In
South Dakota
Aberdeen - Northern State University - Jerde Hall - A few students who live on the fourth floor of Jerde
Hall have relayed different but very similar accounts of a little girl
who appears occasionally. One student saw her reflected in the
mirror, but turned to look and she was gone. Another student
walked down the hall and heard a child's voice whisper her name.
She turned to look at the empty hallway and heard the delighted
giggling of the absent girl. Still another student woke up in the
middle of the night to see the little girl sitting on the end of her
bed. The phantom girl raised her finger to her lips as if to say,
"Shhh..." The student screamed and the little girl ran out of the
room, slamming the door loudly behind her.
Aberdeen - Northern State
University - Johnson Fine Arts Center - This
is a young building, having only been built in the early 1970s.
However, there have been some unexplained occurrences.
Occasionally, there can be heard a whistled tune from one of the men's
restrooms when there is no one present. Sometimes the lights in
the makeup room and costume shop come on or off, depending on how one
leaves them. On rare occasions, phantom keys have been heard
jingling in the empty seating area. One night in particular, this
was followed up by a loud crash on some platforms set up onstage.
One time, a small group of students had a ball of tape thrown at them
from nowhere and the wheelchair lift operated on its own. After
dark, when the building is empty, many students who have passed through
the front hallway have expressed an intensely creepy feeling - the need
to hurry up and get out of the hallway.
Belle Fourche - Belle
Fourche High School - When an old Janitor was
fixing the light in the gym he fell from the top and died and has
haunting the school ever since. Kids see shadows all the time at night.
The light that he was fixing flickers on and off in the gym.
Brookings - South Dakota
Stat University - Doner Auditorium - A
man that was a janitor in 1919, fell out of an alcove above the stage
where an organ was located. The organ would randomly play for two years
following his death until it was dismantled and scrapped. He causes a
lot of electrical and technical problems if a specific prop is moved
from the prop room, and also he's been seen as recently as 10/20/01...
He doesn't seem to be lost, an authentic haunting, as he will react to
words and waving. He's a wonderful spirit, but likes to cause trouble.
Custer - BH Playhouse –
Costume Room - is said to be haunted by a girl
whos father was a miner there be fore it became the play house.
And that the girl haunts the costume room because that’s the room she
stayed in. Some times the costume people will leave the room one
night with every thing put away and the next morning on the table will
be a costume laid out perfectly. They say that its the girl who
laid it there.
Deadwood - Bullock Hotel -
Its haunted by the sheriff of Deadwood and its
namesake Seth Bullock. Seth was sheriff in the 1800's.
Deadwood - Green Door
Brothel - unexplained footsteps are heard here.
Deadwood - Mount Mariah
Cemetery - Such notorious characters as Wild
Bill Hickock, Calamity Jane, Potato Creek Johnny and also Seth Bullock,
mentioned in a former story, have been laid to rest here. Very
mysterious presences and a feeling of being watched are felt here upon
every visit.
Deadwood - The Bullock
Hotel - It is now a hotel and casino, and many
people believe the place to be haunted by the owner from the eighteen
hundreds, Seth Bullock. Film crews have been to the Hotel in hopes of
getting shots, http://www.allstays.com/Haunted/sd_deadwood_bullock.htm
Deadwood - Wild Bill's
Saloon - the pinball machine in the arcade on
the lower level often plays itself for hours on end and the lights
flicker and arcade machines turn on and off. First thought to be
WildBill himself.
Eagle Butte - City Park - Late at night if you walk by you can hear the voice of
a woman. A woman died behind the baseball field fence she was found
frozen. You can here her moaning and scream's. There have been sighting
of her late at night people see her walking around sometimes.
Eagle Butte - Upper
elementary school - A girl fell off the boquni
and die there in the gym. She had been haunting the gym to this
very day.
Ellsworth - Air forse Base
- Missile site - The spirit of a pilot killed in
a helicopter crash in the mid 1980's can be seen and heard upon
entering the control room of the missile silo nearest to where his
helicopter crashed. Before entering the control room, music is heard as
if coming from a radio-there is no one in the room.
Firesteel - The Coal Mines
- Back in the 1930's firesteel was a booming
town after the discovery of coal. One day when all the miners were hard
at work an explosion killed about 100 miners and to this day they say
that if you get too close to the mines you can hear the voices of the
miners hard at work. the town of firesteel was once a large and
prosperous city but is now doomed as the people are driven away by the
ghosts that haunt the old mines.
Flandreau - Flandreau
Indian School - The Little Girl - Some
time ago a little girl died in that school. Some say that she likes to
play with you. She will tickle your feet at night when you are
sleeping. If you take a shower on the girls side the little girl will
mess with the curtain while you take a shower.
Fort Pierre - Old
graveyard near Verendrye monument - Reports of
voices and whispering is said to have taken place here. a lot of
strange activity. eerie light and reflections.
Fort Sisseton - Fort
Sisseton was never attacked, but still many died living there. There
have been people who have seen strange lights when nobody else was
there.
Fort Thompson - Crow Creek
High School - Apparitions of priests and nuns
are seen in the halls.
Garretson - Fire
Department - One day a boy was skating and he
tried to do a backside board slide and fell and cracked open his skull
on the ground and died. (wear a helmet) he has been seen ever since
still trying to do the same trick
Gregory - IOOF Cemetery - A lone man seems to wander the cemetery and
surrounding gravel road searching for something. He is white haired and
seems to be lost. On return to see if the gentleman needs help, he
disappears.
Gregory - Gregory cemetery
- there has been spotted light orbs or what
seems to be ghosts wandering around the cemetery and have scared away
visitors.
Hill City - 1880 Train - This now tourist attraction, still uses authentic
engines and cars from the 1800's. Many abandoned train cars still sit
on the train yard, and many strange occurrences have been reported of
them. The Highliner Eatery, which sits on the train yard, is an
authentic dining car, and one employee reported seeing a strange man in
a brown suit standing in the back. Seconds later, he had disappeared.
Hill City - Alpine Inn - Second floor is said to be haunted. Lights have gone
out unexpectedly, and voices can be heard as well as footsteps.
Hill City - Hill City High
School - Apparitions appear, Voices heard by
janitor. Ghostly teenager seen jumping off high school on anniversary
of death.
Hill City - Mount Rushmore
Brewing Company - This building was the first
funeral home in Hill City, and the crematory can still be seen in the
basement. Employees at this now restaurant highly dislike going up to
the third floor to sweep late at night, as many strange noises can be
heard. One waitress told the story of cleaning upstairs by herself one
night. She heard the pool balls on the pool table being broke, and when
she turned around, she could still see the balls moving, but no one was
upstairs with her.
Hill City - O'Brian's Pub
- a poltergeist, silver wear thrown around
there.
Hot Springs - Villa
Theresa Guest House - This historic inn has a
very colorful past. The scent of perfume lingers around the upstairs
dormer rooms. Visions have been seen at the main staircase. The spirit
of a girl by the name of Giselle happily roams the household. A very
inviting and non-threatening mystery.
Isabel - Burress Feeds - Late at night you could see a girl age (11-13) they
said she died of smallpox in the early 1900's now she haunts the old
Burress Feeds store and you could hear her screaming at night and
sometimes you could hear her calling for her mom.
Isabel - Isabel School - There was this boy, who suffocated in the janitor
room. Every time the janitors go in there they usually see him or hear
him.
Isabel - Post Office - Lately people been seeing strange figures in the
windows. One time someone went to the post office at night and was
checking their mail when they happened to look into the window, and in
the reflection of the window they saw someone standing behind them just
staring at them. By the time they turned around to look and see who it
was, it was gone. They got really frightened and tried to leave but the
door was locked. They tried everything to get out but nothing worked so
they had to stay in there until the next morning. Now that person is in
the hospital, tramatized.
Isabel - The streets - People always said there was a strange light coming
from the old white house by the rodeo grounds that is abandoned now but
they said when you walk by it at night the light would chase you to the
main street and lots of people saw it.
Kenel - Community of Old
Kenel - When Kenel was moved up to the new
place, they left a lot of graves in the Cemetery, Two young people were
camping there in a tent, the young man said two men kept him up all
night, talking the Sioux language back and forth, he wasn’t scared, he
was just mad because he couldn't sleep all night.
Keystone - children's park
- The old children's park next to the creek
across from the trailer park is haunted. If you listen carefully you
can hear children playing and laughing. Their is a water pump there
that is always shut off but when you walk by it it turns on; just
enough to trickle all by itself. Also you encounter many shadow people
there.
Keystone - old cemetery - The old cemetery overlooking Mt. Rushmore is a burial
for many of the mine workers and people who died working on Mt.
Rushmore. If you bring a video camera you can catch faces in the video
camera and white figures hanging from the trees even though you can't
see them with the naked eye.
Little Eagle - Little Oak
Road - People driving on the road late at night
claim to see a man about 6 foot high dancing on the road and jumping
really high into the air. They say that when they get close to the
spirit it looks at them and it has red eyes then vanishes. There are
also other ghosts that haunt the road. A section of the road was built
over a cemetery henceforth the ghosts.
McLaughlin - Town - The entire town seems to be haunted; the roads have a
different story to tell about them, at least 40 years ago, a man was
driving on the road and he got into a car wreck. The man was
decapitated, and they found his head in a cow-drinking pond, to this
very day, it is said that the man is looking for his head. numerous
houses are haunted here
McLaughlin - Jackpot Bingo
Hall - One witness that used to work at the
bingo hall she is always in the store, and she always hears a little
baby crying but then she looks in every lane to see if anybody is there
but there wasn't. It was just her in the bingo hall while everybody are
in their offices and outside smoking a cigarette. The bingo is built on
a cemetery and you can see a lot of things moving around. Especially
chairs, papers, and tables. She says she quit because of the phenomena.
McLaughlin - Major James
McLaughlin house - is haunted as well, by the
ghosts of The major and his guests.
McLaughlin - McLaughlin
High School - The There was a janitor who was
killed slipping on the floor of the swimming pool area. At night you
can hear whistling and sometimes you can see the janitor mopping the
hallways. There is also another ghost that haunts the gym. He used to
be a phs ed. coach and died, but when the lights are out you can hear
basketballs bouncing and sometimes they can hit you Ar near you
McLaughlin - McLaughlin
Middle School - is haunted, by the ghost of a
dead janitor.
Midland - Old Town Bank - An old bank, now part of a museum, has been known to
be haunted. Voices and footsteps have been heard many of times. Bare
footprints have been seen in the dust.
Mission - "Rock Hill" - This is located on a stretch of gravel road 1 mile
north of Mission, This dirt road is believed to be haunted by the
spirits of dead Indian women and children who were running for their
lives and were slain by pioneers. To this day, it is said that you can
see the ghosts and hear their screams and warnings.
Mitchell - Dakota Wesleyan
University - Graham Hall - Years ago a
fire started, one male student jumped to his death and has since
haunted Graham Hall.
Mitchel - Mason Church - A woman told me that she heard a woman crying
upstairs, so she went to the room that the cries were coming from. The
moment that she turned on the lights the sound stopped. Another person
told me is told of a baby crying, this was also upstairs in the old
building. A skeleton hangs in the closet next to the room where the
cries of the baby and woman were heard.
Mobridge - elementary - In 1996 a janitor died after having a big crash down
the stairs. There have been doors slamming in the boy’s bathroom.
Pierre - LaFromboise
Island - Obvious orbs in pictures. noticeable
temprature changes. Strange noises on trails. Get strong fluctuation
readings on emf detector. Investigators claim to have gotten orbs on
video.
Pine ridge - Pine ridge
elementary - Reports of a voice saying help me
in one of the classrooms. there is also high EMF readings, and one of
the teachers at the school saw a young girl the teacher asked the girl
what she was doing there she looked at the teacher and she walked right
though the exit door.
Pine Ridge - Pine Ridge
High School/Old Auditorium - An old woman was
seen by Security Guards in one of the classrooms. When they went to
check in the room, nobody was there. In the old Auditorium, a boy had
an heart attack in the 1950's. He was alone when it happened so, he
wasn't found until later. He now haunts the place.
Pine Ridge Reservation - Old
hospital - At the sight of the old hospital
housing there is said to be ghosts of little children. They run around
the streets and go into the basements of the houses and bother the
residents. When the hospital was being used(we now have a new
one)janitors who cleaned the morgue area heard voices and were screamed
at by spirits.
Pine Ridge - Wolf Creek
school - there is this little girl that goes
around the hall of wolf creek school. And the janitors see her and they
say she has no face
Old Agency - Agency
Village - witnesses say they seen sighting of
LITTLE GREEN MEN and BIGFOOT.A man and his son were hunting in some
hills in agency Village.the mans wife was waiting for them for 2 days
but they never came back.People say they were killed by bigfoot and
heard loud screams of a kid and a man.now When people go hunting in the
hills they say a man and the kid are haunting the hills.
Rapid City - Alex Johnson
Hotel - Built in the 1920's, the Hotel is said
to be haunted by many ghosts including the original owner. Employees
tell of noises, items moving, and a woman seen on the eighth floor.
Guests have told of strange happenings especially on the eighth floor,
pianos playing themselves, crying in a room that a woman supposedly
jumped out of the window on her wedding night.
Rapid City - Ellsworth Air
Force Base - moving objects and shadowy figures
are observed here.
Rapid City - Hooky
Jacks/Phatty McGees Restaurant and Bar - Hooky's
is the oldest building in Rapid City, built in the late 1800's. There
have been reports of noises - people talking, footsteps, and
chairs moving around all when no one is there. Bartenders report of
seeing people walk by only to find that there is no one around, also
things that are pushed very far back from a ledge mysteriously fall.
Rapid City - Old Rapid
City High School - now Dakota Junior High - The heater room said to be haunted by football coach
and team that had died years ago in a plane crash. - Update: The story is in 1968 or 69, on St. Patrick’s
Day, the cheerleading squad and their coaches were killed in a plane
crash at Rapid City Regional Airport while returning from the state
AA's boys basketball tournament in Sioux Falls. It was a private plane
owned by one of the cheerleader’s father. Now there is an award given
out at the state basketball tournaments every year to the cheerleading
squad with the best spirit, called the Spirit of Six Award and is in
honor of the 6 cheerleaders who were killed in the crash. It is the
Third Floor Gym of the school, which is supposedly haunted because that
is where they use.
Rapid City - Rushmore 9
movie theater - Many employees have had strange
interactions with paranormal activities in both the projection room and
the main halls. Shadows of human like figures and balls of floating
light have been seen by friends and workes alike. Reason for haunting
unknown.
Rapid City - Sioux San
Hospital - Sioux San was a boarding school, many
many years ago for Native American children and a sanitarium for TB
patients many years later. It is now an out patient hospital. It is
said the voices and crying and apparitions of children haunt the third
floor. These sightings have been seen by numerous night guards, who
have quit because of the ghosts. There is numerous little graves on the
grounds, of children, who still need to go home to their families.
Rapid City - Stevens High
School - the storage room is haunted by a ghost
called "Sparky".- March 2007 Correction:
"Sparky" is a well-known figure who reportedly plays jokes in the
theater. He snaps lights on and off and opens and shuts doors, rattling
staff and students. Former students now in their thirties has reported
He was named Sparky when they went there. A freshmen at Steven's
reports Sparky played tricks on them every time they are practicing for
a concert. He messes with the sound system, the lights, the doors,
everything. He doesn't haunt the storage room. For more information,
please visit
www.unexplainedresearch.com/media/rapid_citys_haunting_reputation.html
Rapid City - The Hotel
Alex Johnson - This hotel is supposedly haunted
by the ghost of a former hotel manager who leapt to her death from the
roof in the 1930's. A ghost who stands at the foot of the room’s bed at
night haunts one of the rooms. Several hotel workers have reported
poltergeist activity on the hotel's top floor. This floor is currently
used for storage, and workers have heard furniture moving around and
lights flickering on and off. One employee reported having a chair
thrown down the stairwell at him from the top floor doorway when there
was no one on the floor at the time. Several employees have quit
because of the apparitions.
Rock Creek (Bullhead) - Rock
Creek Day School - Witnesses report hearing an
old record player, foot steps and doors opening when the building is
empty. teacher's grading papers late at night will also hear voices and
paper, desk, and chairs moving around. One occasion the head cook
opened early to cook breakfast and heard voices coming toward her but
no one was there. Another occasion people will see a man and woman
peaking out of the window late at night when they pass by the school.
Along time ago there was a flood in Rock Creek that took out a
graveyard, the water covered the entire village that all the coffins
were floating around and they had to evacuate to the hills, horseback
riders roped the coffins to bring to shore. A lot of the coffins were
opened and no bodies were missing. A lot of the bodies were sunk into
the sand. So it is to believe that the whole village is haunted.
There is to believe that a tall man dressed in black roams the village
late at night. A lot of residences of this small village have seen him.
There has been a report of a Skelton seen hanging in a tree on Booth
Road.
Roscoe - Edmunds Central
High School - There have been weird sightings
reported from teachers at EC high school. One included a door opening
on it's own. Another one was one time a whole room was messed up, and
knows one had broken in, because the door was still locked, and at
night teachers have heard footsteps walking up and down the stairs.
They think the janitor Harold haunts the school, he was a previous
janitor.
Salem - Salem High School
- It is said that the auditorium is haunted. You
can hear footsteps. You can hear doors slamming shut when no one is
there.
Sioux Falls - Actors
Studio - The Actors Studio is located next door
to The Community Playhouse. A man thought to be killed when the studio
was Rainbow Bar and Grill haunts it. He was supposedly dancing with a
woman whose husband was in the war. He came back and saw them together.
In a fit of rage, the solider killed him. The victim’s ghost now
wanders the studio whistling Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.
Sioux Falls - Gitchie
Manitou State Preserve - Incredible place
historically. Occupied by the Oneota American Indians in the late
1600's and later the Yankton Sioux American Indians until the early
1900's, this continual American Indian occupation was a ceremonial
place covered in large boulders that were thought to have healing
properties. Large boulders survive to this day with the "dimples"
in the rock caused from the American Indian's tapping instruments into
the rock and then grinding the chips of the boulder into powder to me
mixed with other herbs and grasses as medicine. At one time it
was believed that in excess of 10,000 American Indians occupied this
site. Some excavations have discovered human projectile points
dating back over 8500 years old.
Sioux Falls - The
Judge Amidon Monument" - Tall stone
monument that overlooks Sioux Falls north side near the cemetery is the
place where a South Dakota farmer / judge Mr. Amidon was killed by
American Indians in an uprising as he plowed his field. His 14
-year-old son was sh`t to death with arrows through his chest as he
tried to help his father as well. The monument is dedicated in
their honor. Strange feelings of being watched are found here as
well as occasional orb lights. It's not known due to the very
close proximity to the cemetery very close by if the spirits are from
there or the judge and his son.
Sioux Falls - Sioux
Falls Community Playhouse - The Community
Playhouse is haunted by a ghost named Larry. He was a former janitor
who hanged himself in the rafters. Witnesses claim that Larry turns
sinks on and flushes toilets. People have also reported hearing his
ghostly footsteps in the night.
Sioux Falls - Washington
pavilion - the old Washington high school
building. a construction worker fell to his death in an elevator shaft
while remodeling the building into the pavilion. footsteps are heard
and a feeling of being watched.
Spearfish - Black
Hills State University - The Wenonah Cook
dorm - The dorm is an all male dorm and students on that floor swear
that you can hear her screams, and sometimes smell the smell of a
rotting corpse.
Springfield - Libby's
Steakhouse - It is believed the basement
of this restaurant is haunted by a little girl. there has been only one
sighting which was just a glimpse. If you leave the basement door open
it causes stacks of soup bowls to fall over for no apparent reason.
When you are actually down stairs you feel very uneasy and sometimes
you will get "tripped" going up the stairs. It is thought she died of
an overdose, the former building used to be a drug store known as Hoch
Drug.
St. Francis - St.
Francis Indian School - At a recent
Graduation there, people video taped the graduating students in the
hall and when they looked back at the video a little girl floating in
the air watched the students. You can also find her in the gym of the
school.
Vermillion/Meckling - GPR Stops House - This
house has been long abandoned, strange noises from the top floor have
been heard, and a girl who went in was hit on the chest, resulting in a
bruise in the shape of a perfect triangle. Some think that it may be
the ghost of a school superintendent who hung himself when the Meckling
school was dissolved.
Wakpala - Old
School - It is to be said that you can
hear basketball and people running up and down the old court. Also you
can hear little kids playing in the classrooms. And sometimes in the
gym. Also the boiler room you get a strange feeling like someone is
behind you watching you until you leave the room.
Wall - Wall
High School - There is sometimes
footsteps heard from the roof (which is three stories up and has no
stairwell leading to it). Then the footsteps stop and a soft thud is
heard. This happens every year at 11:30 at night on December the twenty
forth. Some call it the Santa Claus Ghost. But others believe that it
was a principal that died in a freak electrical fire and was burned to
death in 1930.
Yankton - Mount
Marty College - Anything from showers
turning on and off, the water fountains run by themselves, footsteps,
and shadows. It's said that a worker fell to his death during
construction and he may be the probable suspect, but some people think
otherwise.
Yankton - Mount
Marty College - Corbey - Rumors
also include the haunting of the Corbey (female dorm) elevator by a
girl who just up and left one day, never to be seen again – There isn’t
any significant confirmation of this. But some residents get very
uncomfortable around areas that could be considered "paranormal".
Yankton - Mount
Marty College - old gym/stage - is
said to be haunted by an old music teacher who was a sister at the
convent (the music hall is just above the old area, and she is said to
inhabit the costume room).
Yankton - Mount
Marty College - Whitby Hall - Room 200 - is said to have been haunted, and due to this, until
the past two years, was vacant. Light never touches the door, no matter
what lights are on, and even during the day, light barely makes it into
the window to hit the door. There has been other sightings on the floor
- a figure walking across a resident’s room near the door – they were
the only one in the room, and the door was closed. All i could see was
the pants, they seemed to be a gray polyester. Other rooms have seen
figures in hard hats and blue suits. When they rolled over to get up
and talk to them, the figure was gone, and when they checked the door,
they realized it was still locked - the doors at that time would unlock
if you closed them while they were locked. They have also seen a white
figure in a corner - non-descript, just standing there.
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