pictures following them and
many other things. In the middle of the elevator(which is code
activated)goes up and down and opens.
Des Moines - Weaver
House - this house has a table the seems
to be haunted.
Dubuque - Clarke
College - Mary Frances Hall - Mary
Frances Hall on the Clarke Campus was built in 1924. The top floor of
the dormitory and the chapel is said to be haunted by the ghost of the
school's founder Mary Frances Clarke. Students have accounted for
unexplained footsteps in the hallway, the feeling of being watched and
a shrouded figure near the chapel. Mary Benedict Hall, built in 1965,
is also haunted by spirits of past students and the founding sister's
of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Student's have reported seeing books and
tickets being tossed from the shelving units, a shrouded figure in the
hallway on the 3rd floor (west wing), water running in bath on 3rd
floor west wing restroom in middle of night, and unexplained footsteps
in the tunnel connecting Mary Benedict and Mary Josita halls.
Dubuque - Fischer
Building - The Fischer Building was
originally 8 stories tall, built in downtown Dubuque in the mid 19th
century, about 50 years before the "first" skyscraper was built in
Chicago.? With a steel addition to the top of the building, it is now 9
stories tall with another smaller building on top. There are two
reported "hauntings" in the Fischer Building. In the basement, in the
offices of the maintenance staff, there is a tall man that walks from
one room, a short distance through a larger room to the next room.?
Many people have reported him walking in the same direction, and he has
been seen only from the back. On the fourth floor, in the northwest
hallway, there is a well dressed woman, wearing a dress, fur and high
heels that appears near the center of the building and walks north,
turns to the right and goes in the last doorway.? Her style of dress
suggests she is from the 1920s or 1930s.? Some people report that she
opens the door and enters the last office, even though the door is
locked.?
Dubuque - Grand
Opera House - voices , footsteps and
apparitions are present here.
Dubuque - The
Ham House - This building is said to be
one of the most haunted places in Dubuque. It was once a large private
residence, but is now a museum. People have experienced classic
encounters such as cold breezes, strange voices and chills running down
people's spines. Several of the caretakers have reported objects
mysteriously out of place and lights flickering. There have even been
reports of eerie cries coming from the servant's house, the master
bedroom, and the nursery.
Dubuque - The
Saul House - In 1992 a 14 year old boy
killed himself with a knife in his home. And the people that have moved
in have said that knifes have been lying in an x on the exact spot he
killed himself.
Estherville - Forest
Ridge - Cedar Hall - South of Estherville
on Highway 4.? Things randomly fall off the walls, a little girl in a
blue dress has been seen, also an old man.? There is a reflection of a
person standing over the desk when nobody is standing there.? One of
the bedrooms (209) is haunted; girls have reported having their hair
pulled by something under the bed. Closet door handles rattle, locked
closets have opened on their own.
Eldora/Ackley - the Fellands old property - a stone garden is found there (one rock is found from
the old Roman aqueducts) a spirit found from the norms house is alive
there (under large center rock, never point him/her in the direction of
the norms house. The second floor east room is a cross roads. The
straight point in front lawn (most east north) has been used for magic
rituals.
Emmetsburg - Vacant
lot behind Nauss Oil on Highway 18 - There
once was a motel on this sight. The people that ran the motel lived in
a house across the road for a while, then the motel was demolished but
the drive way is still there. Sometimes an old man in a plaid shirt and
chino slacks walks along the old drive way and stops 5 or 6 times like
he is checking doors. The house across the street where the people
lived was still standing in 2002 and they were renovating it.
Estherville - Oak
Hill - its a cemetery and there is this
hill that is haunted. The story is that a car full of football players
were going to their game and their car stalled on this very hill. So
they all got out and started to push the car up this hill then a car
came around this bend and didn?t see the football players and hit them.
All of the players died. People say that if you put your car in neutral
between these 2 markers you will go uphill because the football players
push you up the hill because they don?t want you to get hit by another
car. Another story is that two children who lived in the nearby mansion
were playing in the road when they were run over and killed. When your
car moves, it is the children pushing it off of them. Anyway, the going
up hill sensation is caused by an optical illusion. For this to work,
you must be headed downhill. In the place where you stop, the road
levels off and appears to go up in comparison to the rest of the road.
If you go down the hill and around the curve and look back, you will
realize that the entire road does indeed go down hill.
Floyd - Charles
City - Ioron Hill - Back on the new
walking trail is the site where a train wreck happened. Reports of
apparitions & people calling out your name.
Fort Dodge - Bannwell
bridge - there is a bridge a few miles
south west of clare. there is tree bridges total and if you look on a
map it shows up like a triangle and a woman and her kids are supposed
to haunt it. if you go there around midnight and stop on the bridge and
get out of the car and wait. a womans face is supposed to come down the
railroad tracks and it and follow you down the road till you go under a
brigde about a quarter mile down the road. further on down the tracks
where a road gos across the tracks you can stop your car and some kids
will push you across. the story is that she hung her three children
over the bridge and a train came along and hit the kids. - May 2004 update: they tore it down and are building a
new bridge in its place.
Fort Dodge - Phillips
Middle School - The school is supposedly
haunted by a young boy who drowned in the pool. The boy has been sited
peeking around corners and playing jokes on people. Also at night you
can see a red glow and the smell of fire because of the alleged grease
fire that happened in the home-ec room several years ago.
Fort Dodge - Hawkeye
Theater - You always feel like someone is
watching you. Whenever you are in a room by yourself, you are
physically abused by an 'invisible hand'. Reports of a transparent
little girl. IL
Fort Dodge - terror
bridge - It has been said that a woman
threw 3 of her 4 children off the bridge while a train was coming one
of the 4 got away when you drive over the bridge at midnight your car
will shutoff till your over the bridge and by her house where she hung
herself and burnt down. if you go under the bridge her truck is still
where she parked it. It is truly terrifying. it has also been said that
you should lock your doors and roll up your windows or she will throw
you over too.
Fort Madison - Iowa State Penitentiary - Built
in the 1800's. Solitary confinement area: Guards refuse to go to the
end of the corridor at night. Inmates have experienced cold spots,
heard unexplainable moaning and chains clanking, seen apparitions and
have been choked or physically attacked while alone in their 8x5(or
smaller) locked cell.
Glenwood - Nuckolls
Street - Located a block down the hill
from the former Iowa Institution for Feeble Minded Children along the
original banks of Keg Creek (where I've dug up several Indian artifacts
while gardening). Mostly its been the typical kitchen cabinets opening
and shutting for no reason along with cold spots and the feeling of an
unseen presence. Its an old small house I bought a few years ago that
was built before 1880. If I tell whatever-it-is to knock it off and go
away things seem to calm down for awhile.
Grinnell - Grinnell
College - according to an article in the
Des Moines Register, there is an old wheelchair on the stage of the
performing arts bldg. it belonged to the director of the theater dept,
who retired by dying. It?s said to roll out on stage during rehearsals
or performances for no reason. The students think it?s the friendly
spirit of the theater director.
Guthrie Center - Cemetery - When going
east out of Guthrie Center there is a cemetery to the left of you. In
this cemetery is a gravestone shaped like a chair. This chair has been
named "The Devil's Chair" it is said if you sit in it something bad
will happen to you. My neighbor sat in it one night and two days later
discovered he needed to have open heart surgery. Don't sit in this
chair or you'll be sorry but if you do sit in it you're very brave,
good for you!!!
Hamburg - Catholic
Cemetery - Occasional sightings of a
woman figure have been seen kneeling at the feet of the three Virgin
Mary statues. Some have reported hearing wailing from the statues
themselves.
Hardin - Eagle
City - Eagle City Park - There are people
that go to the park and worship the devil and chase you away if you try
to watch them. There are rope that are in a barn at the park that are
used to hang people at least it looks like that is what they are for.
Also there is blood all over the ground in the barn.
Independence - Buchanan County Court House - A man was hung sometime in the late 1800's to the
early 1900's there, but when they did his neck didn?t snap, so he died
slowly. Now he is supposed to haunt the building at night, walking
around the building. a man who spent the night in one of the cells,
said he saw it, but that it was a man hanging from a rope that went up
into the ceiling. He isn't a very credible person though.
Indianola - Simpson
College - In the late 1800s, a woman fell
down the staircase of College Hall. She was apparently walking from the
third floor when she tripped, broke her neck during the fall, and died
instantly. On every Friday the 13th, it is said you can see her
reflection or "shadow" in the third floor window while stepping on the
college seal exactly at midnight.
Iowa City - Black
Angel & Little Girl Statues - Reports
of a glowing shape walking through the cemetery, believed to be the
spirit of the Black Angel. She is also said to watch people and strange
lights in connection with this statue. In there with the Black Angel is
a small statue of a girl that is set up on a column. If you walk under
her and around her she will pick out someone in your group and stare at
them until they leave. Also the closer you get to the little girl
statue the warmer it gets. The farther you get the colder it gets.
Iowa City - University
of Iowa - Currier Hall - According
to rumor, a triple suicide occurred on the fourth floor when three dorm
mates found themselves to be in love with the same man. They reappear
to bickering roommates in order to promote friendship and harmony.
There has also been a sighting of an older man on the E300's section of
the building. This stern-faced man is the father of a former tenant of
Currier Hall.
Iowa City - Slater
Hall - Floor 9 - Legend has it
that a young student jumped to his death from the ninth floor. Ever
since, footsteps can be heard, screams, and many residents have seen
the young man's ghost walking late at night carrying an ax.
Iowa City - Slater
Hall - Floor One - Legend has it
that in the 1800's, a man they called "Penguin man" roamed the vicinity
looking for young babies whose brains he liked to feast on. Legend has
it that the "Penguin man" has been reincarnated into a fat, black,
first floor RA. She roams the halls of Slater looking for innocent
young students to eat. SLATER HALL IS VERY DANGEROUS. BEWARE THE
WADDLER.
Iowa Falls - Eagle
City - an outside church in lower Eagle
city too many voices too recognize.
Iowa Falls - Thompson
Hall Dormitory - This dorm and Union
Cemetery across the road are both haunted. One resident advisor was
spending the Christmas holiday in the dorm alone, and reported hearing
footsteps and voices from the unoccupied basement floor, which was
locked up, and no one could get into. There have also been sightings of
Mr. Ellsworth (a town benefactor) and other ghosts in the cemetery, and
strange noises can be heard in both places.
Johnson County - North Liberty - Green castles Cemetery - This is a very old cemetery, No one has been buried
there in years. When you go there at night the dirt is freshly dug by
many of the stones, as if someone was buried there that day. Tombstones
move all by there self. Many people have seen a witch in black with
long dark hair, she talks to young children. She looks like she is
between 16 and 18 yrs. old.
Kossuth - Algona
- Little Africa - Rumor is that there are
several places here that have been the scene of murders. The old bridge
you cross has been the place of 2 hangings. 2 of the roads have had
accidents on them because people claims things have been standing the
middle of the road and won't move. The old farm house is said to have
the spirit of the old maid who worked for the family had an affair and
the husband killed her...the family left rite after and everything in
the house is still there. Out past the hospital cemetery. Worth going
there.
Lake City - Rainbow
Bridge - A few miles south of Lake City,
there is an old bow-string bridge, which is blocked off from traffic
and cannot be driven on. If you walk out on the bridge at midnight, lay
an unopened candy bar on the middle of the bridge and go back off the
bridge and wait for 5 minutes in the dark, when you go back for it, the
wrapper will be unopened and intact, but the chocolate is gone. - October 2003 Update: visitors to our web site tried
this and report it does not work.
Lamoni - Terre
Haute ? Terre Haute Cemetery - It is said
that the cabin beside Terre Haute Cemetery, there is a little boy who
plays on a swing set beside the cabin. He then motions for you to
follow him and he guides you to the cemetery to where he is buried.
When you reach the grave the boy disappears.
Laurens - infant
cemetery - out in the middle of the
country you will go up a hill on a gravel road. On top of that hill you
will see an old run down white abandon house. To your left pushed back
in the corner of A lot of trees you will see a small cemetery. No one
has been buried here in years, and as you walk into the graveyard you
will see to your left 3 small graves with the same last name. Legend
has it that the three graves are from 3 little girls that lived in the
house a long time ago until there father killed them. Some people went
into the house and found a bunch of old toys and stuffed animals. Gusts
of cold wind will blow as soon as you step out of your car, and many
voices have been heard inside the small round cemetery.
Madrid - Mt
Hope Cemetery - Toward the back of the
cemetery there are five graves of children from the same family. One of
them is Sara. She likes to follow visitors around and several have said
they hear a child's voice asking for Ree. If she is not answered she
will tug at clothes and touch people.
Manchester - Stage
Coach House - The old stagecoach house
and stables near Coffins Grove Park are said to be haunted by members
of the Baker family who ran the stagecoach house and are buried in the
family cemetery nearby.
Marion - Carlos
O'Kellys - Many odd things occur
including unplugged blenders going off, flickering lights, and plates
falling off of racks for no apparent reason.
Marion - Granger
House - It has been said that the white
figure of a young woman can be scene sitting in front of a window at
midnight.
Marion - group
home for disabled adults - Many
unexplainable things have happened here. Doors opening and slamming
shut by themselves, cooking utensils flying out of their holder for no
reason, knobs turned on the oven and coffee maker while no one in the
room, fluorescent light bulb bursting even though it wasn't turned on.
Marshalltown - The ghost of the Quary, a
5th grade that was killed 30 years ago haunts the Quary forest. He
calls to you from every corner of the forest and follows you around
until you leave the forest. Also there are symbols carved into a wooden
bridge in the forest.
Marshalltown - Riverside Cemetery - There
is a chair made from concrete that looks like it is made of wood, that
supposedly if you sit in it you will die within one year. There are
rumors that some people, who died very normal deaths (like car
accidents), sat in the chair a month or two before their deaths. - April 2004 Update:A visitor to our site reported the
chair it is not there any more, but in fact it is there as of November
28th of 2004. It is in the older part of the cemetery. If you look for
it you can find it.
Mason City - Ghosts
of the rock stars - Some people
occasionaly spot a plane crashing, and some say it was from the 1959
tragedy, when The Big Bopper, Ritchie Valens, and Buddy Holly died in
the plane crash. Their spirits are rarely spotted, but 3 orbs were
caught on tape once, and it was in the same spot where the 3 rock stars
died.
Metz - Sugar
Grove Cemetery and Metz Bridge- Within
the Cemetery there is a "Glowing" Tombstone...on the "Metz Bride" there
is a story of the Metz Mud Monster where I guy wrecked his car into the
mud, now river below and was never yet found...while on the bridge with
my fellow friends we taped it and when viewing the tape later that
night we saw a black "being" run across the screen.
Milton - old
house - this house used to be on the SE
side of town and was then back in the late 1850s or so was a mortuary
it was later moved to a central part of the town and occupied by
residents these residents claim that the upstairs of this house is
haunted by an old man and a little girl you can hear people talking and
sobbing.
Missouri Valley - Roberts House - In the
Winter months, (at night) you can hear, vividly, footfalls on the
basement steps then a very loud crash, as if someone on the steps fell
and hit the walls very hard. On the top floor sounds of doors closing,
and water turning on and off. Outside (usually near 11:00pm) a Very
loud boom sound, as if an entire wall was knocked in, is CLEARLY,
heard. Smells of flowers and items being misplaced are reported.
Mitchellville - Iowa Correctional Institute For Women - Two little girls are repeatedly spotted wandering
around these grounds, and another can be heard singing in the basement
of one of the oldest buildings there.
Mount Ayr - Tedrow
- Tedrow is a small cemetery in the
country. In the daytime, there is a tree that contains an evil face.
But at night, the spirits frequently make themselves known. It is not
the cemetery but it is the woods that surrounds the cemetery that is
haunted. Apparently about fifty to a hundred years ago, a small cult
came the cemetery and did ceremonies. Now whenever you drive at night
into the cemetery, you may enter but you may not be able to get out.
The reason for this is because there is a glowing object in the woods
and if this glowing object gets too close to you, you will not be able
to start your car. But in order to witness the strange happenings you
need to have your car turned off and lights turned off. You can have a
flashlight with you but that is it. While you are in complete silence
and complete darkness, something might run passed you several times and
when you look nothing will be there. Sometimes you might hear moaning
in the woods, sometimes you will hear what sounds like somebody
pounding a metal sheet against a tree. Sometimes you will see a dark
figure staring at you from a tree. And if you are really lucky, you
will witness the strangest and scariest experience that you ever had.
At times you might wait for a good five or ten minutes and nothing will
seem to happen, but when you have given up all hope and decide to
leave, all at once there will sound like a herd of elephants are all
around you and make the loudest racket. You are guaranteed to jump in
your car and take off, but that is just the beginning. If you leave
your window open, while your driving, you will hear the object
following you until you have reached the end of the pathway leading to
the cemetery. Also the weather is completely different there, it could
be a hot day and when you reach the cemetery, it will be cold. And it
could be the clearest day and when you reach the cemetery it will begin
to rain. And there could be no wind at all and when you reach the
cemetery there will be ten to twenty mile an hour winds. - Fair WARNING ? As with all other haunted places, you
need to get permission before going in to a cemetery late at night.
There may be NO TRESPASSING and you could be fined. Be smart and be
safe, do it the legal way.
Mount Pleasant - Hwy 218 on Kentucky Rd.-Birthday Bridge - Supposedly years ago a girl hung herself from the
bridge on her birthday if you go out there at night you can see her and
on her birthday see her hanging.
Mount Pleasant - The Medium security Prison - This building used to be a Mental hospital and was
built in the middle 1800s. It consists of an old stone center building
with newer brick wings extending off the center to the east and west.
Before it was converted to a prison in the 1980s a former worker on the
11pm to 7am shift on the top floor in the middle ward on the east wing.
There were Offices and group rooms in the ward to the west of ours and
the ward to the east was "empty". When they first started working that
unit quite a few of the coworkers asked them things like, ?aren't you
afraid to work on that unit its so creepy up there and have you ever
seen anything up there.? Not understanding their questions until one
night when a terrible racket began on the empty unit. The only way it
can be described is the sound of heavy metal furniture being dragged
across the floor and slammed into the connecting door and wall. It
shook the walls and actually woke up the patients on a few occasions.
When it was searched the "empty" unit was always empty and looked like
nobody had been in there for years. Apparitions have been seen in the
halls.
Muscatine - Greenwood
Cemetery - If you walk down the center of
the cemetery you will hear the sound of footsteps running at you but
when you turn to look at the direction the noise is coming from you
will see nothing. A strong feeling of being watched and followed is
felt. Even reports of a strange scream that seems to come from the
other side of the cemetery but can hurt your ears at the same time.
Muscatine - Greenwood
Cemetery - The Blue Angel - is a statue
in the Greenwood Cemetery who used to hold a rose and if the person
looking at the angel, if she dropped the rose, you were doomed to
death. Eventually some people cut off her hand so that she wouldn't be
able to hurt anyone anymore, but at night time her hand was still
there, glowing in the night holding the rose that she might drop on
you. When approaching the angel you will see the sky turn blood red and
when you look at the trees cause the angel is set back all by itself in
a cove, the short side of the trees will be swaying and the tall side
will not. - March 2007 Background
Information: The Blue Angel is made of an ebony white gypsum. In the
sides of the mausoleum in which she is housed are two cobalt blue
stained glass windows. One to the east and one to the west. Each
morning as the new dawn emerges and each night as the day ends the sun
shines thru the windows bathing her in a luminescent glow turning her
white figure blue. During the 50's stories of the blue angel were all
of a benevolent nature. She was the protector, the guardian angel of
the cemetery, protecting all within from any vandals or wrong doers. It
is very sad the current stories of any evil associated with her.
Muscatine - Lutheran
Holmes/ Lutheran Drive - Lutheran Holmes
now a nursing home use to be an orphanage. There is said to be old
tunnels underneath the building but have never been seen. Workers say
that on the seven hundred in one of the room every time a new patient
comes to that room they soon die. Also the six hundred hall call lights
will come on and nobody is in that room. Residents say they see
children running at night and asked the staff to ask them to be quiet.
Behind is an old cemetery, which is closed and has a no trespassing
sign. It is small and consists of mostly orphan graves. You get an
uneasy feeling and want to leave.
Muscatine - Old
Hershey Street Hospital - Some times you
will be walking past the old hospital and the curtains will flutter or
you might catch a glimpse of movement through the balcony. It was
present during the civil war times and the owner says that sometimes he
hears a stumble or a person limping at night.
Nevada - old
story county home - The old Story county
home is said to be haunted it closed down 15 yrs ago. They say if you
drive by it at night you can see glows like a light was on. It is
condemned now with no trespassing signs in front. It was an asylum
where people with mental illness lived. They say you can hear moans and
cries. So many people died there. It has been said some teenagers went
to it one night at midnight and one of them got struck on the head by a
piece of falling debris, like someone was jumping on the floor above
them to make it fall. - February 2007
Update: the County home was torn down a couple of years ago. The area
is still used as the gun range for the local Sheriff's Office. Warning!!
? No Tresspassing
New Providence - Reece
park - A young women will appear in the
corn field and you will hear her screaming. The young women killed
herself out there, and it is her ghost that is known to haunt that very
place.
New Virginia - cemetery - the grave of
the first settler in New Virginia is said to be haunted. At midnight
every night you can see a glowing light coming from this stone. They
say the ghost if mad because they changed his gravestone.
Newton - Children's
Forest - It is known that a neighboring
resident found an antique glass jar in the woods of Children's Forest.
A week later, when the jar was kept inside the resident's garage, a
group of teenagers saw a depressed indian walking through a table. The
next day they busted the jar against a tree inside the Forest, and now
they say you can hear Indian calls from within the woods.
North Liberty - Green Pond - By the
trailer park, across the rail road tracks is a narrow path leading to
an unexpected pond called Green Pond in a small area of trees. The area
was previously used for witchcraft and worship and the legend now says
that if you go before the pong a woman will rise from it. Years ago 2
children went missing and there bikes were found in the bottom of the
pond.
Ottumwa- Good
Sam Nursing Home - a lady was screaming
one night that she would not go to sleep untill the lady left the room,
the people on duty that night tried to explain that there was nobody in
the room. The lady replied that "yes there is, she's sitting at the end
of my bed". sure enough there was an area on the bed that was pushed
down that looked like there was sombody there, but there was nobody.
The people noticed this and talked to the "invisible ghost" saying that
"your scareing this poor lady and she cant go to sleep, could you
please leave the room for tonight so she can get to sleep." sure enough
right after they said that the spot on the bed when back to its normal
stage where it didnt look like anybody was sitting there, the lady
calmed down and went to sleep, but there have been more reports of the
same thing at good sam's since then.
Pacific Junction - Ghost Town - It is said
that on the other side of the train tracks, on some private property,
there are some haunted houses. There have been sightings of orbs and
also at least 3 entites. It is located just outside of town in between
it and Glenwood.
Palo - Pleasant
Ridge Cemetery - Pleasant Ridge is more
commonly known as 13 stairs, because of the 13 stairs leading up a hill
into the cemetery. Voices have been recorded on tape(EVP) that were not
heard while there. Also, people have been touched by unseen things.
Visitors have seen things human like shapes appear and disappear.
Pella - Central
College - Graham Hall - A room
that is locked up, believed to be haunted by the Penguin Lady.
Residents have held sheets of paper under her door to watch her grab
them with a sucking action, and later when the room is unlocked by
staff, the residents find the paper placed neatly atop an extra desk or
dresser.
Polk - Pleasant
Hill - El Azteca Restaurant - When this
restaurant was called Clay's, one evening while dining a butter knife
forged it's way up between two tables that were pushed together (teeth
side up) and fell suddenly on the floor. Witnessed by two people there
was no possible reasoning behind this action - very bizarre!
Polk - West
Des Moines - Barnes and Noble - Employees
and patrons have seen books pulled off of shelves and dropped. They
don't fall off it looks like an invisible hand has pulled it off and
then it drops straight down.
Protivin - the
creamery - witnesses have seen a face in
the window. There has been Other reporting of strange noises and
movements. A long time ago part of it burned down killing 2 people
inside.
Oakdale - Iowa
Medical and Classification Center - At
night on certain units, especially segregation, you can sometimes see
the shadowy figure of a man walking along the cells. You can only see
the head and shoulders. Eerie feelings and cold sensations are also
very common. More than a few guards and inmates have reported
experiencing this.
Oskaloosa - Youngberg
house - Faint, deep moans can be heard on
the second story. Feet have appeared to be dangling down from the attic
door. Right when you get up on the second story, an overwhelming
feeling of fear and pain is reported by the owners. The house has had
many owners and has been around for nearly 100 years.
Ottumwa - house
of ghosts - In 1856 there was a man who
had to go to war. His wife had died when his daughter was two. He had
died the third week of war. His daughter and their servants were very
sad. Three years after he had died she was 13 and she got sick. She
died in 1870.In 1996 Brad Leedom was taking a shower in the house. Then
he heard something up stairs. He walked up the stairs and saw writing
on the window it said "Are You My Father". It is said on calm nights
you can hear her singing and playing.
Ottumwa - Mars
Hill - There are many legends about Mars
Hill, a church and cemetery outside of Ottawa. there is said to be a
"suffocating force" upon the place. Thumping against the side of your
car along with dirty little hand prints.
Ottumwa - North
Court Cemetery - When you walk through it
at night you'll see on some tomb stones dark figures sitting on them.
And you will see some dark figures run behind trees but if u go check
it out there is nothing there. and sometimes if you walk on the grass n
look down u might see a white cat run in circles around your feet and
disappear. you might hear whispering in your ears as well and footsteps
in the grass.
Ridge Hauntings - Marquette is surrounded by bluffs on three sides, and
the river on one side. It is rumored that the Indian mounds atop these
hills are haunted. No one thought much of it until the hauntings
started to happen closer and closer to peoples homes. At night, you can
hear the ghastly moan of the lost souls of the Indians. There is much
speculation of these happenings because there was a U.S. military trail
about two miles north of Marquette used to transport Indians from fort
Atkinson in Wisconsin, to Fort Atkinson in Iowa.
Riverside - Riverside
Cemetery - Apparently when driving by the
Riverside cemetery it's been said on certain nights and will start
seeing eyes vaguely glowing, this turns into a crowd of eyes, most
likely the residents of the cemetery. Seeing the number of sets of eyes
staring shows the significance of how many apparitions are there.
Rockwell City - North Central Correctional Facility - In the education building which is one of the oldest
buildings on grounds and is said to have previously been the hospital,
there have been sightings of a female walking on the lower level,
screams, and doors opening and closing. The prison itself was a female
prison prior to 1982, and has its own graveyard for several female
inmates that passed away while in custody. - October 2007 Update/ Additional Information: It was
previously used for different things; an infirmary, and solitary
confinement. Many people have claimed to have had experiences there.
Nothing too concrete. The prison itself was a female reformatory
opening in the early 1900s. Many of the old buildings are extremely
creepy, and many odd sounds are heard. Most can be attributed to old
pipes, but once in a while, the hair does go up on the back of one's
neck. The cemetery contains graves of women and babies, presumably that
died during childbirth. What really adds to the "haunted" feeling is
the giant old twisted oak trees that surround the older buildings.
Shelby - Old
Hwy 83 - A few people have seen two young
girls in flowing white dresses playing in the middle of the road very
late at night.? They have a light glowing around them and disappear
almost into thin air.?
Sheldon - 9th
Street Graveyard - It is said that if you
walk into the graveyard at 12:00 midnight you can see a white shadowy
ghost floating in the air.
Shell Rock - Satan's
Hollow Bridge - Under the bridge there are
experiences of being watched unexplained sounds and tall white figures
also you hear all around you moving and following as you go further
down. There is a feeling of not wanting to be there.
Shellsburg - Shellsburg
Cemetery - Just outside of Shellsburg,
there is a statue of an angel marking the grave of 2 young children
that died in the late 1940's. It is said that if you walk up to her at
night,she will softly start crying and tears will run down her face and
fall to the ground.
Sioux city - Airport
- Reports of orb, moans and screams on
the runway. United Flight 232 crashed there on July 19, 1989, and 112
of the 376 on board died.
Sioux City - Cavalry
Cemetery - Many visitors report two
things after walking through the grounds: Their ears ring persistently,
and they feel the sensation of fingertips or cobwebs drifting over
their face. Some report that both sensations get stronger as they
approach a gravestone with a tree growing out of it- half of the tree
is dead, half of it still produces green leaves every year. - June 2008 Correction: The Headstone with the tree is
wrong. It is an actual tree made into a headstone. It is cut off of an
old hanging tree. It is cut from the part down from where they used to
hang people from it. The rope is still attached to the tree and the
headstone is actually carved into the tree. It is in the older top part
of the cemetery, along the dirt cut through.
Sioux City - Graceland
Park Cemetery - People taking pictures,
hunting for orbs, experience slight disorientation, and cameras stop
functioning until you leave the premises.
Sioux City - Joy
Hollow - Mary the virgin has been seen
with blood running down her face in one of the older cabins girl scouts
that died in that cabin haunted it reports of floating objects girls
coming out of the shower with hand prints on them
Sioux City - KD
Station - The building was originally
built around 1915 as a state-of-the-art meat packing plant. However,
shortly after it was built the company went bankrupt. It was later
purchased by Swift and Co. who operated a packing operation in it for
many years. In 1949, however, a gas leak caused an explosion that
killed a number of people. Later after Swift moved out it was purchased
and made into a shopping center that included store shops, a bowling
alley and miniature golf course. A friend that worked as security and
also operated a martial arts studio in the building reported a number
of strange happenings. There at one time was a terrace that was had
lights that required them to be unscrewed to turn off. One night he
turned them off and proceeded to close the two doors that were required
to be entered to get back into the building. He reported that something
made him get the urge to turn around and he seen that all the nights
were back on. In the time it took him to go back inside there was no
way someone would have time to screw back in all the lights and there
was no on/off switch for these lights. He also reported times when it
seemed the elevators were moving when they really were not. This
happened to other patrons also. For many years, the owners of the
building used to print on their brochure "Paul Pulaski, our in house
ghost welcomes you" for more information go to:
Disasters | Sioux City History - March 2007
Update: The KD Station suffered a fire in the middle of the night on
December 26/27, 2006 and should not be entered as it is unsafe. The
fire was caused by arson and the city has kept a watchful eye on the
building since the fire and stories being published in the local paper
about people exploring the building prior to the fire. The city has
plans to demolish the building in the near future.
Sioux City - Leflur
house - It's located in Morningside near
the collage and it has been in a magazine. It has been investigated
before. There has been sightings of a Red glow in the upstairs. The
workmen who did some remodeling there would always find there tools in
the basement in the mornings. The birds they tried to keep would always
die on them and the dog would never go into the house. In the middle of
July the attic would be so cold that you could see your breath. The
house has been surrounded by death. There has been many murders there.
There has been a count of seven entities there.
Sioux City - Morningside
College - Dimmit Hall - There is
said to have been a girl that committed suicide on her hall on the
girls side of the building. Her hall is called the "hidden" hall
because the is no entrance to the outside so you have to go up a level
or down a level to get out therefore leaving her trapped on her hall.
It is said she committed suicide by hanging herself on old heating
pipes in the rooms. Residents of her room have reported recently of
hearing a girls voice and gagging choking sounds at night while they're
studying. They've opened up their doors and yelled down the halls at
their hall mates thinking it was a joke and no one was out there and
the sounds continued. Other girls of the hall reported seeing a
moderately dressed young woman walking slowly down the hall sniffling
and crying and walking through the door into the haunted room.
Sioux City - pre
school - orbs seen on the first floor
where children sleep. It also seems that there has been a sighting of a
young male there as well. All the activities seem to only be done there
in the lower level. The ghost maybe that of a young man who was gunned
down on the Morningside loop during the mid 1990's. It use to be
Lutheran Social Services at one time.
Sioux City - Sioux
City Auditorium/Long Lines Family Center - A
former worker for 10 years reports: The building was constructed in a
period of 10 years during the 1940's the date of completion was
possibly 1950. Upon starting the older employees would always talk of
"Rodriguez". He was one of 2 resident ghosts in the building. There was
actually a building electrician that died in the late 50's by the name
of Rodriguez. In those days they had to manually lubricate high-powered
electrical connections before they would have a show. Rodriguez as the
building electrician was responsible for this. One day before a show he
turned of the power to the electrical junction so he could perform his
duty. He told another employee that he would be done in 10 minutes and
that the other employee could then turn the power back one. Well the
other employee waited the 10 minutes and turned on the power. 2 hours
later Rodriguez wife showed up with a new suit for him because it was
his birthday. They searched the building and found him dead by the
electrical box electrocuted. He haunts the building to this day with
flickering lights and lights turning on when they?re not supposed to as
well as just a general coldness in the area of his death. The other
ghost is that of a 12-year-old boy. He and his friend in the early 60's
climbed up on the roof of the building to hunt pigeons. He became
separated from his friend and his friend left thinking he was gone
already. The missing child was not found for 2 weeks until a foul smell
was detected at the bottom a roof exhaust that was meant for a boiler
that was never installed. The total fall was over 150 feet, And the
shaft was hastily completed with many sharp edges and exposed rebar
jutting into it. It was not a pretty sight. He frequents the roof doors
and the bottom of the shaft. When you enter the roof you can hear
screams, as you get closer to the area of the fall. The bottom of the
shaft is gone now but still it is very cold in the general area and
even through the banter of the HVAC system you can hear faint crying.
Spencer - Moose
Pond - a long long time ago there was a
boy ice fishing on the pond, It was getting late so the boy was
starting to pack up when the ice broke he fell in the water which is
40ft deep and drowned. now if you go down there at 8:47 pm on the 23rd
of December you can hear thumping on the ice and the screams of a young
dying child.
Springville - Springville
Cemetery - There is a grave where in the
way back that is not in the cemetery and in the trees and it was said
to be moved back there from a ghost, because everything was moved even
the body and there were no marks of some one who dug in the ground, or
grass took off ground. If you go there in the night you can see the guy
digging a hole with a glowing green shovel. He was said to work as a
gravedigger in 1902 but then fell in the grave and broke his neck and
died instantly.
St. Ansgar - NE
part of town - Noises running up the
walls of the steps, lady calling out a name, dog would be alert during
the spirit calling out the name. Bowls would be placed out on the floor
in neat order, according to sizes, if certain doors were closes,
running water could be heard. A lady figure was seen dressed in black
with a white bonnet on her head. The spirits were not aggressive.
Stockport - Silos
- Stockport is an old run down town and
on the outskirts of it there are two silos where a little boy once
jumped across and fell to his death, you can still see him jumping back
and forth.
Storm Lake - Buena
Vista University - McAllister Cottage - This location on College Ave, has been the home of six
Buena Vista University Students who repeatedly saw, from their back
porch, the spirit of a woman. Strange occurrences of lights turning on
and off, as well as strange smells and hot musty drafts have also been
encountered. The second McAllister cottage has since been demolished
and made a parking lot.
Storm Lake - Swope
Hall 305 - The ghosts name is Mary. Died
of lead posening causing her to go crazy and jump out of the third
floor window of her house that used to be located in the same location
as Swope Hall Room 305. Likes to open and close doors, even when
locked, and will open and close the closet doors of that room. Also
will venture into other rooms and play pranks, especially with
electrical equipment. - *Note: There is a
false rumor around the college that she was a student and jumped out
the window of 305, or that she lived in 305 and jumped off Smith Hall,
but this has no historical backing and all of the people who have see
talked to her have nothing from the conversations to support this.
Story City - apartment
building - The apartment building use to
be a an old funeral home. There are only 3 apartments. In the 3rd
apartment there is 18 steps and when you go down the steps someone
always follows yous. You can also here some weird noises, usually when
your alone.
Stratford - Vegor's
Cemetery - In the middle of three miles
of woods, is a cemetery that is over 150 years old. It was once the
ancient burial ground of the local Indian tribe. When the settlers
came, they dug the Indians' graves and placed them in five mounds
throughout the hilltop. In retaliation, the Indians killed a white
woman names Mrs. Henry Lott. She was the first white woman killed in
Webster County. She was buried there. Over fifty small children are
buried there along with many soldiers. If you go there at night, you
can hear children laughing and the sound of Indians. If you roll down
the hill three times, you will see the stairway to heaven. Also, legend
has it if you desecrate and Indian mound, you will be cursed. I have
known two men to have done so, and they were involved in serious car
accidents within a week of visiting the cemetery. An interesting link
is Spirit
Lake Massacre of 1857, not sure of the validity of the story in the
link, though. There is a large monument to her there, presumably above
her grave.
Strawberry Point - Mossy
Glen - There are caves at mossy glen, it
is rumored that 3 ghosts haunt that area. One of the ghosts a women is
said to have been seen, but if she drops a rose by your feet you are
doomed to die the next day.
Urbandale - Springbrook
- There is a legend told about this scary
dead guy called Uncle Charlie.You can see him running through the woods
late at night. An elementary school student saw a flesh eaten face at
her window staring. If you have a camera i tell you right now don't
turn the flash on.? But if you have the flash on you will see a guy
standing behind the thing you took a picture of. Late at night you are
the only one up you can hear people running and screaming high pitched.
Sometimes you can feel cold trembling fingers on you when know one is
behind you.? You have your covers torn off by nothing.
Urbandale - Urbandale
High School - Bulit over an old coal
mine, footsteps and talking voices can be heard lat at night when
nobody is around.
Van Meter - Brick
factory - This Factory was burned down
twice in the early 1900's and never rebuilt. If you get there at
certain times of the year you can hear bricks being thrown around.
Villisca - Villisca
Axe Murder House - Believed to be haunted
by the family that was murdered there. Doors slam, and ghost talk and
lots of other things.
Vinton - Evergreen
Cemetery - There is an apparition of a
woman wearing a white dress that rides a horse up and down the railroad
tracks.
Viola - Matt's
Bridge- When you go out to the bridge and
you park your car near the middle of the bridge and shut it off you
will get pushed across the bridge. You will see and hear things outside
your car. After you leave get to a road with light to see the
handprints on your car. Be careful thought if you go there to many
times and they recognize you they'll get mad and try to push you off
the bridge or brake your windows. Even if you catch them on a bad night
they might try. If you have you windows down you can hear a lot of
noises and voices in the woods.
Vinton - Evergreen
Cemetery - there is a statue in the
unknown soldier section of the graveyard and the right eye of the
statue is missing at night - Rumor is that the statues has both eyes
and they follow you also that the unknown soldiers wonder that part of
the cemetery. Also reports of a woman?s voice being heard.
Wapello - South
End Park - Certain nights (none in
particular) you can here people chanting and fire crackling and
sometimes you see this certain owl (the same one every time) and if you
spot it, it will stare right back at you and cry it's horrible cry. At
this moment if you look at the moon it has two circles around it, and
that is the haunting of south end park.
Waterloo - Wal-Mart
Store on Flammang Dr- Crossroads shopping center. Haunted by the ghost of a small boy of about twelve
years of age named Jeremiah. He loves to play small pranks on people
such as moving merchandise from one spot in the store to another,
tugging on employee's smocks, tapping on your shoulder, and causing
mischief. He was seen one time by an employee who described him as
small, very pale and thin, wearing black trousers with suspenders,
white shirt, and an Amish looking straw hat.
Waverly - Camp
Ingawanas - A rumor around here says that
the spirit of a 12-year-old boy haunts this Boy Scout camp. Apparently
while playing one day, he was swinging when he jumped, and hit his head
on a 5-inch rock. Some say he was killed instantly, some slow and
painfully. This happened 3 years ago. Anyway, a swing moving at the
same height never higher never lower. Even creepier, there is never a
breeze when this happens some say. I've only been going for a year, but
it's been the same condition as they say. Some have even heard a
giggle.
Webster City - Hamilton County Hospital - Years ago a med student killed himself in the old
surgery room. It was on the 3rd floor along with obstetrics. The large
heavy doors have been heard opening and slamming, but no one there. On
3rd shift and evenings is when this always happens. Also many pts and
nurses have reported seeing a nurse in a white uniform in the dark
halls and in rooms. Call lights going off in empty rooms. When OB is
closed not uncommon to hear babies crying.
West Union - Hardee's
- The old cemetery used be located there,
and when the highways came through, it was built over. Employees have
had things misplaced, heard their name being called when no one is
there, and have very cold spots in the building year round. There was
one incident with an Ouija board, where a ghost claimed to be embodied
in a moth flying around. When one of the players taunted it to fly at
her, it flew over several persons to land on her face.
Williamsburg - Leisure Bench - Liesure
Bench, a private memorial built by the Leisure family who's cemetery
plots are together in front of this cement bench which is constantly
warm year round, a figure has been seen sitting in this bench then
suddenly disappear.
Williamson - Stoneking
Cemetery - trees in the back of this
cemetery are dangerous. The story was that anyone that walked behind
these trees and see Stone King sitting on his grave then they would
die, Rumor is a man did see him & week later in a motorcycle
accident.- December 2003 update/addition:
Stoneking Cemetery was a family plot for members of the Stoneking
family. The submitter of the correction believes that the headstone of
Joseph Stoneking was featured in the original "Children of the Corn"
movie, but would need to verify that. Words on the headstone seem to
indicate that the reader of the stone will be joining Joseph "down
below" in hell. Then ending of the epitaph is: "As you are now, I once
was. As I am now, you soon will be. So, come face death and follow me."
It is said that nobody can climb the stairs of the abandoned family
home located on the property...something ALWAYS stops you from
succeeding Sightings of people with horrible burns and missing hands
are rumored to have occurred repeatedly in the area.- February 2004 addition. There aren't any remains of
the old family house. There also aren't any graves behind the trees.
There are a lot of strange happenings though. There is a bright light
that comes at you.
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