In
Nebraska
updated April 2013
Alliance - The Alliance Theater - Believed
to be haunted by a female ghost some call "Mary". Mary was an excellent
actress, she performed every act with skill. But for one show it was
curtain time for the last time. Mary was playing in a love story, she
played as the bride. It was near a happy ending for the performance, or
so they thought. She walked up to the stage when tragedy struck. One of
the light fixtures fell on top of Mary. The angel of death has claimed
a victim. She died of the immense weight and electric shock. To this
day, after hours, he spirit roams the stage waiting for the applause of
her fans. But sadly no one is there.
Alexandria - Cemetery - As your leaving the town, right after you pass the
cemetery, a shadowy covered wagon follows you all the way to the
highway. It stays right behind you even if you go 90mph.
Beemer - Canyon Road - Go up to the golf course and keep going on the gravel
road right in front of it. And stop on the corner where you can see the
graveyard. At 12:35 in the morning shut your lights off and honk your
horn 3 times and when you turn on your lights again there should a
better ghostly figure of a man standing in front of your car.
Bellevue - Bellevue East
High School - there is paranormal activity
there, a number of other people have witnessed supernatural things in
that school. Doors of the theater and number of doors on the second
door suddenly burst open. Seeing a specter on the stages cat walk.
Ghostly images in mirrors of bathrooms. Yet, there is not any
information to say who or what these apparitions are.
Bellevue - College Heights
- Housing Area(downtown) - a house in
that area is known to be buried on a Indian burial ground. Reports of
unexplained noises and events. Owner would wake up to see what’s to be
a spirit looking at her then would disappear. Things would go crashing
to the ground, when owner would be by her self in a different room.
History books in fact show area is built near Indian burial sight.
Bellevue - Fairview Street
- There are many different things around
Fairview. 1 Fairview School, as seen on this page. Too many people have
seen cars drive by with NO driver. 3 Streetlights flash with no one
around. As you can see, you shouldn’t drive or go to school at
Fairview.
Bellevue - Gilbert Pool - There's a haunting in the office at Gilbert Pool,
sights of ghosts. If you lock the door and come back everything will be
all over the place in the office even when the door is still locked.
Bellevue - Jewel Park - Numerous accounts of sounds, extra footprints in the
dirt, when you are alone, thick mist on a clear night, being chased by
something or someone that isn't there. Animal sounds, when no animals
have been on the property in 6 months to year. Figures of people, when
no one else is there, objects show up in some places and gone by the
time you turn around. One witness reports being ran over by something,
but no one is near, whispering, rodeo sounds from the old rodeo stands.
Bellevue - John Rice
Library - During the night (and sometimes during
the day) you can feel see and hear the entities of a old man and a
little girl. The girl is about 10 and has dark brown hair parted in the
middle and roundish glasses that look big for her face. Most don’t get
a real good look at her, but the see her in their peripheral vision.
The man has been seen crouching down over books, but his face has never
been seen. Employees report feeling poking on their back when there's
never anyone or anything there to explain it.
Bellwood - Bellwood
Elementary - At night, you'll see what appears
to be a severely burned young woman standing in the library window,
there are also cold and hot spots, strange sounds. You'll put something
somewhere one night, it'll be gone or moved the next morning. Late
nights, inside the building, the halls will be filled with the sound of
jingling keys, but there's no source of the sound, you'll see shadows
moving up and down the halls.
Blair - Dana College - Argo
Hall - This is the oldest building on the
Dana Campus. There have been numerous reports of objects moving,
televisions and radios turning on and off and changing channels by
themselves, doors opening and closing, and an unseen hand touching
people.
Blair - Dana College - Charles
A. Dana Hall of Science - It's said that
people in the labs late at night have turned around to find a
pitch-black, shadowy figure standing in the doorway. In addition, the
cause of a mysterious false fire alarm causing the sprinklers to come
on and flood the building in the summer of 1999 remains unexplained.
Many say it was an angry or mischievous ghost.
Blair - Dana College - Elkhorn
Hall - Ghost haunts 4th floor where in the
1930's he hung himself. Reports say the ghost whispers "shut up" to
people and the room that he died in is colder than other rooms next to
it. Sometimes the sound of football cleats can be heard running down
the hall
Blair - Dana College - Madsen
Fine Arts Center - In the Fine Arts
building, there are often reports of phantom piano music coming from
empty rooms, as well as a cold 'visitor' in the basement dressing area.
In addition, a dark figure has been seen darting down the aisles in the
empty theater.
Brownville - Captain's
museum - Many people in this area have seen a
ghost playing the piano in the old . Others have just heard the piano
playing late at night.
Cedar Bluffs - Old Coap - late at night you can hear people talking and you will
think that a chain saw is running after you. you will look back
and see that nothing is there. at the corner every thing will stop if
you do not believe come see for your self.
Chadron - Old Main Street
Inn - This neat old bed &
Breakfast/Restaurant, Bar is haunted by a friendly spirit that the
Owners call (Jack). Guests and employees have heard footsteps on the
stairs when no one is there. objects have been moved from their
original position. One couple who recently stayed there had placed a
water glass by their bed side table. The next morning when they awoke
they were surprised to find the water glass sitting on a counter in
another room.
Clatonia - Boyscout Lake -
Woman figure seen walking around and an evil
growling noise can be heard. Story has it she froze to death looking
for her family in a blizzard. Her and Her family used to live on the
grounds and one morning she had sent her kids out to help her husband
with the farm chores and the weather increasing got worse as the time
had passed. Worried, she went outside to look for her family and ended
up freezing to death. Her family ended up taking shelter in the barn
and had survived. (*Note The trees leading up to the lake seem to grow
together and never seem to have many leaves)
Columbus - Columbus High
School - Rumors of a teacher once died of a
heart attack around 50 years ago after school. Janitors often hear
doors slamming and machinery turning on late at night as their shifts
are ending.
Columbus - The Glowing
Graveyard - This graveyard is located way out
north in the boonies of Columbus. Supposedly on a full moon the
headstones are supposed to "glow", but most believe that this is just
the cause of the limestone in the rock being reflected by the moon.
Right beside the graveyard is a bridge in which according to a myth a
bus full of kids rolled off the bridge and died. Supposedly if you put
powder all over your car and drive over it in neutral you can see the
handprints from children, or if you turn your car off in the middle of
the bridge, your car won't start again.
Columbus - Hy-Vee - it is suspected that hyvee is haunted by a ghost named
scooter. he is about 5"6' and appears to have brown hair. he comes out
around 2 and people have said to hear screeching noises in the back
room close to the dairy produce section. employees have reported this
to management but they have thought nothing of it up until about 2
months ago the manager had a akward encounter with this suspected
ghost.
Columbus - Scotus Central
Catholic High School - This school has existed
for over a hundred years and is believed to be haunted by several
spirits. A nun, a small boy, and a former student are said to roam the
halls of this educational institution. To add to the story, there are
tunnels under the school that ghost hunters were brought in to
investigate in 1980. Several presences were found. There have even been
accounts of teachers quitting because of the disturbances.
Columbus - Shell Creek
School -2 miles east - first road to the west of
Twister's or around 2 miles east of Shell Creek School, When you take
the road and are heading north you will go over this little hill. On
top of the hill, sometimes you will see around 5-6 orange lights near
the creek. They do not have the shine around them such as incandescent.
We suspect it to be fires. Then you will go a little ways out and see a
diesel tank to run the irrigation systems. Follow the road to the left.
At this point it gets very narrow. Keep following the road. You will
come across another diesel tank that says "Stay Out". If you chose to
go past this, following up to the left is a large bump/rising in the
road and you rise slightly in elevation. There will be many stacks of
old pipes here. There will be no real good place to turn around so you
might have to do some 3-point turns. Honk your horn when you think you
can't go any farther on the road. The horn should sound very distant,
not like it was coming from your engine, almost as if it was coming
from all around you.
Columbus - Old
Shockey/Penfield House - In the upstairs of the
house, door will open when they were shut and locked, lights dim and
flicker. Strange sounds--Is said to be "haunted" by the late Keith
Penfield, who died there unexpectedly one morning. The basement also
gives off unusual sounds, and you feel like someone's watching you
while you sleep, also if you walk around the house when it's dark,
you'll see mysterious shadows around the house.
Columbus - Wal-Mart - the girls bathroom by the layaway room has been
haunted for about 3 years...witnesses hear the water faucet turning on
to find no one there.
Crete - Doane College - The old library seems to be haunted by a woman in a
white dress. On a full moon, she will appear in front of one of the
windows. She has been reported to roam about the basement also.
Crofton - Argo Hotel - It is said that in this location of Crofton Nebraska a
yong girl had died in the basement and people can still see her ghost,
and being it used to be a mental institution, there are tales of
hearing moaning from the rooms, and when a crofton residence was
tearing down a wall in the "lounge" he found a babys skeleton, and
people say that they can hear the mother whaling for her baby. Some
people say that they sometimes see the pictures move.
Curtis - Curtis College - Dorm
Rooms - it is said that the Curtis College
dorm rooms are haunted by a guy that hung himself because he was made
fun of. it is said that he walks around the halls at night and whistles
and makes fun of people and pounds on the floor and doors and people go
out and see and there is no one there!!
Darr - Darr Bridge - If you pass over this bridge at midnight on a foggy
winter's night and look in your rearview mirror you will see a pioneer
woman who was killed on this bridge. Some say that she is in a covered
wagon and some say that she is walking and looking for her son that
died. Not all that go will see her, so be patient.
Dorchester - Gilbert's
Graveyard - Haunted graveyard by the Gilbert
family who were pioneers in the 1890's. Strange noises and the movement
of the tombstone are just the tip of this sight.
Dorchester - High School
boiler room - A kid once locked himself down in
the boiler room and died. Janitors her someone yelling during the night
and they go down there and don't see any one.
Fairbury - Trail Blazers
Restaurant - Its just about a daily event for
something to happen. Its nothing new, the menu's tell a story of there
own. But nobody is for sure of the ghost identity. Some say its Wild
Bill? Feel free to visit during restaurant hours.
Fremont - Barnard Park - Barnard Park used to be a cemetery and it was a camp
during the Mormon Trail. The city turned the cemetery into a park and
couldn’t move all of the bodies because some of the bodies were marked
with sticks and rocks and after the years passed, they were impossible
to find. Late at night, you can see figures passing threw the park; one
ghost sticks out among the rest. She is a lady who was on the Mormon
Trail, her daughter died when they were staying at the camp and the
girls mother was to devastated to go on and late at night in the
winter, you can see the lady walking around the park crying. A lot of
the houses around the park have also been said to be haunted. There is
another ghost of a man that is always seen lying down on a park bench.
Fremont - Midland Lutheran
College - Theater above the student union is
haunted by what was a caretaker from way back. Strange noises and eerie
feelings abound.
Fremont - Waste Water
Treatment Plant - from time to time there has
been weird stuff going on late at night, while taking some readings I
saw someone walk by the door I thought it was the other operator, later
I found out he hadn't been over there. one time someone knocked or
pounded on the garage door we went out to see who was out there, nobody
there. another operator was trying to take the lid off the oil barrel,
he went to the shop to get something to use, when he got back the lid
was off. we think it was the old superintendent who had died on the job
there.
Garland - Old Garland
Movie Theater - Some have reported seeing people
in the windows, and if one enters the house, boards fall and almost hit
any intruders. There is an old car at the house that says “I will kill
you” on it. If you knock on the door you hear a return knock.
Geneva - Smittys curve - On Cold winter nights you can still see Smitty
crawling to safety one night winter night Smitty was taking his new car
out going at top speeds he came around the curve didn’t see the bridge
and smack he was in the creek crawling to safety he got to the barn on
top of the hill laid there and died Smittys is 2 or three miles out
side of Geneva
Hastings - Hastings
College - The ghost of another music professor
has been seen in human form and as a floating light in the music
building named for him. Lights have been turned on and off, as well as
sightings of him walking the halls late at night.
Hastings - Hastings
College - Altman Hall of Hastings College - Altman hall is said to be haunted by Clara Altman. She
is a good ghost who protects the students staying there. You hear
knocking on doors lights turn on and off and radios turned on in the
middle of the night.
Hay Springs - Hay Springs
High School - a presence of a male has been
felt.
Homer - Lottie's Grave - pronounced "Lottie" - on the
gravel road you see lights, also see lights coming from inside the
grave yard. If you put a can of pop on the grave, try to pick it up and
you will not be able to. When you finally can, the can will be empty.
Other things are said to happen. - September
2004 additional information: Another story known by the locals was that
she fell in love with another man and her jealous husband or lover
killed them and threw their bodies from a bluff into the river. If you
called on her she was supposed to appear in the trees in white.
Supposedly you could hear her crying at night. -
December 2005 Update/Additional Information: Another story is that she
lost her mind when her husband died, and kids teased her and called her
a witch. The story is in fact a legend in the area, but was based
around the Macy/Decatur area. Supposedly there was a trapper married to
a Sioux woman, and they had a cabin along the Missouri river around an
area called Blackbird Bend. The husband came home from a hunting trip
earlier than expected and surprised her and her lover. He killed the
man and cut her head off before throwing her body down the mountain and
on certain nights you can see a woman in white looking for her wailing
head.
Kearney - Conrad Hall - The Hall was built in the late 1950s and used to house
the KSC chapter of the Alpha Omicron Pi sorority. The ghost, named
Stella after one of the AOPi founding sisters is said to haunt the west
end of the third floor rooms, particularly room 318. The ghost appears
at night, sitting in students' chairs, as well as on their beds.
Sometimes, students wake up unable to open their eyes or roll over in
bed because the ghost is said to be sleeping next to them. Chairs are
often found drug across the tile floors in front of the mirrors. Lights
are found turned on in vacant rooms that have remained locked, and the
ghost also is said to turn on water in the bathrooms, where students
find it running.
Kearney - Kearney Area
Children's Museum - The basement of the
Children's Museum in Kearney is very heavily haunted. It is full of
strange equipment, and has very odd-colored stains on the walls. Sudden
temperature drop, hairs all over standing on end and a generally very,
very bad feeling were experienced.
Kearney - Kearney Senior
High School - The Auditorium at KHS is haunted
by two ghosts. The first, more active ghost, is named Walt. He is
benevolent, if you treat him right. The theatre has a 'ghost light'
that remains on all the time, except during performances. If the light
ever goes out at night, the next practice or performance will have
something bad happen. Good examples of this would be costumes going
missing just before the show, or an actress breaking her ankle
backstage. The other, more well-known haunt is affectionately referred
to as 'The Who.' Up in the very top of the Auditorium, backstage, near
the rafters, the logo for the band of the same name mysteriously
appeared one night. There is no way up to the rafters, nor is there any
ladder in the school tall enough to reach there, not even the ones used
for hanging the lights. Other disturbances related to The Who are the
odd, rather loud moaning sounds that people dismiss as the wind, before
they go outside and find it to be a calm night.
Kearney - University of
Nebraska - One of the dorms on the main campus
is haunted by the ghost of a college girl who hung herself in the room.
Students, faculty and staff have reported banging doors, rattling
windows and footsteps.
Krakow (near Genoa) -
Krakow Church - There was an old convent there
that was torn down years ago. If you go out there on a full moon and
drive past the church going south some say you can still see the
convent there. Also seen a figure hanging and swaying.
Lake Waconda - Hannahs
Grave - The ghost of a young woman who searches
for her child haunts the grounds. When it sngws, snow never touches the
spot where she is buried. Some say they have seen a ghostly light that
resembles a lantern floating around at night..
Lexington - Middle School
- A girl fell taking off a flag and died in the
old teacher's lounge. Lights flicker on and off and hear chairs slid
across the floor when nobody is even in the room.
Lexington - Lexington pubic library
- Theirs a Woman dressed in black that appears to people when
there are large groups using the rooms in the front part of the
library. You look down the hall were She's been there no one there.
Also she likes to turn out the lights in the girl’s restroom and hold
the door shut.
Lincoln - Antelope Park - Near the memorial, behind the care takers house, there
is a field where numerous sightings of figures have been seen, walking
across into the trees.
Lincoln - Circuit City - It is said to have been built over an Indian burial
ground. At night sometimes when workers go to straighten things
and make the store look nice and ready for the next day, they go back
and see that there are things knocked on to the floor. Voices
have also been heard.
Lincoln - Hobbittsville
House - ghost of a girl who died there haunts
the property.
Lincoln - Friendship Manor
- Smell cigar smoke at times(no smoking allowed)
This is a women’s shelter. History there that a man hung himself there
.
Lincoln - Lake Street Lake
- What used to be the sight of a small dairy
farm, was turned into a skating rink where many of Lincoln's youth
came. After numerous accidental deaths, the most famous being of a
little boy killed by a group of bully's, the Lake was drained and is
now a deep grassy area. But the original tree still stands from the
original dairy farm, and on winter nights, reporting of ghost sightings
near the creek that once led into the lake have exploded since.
Lincoln - Nebraska Weslyan
College - The ghost of a music professor has
been seen and heard frequently in the old music building on the
Nebraska Weslyan College campus. The professor was an organ instructor,
the organ can be heard late at night , and sometimes can be seen
sitting at or near the organ. The ghost has also been seen and heard at
the apartment where the professor lived.
Lincoln - Old Captain's
Studio - haunted by The Captain who use to live
there.
Lincoln - Speed Indoor
Racing - 3 months after it opened the owner was
walking down the hall and saw a person run across the room way ahead of
him. He went after it and it was gone. Also, bells were once heard
ringing and a broom caught on fire in the storeroom when no one was
there.
Lincoln - The Capitol
Building - is haunted by the maintenance man
that changed the light bulb on top fell and died now haunts the
fourteenth floor. The storage levels the stairs that lead up to them
are haunted by a worker that worked there way back in the day she was
afraid of heights but to do her job for the money cause she was poor.
she climbed them anyway got dizzy and the stairs are so narrow and the
rail is so short she fell of the twelfth floor and is now seen as a fog
falling past you in the middle of the rotating stairs but when you look
down them you can't see her.
Lincoln - University of
Nebraska - The Temple Building - A
worker fell from the rafters during construction early in the 1900's
and was killed as he hit the stage floor. People have heard a noise
followed by a crashing sound from the stage. As they come to
investigate, there is no one there or anything out of place. A misty
figure of a worker in old style clothes has also been seen. - February 2004 update: The ghost's name is Clara and
they recently put an office in for her (Clara's Office) With a piano
and many different instruments. If you're alone in the building you can
hear her playing the organ.
Lincoln - Washington
Street - Apparently there was a little boy back
in the day who was on one of the four corners on Washington Street.
There was a car full of gang members in the car and shot the little boy
on one of the corners. They say that if you come across one of the
corners you hear the little boy scream and a brush of wind hit across
your body.
Loup City - Jenner's Park
- If you go down to Jenner's Park at night, the
sound of children laughing can be heard. The park used to be a zoo and
the stone-earthen cages still remain which adds to the creepy feelings
aroused there.
Louisville - Ball Cemetery
- Apparitions seen, headstones frequently tip
over and then rise back up
Malcolm - Fern Westfall
Library - After dark, apparitions can be seen of
Fern Westfall, the founder of the school, knocking books off of the
shelves. Reports also state that a portrait of her in the elementary
cafeteria contains roaming eyes that follow curious, staring students.
Maxwell - Plumer Street
House - Residents have heard baby cries, have
seen an empty rocking chair begin rocking by itself; one resident says
he's seen a young woman dressed in white in the chair, a thudding noise
on the stairs at night, and have seen the naked light bulb swinging
back and forth by itself in the upstairs front bedroom. Upon further
examination of the source of these sounds, several hidden walkways
between each of the upstairs rooms were found. Lights flickered on and
off. Some of the stories is a young boy had fallen down the stairs and
broke his neck on his way to use the outhouse in the middle of the
night...an infant child died in her crib in an upstairs room and the
mother held the dead baby in her arms and rocked her until she was
discovered...another young boy hung himself from a light cord in the
front upstairs bedroom...a woman and her lover fought and one was
killed in the area where my mom's room was(it was a parlor before we
moved in).
Murdock - Oxbow Cemetery -
People will be walking through the
cemetery looking at children’s graves and begin to hear many children
playing out in the road and go to look and no one is there.
Nebraska City - 7 Sisters Road - Legend
is a man hung each one of his sisters on each of the 7 hills. Only
about 3 or 4 good hills remain, but there are a lot of strange
happenings at night. Cars will stall, headlights will shut off, and
screaming can be heard. Also many OLD ghost buildings still exist. The
Camp Creek Cemetery is also well know for being haunted. Located in
same area, about 3 miles South of Nebraska City.
Nebraska City - Super China Buffet - There
have been many restaurants and stores in this old building in historic
Nebraska city in. Nobody is sure who haunts it, some say it’s the ghost
of a boy who died and one of the restaurants was named after him and
owned by his parents. Others say its the ghost of the woman who had a
antique shop there for many years and cared dearly for the building.
Anyone who spends any amount of time there has seen objects moving,
strange sounds, and misplaced objects. - December
2003 update/correction: the restaurant used to be a place called
Bischofs hardware. they were in business for many. many yeas. A man ran
it, there was Minnie Bishof who was the bookkeeper there and she
babysat. Mr Bishof ran it until he died at age 90! His brothers helped
too along with his sister Minnie. They were a well respected family in
town. A family renovated the building and named it Scooters after
theirson who committed suicide, it was rumored boy is buried close by
where my parents are buried. The boy died well before they opened up
the restaurant.
Norfolk - Norfolk
Junior High - They say that the Junior
High is haunted by a man who hung himself. He was a janitor at the
school. Many people say that they can see half of him in the boiler
room, where he hung himself. People also say he is trying to find his
way out.
Norfolk - Regional
Center - Local mental institution, there
have been visions of people walking the halls, then turning down a dead
end hallway and disappearing. Also many howls, screams, pounding
throughout the night.
North Platte - Buffalo Bill Codys' House - So after on of our concerts in North Platte, my band
mates decided to go out to the famous Buffalo Bill Codys’ house,
looking up at the window we saw a vision of a little girl. The curtains
were moving around while there was no wind, perfectly clear night. The
little girl looked to be glowing around the edges as she moved her hand
around.
North Platte - The Ice house - This is
where they used to keep ice back when they didn't have fridges. People
have said they have seen a man hanging from one of the hooks that they
used to put ice on, they have also said lots of things about people
walking around on the upstairs level of the ice house.- April 2007 Update - that building was torn down.
North Platte - Dodge Hill Road & Cemetery - Many of the locals frequent this spot in the winter
for its choice sledding, but after dark, only the brave visit this
area. The road takes a few twists and turns and has a sheer drop on
either side at some points. Several people have skidded through the
guard rails and plunged to their death. Further along is the infamous
cemetery. It is said that if you go there at night and point your
headlights at the statue of Jesus, he will eventually move. Sometimes
people can be seen walking through the tombstones one moment and vanish
the next. Phantom animals have also been reported.
North Platte - Old Fox Theatre - Neville Center for the Performing
Arts - Every Theatre has its ghosts, and
this one is no exception. In the Balcony, specifically in the area of
the Lighting booth, people have had "unexplainable" encounters with
something. Usually, it happens as a sudden drop in temperature.
Sometimes people have actually felt the touch of someone's hand.
Everyone who performs there or is in anyway involved with the Playhouse
has heard the stories and knows that he is harmless. Or, at least, he
has been so far.
Odessa - Odessa
school - Strange footsteps in gym and
hallways of the school, slamming of doors on 3rd floor. large drafts in
one of the lower hallways of the school (NOTE) school has new windows
and doors.
Ogallala - Boot
Hill - Boot hill is a cemetery for old
cowboys. Many people have seen the ghost of pioneers, and cowboys
roaming around the grave stones at night.
Ogallala - Mansion
on the hill - people driving past on west
10th street have seen lights on in the back room when the museum is
closed at night. Museum keepers have also seen a man’s figure walking
around during the after noon when only the museum keepers are there.
Omaha - Alpha
School - The building can be empty except
for you and the floor will creek and footsteps can be heard. Doors will
close for no reason. Strange noises are always heard.
Omaha - Brother
Sebastian's - "The Regular" Bill Wolcott
was an older gentleman who, for years, dined at Brother Sebastian's
almost every evening. Wolcott had his peculiarities: he often dressed
in a formal smoking jacket complete with an ascot tie; he always dined
in the lounge, always at the same seat. Unfortunately, Wolcott was
stricken with cancer. Although treatments were painful he continued to
dine at Brother Sebastian's, even while he was hospitalized. When
Wolcott became so ill that he could no longer swallow solid food, the
kitchen staff pureed his meals for him. At some point during this time
Wolcott began draping a towel over his head while he was in public; but
for some reason he was drawn to his favorite dining spot. Wolcott, it
appears, felt so comfortable at Brother Sebastian's that he continues
to frequent the restaurant even after his death. The last report of
Wolcott's ghost occurred on the night of the restaurant’s grand
re-opening. A woman seated in one of the back dining rooms complained
that someone was staring at her and making her uncomfortable. The
"Someone" to whom she referred was the face of an old man that the
woman claimed was in the stones that make up the wall of the room. Two
of the staff also witnessed, late one night after the restaurant was
closed and all the doors were locked. They were the only people inside,
they saw a swinging door at the rear of the bar open fully, stopped
moving as if someone were walking through the threshold, and closed.
Anyone who has been inside the building knows that a random wind
breezing through to swing doors open and closed is unlikely: Just like
the original building (before the 1995 fire), the new structure has no
windows. Sometimes in restaurants an employee closes the establishment
one night and opens the business the following morning. More than one
server has stated that a candle that they knew was snuffed out the
previous night was burning the next morning.
Omaha - Downtown - Central High - on the
main floor when you walk the hallways by the deans office on weekends
or nights, drop temperature even when the heater is on. keep walking
down and if you brought someone you will here "I know your here" and if
you brought three or more people you will here "I know your all here."
then you will see a white blur fly past you down the hallway near
the deans office. if you look in the window you might see a shadowy
figure wave to you. It is possible this was a former dean or janitor.
The ghost sounds like a janitor because you might here broom sweeps in
the hallway, but it seems like a dean because it waves in the dean’s
office when the door was locked. Be patient, they are sure to show up.
Also heard creaking at a distance and wheels moving on wooden floors.
Omaha - Hummel
Park - In Omaha, there is a city park on
the northern outskirts named Hummel Park. The background of this park
is very macabre to begin with. In the early 1900's, Lynch mobs would
ride through town and hang or otherwise mutilate any black people that
happened to be in sight. They hung so many black people that the trees
still bow over the road leading to Hummel Park. The weird part is that
young trees and even the grass lean toward the road outside the park
and even inside the park. Apparitions, mists, Indian drums playing at
night, wolves howling. Supposed old Indian burial grounds on sight.
Also, reports of the morphing stairs. It is a staircase which is
roughly 200 stairs long. The word, "roughly" is used because every time
you go up and or down it you will count a different number of stairs.
There is a staircase at Hummel Park that if you walk up to the top and
count the stairs going up, it will be less than the number of stairs
going down, it is called the stairway to hell because of this. There
have been many reports of animal sacrificing in the park. There is also
a cult of albinos that live in the park, supposedly. But be careful of
crazy people out there if you decide to go. - October 2007 Update: Parts of the steps are missing
and falling apart so your count will always be different. Be careful.
Omaha - Lynch
Park - You go there and you can hear
footsteps of people running and the crying of a baby. One witness heard
a man screaming saying,” It’s so cold, help me," and you could swear
that you felt a man grab your leg.
Omaha - Millard
North High - There is a hallway by the
south doors where the janitors had a smoking room downstairs. One-day
student snuck down there to smoke a cigarette. He smoked his cigarette
and was on his way out. There was told to be a puddle of water by the
door and he slipped and hit his head. He died instantly. It's shut off
to students and personal now but if you walk down that hallway you'll
smell stale cigarette smoke and hear a crashing sound underneath you.
Omaha - Mystery
Manor - This commercial haunted house is
supposed to be actually haunted by several spirits. Visitors to the
Halloween events have reported a 'lady in a blue dress' near the end of
the tour who is not a staff member. The owners also mention other
phenomena happening during the rest of the year. Their website is - www.mysterymanoromaha.org
and they discuss these events there.
Omaha - O'Hanlon
house - footsteps and pounding on the
front door are the main events here.
Omaha - Omaha
South High School - At Omaha South High
School, there is a ghost. The ghost's name is Gus. About 20-25 years
ago there was a tornado drill. So everyone had to go to the "Catacombs"
as we call them. This was a part of the building that was built when
the performing arts part of the building was built. It was the 50's so
it was built, to be a nuclear fallout shelter. Well during this tornado
drill everyone went down to the catacombs. Gus, a janitor for the
Performing Arts part of the building, thought that they would be there
for a while. So he went to the "Rat Room" to get some provisions for
everyone. He closed the door behind him, went to get a barrel of food,
when it fell on him, and crushed his head. He was not found until he
had been dead for a while. Now Gus still roams the Performing Arts
section of the building, even after it was remolded about 10 years ago.
The strange thing is that if you are in a play there and you don't
believe in Gus he will mess you up. As in you mess up your lines, cues,
entrances, etc. He also likes to be in the Green Room, which is right
next to the Catacombs; he leaves lights on and open doors.
Omaha - The
White House Apartments - These apartments
used to be an old hospital. It is said that some of the tenents who
lived on the main floor has seen a lady in a long white gown walking
the hallway.
Palmyra - High
School - In the old part of the high
school on the 3rd floor there is to be know of a ghost named Willy he
was a janitor here in the high school and the other janitors say that
he still roams here and one janitor said that he was vacuuming in one
room and he shut it off and went to another room and when he came back
it was running by it self and he was the only janitor in the school so
he thought. Sometimes in the restrooms on 3rd floor the stools would
run out of know where and a door will shut really loud.
Papillion - Pattycakes
bakery - reports of oven doors opening by
themselves with no one around . reports of ghosts attacking employees.
Peru - Peru
State College - Morgan Hall - The
dormitory called Morgan Hall is haunted by Eliza Morgan, whom the dorm
is named after. Eliza once lived in the House that is the center of
Morgan and she died in the basement and still resides there. Delzell,
the male dormitory, is also haunted in the basement although by whom I
am not sure. The most haunted place on campus is the College Theater,
again I am not sure who haunts it.
Pierce - Plainview
- Plainview High School - The Jr. High
building is haunted by a girl that was decapitated. Teachers have
reported computers bringing up her grades and the computer freezing on
her file. Also sounds and lights flicker late at night.
Plattsmouth - Main
Street - Under Main street in Plattsmouth
there are brick tunnels that are said to be haunted as well as many of
the old homes surrounding east Plattsmouth and the main street
buildings. Also the halls of the old Plattsmouth high on S is said to
be haunted as well as the old gym in the basement.
Platteview - Fairview
Elementary - the land belonged to a
farmer who had his head cut off by his son and he walks with his head
in his hands.
Santee - Santee
Tribal Office - A little boy has been
seen and heard walking the hallways of the tribal building. Last year a
photograph was taken in the Head Start office and a child's face of a
boy was transparent over the face of the child coloring. No other
children were in the room besides the child coloring. The boy appeared
to have a bruised up face and his eyes seemed to be bloated.
Schuyler - Cemetery
- Strange lights can be seen from a
mausoleum at times, voices have also been heard.
Schuyler - Sky
Drive-In Theater - There has been
descriptions of black dogs roaming around one with one eye and one leg
missing but when you turn away and look back they are gone. There has
also been reports of things being in place one day and all thrown
around the next day.
Scottsbuff -
Scottsbluff National monument - There is
a female spirit clad in white that walks along the base of the opposite
bluff, around the end of July and beginning of august around midnight
or one in the morning. Sometimes you'll see her, sometimes you won't. A
lot of people have besides me...but you got to look closely, and be
patient.
Seward - Concordia
University - David dorm - is
haunted by Indians. When the dorm was built in the 1970s, bones were
found. When the remains were turned in, they dated back to the early
1700s, and maps showed that the land was owned by local Indians.
Concordia was given the ok to keep building there, but they had to turn
in all of the remains that were found. Residents have reported blow
dryers, computers, curling irons, phones and other electronics that
will turn on, or the shower will turn on. Some say the Indians are
angry that Concordia was allowed to build there. Students have reported
strange happenings since 1976.
Seward - Seward
Middle School - Janitors report of
several weird things happening in this school. They said that you can
hear and see kids walking up and down the hall ways at night and one of
the ghosts actually talks to one of the janitors. The janitor said that
there was a day care center that burned down killing everyone in it,
and the new addition of the school was built on that. In the girls
locker rooms, the showers have been seen turning on and off by
themselves, the janitors will turn off the lights and find them back on
later that night.
Sidney - Old
Fort Sidney Commanders Home - The Old
Fort Sidney Commanders Home is haunted by the spirit of a woman. She
was the wife of a commander back in the earlier 1900's. One day while
in a hurry, she took the steep maids staircase. She tripped and fell to
her death. Some say she can still be seen roaming through the house. An
actual picture of the ghost can be seen in a Nebraska published
magazine called the Scriviner.
Spring Ranch - 3 miles East of Pauline NE - A ghost town, which was ambushed by Indians. The
cemetery is said to have spirits.
Stanton - Whistlers
- Story of guy went crazy killed his
family then hung himself from second bridge. At night you can hear him
whistling, because he always sat on the bridge and whistled while he
fished. Some say to have seen him swinging during the late hours of
night.
Seward - Hobo's
Culvert - It is said that people buried
the hobos that lived in this culvert, and now whoever goes there sees
the ghosts of the hobos that lived there.
Valentine - Centennial
Hall - Centennial Hall is the oldest
standing school building in the state of Nebraska, as listed on the
National Registry of Historic Places. Now a museum, Centennial
Hall is open to guests during the late spring through early fall
months. In 1944, a schoolgirl died of a heart attack
brought upon by a poisoning. According to local "lore" the girl's
clarinet reed was poisoned, killing her. Several former teachers
have talked about cold drafts, strange noises, and a generally eerie
feeling at times in the old school - as well as one teacher who wants
to remain anonymous who thought that he actually saw an apparition for
a split second. Numerous people in town (including myself) have
said that they can hear music coming from the old music room (the
school hasn't been open but as a museum since 1978, and no instruments
are left in the school - though the music room has been turned into a
"bell" room for the museum). A select few people have
reported seeing chimes moving inside the building with no drafts,
rocking chairs rocking with no one in them, etc.
Valley - Valley
High School - Once in what is now the old
gym there was a stage that is now the wrestling room and it is said
that in 1955 a boy fell from the lighting bridge during the winter
concert when he fell one of the Christmas tree props went right through
his back and out his chest. They say now when you go up there that
blood will appear on the floor and you can hear a crowd screaming. At
night you can see a boy fall on a tree and then disappear. Don't
believe me come to the office and ask to go to the wrestling room.
Waterloo - Waterloo
Middle school - There are three ghost
stories here, One is that me and my friends were playing in the
band room and we saw a black little girl running into a shed where we
store our instruments. We know we saw something because a hall
pass flew down from where we saw the figure. THe second story is
the one about locker 61. They saw that a little girl around seven
was shoved in there by her drunk sisters and left there to die.
The handle to the locker was broken of when we first heard about
it. A couple hours later a teacher opened it and there was all of
the books. The last thing in that they say that a scientists was
doing an experiment and he blew him-self up. Now we the girls
play four-square and hear strange noises and the lights flicker on and
off every now and then.
Wayne - Wayne
State College - Neihardt Hall - which
is haunted by Cora, a young lady that killed herself in the basement.
The Lay Theater that is haunted by a very mischievous ghost. The Willow
Bowl which is said to be haunted by a young man that committed suicide
there a few years ago. And a young girl who was playing in the tunnels
when her ball rolled into a cubbyhole with bare electrical wires haunts
the tunnels between the dorms.
Weeping Water - Weeping Water Graveyard - If
you go there at night you can see people rising from the graves and if
they see you they might come after you. When they saw me they did and
they will attack so beware.
Weeping Water - Witch's Bridge - It is
said that many years ago this witch hung herself from the bridge known
as Witch's bridge. It is said that if you go out there on an odd night
at an odd hour with an odd number of people and hang your head and top
half of your body over the edge of the bridge you will see yourself
hanging or she will pull you under the bridge.
Wilber - Wilber-Clatonia
High School - It's said that a student
once fell and died while working on a latter in the auditorium.. People
have seen things move and fall on there own in the 'storage room'
(located next to the auditorium). And the auditorium itself is the
coldest place in the building with feelings of someone watching you.
Music can be heard coming from the band room and choir room and voices
can be heard also when in the school after dark.
Wilber - Wilber-Clatonia
schools - a kid a while back fell off a
ladder and died in the gym. and ever since the gym has been the coldest
place in the school and people still see him walking around the gym
with the ladder he fell off of.
York - East
3rd - there are people yelling and
throwing thing down the street and this happens at midnight
York - York
High School - A teacher was once killed
here, and you can see her figure walking into her room, turning on the
lights, and then sits down and messes up all the paper from that day.
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