In
Indiana
Allen - Fort Wayne - Char's House of Oak MI
Dearborn - Ford Rouge
Plant - In the main house, an angry, disheveled,
dark haired man wearing green work pants and a wife beater undershirt
storms down the steps with his belt raised over his head.
Anderson - Arby’s - Reports of a ghost of a large man sitting in the lobby
and one of the tables, and also the men’s bathroom doors swings open at
random times in the night, and you can feel his presents there.
Anderson - Cry Baby Bridge
- The Cry Baby Bridge is where a baby died in
the car crash. It wasn't found when the police came and the baby was
left. It ended up dying. If you go across the bridge you can hear it
crying.
Anderson - Highland - Highland
High School - Has been haunted for several
years. The gym is where the sightings usually take place. People have
reported that they have seen a little boy roaming around the gym and
sometimes doing laps around the basketball court. They have also heard
basketball being bounced. They say that the sounds and the little boy
running laps. The boy died one day in gym class when they were playing
basketball. The teacher said that he was fine and next time the teacher
looked at him, he was lying there dead. Ever since then, the little boy
has haunted the gym of Highland High school. - June
2004 Update/correction..the boy's name has been removed. the boy died
in highlands old gym which is now the auditorium. The boy haunts the
auditorium, the green room, back stage, and the cat walk. He died of an
asthma attack while running laps around the old gym/auditorium.
Anderson - Mounds State
Park - Some people have reported encountering
blue-gowned dwarves in the park and nearby along the White River at
Noblesville. According to Deleware Indian legend, they are the
Puk-wud-ies, a tribe of little people that still inhabit the forests.
Angola - town circle - May 2008 - Has been removed.
Austin - Austin High
School - there is to be a Spanish teacher
roaming the school. She died in a car accident around the 80's,
possibly. There have been sightings of her by the teachers lat at
night. While driving to school in the late 80's early 90's - the
witness is not exactly positive of the date, - Addition
info added November 2003 - their Spanish teacher was driving to school
when she was in a wreck and killed. She is said to walk around the
school, and some janitors have quit after when opening a door the
handle began shake and was freezing cold.
Avon - The Haunted Bridge
- a railway bridge over White Lick Creek. The
ghost of a construction worker from when the bridge was built, and the
sounds of a baby crying, supposedly from an incident during which a
baby was inadvertently dropped into the creek from the bridge.
Barbee Lake - The Barbee
Hotel - The Barbee Hotel was considered a very
high-class resort during Al Capone's time. He stayed in the hotel
frequently, often clearing out all the guests so he could stay in
seclusion. He always stayed in room 301 at the back of the hotel. When
cleaning the rooms employees have smelled cigar smoke and when
investigated it is coming from room 301. The bartender who has worked
there for years has seen an old man sitting at one of the booths on
several occasions. When she goes to get someone, he is gone. People
have reported hearing footsteps on the stairs, and in the halls above
the dining area. Many parties when taking their picture will line up on
the stairs. There are several pictures on the wall where you can see
orbs of light in the background behind the group. Many other
celebrities stayed there as well. Rita Hayworth was said to go and stay
in her room for days at a time. When you drive by the area of the hotel
she stayed in late at night sometimes you can see a faint light.
Bargersville - Podunk - Podunk is an old town right by Bargersville. It's a
really weird and freaky place that near-city teens go to. There's a
bridge that if you drive on to & then stop & turn off your
headlights, radio, and don't talk then you can see a baby crawl across
the road. You can also hear it crying or laughing sometimes.
Bartonia - Headless Man - Go to on Greenville Pike. At the stop sign turn right
at the first gravel road turn left, go past the bridge turn around and
go back over the bridge. When you get over the bridge wait a few
seconds and the turn around. Don’t drive to fast or to slow but you can
see a man on a horse without a head. The farther you get from the
bridge the close it gets to you. It soon disappears.
Battle Ground - The Battle
Field Memorial - Back in the 1800's there was a
terrible battle fought on the grounds where the memorial is. If you are
anywhere close to the creek right after dark, then you hear battle
cries and see human forms running through to woods. You also can never
fall asleep out there no matter how tired you are.
Bloomington - Binford
Elementary - A man wearing a black cloak is said
to roam the Auditorium, when it's dark. There have also been some
electrical problems
Bloomington - Hoosier
National Forrest - Step Family Cemetery. Two
brothers fought and killed each other over inheritance of their
father's land. They are both buried at the cemetery and the land became
Hoosier National Forrest. If you drive to the cemetery you can witness
strange occurrences like car engines dying and some sightings.
Bloomington - Indiana
University Cries of woman and unborn children
have been heard.
Bloomington - Indiana
University Bloomington - The Career Center - Indiana University is said to be haunted by the ghosts
of aborted children. A doctor supposedly performed illegal abortions
there many years ago.
Bloomington - Indiana
University Bloomington - The Folklore Office - at Indiana University is reportedly haunted by the
former chairman.
Bloomington - Indiana
University Bloomington - The Indiana Memorial Union - at Indiana University contains several human ghosts
and one dog ghost from the suicides that have occurred there over the
years.
Bloomington - Indiana
University Bloomington - The Lily Library - is said to be haunted.
Bloomington - Porticos - When this place was a restaurant, people claimed to
see a little girl's face in the bathroom mirror. Customers also
complained of hearing children laughing and playing upstairs while in
the dining room below.
Bloomington - Read Dorm,
6th floor - Many years ago a young woman named
Paula, (an R.A) was believed to have been over stressed and worked, so
she flung herself down the stairs head first killing herself on impact.
Late at night on December 12th, you can still hear her scream as she
plunged to her death.
Bluffton - Children's
Playground - It is said that at the turn of the
century an old man ran a playground for children on the apostolic
church grounds he was hated by the adults but loved by the children one
day he was found brutally murdered and his body was thrown in the
Wabash River and was found under the red bridge it is said that if you
go there in the middle of the night and lie down on the bridge you will
hear the sounds of children laughter and sometimes you will hear
something pounding on the bottom of the bridge
Boone - Elizaville - Tall
dark and handsome - If you drive down Elizaville
Rd. early in the morning (1:00am-3:30am) you are likely to see to see a
man beast standing about 7feet tall that looks like a towering shadow.
It's not certain why he wanders the fields, churches, and cemeteries
(Browns Wonder). All that is known is he is in search of someone or
something very important to him. If you get out of your car and scream
bloody murder into the night sky he will track you down and drag your
body into his domain where you will be eaten bones and all. Many
missing people have been linked to the mysterious small town of
Elizaville. Maybe a murderer is responsible, but this figure has been
reported wandering those parts since 1924!!!
Boonville - Scales Lake - Believed to be haunted by Black Annie.
Brazil - Spook Light Hill
- A ghost of a father looking for the head of
his daughter. A car flashes it's headlights three times and a light can
be seen coming down the road and "scanning" the area.
Bremen - Plymouth - Troll
Bridge - This bridge is right down the road from
Little Egypt. If you go and park your car or just park a little off the
bridge and you get out there is a tall dark thing about 7-8 ft tall. It
will either try to throw things at you or chase after you. WARNING: Do
NOT go out here, stay off this bridge, this thing is not good and you
will be terrified. I strongly suggest the un-stable mind stay out of
here too, unless you are up for psychological damage.
Bremen - Plymouth - Little
Egypt - Many claims have been made of
apparitions appearing at night at the cemetery. There have also been
claims of driving around the cemetery and hand prints appearing on your
windshield. One story is if you throw a nickel on a baby's tombstone,
that you will hear it cry. Little Egypt is located on 5A Road and
Hawthorn in Marshall County. 5A road goes around the cemetery in a
square style. - June 2008 Update - Warning: The
local residents do not appreciate investigators. And will chase you
with their shotguns.
Bridgeport - Captain
Franks Tomb - An elaborate tomb was built on a
bluff commanding a view of the Ohio River. His reason for choosing this
lonely spot for a tomb was that he could shout curses at the passing
Steamboat captains. It is said that many on the river have seen a ghost
light or mist that settles over the tomb.
Bristol - Bristol Opera
House - There is a ghost named "Percy" that
haunts the costume room and stage. It is said that he hides in the
curtains and brushes up against the actors. He does not like musicals
and has apparently moved things on stage during a production. He likes
to scare the ladies in particular. A lady that makes the costumes and
was there late at night when she felt strange things around her and
tapping on her shoulder. No one is sure why he is there or where he
came from. He might have been one of the deceased actors or people that
worked there.
Bristol - State Road 15
North - If you go north on State Road 15 past
where the toll road on ramp is, you will see an old house on the left,
right before the state line. If you stop and watch the house long
enough, you will see the spirit of the owner part the curtains and wave
at you
Brushy Prarie - US HWY 20
- If you are driving on US Hwy 20 around 12:00am
till 5:00am you might as you near the Brushy Prarie Cemetery You may
get a glimpse of the Lady in White. She wonders down the highway
towards the cemetery in a beautiful white wedding dress. Many people
have tried to pick her up, but when they pull up to her she just
disappears. She is most active around holidays.
Bunkerhill - Peaceful
Acers - there’s a ghost in the woods wearing a
bandana and is known by many as the toothless wonder you can see him
floating behind lot 3 aver a chicken coop looking down hungrily.
Burlington - Old Sycamore
Haunted Bridge- When you drive over the bridge
at a speed over 20 miles an hour a white car will chase you to your
supposed death. Also, you can still see the bullet marks on the sign on
the bridge where a jealous boyfriend caught his girlfriend and another
guy making out.
Cambridge - The Old
Railroad Tracks - Back in the hey day, Cambridge
was quite the happening place, unlike the small little town it is now.
The main way of transportation was the railroad that ran along the edge
of town. When President Abraham Lincoln was killed, the government had
to ship his body across a few states for it to be buried properly. One
of the places that the funeral train passed through was Cambridge,
Indiana. You can look it up on the Internet and find out that it
actually did. On the anniversary of the funeral train passing through,
at around 4 in the morning, you are supposed to see a train come
through where the tracks used to be covered by skeleton soldiers still
protecting Lincoln's body on that train. The tracks aren't there
anymore, but a few remnants of them are still around.
Carmel - Screaming Bridge
- It is said to be haunted by several spirits,
if you go out on the bridge at midnight you can hear a woman screaming.
It is no longer accessible. They blocked off the road because of too
much traffic and violence at the bridge. - March
2008 Update: Sources say the bridge is no longer there.
Cedar Lake - Selysions
Private School Witnesses have seen orbs that
will float towards them and also there is cries and screams. All of the
boys were said to be hung, shot, and drowned by the pastor who took
care of them. People have reported all the doors closing at once and
hearing whispers when walking inside the school. Every once in a while,
you can see boys sitting at their desks, writing in blood. - August 2004 additional information: The old boys
school has been torn down and something new is being built there.
Anyone trespassing will be arrested on sight.
Charlestown - 10 penny
bridge - On tunnel mill road the bridge by a
poor bum that died on the bridge, if you put 10 pennies on the bridge
in a line and turn off your lights and car when u try to turn your car
on, it wont start right away and your pennies will be missing or
scattered all over the bridge.
Chesterfield - Chesterfield
Christian Church -The lights in this church have
been known to mysteriously turn on at night in the bathroom, which is
connected to the boiler room. In the 1940's a man was found dead in the
basement below the boiler room. The cause of his death is unknown.
Witnesses have reported hearing the pipes constantly banging, doors
opening and closing, water turning on and off, and hand prints all over
the bathroom mirrors every morning. Police have searched boiler room
and found no sign of vagrant.
Chesterton - Diana Of The
Dunes - Around 1915, the area that is now the
Dunes State Park in northern Indiana was mostly uninhabited wilderness.
The stories spread around the vicinity of Chesterton, Indiana that
fishermen who were along the beach at certain times of the day had been
lucky enough to catch a glimpse of a naked woman swimming in the lake.
The story spread that a beautiful woman was living as a hermit along
the beach and her notoriety grew to a point that many compared her to
the ancient Greek goddess Diana...hence the name of this legendary
creature. In truth, her name was Alice Marble Gray and she was the
daughter of an influential couple from Chicago. Alice had traveled
extensively and was cultured and educated. She had worked in the city
as an editorial secretary for a popular magazine, so what had made her
take up the lonely life of a recluse. Some have claimed that Alice came
to the dunes because of a broken love affair but actually she left the
city life because her deteriorating eyesight had made her work
impossible. She had sought refuge in the rough land that she had
enjoyed as a child. Alice moved into an abandoned fisherman's cottage
on the beach and lived a life of peace, borrowing books from the
library, walking in the woods and of course, swimming naked in the
chilly waters of Lake Michigan. In 1920, Alice met a drifter named Paul
Wilson and he moved into the cabin with her. He was an unemployed boat
builder with a shaky past but he seemed to make Alice happy and the two
of them stayed together until 1922.... when tragedy struck. The badly
burned and beaten body of a man was found on the beach and police
suspected that Wilson had a hand in the murder. He was questioned but
eventually let go. He and Alice moved to nearby Michigan City, Indiana,
where they made a small living selling handmade furniture. Alice bore
her husband two daughters but he treated her terribly, often beating
her severely. In 1925, Alice died in her home, shortly after the birth
of her second daughter. The official cause of death was said to be
uremia poisoning...complicated by repeated blows to her back and
stomach. Wilson disappeared and later tuned up in a California prison,
serving time for auto theft. The fate of Alice's daughters is unknown.
Legends of the dunes say that Alice still returns to the beach and the
wilderness that she loved so much. Over the years, many have claimed
that they have seen the ghostly figure of a nude woman running along
the sand or disappearing into the water.
Clark County - Clarksville
- : Colgate Palmolive factory - Clarksville,
Indiana is the correct location of the Colgate-Palmolive factory which
used to be a prison; the basement is especially said to be haunted. If
you are on the riverfront in downtown Louisville, Kentucky just look
for the huge clock on the other side of the river, and that is the
factory.
Clarksville - The Sunset
Grill Restaurant. This restaurant was formally
the McCullough Steak House. This used to be a house of a family long
time ago. Guests and employees have heard weird noises in the building.
Some mornings employees will come in the restaurant, and all the light
bulbs will be unscrewed and sitting on the tables.
Cloverdale - Cloverdale
Cemetery - Two girls where driving in he
cemetery around midnight looking for one of the girls grandparents, the
girl driving took the car and put the high beams on the tombstone they
noticed there was a casket with a tarp over it waiting to be put in the
ground it scared the girls so they turned the lights off so they
wouldn't see the casket sitting on the ground, then the driver seen a
kerosene lantern it looked like and seen an old man standing over the
grave with a black cloak on he looked at the girls and the girls drove
away cause they were frightened, but the other girl told the driver to
drive back around and when they did he wasn't there.
Columbus - The Crump
Theatre - The Crump Theater built in 1874 and
was originally a vaudeville/opera house. Over the years it has been
home to all kinds of entertainment as well as serving as a movie
theatre for many years. As far as supernatural events that have
happened at the Crump, it is somewhat limited. There have been
eyewitness accounts of music being heard from the top of a stairway,
some strange happenings concerning concession money, apparitions of a
gentleman and child, strange sounds and smells, fire inspection
certificates, and one contractor being scared in the basement area. No trespassing is allowed, however, arrangements can
be made for investigations.
Columbus - The Haunted
Railroad Bridge - Back in the 1920's a woman
had a baby out of wedlock. She couldn't handle people and their
objections. She took herself and the baby to the middle of the bridge
and jumped. They found the woman's body, but not the body of the baby.
People have said they have seen a creature on two legs with yellow eyes
guarding the bridge around Midnight. If you are by the bridge at night
you can sometimes hear the baby cry. On a full moon you can sometimes
see and hear the ghost of the woman on the bridge looking and calling
for her baby. More often than the other two you can see the creature
with yellow eyes blocking the path to the old forgotten railroad bridge
not wanting anyone disturbing the bridge or the area.
Columbus - North High
School - The auditorium is haunted by a ghost
named " Mikey ". Back over a hundred years ago before there was a
school, there was a dirt road that ran through the school, but more
precise through the auditorium. A kid named Mikey was walking on the
street when a man driving a horse and buggy ran him down. the exact
spot where Mikey was killed is where the auditorium is today. If you
are in the auditorium you can sometimes see Mikey out of the corner of
your eye run past the stage. You can also hear and see Mikey in the
sound booth or up on the catwalk. Mikey has also been known to turn off
the lights. Many people have witnessed Mikey or something that Mikey
has done.
Columbus - Quality Mchine
and Tool - This is a Factory where an
employee once hung himself over romantic problems. Shadowy shapes seen
there at night and things vanish for no apparent reason.
Columbus - Subway
Restaurant on 46 west - Workers have seen a
shadow figure walk across the back of the store and often heard noises
in the back when they where the only ones there.
Corydon - Blue River - There is said to be a young women who was paddling in
her canoe one day. Someone had tied fishing line from a tree to another
tree. When she came by she was going very fast. The fishing line cut
off her head. People say she is looking for her head almost every
night.
Crawfordsville - New
Market Trestle - Reports of hearing train
whistles and grinding metal, then a loud splash. Some have also
reported that they have seen eerie blue-lighted figures skim across the
top of the water.
Crawfordsville - Spooky
Hallow - Long time ago rumor is that the old
bridge was a covered bridge. Supposedly a black man was hung from the
ceiling. Another story is that a woman died on the bridge (not know
how). Old bridge is not there but a newer one is built there. Story is
that if you shine your lights under the bridge and flash your lights
three times you can see the woman or the black man hanging. Also, from
experience cars have died with the lights flashing inside and no
explainable reason. Also there is a rock near by that has a story that
is unknown what it is about, but they say if you sit on it you will die
within seven years. It's a hard bridge to find, but if you ask around
to the locals everyone knows about the bridge.
Crown Point - Crown Point
High School - Reports that at night the lights
go on and off in the gym, and the basketball cart moves out from the
office, and the balls bounce on the floor, making a tremendous noise,
since it has a wood floor, when someone comes, it disappears. The high
school auditorium’s catwalks are supposedly haunted by a spirit.
Students have reported hearing strange noises and seeing images of
people walking along them. - September 2005
Update: Was torn down last year.
Crown Point - Old Lake
County Jail - An old jail in the town square
where John Dillenger made his famous soap gun escape! There are MANY
hauntings there. It was used up until the 1960's as a jail and since
then you can see spirits, orbs and hear a dog barking, jail cell's
slamming, people talking, etc.
Cunot - Catract bridge - well legend tells that a man who lived in Poland,
Indiana lost his farm in the late 30s to the stock market crash{or
great depression} well in Cunot their is a bridge over the Catract Lake
and they say that he hung himself because if this bad time and they say
that on lonely nights you can see him walking on this bridge with the
noose still around his neck and sometimes he jumps in front of the cars
trucks.
Daleville - Witches Circle
- It is said that people have seen outlines of a
white women figure here. There is also a myth that the red splatter on
the road is where someone was murdered but people say it’s just a paint
splatter. Also it has been said that a old man that used to live close
to the "Witches Circle" still haunts the place today, and its said that
witches still go there to do witch craft.
Danville - Danville
Bridge- There are two stories that come from the
haunted bridge. The first story says that an Irishmen was helping
construct the bridge, he fell into the wet cement. His body was never
recovered. The second story says that a woman jumped to her death from
a train passing over the top of the bridge. Many people have reported
hearing cries and moans.
Davies County - Crane -
Crane Cemetery down the road from the abandoned Crane school - In the cemetery there is a headstone that glows only
on certain nights. As soon as you enter the cemetery, turn off your
headlights and drive straight. Look straight ahead and you will see a
headstone start to glow then stop glowing as you get closer. Also when
you leave the cemetery, look back and it will start to glow again.
Davies County - Martin -
West Boggs Park - Some nights after 10 p.m. you
can see a ghostly figure of a woman running through the woods. They say
it is the mother of a child who drowned in the lake. You can hear her
screams as she looks for her son, and some say that if you go to the
lake at midnight you can see the boy swimming in the lake.
Decatur - Adams County
Cheese factory - This old abandoned cheese
factory, has been known for its many unexplained phenomena. It is said
to be guarded by spirits. Many people claim not to be able to spend
much time in this area. It is located in the woods just east of the
Kuklehan Mansion. Also it is known for its occult activity.
Decatur - Geneva - Ceylon
- Covered Bridge - It is said that many years
ago, a group of young teenagers, were at the bridge performing a
séance of some kind, when suddenly a man or apparition, feel
from the ceiling to the floor, leaving a gigantic blood stain near the
pentagram they drew on the floor. This apparently had opened some kind
of door, and now even today, strange and unusual things happen inside
the bridge. Even during the day, while walking through or just visiting
the bridge, there is a feeling of oddness.
Decatur - Kukelhan Mansion
- Just north of Decatur, east of US 27, not far
from North Pointe Sub-Division, stands an old mansion that was owned by
a very wealthy banker. It is said, that the banker went crazy because
he always thought someone was after his money and slaughtered his whole
family and hung himself. Many people have tried, including people with
psychic ability, has been unsuccessful in being on the property.
Dekalb - Butler - Land of
Moses - Located just outside of Butler off of ST
RT 6 is a road that goes to the right and over the railroad tracks.
There is a cemetery there that is allegedly haunted and they say at
night if you park in the cemetery by the old crematorium you can hear
cries of the departed. This begins the stretch of the road called the
land of Moses that leads to Gypsy hill. This area is extremely dark at
night and there is an area that Gypsies congregated at near the
Indiana/Ohio line. This area is covered by a dense dark forest. Rumor
has it that the gypsies kidnapped and raped a farmer's daughter in the
early 1900's. The farmers then banded together and killed the gypsies.
Over the next 10 years the farmers all were killed by an axe. One
report said that a gypsy returned from the dead and haunted the woods,
which is where the farmers bodies were found. Till this day, very few
people will dare to go to those woods, park their car and get out and
explore them. There is an old foundation of a log house there and some
other remnants of the gypsies.
Diamond - Hells Gate -This train trestle is host to several strange
phenomenon. On some nights, if you stop your car, you can hear the
sound of people laughing and screaming, laced with a crashing noise.
Legend states that the sounds echo a past tragedy that involved a train
derailment, killing many people.
Disko - Gravel
Pits - In the local gravel pits near the
town of Disko a woman clad in purple rags is said to roam the local
gravel pits. She has been reported on numerous occasions by local
citizens.
Donaldson - Ancilla
College and Convent -Many people have
claimed to see Catholic sisters walking in the basement tunnels
underneath the college and the convent. When followed, the
sisters disappear in to thin air or go into the wall. People have
reported being pushed or touched in the tunnels when walking by
themselves. Doors slam and things will bang or fall in the
motherhouse kitchen. Students have seen classroom doors and
windows open and close by themselves.
Dublin - Crying
Woman's Bridge - It is said that you can
hear her crying and calling for her dead child. The bridge is on a road
called Heacock Road; it is blocked of on both ends. There is a big
livestock looking gate ate one end, at the other end, there is a huge
dumpster. The road has been taken over with weeds and brush.
Dunkirk - Blood
Road - This is said to be a place where a
father drug his son behind a truck. If you drive north down the road
you will not see anything. (Look very good) Turn around at the stop
sign and go back down the road you will see bloodstains down the road.
Edinburgh - Atterbury
Job Corps Center - Strange sounds and
footsteps have been heard in the different areas of the campus. People
have seen yellow glowing eyes in the woods.
Ellettsville - Matthews Mansion -
strange noises, smells. Things being thrown. Supposedly there are
people in between the walls.
Elnora - Elnora
Cemetery - It is said that there is a
glowing tomb there that only glows on certain nights.
Evansville - off
of #6 school road by St. Joe mini mart. - Reported
in an abandoned 140 year old house, witnesses have said that in the top
right bedroom you can sometimes see a man like apparition in the
window.
Evansville - Carpenter
House - Willard Carpenter, of Willard
Library, lends a bit of excitement to the staff and volunteers at WNIN
from time to time. Mostly strange noises, things moved when you aren't
looking and a sighting or two just out of the corner of the eye.
Evansville - Eastland
Mall - At night when the store is closed
the owner walks through the mall from store to store. The owner was
killed there by an unknown force while checking the stores to make sure
they were all locked up and he was found the next day. If you look in
there late at night you can see him slowly walking from store to store
but if you look away he disappears.
Evansville - Willard
Library - a lady in gray has been sighted
by many in this building. http://www.libraryghost.com
to watch the ghost cam.
Fairmount - James
Dean's Grave - If you go there, there is
a spat where there are four trees perfectly trimmed and equal distant
from each other. If you time it just right and if you are there around
midnight, you just might have the sense, or you might feel, that
someone is touching you.
Fishers - There
is a dip in Allisonville Road at 126TH street. It is called Heady
Hollow. How the story goes, there was a schoolhouse the burned down
with all of the children inside. Late at night when it is foggy you can
see the children standing in the road. When you see them it is too late
to stop. You drive right through them. When you get out of your car no
one is there.
Flora - Old
school of Flora - The school has been
rotting for over 20 years in the middle of a small town named Flora.
Also about a quarter mile behind the school lies an old cemetery full
of broken down tombs from the early 20th century. Story goes that the
building is home for those buried in graveyard. If you can ever enter
the old school which is locked up you can hear talking and things are
moved to different places. Flashes are some times seen when walking by.
Fort Wayne - Bostick
Bridge - Heading South on U.S 27 right
after the 469 overpass there will be a little road on the right. go
down this road and it will be the big steel bridge.
Fort Wayne - Carroll
High School - It is believed that Carroll
High School is cursed and haunted. Every year a junior student dies
surprisingly, and eventually the student comes back to haunt and be
known. One example,(not mentioning the name), a girl who died, came
back to be remembered. A day after her death, in class, a boy took her
original seat and fell off. To everyone's surprise, they asked him if
he was alright. He then replied, in a shocked look, "No, not really."
The teacher asked why. He replied back "I didn't fall, I was pushed."
Fort Wayne - Cold-Water
Rd – Wal-Mart - Around 3am-4am in the
morning, shoppers and workers hear bagpipes playing a scotish tune.
Shortly when song ends, a man in a green plaid kilt makes his
appearance by pacing the floors. When he walks by you, you will get a
cold eerie feeling. This ghost is known to be friendly.
Fort Wayne - Columbia
City - The Haunted Jail, the ghost of a
murderer is said to haunt the site of the retired jail. It is now used
as a haunted house throughout the Halloween season, and members who
work there in the off-season report a lot of paranormal activity.
Noises such as footsteps and scraping along walls are also reported the
only thing that runs is the electricity, there is nothing as far as a
heating system to be mistaken for the noises. There is a door that
always must remain open if it is shut when you walk away and come back
it is always open. There are many things indicating activity.
Fort Wayne - Carroll
High School - It is believed that Carroll
High School is cursed and haunted. Every year a junior student dies
surprisingly, and eventually the student comes back to haunt and be
known. One example,(not mentioning the name), a girl who died, came
back to be remembered. A day after her death, in class, a boy took her
original seat and fell off. To everyone's surprise, they asked him if
he was alright. He then replied, in a shocked look, "No, not really."
The teacher asked why. He replied back "I didn't fall, I was pushed."
Fort Wayne - Devils
Hollow – Cedar Canyon Road - There is a
bridge near the hollow. There have been many stories like a headless
horseman, boyfriend and girlfriend died when a motorcycle goes over the
bridge, hangins, but here is the real story of it. a woman lived in a
house up on a hill by herself. This old woman would speak to a friend
about how there was kids that would break stuff on her property, sneek
up to the windows and look in, and overall harass her. They would tell
people she was a witch. One night in early 80's these teens set her
house on fire and wouldnt let her out of it. The building stood for a
while but now all that stands is the chimney. people who go there for a
"spook show" are run off by the ghost of this woman because she feels
like they are no better than the teens that killed her. There was no
new house built on her hill. After a few years what was left of the
house was caveing in and police were down investigating the area so the
falling house was tore down and removed but they left the chimney.
There is still a police investigation on this. The teens who did this
has not been found.
Fort Wayne - Dupont
Rd. south of Lima - Crossroads cemetery - noises
and faint moving lights reported. Very strange feeling of being watched
when in cemetery around the stone in the tree.
Fort Wayne - Lakeside
Park Neighborhood - The lakeside
neighborhood is rumored to once been Indian grounds used for less than
pleasant occasions. Many different residents have reported strange
sounds and sights in and around their homes. Lakeside Park was once an
amusement park with locks, canals and a dance hall and the area is rich
with history before and after the city was settled.
Fort Wayne - Main
Street Bridge - The bridge is just west of Van Buren St - A woman in white is often seen walking across the
bridge but disappears when approched. She has been seen many times by
many people and her existance has been reported on by local newspapers.
Fort Wayne - North
Side High School - Many spirits reside
here. First is the spirit of a Chief of the Miami tribe that tried to
prevent the city from building on the tribe's burial site. The school
mascot is called Chief Mac in his honor. Second is that of a teenage
girl seen in the gym and indoor running track. She is often seen in the
morning before school starts. A janitor haunts the basement where he
died of a heart attack several years ago. Many janitors have reported
seeing him. Finally, a construction worker haunts the stage area of the
auditorium. During the building of the school, it partially collapsed,
killing him and injuring many others. It is a little scary walking the
halls alone at night. A magazine covered the stories back in the
seventies. - October 2004 update: there
was contruction that lasted a year or 2 that just finished summer 2004.
There was comments from the contruction workers they seen alot of stuff
happening which may have been the worker who died warning them of the
dangers.
Fort Wayne - On
Bruick Rd if you go over a bridge & park your car, you can see a
white light that sometimes gets bigger, moves, & changes colors.
The farther you follow it, the farther it seems to move backwards, away
until all at once it vanishes.
Fort Wayne - Snider
High School - It was once said that in
the basement of the school there was a swimming pool, once a girl
drowned in the pool after some classmates pushed her in. the pool was
drained and filled up with cement. It is said that there are cries of
the girl there early in the morning
Fort Wayne - Swinger's
Grave - There was a girl who was swinging
on a swing at Jehl's park by Georgetown off State Street, and her neck
got caught in the chain links and she was killed. They say if you swing
on any of the swings past midnight you will "fall off" when rather it
feels like someone is pushing you off.
Fort Wayne - The
old Lutheran Hospital on Fairfield - Has
been torn down - The 4th floor of the
hospital is haunted by a male ghost that pasted away about 55 years
ago. You will see him walk down the hall looking for someone going from
room to room. Dr's and nurses as well as others have seen this. Before
they closed the old Lutheran Hospital they closed down the south unit
on the 4th floor. Ocotber 2004 update:
has since been torn down. One small (possible office)building and a
large, empty park-like area remain, but angel statues that were
originally in front of the hospital entrance still remain.
Fort Wayne - The
University of Saint Francis library - A
student hung himself here long ago and has been spotted by students.
Many have reported unexplainable "cold spots" in the library,reports of
people actually seeing her hanging, and other strange happenings.
Francesville - "The Light" - near Moody Lane - the story is back in the horse and buggy days, two
brothers were out for a ride. One brother fell off and the wheel
decapitated him. The light is the lantern of the other brother looking
for the head. The brother is with his lantern passing one row at a time
in the corn. If you go when the corn is down, you will see a light come
towards you. if the corn is up (the best time to go) you see the
orange/red glow from the lantern at the end of a row. it will move
through the row of corn and you can see the light above the corn. It's
slowly moves to the end of the row and back to the start of the row.
Then it will move up one more rows. You can watch the light come closer
and closer one row at a time
Francesville - Moody Lane - A man named
Moody roams the countryside and if you go to Moody Lane and wait where
the trees branches are suppose to hang over the road you will see a
strange light come toward you. Also there is a graveyard near Moody
Lane where a man and a woman were killed on opposite sides of the road.
And at midnight you supposedly can see the woman crossing the road to
see her man.
Frankfort - Farmers
gravel Rd. - Back in the 20's people
beleive a school bus of children went down the road and some how went
off the road killing ther driver and the children. Well now if you go
out to the road and put your vehicle in neutral and turn your lights
out the children push you up the hill and suposivly in to the river
below to meet the same fate as them. We've found that if you cover your
car in flour you can see hand prints of little children pushing and
looking in through the windows at you.
Frankfort - Sleepy
Hollow- The Sleepy Hollow around here is a
bridge and an over pass that goes over a train crossing...It is legend
that if You pour baby powder on your hood and stop right near the train
crossing and turn your engine off then start it back up and drive
across it you'll come to find children's hand print all over your hood!
there are other strange things going on in this place! You have to go
to find out
Frankton -
Old Train Trestle - In 1947 a young lady
was on the bridge contempt on committing suicide. She had come home to
find her husband cheating on her. She went to the train trestle, and
waited for a train, then ran out in front of it. On foggy nights you
can hear her screaming, and see her walking across the bridge.
Franklin - Franklin
College - Old Main - Early one
morning in the 1980's a fire destroyed a residence hall and gutted the
attic of Old Main, a grand building used for administration offices and
classrooms. A student was hiding in the attic to avoid the fire and was
burned to death. Students have reported smelling burning flesh and
hearing screams when in the attic during the morning. The smell has
even been so bad that classes have been cancelled more than once to
avoid it. - July 2005 Update/correction:
In 1978 or 1979 a story appeared in the college newspaper about the
reported ghost of a former professor that had reputedly hung himself
from one of the rafters. A picture of the rope was shown still in
place. The hanging reputedly took place in the 1920's. But, a picture
of the classroom he reputedly taught in was untouched. All the desks
and blackboard was in black n white. Very eerie. It was also a storage
place for stage props when the theatre department was in operation
until 1975 and only within the last 15 years or so was it restarted.
The door to the fourth floor was found open on occasion but was
supposed to be locked and occasional power outages occurred as well.
Franklin - Main
Cemetery - It is the main cemetery just
off of South Street across from the Tearman Motel. A lot of notables
there are buried, witnesses report very unsettling feeling when they go
there. There are several suicides that are buried there.
French Lick - horse
field - In the late 1800's a bad storm
hit this field like not other this small town has seen. In this field
approx 5 acres across was two beautiful black horses with a black baby
colt the only shelter in this field was a giant oak tree in the middle
of this field, where the horses ran to immediately when the lighting
flashed through the air. Some say they saw 3 lighting bolts come down
from the sky and striking each one of the horses dead. Now if you go
visit this field when a night storm is brewing. You can hear 3 horses
running across the field to where the old oak tree still stands. And on
some nights when the lighting lights up the sky you can see three
beautiful black horses standing by the tree.
Gary - Black
Oak - along an interstate stood an old
house that was once a speak easy (bar saloon) and a home for ladies of
the night often you could hear a car pull in and hear men entering the
basement where they would shoot the owner of the saloon and upstairs
you could see a woman dressed in red and often was crying and would
reach out to touch you and a man would leave the basement and walk
upstairs and often pushed witnesses down & they could hear the
screams of women and children loosing their lives this house has been
since destroyed but to this day you can see the woman in the red crying
and reaching for you. Black Oak
Experience
Gas City - 10th
Street Bridge -When the bridge was first
build eighty years ago, a worker fell off the bridge and died. The
river then carried his body away. Many people have reported seeing an
old man hanging on to the side of the bride screaming for help when
they pass over the bridge.
Gas City - Old
East School - There used to be a
playground behind the elementary school. A few people have seen the
merry-go-round spinning by itself with nobody near it. Some people have
even heard the sound of children laughing there.
Georgetown - Devil's
Dip - This is a large hill, it dips down.
At the very bottom of the hill there is a house. It's said that there
was a little girl that once lived there and was playing outside late
one night, and that she was hit by a car driving fast. Around midnight
if you go really fast down the hill you can see the little girl dressed
all in white playing next to the telephone pole. It's directly across
from the house.
Geneva - South
Adams Middle School - the cooks and
janitors have reported seeing a ghostly figure in the rafters when they
arrive to the school in the morning.
Goshen - Oakridge
cemetery - There is a statue of an angel
over the grave of Michael Bashor that is said to cry tears of blood.
Greencastle - Boon
Hutch Cemetery - A ghostly police officer
from the 1950's sits inside the graveyard along with a blue light.
There is also a cave under the cemetery with a grave near the entrance.
People have reported seeing a strange figure standing in the cave when
going in. Some witnesses have even reported that bodies will fall out
of their caskets into the cave. One other occurrence involves sinister
looking dogs with red glowing eyes that chase people to their cars,
then disappear.
Greencastle - Edgelea
- if you go and sit by the train tracks
in Edgelea at night, you could see ghost of hobos jumping off the
train. One lady all ready has seen a ghost of a hobo in her backyard.
This lady has even heard them banging on her back door.
Greencastle - Edna
Collings Bridge - It is said that
sometime in the early 1920's a little girl would swim in the stream,
which the bridge crosses. At the end of the day her parent would drive
into the covered bridge, turn off the motor, and honk three times
telling the little girl it was time to leave. One day the something had
happened to the little girl causing her to drown. They say that if at
night you drive into the bridge, turn off the motor, and honk three
times that the little girl will come and get in the car with you.
Greenfield - Weston
Village - This area of town called
"Weston Village" is a housing edition and apartments in the same are
that is about a span of five miles. One witness reports seeing what is
described as a Cyclops at the foot of her bed. As well as other
sightings.
Griffith - Reder
Road - If you walk for about an hour
and a half down the path at the end of Reder road, you will find a
small white chapel church from the early 1900's. you will hear the
screams of the congregation that was killed by a mentally insane pastor
years ago. When you walk back late at night you will pass railroad
tracks, if you stop and look to your right you will see a man in all
black walking very slowly toward you down the middle track.
Hammond - On
the road as you enter into Gary, In (on Halloween) you can see the
ghost of a girl who died after running into the Calumet River with her
wedding gown on, the weight held her down and drowned her. Her ghost
can now be seen. Also the ghost of a girl who got in an accident can be
seen there.
Hammond - Bishop
Noll Institute - 2nd Floor - On
the second floor, in the A-wing you can hear footsteps and people
talking with the whole floor being empty. In the lab rooms, chairs
would fall off desks without being pushed. There are 3 know deaths in
the school. One in front of the Library where a single stop will be
constantly cold. Second, a freshman drowned in the pool, which is no
longer used and closed off, which you can hear laughter from. And
third, in the second floor A-wing, a janitor hung himself.
Hammond - Bishop
Noll Institute - They have said of a
story about the auditorium of Bishop Noll Institute. About a young girl
who was auditioning for the lead part in a play, but because she did
not receive the part she started crying. She walked on the lights above
the stage and hung herself. Ever since then, anyone who auditions and
gets the lead part or a part with many lines has gotten hurt. They lose
their voice, develop illnesses, break their leg, almost choke, fall off
the stage, and much more during the play.
Hammond - Bishop
Noll Institute - Aditorium - They
have said of a story about the auditorium of Bishop Noll Institute.
About a young girl who was auditioning for the lead part in a play, but
because she did not receive the part she started crying. She walked on
the lights above the stage and hung herself. Ever since then, anyone
who auditions and gets the lead part or a part with many lines has
gotten hurt. They lose their voice, develop illnesses, break their leg,
almost choke, fall off the stage, and much more during the play.
Hammond - Near
Columbia School - There was a man who was
having a very hard time. He and his wife had recently got a divorce,
and he could no longer see his children. He was also fired from his
job. The man was really, really upset and decided his life was no
longer worth living. He committed suicide by hanging himself. Years
later the residents living there can hear the man talking to them
during the night, he also interferes with their lives by, for example,
throwing tools all over the garage. Also, on the anniversary of his
death a quick white light can be seen from his window to remind the
neighborhood of the tragic event.
Hammond - Old
Botanical Gardens/Reaper's Realm - People
say there are 2 women owners who died there and they haunt the place.
You can hear people walking around upstairs if no one is there. There
have also been sightings seen in the forest behind the mansion. People
have seen 2 unknown women working in the background. This usually
happens when they are setting up for Reaper's Realm.
Hammond - Gavit
High School - Every morning at about
midnight. It is said to be people walking around the roof and if you
shut the windows the night before some of the windows will be open. If
you are inside you can hear metal clinking together and muffled
screams, along with orbs and figures walking.
Hammond - Jayme
House - There are two bedrooms upstairs.
The bedroom to the left..... if you shut the cubby hole door at night
when you wake up the door is Apen , if you put something in front of
the door it is still open in the morning. The bedroom to the
right...... glowing eyes, noises, over powering smells... all in the
cubby hole. At around mid-night if you sit quietly you can hear foot
steps, sometimes running, laughing, and playing of small children.
Stairwell leading to the upstairs bedrooms is also haunted. A little
girl about 8 years old. Likes to play. Sightings all over the house. A
large number of happenings. Witness' by the numbers. Objects
disappearing /reappearing, moving, chairs coming out from under you
while you are sitting in them. People being lifted of the ground.
Things touching you.
Hammond - Robertsdale
- Circus Train - In the 1920's or 1930's
the big top circus was traveling through town. The train was involved
in a crash and all the animals aboard the train burned to death. The
animals' remains were buried in a nearby cemetery. It is said that if
you go by you can still hear all the animals cry.
Hancock - Wilkinson
McCreay Cemetery - Reported to be
haunted.
Hancock - Thomas
Road - This graveyard has had numerous
occurrences including blood, on graves which all date back too mid
1800's. The ground is always soft no matter the weather, noises from
the woods than seem too get closer the longer you stay. Two gigantic
rocks which set in front of the path that leads you in are moved in a
different spot every time you visit
Hanover - Hanover
Beach - A preacher drowned while swimming
to shore to find help for victims of a sinking riverboat. Usually
appears around 2 am when it is real foggy.
Hanover - Hanover
Cemetery - One witness reports, "My children and I went to Hanover Cemetery soon
after we moved here. We had split up for the purpose of looking for a
family members grave, we then turned around to meet up with each other.
As we got closer to each other, we suddenly felt nauseated and we felt
chilled. We looked at each other and realized we were all experiencing
the same sensations. We looked down at the grave in front of us, and it
had the name, Benjamin Bennett on it. The next day we went to the
library to see if we could find anything out about this person. We
found that he had been a student at Hanover College and had drowned in
the Ohio River and that his body was never found."
Hanover - Hanover
College - Parker Auditorium has been
haunted by the ghost of Dr. A.G. Parker, past president of the college.
Numerous events have happened over the past 25 years, including
sightings, voices, sounds, and missing items.
Hanover - Hanover
College - Donner Residence Hall - The
east wing of Donner Residence Hall. Moved objects attributed to a
former student who committed suicide in one of the rooms.
Hanover - Hanover
Nursing Center - Omens happen before one
dies, green mist in photo, a balloon bounced into a room, the piano
plays and the keys have been seen moving.
Hebron - Hebron
High School - in one of the high school
girls bathrooms a girl had hung herself. Now some teachers claim to
hear voices coming from that bathroom when they stay late after school
hours.
Hebron - Moody's
Road - If you go to Moody's road at
night, flash your brights 3 times a light will appear and if you shut
off your car it will not restart.
Hebron - old
railroad tracks - Sometimes if you go
there you will see ghost of people walking around after the deadly
train crash.
Hedley - Hedley
Cemetery - Reports of unexplained sounds
and feelings of self destruction.
Heltonville - McCarthur
House - 4 murders took place in the mid
1970's. White figure that can be seen as sort of running away from the
house when you approach.
Henry - Knightstown - The "Pest" House - This
house was a quarantined place to put people during an outbreak of small
pox in the early 1900's. The death rate there was extremely high, and
many ghosts are said to still live there. A local historian reported
visiting the house once and being greeted at the front door by a
"strange-looking" woman. She told him, without being asked, that no one
was home and closed the door. He knocked for several more minutes and
was about to leave when the owners pulled in. Upon relating the story
to the owner, they all checked the house thoroughly, and never found
her. Several other incidents have also occurred there.
Henry - Knightstown - The White House - Blood
sprayed all over the walls. Names of who have death coming to them, and
a bathtub surrounded which looks of blood.
Henry County - Lewisville - Guyer Opera House - Guyer is know by staff to be haunted, and many have
been spooked by dressing room lights that turn on one by one, strange
banging noises emanating from the back of the auditorium, and sudden
changes in temperature. The doors to the auditorium will close by
themselves, and more than one of the staff has been driven from the
light booth by growling noises and extreme drop in temperature. People
have reported seeing the outline of a person in the back stage windows.
Henryville - Dan's
Run - Daniel Guthrie was murdered and
placed in a shallow grave near the corner of Pixley Knob Road and
Cemetery Hill (Mountain Grove). Guthrie's body remained undetected for
one year before being found, unearthed and reburied in nearby Mt. Zion
Cemetery. The hole he was buried in is still open (about 4-feet deep)
near the edge of the woods. Homes in the nearby area have experienced
sightings of a young man with a large, handlebar bushy mustache, doors
open and close by themselves, footsteps walking up and down hallways at
night, footprints found outside bedroom windows, objects moving by
themselves, and ghostly whispers. Also, a tape recorder left on
Guthrie's gravestone in Mt. Zion later revealed a faint, haunting man's
voice crying, "Help me, God help me, please help me..."
Henryville - Mt.
Zion cemetery - The green Lady - in the
early 1900's a young woman was killed on Henryville blue lick road
after a terrible car accident and buried in Mt. Zion cemetery on the
same road. it is said that she roams the cemetery, with a green glow to
her. she will jump on your car if its parked in the cemetery at
night(said to be looking for a ride home) and the green goo will still
be on your car until you wash it off.
Hitysville - Hitysville
Public Library- It is reported that on
Oct. 28, 1943, the librarian that worked non-stop there was involved in
a freak accident involving a book shelf collapse. The book shelf oddly
enough was full of supernatural books. The ghost is said to have
remained inside the library which has since been shut down. On that
anniversary night accounts of loud crashing bookshelves have been
reported, but no bookshelves remain in the old library. Also accounts
of moaning and screams for help, along with unidentified scratching and
banging.
Hobart - Lake
Station - New Chicago - Hobart Township - River Forest Junior and
Senior High Schools- The River Forest
Junior and Senior High Schools are connected. Outside of the school
there are tennis courts, before they were tennis courts there used to
be a pool that was used for gym class. The reason that the tennis
courts were built is because a boy drowned in the pool during gym class
one day. He is sometimes seen and heard in the High School gym, Junior
High multi-purpose Room, High School Cafeteria, and throughout the High
School halls. He is usually not seen during school hours. Most of the
people who see him have seen him while staying late for after-school
activities or games. One lunch lady has actually claimed to having
conversations with the boy. When asked about it she replied: "The first
time I saw him it frightened me, but now I am not scared, and I know he
means no harm. He is just a lost soul stuck on Earth. I was walking out
to my car, which was parked near the tennis courts and I saw him
standing inside the gate of the tennis court. He was staring at me so I
asked him what he was doing there. He told me that he had drowned. I
asked him his name and he disappeared. Now, whenever I talk with him he
disappears if I ask his name, which I find very odd."
Huntington - Forks
of the Wabash - The original house
belonging to Chief Richardsville has been remodeled by adding a door
between the Chief's bedroom and the servant's quarters to facilitate
tours of the house. In the room described as the servant's quarters
there was a pillar of icy air that everyone who walked passed through
shivered and said, "ooooh....cold spot" The cold spot was WAY colder
than the temperature in the rest of the house including being several
degrees lower than the outside temperature. There also was a strong
sense of being watched.
Huntington - Horace
Mann School - Now apartments, Horace Mann
School has had many reports of paranormal activity. Sounds and
sightings of children and adult ghosts. Unknown origin of the spirits.
Huntington - Huntington
College - A women spirit has been seen
floating in the hallways of the Physical Education Recreation Center,
wearing a long white dress. She is only seen by men. Toilets have been
known to flush and showers turn on with know one in the restrooms and
locker rooms.
Huntington - Polk
road - it is said that a woman died on
the train track and if you go over the tracks that your car will die
and she will come and push you off and then she will go down the center
of the car and go into somebody and show then how she died and what she
went through. And when you leave there will be blood all over your car.
Hymera - Bethel
Cemetery - There are rumors that if you
go to the Bethel Cemetery in Hymera at night and go up to the Nathan
Hinkle grave and monument (a local soldier of the Revolutionary War
that died in the war) and walk around the monument 3 time and say
"Nathan Hinkle", "Nathan Hinkle", "Nathan Hinkle", he will answer you
Indiana state fair - there is an abandoned bridge across the street from
the Indiana state fairgrounds, on the east side of fall creek pkwy that
takes you to Millersville rd. it has been said that you can hear
splashing and gurgling noises below the bridge where a young boy was
pushed off and drowned. Supposedly his older brother pushed him off and
watched him drown.
Indianapolis - Cathedral High School (Former sight of Ladywood High
School) - When the Cathedral High School
campus was the campus of Ladywood, a private boarding school in
Indianapolis. Ladywood was entirely run by the Sisters of Providence, a
group of nuns devoted to a Catholic education. There is a building on
campus, Loretto Hall, the former main building of Ladywood, classes
were held on the first floor, physical education in the basement, with
student dorms on the second floor, and nun dorms in the attic. It has
been reported many times that at night, after what would be "lights
out" for the girls that you can hear and sometimes see a sister walking
down the halls in the second floor and candles burning in the attic.
Indianapolis - Decatur Central High School -In the 1970's, a girl named Anjie and her friends were
recklessly riding around the school parking lot. They crashed and Anjie
was thrown from the car and killed. Strangely enough, the school's
electricity would not work for several weeks after and the entire
school smelled like burnt rubber. Every year, around the time of her
death, the electricity still goes out and burnt rubber is smelt. Some
people have even reported seeing a young female ghost walking up and
down the stairs crying.
Indianapolis - Downtown -St. Joseph's Old Abandoned Catholic Church -
Reports of seeing blood on witnesses 92
hands, hearing a loud bang in the middle of the sanctuary, and loud
footsteps.
Indianapolis - Edgewood River - Sounds
reported of a drowning boy slashing and screaming for help.
Indianapolis - Hanna House - it was
built by Alexander Moore Hanna he helped with the Underground Railroad.
One night one of the oil lamps fell in the basement where the slaves
were the house caught fire and burnt all the slaves. The house was
restored almost immediately. that’s why it was just recently discovered
that this happened. It is said that there are cold chills doors open
and close with no help and in one of the upstairs rooms smells of
death. strange noises, smells and apparitions are observed here. July 2005 Update/Additional Information: It is where
the wife of Legislator Hannah gave birth to a stillborn baby. People
for years have reported a stench of rotting flesh, blood on the ceiling
and feelings of dizziness. In the basement, where the ghosts of the
slaves are reputed to be, there is a rat's maze for Halloween time.
Some of the people who set foot in the doorway of the maze turned right
around and went out.
Indianapolis - House of Blue Lights - haunted
by the young wife of the first owner. When you go by the house at night
you can see blue lights flickering on and off on the grounds and in the
tower window. According to legend the man couldn't stand the thought of
burying his lovely young wife so had a special glass coffin built and
placed in the tower. He would go visit his wife every night. The tower
was lit by soft blue lights, her favorite color. - June 2008 Correction / Additional information: It was
located on Fall Creek Road and is now Skiles Test Park. The house was
abandoned and torn down in the 1980's. It also says that the owner had
placed his deceased wife into a glass coffin and displayed her in a
tower. This part of the story is also incorrect. The story goes that
Mr. Skiles Test, after the unexpected death of his wife, had her placed
in a glass coffin and displayed in a large bay window of his home
surrounded by blue lights. Now that Mr. Test has passed away and the
house has been torn down, at night you can still see the glow of the
blue lights. The story of the house of blue lights is not true but it
is a story that I would like to pass down to my children. The reason
that Mr. Tests home was called the house of blue lights is because he
loved the color so much that he kept his Christmas lights up on his
house and around his pool year round. Mr. Test was a very wealthy
business man that was committed to his community and even donated a
parcel of his land to the Lawrence Township School Board. The school
board graciously accepted the land and built an elementary school on it
named after Mr. Test. Soon after his death, Mr. Tests family donated
his estate to the city of Indianapolis and it was turned into a nature
preserve.
Indianapolis - Indiana Repertory Theatre - In life, the first artistic director of the theatre
used to jog around the upstairs mezzanine area when the weather was
cold or rainy. He reached his untimely death when his nephew
accidentally hit him with a car while jogging outside on a foggy day.
To this day, when it rains outside, you can hear floor boards in the
upper mezzanine creaking and groaning just as they would if someone
were running.
Indianapolis - Indianapolis Athletic Club-
The spirit of a young fireman has been reported. He tries to wake up
guests in the middle of the night. There was a fatal fire at the hotel
in the early 90s, in which a young firefighter died.
Indianapolis - Indianapolis City County Building - During the first years of construction on this
building, a special elevator was erected to move court witnesses to
different floors of the building. In the 1960's, a witness was being
escorted to court in a Mafia case. He was shot in the elevator by one
of the police escorts, who was really a hit man in disguise. After this
happened, access to the elevator was blocked and the power cut off.
Many people have reported hearing this mysterious elevator going
through the floors, muffled by screams heard in the elevator shaft.
Some have even claimed to see the actual ghost of the shooting victim
wandering the halls of the building.
Indianapolis - Irvington - Irvington
is a town in Indiana. It was founded sometime in the 1800's. There is a
church there that was once upon a time a house (it was added onto when
it became a church) The church is on a circle surrounded by many little
houses. The church use to be where a slave owner lived and all of his
slaves and maids and such lived in the houses around him. If you walk
by the church/house in the setting sun you can see a figure of a man
either on the roof or somewhere on the church grounds. If you spend the
night in Irvington you may experience several things. Some people, when
they are sleeping, have reported waking up and feeling that someone
else is in the room. Sometimes you will even see a young man. Also
strange smells and sounds have been heard and feelings that you are not
alone when you are.
Indianapolis - I.P.S. School #50 - Cold
spots felt, strange loud banging heard. The building is still there. As
for location, School #50 sits behind present day Indianola Park, about
a half mile EAST of the intersections of Washington St. and Belmont
Ave. On the City's west side. December
2006 – update/correction: School 50 is at Hawthorne Park, which is at
Belleview and Washington Street - west of Belmont Street. Indianola
Park is east of Belmont and Washington Streets, which is next to School
#30. That intersection is Miley Avenue and Washington Street.
Indianapolis - James A Allison Mansion - Apart
of Marian College campus, the Allison Mansion is an old glorious
mansion. Built between 1909-1911, it was James & Sarah Allison’s
summer house. After Marian College acquired it from the Allison estates
it was put to good use as a college building. The attic was the sisters
dorm, the students lived in the old garage and classes took place in
the rest of the building or the greenhouses. From the time the mansion
was used as a school to the present (as a conference building) strange
occurrences have taken place. Keys missing, objects moved, the library
room completely rearranged - furniture not just books. Strangest thing
- the basement has an indoor pool in it. The pool is where a baby
crying has been heard. A Legend is that the Allison's had a child and
the baby drowned in the pool. (The baby was not the Allison's but could
have been a servants.)
Indianapolis - MagicMoments Restaurant - The
top floor of the 1 Pennsylvania street, where MagicMoments now stands
is said to be haunted by unknown ghosts. table setting move by
themselves during the night glasses are taken from tables and set on
the floor right side up. cold spots are everywhere the office side seem
to give a bad vibe. it is said that illegal boxing mathces were
arranged in the top floor and some fighters died and thats what causes
the abnormal actions
Indianapolis - Marian College - Stokely Mansion - An apparition of a man walking a dog has been seen. An
apparition of a brunette woman running out the side porch door and
jumping into an awaiting carriage, people have been gently pushed off
the dog walk, chills forbidding feelings also noted. Gondolas running
without water under them. People having tea in the Japanese Tea House
in the middle of the night. - Note: The
mansion does not have a driveway at the side porch itself. Any carriage
at it would have been in the formal gardens or in the swimming pool.
Indianapolis - Paul Ruster Park Cemetery -
Many years ago, a little boy was killed by the nearby train tracks. He
is now buried in the foundation of his old house. Many people say that
if you walk the long path through the woods to his grave, you can hear
the boy playing his harmonica. Others have reported seeing a ghostly
young boy walking down the road.
Indianapolis - The Old Central State Hospital - This was a major mental hospital located on the North
side of West Washington Street for more than a hundred years until it
was closed in the last decade. There are numerous reports of hauntings
at this facility many from former staff. Although the facility if not
open to the public, there is a medical history museum that on the site
that can be toured.
Indianapolis - Waterbury Neighborhood - A
condominium in which an elderly lady died. One of the current
residents, the son of the family, reports voices, objects moving,
screams, bumps, knocks, footsteps, growls, bodiless shadows,
electronics not working, candles going out, hot and cold spots, strange
feelings, animals sensing something not there, strange dreams, the bed
shaking, doors opening and closing, an orb once caught on digital
photo, strange lights, and the strong smell of lilac. These have been
reported around the house, but an overwhelming amount of the
experiences have taken place in the son's former room. This room,
strangely enough, is not the room she died in. She still haunts him in
the house from time to time. No one else has reported any disturbance,
but believe they happen.
Inwood - The
Grainery - It is said that if you go to
the grainery in mid day there will be an old farmer dressed in white
overalls and is very pale in the face. He will tell you to get out. He
is supposedly protecting the grainery from kids vandalizing it.
Jackson county - Mamee bottoms - If you
go out there anytime at you can hear a sound that sounds like a baby
crying and a wolf at the same time, also reported, no animals live in
the area.
Jasper - Devils
Road - long time ago on these train
tracks a bus load of kids got hit by a train, leaving all of them dead
but the driver of the bus, so he went crazy and shot himself while
standing on the tracks, some say that if you go and park your car on
the tracks, put your car in neutral, the kids will push you off the
tracks, some have even seen the glowing headless man walking towards
their car from the tracks, and then disappear.
Jasper - Shiloh
Church - Many people died due to a fire
and now the church is haunted by them.
Jay County - Blood
Road - There is a road out in the country
and it is pretty popular for kids to go to at night. If you drive down
the road one way after you go over a big bump you turn around at the
nearest place to turn. Then you go back over it and once you hit the
bump you see what looks like a trail of blood leading all the way down
the road. They have tried to pave over it but it always comes back. The
story goes that a man got mad at his wife and killed her and put her in
the back of his truck. When he hit the bump her body fell off and got
stuck to the back of the truck and he drug it down the road.... that is
supposedly what the blood is from.
Jeffersonville - Census Bureau - Warehouses - Late night security have reports of radios turning on,
while not plugged in. Boxes of paper have fallen within feet of
security staff from as high as 10' (pushed off of a shelf).Supposed
holding camp for Germans during WW II, occasionally one can hear German
speaking in the warehouses.
Jeffersonville - Clarksville border - Colgate Palmolive factory - This building was originally Indiana State Prison
South. Unusual sights and sounds typical of hauntings are noted here.
When the building was a prison many prisoners were mistreated here;
illness raged at times, and some female inmates were forced into
prostitution.
Jeffersonville - Jeffersonville High School - In the Auditorium, there is said to be a woman who
lurks, even when more than 10 people are in the room. Things get moved,
and people have gotten hurt. Also, when the building was being built, a
construction worker was killed by falling off of a ladder. Sightings of
him have also been recorded
Jerome - graveyard
- drive along the graves through the old
fence stop and turn your car of on the bridge get out of the car you
will see a flashing light blinking from inside your car...if you walk
down to the creek you can here and see things like a drum beat a old
metal swing. You can see wild dogs and humans moving around.
Jerome - Jerome
cemetery - strange noises and a man in a
black cape accompanied by two large black dogs...
Kendallville - Church on the corner of Michelle and Riley St. -
It is said that while inside the church, u
can hear footsteps going up and down stairs, people's faces in mirrors,
cold and warm spots, and things that touch you. People have said that
while inside the church, you can hear scratching on the walls, and then
see marks left behind. There are tall, dark figures that move chairs,
and sometimes throw them at you. Many people have been hurt in the
church. (Strange cuts that appear on the arms and legs, and bruises
left on the stomach. If you stay in the kitchen downstairs by yourself,
you should see a dark shadow start getting closer to you, and then
chase you up the stairs. By the time you get up the stairs, its gone.
Kendallville - East Noble High School - If
you are in the boys gym you may see a man walking beside you or
watching you from the bleachers.also there was a girl that died in a
science room. Janitors turn the tv off and come back and it is on MTV
they turn it off again come back and it is on again
Kendallville - The Strand Movie Theater - The Strand is said to be haunted by one of it's
previous owners. There have been multiple sightings of the man. First
there was a woman cleaning the theater one day with her 3 and 5 year
old children running around. As she was cleaning one of the theater's
she heared her children screaming. She went to see what was going on
and they both told her that there was a man at the top of the stairs
(the stairs that led to the balcony). The woman called one of the
workers in and he asked the kids what the man looked like. They gave
him a very elaborate description. A few days later that same
worker was closing up after the shows and was making sure the emergency
exits were closed. As he walked out of the hallway to the one exit he
looked up to the projection room and saw a man duck his head really
quickly. The man fit the same description the 3 and 5 year old children
gave just days before. He ran immediately upstairs; the only way to get
to the projection room and there was noone to be found. About a week
later a man came along and bought The Strand and the worker noticed
this man looked very familiar. He talked to the man and found out that
the man's father used to own The Strand as well and killed himself in
the projection room years before. I heard this story from one of the
workers at the theater now; the same man who saw the ghost when he was
a teen working at the theater. The ghost has since been spotted
watching people through the projection room window, but ducks
immediately upon being spotted.
Kewana - Kewana
& Fulton Cemetery - It is said that
there is a cemetery in between Fulton and Kewana. There have been many
reports of stabbings shootings and strange things happening in this
area. It is said that a few years ago a mans grave was vandalized by
teenagers the man who was buried there is said to now guard the
cemetery. He and his wife were buried together they died in a fatal car
accident 40 years ago.
Kouts - Baums
Bridge Inn - there is a old inn. There
is a window that is not boarded that you can look in. If you go there
around midnight there is a man in the distance with a very dim light
around him. If you look long enough he will get mad and get right in
front of you and it will only take a split second for him to get in
front of you. It will scare the crap out you.
Kokomo - Adams
mill - you go past the mill and go to the
bridge and go across it and stop your car get out you can see people
walking down the river
Kokomo - Carter
Rd. & 400 North - There is an old
house sitting on the north - east corner, where once known an old man
and his mother lived. Later she died, and he left the house because of
the spirit of her. Reports of something knocking on cars, apparitions
and orbs seen around the house and in the windows.
Kokomo - Gateway
Gardens - The Gateway Gardens is an
apartment complex. people who lived have seen tear drops and blood
falling from the ceiling. There have been reports of people seeing legs
walking. Babies have raised out of the cribs and appeared stiff and a
few minutes later whatever was holding them let go. This is a very evil
place. Just looking at the place you get an eery feeling.
Kokomo - Old
Jabob's Funeral Home - Black shadows and
noise in the old basement. Built in 1901 now used as a recording studio
by. House Of Jordan Entertainment.
Kokomo - Satan
Church - February 2007: The property has
been removed by request of the owner. NO TRESPASSING
Kosciosko - Columbia
City - former funeral home - A Ft Wayne
based hospital bought an old funeral home to house it's home health
care agency. Lots of problems with electrical system, things moving
about on their own like chairs, etc. Staff is reluctant to be in the
building alone---especially at night when the activity increases. One
of the employee's young children began asking her mother about various
people she saw moving about the building. The mother didn't know how to
respond because she couldn't see them.
La Porte - Downtown
- 'I' and 10th Street Clinic - Was on
route for Trail of Tears where the Indians had stopped and made camp.
It is said that a young girl died in the winter during their stay. Now
it's a Clinic up top a small hill across the street from La Porte High
School Baseball Field on 'I' and 10th Streets. People say that the
elevator is played with, also the lower level bathroom is often locked
from inside with no windows leading outside, and various objects moving
across rooms (my understanding- chairs mostly).
La Porte - La
Porte High School - Well in the girls
restroom on hallway one, toilets will flush and water will run without
there being anyone in there. Outside by a pillar there are cold spots
and odd smells. Odd things like the electricity shutting off and
banging on lockers also occurs.
La Porte - La
Porte Medical Building - Doors have been
known to open and shut, and a figure of an Indian maiden has been seen.
This was the site of one of the old Indian burial grounds.
La Porte - Posey
chapel (near) - A century and a half ago
a church was burnt down and the preacher hung himself from a tree as
you enter the gate. At night you can see the activity under the
pavilion that is where the chapel once stood. Red eyes can be seen and
a red light of some sort can be seen moving through the woods.
Laborite - Posey
Chapel - Many orbs are seen in this area,
also you can hear a woman singing and someone playing a guitar in the
background. - Septermber 2004 additional
information: you can stand outside the fence and be fine, but enter the
property and your heart starts pounding, etc. Some have seen a ghost of
a nun crossing the street. And others see a vague white form on top of
the hill that is too large to be a grave stone.
LaCrosse -Phegley
Highway - Some say they seen a light
moving slowly on the railroad tracks with two men behind it they've
never harmed anyone they just pass by at a certain time at night.
Lafayette - Harrison
Cemetery - People who visit this place
always have the feeling of being followed or being watched. This places
if located right behind Harrison High School. It is ok to visit too.
The gravestones are very old and been know to move to different
locations. Crying and moaning can be heard on some nights. Beware some
of the ghost are known to touch and throw objects.
Lafayette - Pythian
Home - It is an old Nursing Home where
many of the people who lived there died. There are many things that
happen in there from lights turning on unexpectedly, to hearing
footsteps, and even feeling something brush up against you. One of the
stories are, there was a murder in on of the bathrooms. When the body
was taken out, three women went in and cleaned it up. One of the women
new the girl that was murdered and she went back to pay her respects.
When she walked into the room, she found exactly as it was before they
started cleaning. Now around the time of the anniversary of the girl's
murder, all the gore returns. There still is no use cleaning it up. It
still comes back.
Lake County - Cedarlake
- Macarthur woods - Has been removed.
This is a private residence, The police will be called for trespassing.
Lake County - Lowell
- Lake Prairie Cemetery - Mists, orbs of
light, and figures of the deceased locals have been seen here. The
southern half of the cemetery has the oldest grave markers, and that is
where the most activity is. The cemetery is located on Calumet Avenue,
2 miles west of route 41.
Lake Station - River Forest Junior High - noises heard in the gym where it is said a little boy
died.
Lake Village - old gas station house - pounding
on the walls walking in he kitchen and up the stairs talking images of
people walking loud buzzing noise only herd in the living room and
bright flashes of light
Lawrenceburg - Greendale Cemetery - In
the cemetery, you sometimes see white or gray people, and they look
un-real. If you walk by the Tebbs family graves, you feel like your
being watched, get cold chills, or feel uneasy. Plus, When it's a
really hot day, and there's NO wind, you'll feel a light breeze
followed by a cold sensation.
Lawrenceburg - Whiskey's Restaurant - The
restaurant was originally two houses that later become a button
factory. There was an old lady that lived in the house and died in a
room that is now called the "Malt Room". There are several reports
about the "Lady Ghost". There was one report where the ghost tugged at
the waitress's apron and she thought that it was another server but no
one was standing behind her, another incident was the manager was
sitting in the bar after the restaurant closed and smelled a strong
scent of perfume coming from the back of the restaurant and nobody was
in there but her.
Lebanon - The
old Lebanon High School - The old Lebanon
High School is a abandon school that will not let you out. If you go
all the way to the 3rd story to the bell tower you will get locked in
until daylight.
Leesburg - Sawmill
lake - Old white house around the point.
Several odd vapors and apparitions seen. Strange noises heard
constantly. Sometimes you can hear an adult male yelling, like he is
very mad. A local legend ghost named "Whitey" A commonly seen ghost
around this house. A drunk driver crashed into the house about 30 years
ago and died.
Leo - Cedar
Canyons - Near the same spot where the
old man may be seen walking on an old country road, there is a cemetery
on Cedar Canyons near Auburn Road and the Vandolah Nature Preserve. Go
to the cemetery and get out of your car. If you look in the back of the
cemetary it has been swore by many that a a pair of eyes and a shadow
or two can be seen moving from side to side or even towards you.
Several people even claim that if the moon is full and shines right on
the middle of the cemetery, you can see a little girl staring back at
you.
Leo - Coldwater
Rd. - Off coldwater road there’s a place
called Cedar Canyon. If you follow It until it goes past Griffen Rd.
and take a left, there is a transparent man in his late sixties
wandering the old country road possibly taking a little vacation from
the cemetery at the end of the road. Sightings usually occur between
the hours of 12:00 to 3:00.
LaPorte - Hangman's
road/ Orelake - On this road, a young
couple was driving home from a date when all of a sudden, their car
broke down. The young man went for help while the girl sat in the car.
When the man returned he couldn't find his girlfriend. He figured she
had gone to look for help also. A drop of blood dripped on the
windshield and he looked up above his car to find the girl hanging from
a tree. People have seen ghosts hanging, weird things in the woods, and
since the site is right next to a swamp, they say it is very creepy. It
is a popular place for breakdowns and a lot of people have been killed
there by car accidents.
Lewisville Henry County - Guyer Opera House - The
Guyer Opera House has already been added to your list of haunted
places. I have another bit of information to add... A little boy was
killed back in the early 1900s during a Wild West gun show. During one
of the shows, a bullet ricocheted into the audience, killing the boy.
Perhaps his ghost still lingers in the Guyer. In addition, the founder
of the Guyer Opera House, O.K. Guyer, died the same year his opera
house opened. His funeral was held in the auditorium of the Guyer. The
"Guyer Ghosts" exist for sure.
Liberty Mills - Liberty Mills Public Access - Several years ago a car load of teenage girls were
driving on the road leading past the P.A.P. The driver lost control
going around a curve, hitting several trees and ejecting the girls from
the car. People said that on that night they could hear the screams of
the some of the girls as they died, one even hung in a tree-a branch
piercing her midsection. To this day if you go to the P.A.P. you can
hear the girls screaming and crying for help. Witnesses report of
hearing faint cries.
Linden - Slab
Town - In the early 1900's stood a two
room asylum for the insane. Students would volunteer there time at the
home helping out. It is said, that one early morning the students came
out to the home and were beat and raped by the residents in their
home.. In the end of this, they set fire to all the cars at the house
and then set fire to themselves and the students, killing everyone. To
this day the building does not stand, but the foundation of the house
and the old smashed, burnt cars are there. It is also said, that if you
visit the old land that you will never forget your experience there and
gradually lose your well thinking over a period of time. People have
said they would be driving down the road by the place and see a fire,
but when they get closer to the place the fire would vanish.
Linton - Old
Greene Co. Hospital/ Wendy's - The
building is Haunted there is some activity that goes on there such as
strange sounds voices and crying, things tend to move on there own in
the middle of the night.
Logansport - Mount
Hope Cemetery - As you enter this
cemetery which has been there since the early 1800s you an hear the
sounds of horses even though there aren’t any horse farms around for
miles and if you whistle someone will whistle with you it is pretty
freaky and there are mausoleums that you can walk in to and many
weirdly inscribed tombs like "knock three times and they shall come"
Logansport - Shiloh
- at midnight you can hear the headless
horsemen. Then your suppose to go around the church 3 times and then if
you look down at the basement window your suppose to see a girl staring
up at you. It is said that a semi will chase you then it will
disappear.
Loogootee - JFK
Gym - The boys basketball team used to
run laps around the upper level of the gym. One day when they were
running the star basketball player tripped and fell down the gym floor
and he died instantly from impact. They say that when you go in there
at night you can here the team running their laps and then a loud thud
from where the boy fell. On the night of the anniversary you can see
the blood stain on the floor and when you look away and look back the
stain disappears.
Loogootee - Loogootee
Elementary East - The say when you look
at the right side of the school you can see a big red spot towards the
top of it. They say it represents the blood of the janitor that killed
himself there. They found the body hanging from the doorway to the
boy's bathroom. They say if you go in there at night you can see him
wondering the halls, sometimes mopping the floors, you can hear his
keys jingling as he walks down the halls. They also say that he used to
have his dog with him some nights that he works. People have said that
they see a dog run down the hall on the second floor. Since they've put
cameras up more paranormal activity has been recorded.
Lowell - Gypsy's
Grave Yard - You enter the graveyard
though the front entrance. If you walk to the back fence there will be
voices of gypsy's! If you walk on top of certain graves they will
appear to be sinking in. If you jump the back fence into the woods and
take the small path for about 75 feet in you will hear faint screaming
and whispering with small blurs of white surrounding you! some say when
you leave there will be blood on the stairs railing!
Lowell - Indiana
Bridge - There is a mansion a little bit
further down the road that 3 people were apparently murdered and thrown
off the bridge. Take I-65 to the Lowell exit and take a right on Clay
Street. Reports of cars rocking and thick fog appears from nowhere.
Lowell - Intersection
173 Ave and Holtz Road - When you are
driving East on 173rd there are two big hills. When you top either hill
you can see the intersection at Holtz Road. When you top the first
hill, on occasion you will see a bunch of flashing lights and what
appears to be a huge wreck. When the road continues, you lose sight of
the intersection. When you can see the intersection again, it is clear
and there in no sign that anything was ever there. This has been seen
by many people.
Macy - Slaughter
House Road - This road is about 2 miles
south west of Macy and is on the east side of old U.S. 31. Years ago
there was an old Slaughter house on this road. This is a gravel road
and has very narrow shoulders. The remains of this building can be
found during the day, but when night falls they are nowhere to be
found. sometimes you can see ghosts of old cows in the field. There
have also been reports of local farm animals been slaughtered right in
their pastures.
Madison - American
Legion Post 9 - Weird noises, cold spots
weird old woman and man, mostly in basement.
Madison - Clifty
Falls State Park - Reports of moaning
coming from the tree right next to the walkway going down into the
falls.
Madison - Jefferson
County Library - there is a ghost of a
young man that rides the elevator up and down and rubs and pats women.
He is said to have lived there when it was a house and was confined to
a wheelchair so the elevator was put in so he could get from floor to
floor.
Madison - Ohio
Theater - Balcony is haunted people have
seen lights floating and screams heard around midnight.
Madison - Public
Library - The library is haunted by the
spirit of a young man who used to live there when it was a private
home. He was crippled and was wheelchair bound so they had an elevator
put in so he could get from floor to floor. He still rides the elevator
and likes to make his presents known. Particularly to young women, by
rubbing and patting. If you should ride this elevator be sure and say
hello Charlie! Not his real name but a nickname someone who loved him
gave him.
Madison - Ridge
- Reports of hearing small children's
voices laughing and playing, cold spots, and a ghostly white dog.
Madison - State
Hospital - Several of the buildings built
in the early part of the 1900's have been abandoned. These are
the buildings that housed the violently insane for many decades.
These patients lived a miserable existence. The cages on the
building serve as a reminder of the dangerous conditions. Several orbs
have been captured and strange noises are a constant.
Mansfield - Its
said that late at night there are spectral images of people wandering
through this old village. Even the old mill makes noises as if it were
operating, and wagons are heard on the streets.
Marengo - The
Carl Smith House - From the moment you
see this place you know its haunted! Lights turn off & on, ghostly
sounds can be heard and people say that the house itself is some sort
of a portal. Several people have died in this place making it one of
Indiana's haunted places.
Marion - Charles
Road - Supposedly a long time ago a
family headed down that road in their wagon on the way to Church,
during winter. It was dark out and the family heard screaming in the
nearby woods. They went to investigate and the fellow church members
became worried when the family did not arrive at Church. A search party
was organized to find the family. When the party discovered the abandon
wagon they began to search the nearby woods. The found the whole family
headless.
Marion - (Grant
county )-The Hostess House- An old woman
lived in this 4-story mansion here in Marion and someone broke in her
house once and killed her. On foggy nights you can see her shadow on
her balcony. She is in a long white flowing gown. They never got the
bloody footprints up completely either. It's open to the public too.
Markleville - Main
Street Graveyard - County Road 675 just
past Crybaby Bridge - A lot of rumors about ghosts are heard. But 2
headstones have pentacles on them and a skull is embedded into one
tree.
Marshall - Plymouth
- Muckshaw Rd. - It is said that on
nights when there is a full moon you can see the image of an old beat
up truck with teenagers hanging off the side of it. It is also said it
will chase you. The story is a long time ago these teenagers used to
hang off the side for fun until a tragic accident happened. Now, they
come back to haunt you on full moons.
Martinsville - Morgan Monroe Forest - Stepp Cemetery - A lady appears sitting upon a tree stump at the east
end of the cemetery. Sometimes you can hear her humming. When she was
alive she had a baby who died. After her death she still sits and hums
to her baby. This story can be found in the local libraries. Many
people can be seen at night in the cemetery waiting for her appearance.
Matthews - Elizabeth
Town - This is an abandoned ghost town
where strange things have occurred. When you go by the Elizabeth Town
sign, you can see a woman dressed in solid black staring at you. At the
cemetery, called Olive Branch, you can hear strange noises and see
ghostly shadows.
Mecca - Old
Man Rivers - It is said that if you go
into mecca from the east side past the bridge, you will see a rather
large man wearing flannel and carrying a weed eater and/or chainsaw.
Rumor has it that he will try to get in the car with you. If you let
him in, he'll ask you to take him to that White Horse. He will tell you
how hard he works and how little you work. His hands are green from
never wearing any gloves. Some people say he has asked to see their
hands. If you show him your hands, he will say, "Them's woman's
hands!!" The scariest part of this site is, he is real. He is not a
ghost. The reason why he asks for a ride is because he is a hobo bum
who doesn't have a license.
Merrillville & Griffith - Reeder Road - A girl
named Elizabeth Wilson drowned in a swamp after the car she was riding
in went off the road into a swamp. People say that if you drive down
the road at night you can see Elizabeth waiting on the side of the road
waiting for a ride back to her house down the road. People who claimed
to give her a ride back to her house get as far as Ross cemetery before
she disappears. The same cemetery that she was buried in 1955. More
history to this road is during heavy mafia activity in Chicago around
the 1930's they would dump bodies off this road because it was, at the
time, out of the way and seldom traveled. Most of the bodies were not
discovered until the mid sixties when the area started to be developed.
Through the late 1980's until the mid 1990's the woods around this road
became a popular place to commit suicide. Most people that have killed
themselves there were area high school students. There are a few houses
still on the road, near the main development. Many reports of various
apparitions (figures in the woods, ghostly lights, voices, being chased
by cars/ creatures). also, mostly due to the fact that it is surrounded
by woods, various animal parts are frequently found along the road.
these are odd in the fact that they seem to almost always be placed in
the exact center of the road. Never an entire animal like road kill,
but parts...a head, a leg, a torso. Usually rabbits or raccoons but
household pets have also been reported, One person witnessed the head
of a large dog, a German shepherd or similar large breed, positioned in
the center of the road. There was no blood and the eyes were open
staring down the line of the road.
Michigan City - 50 North - When you go
past the white house on 5o north off of U.S.421 sometimes you can hear
moans and the house at times is not there. There was a guy who killed
his family at this house there his family is said to be buried in the
basement and that is the moans you can hear coming from the
basement.The house is vacated be careful if you go inside different
rooms in the house are colder than others.
Michigan city - old Chicago road - out
in the pines its like porter county and LaPorte county combined. Old
Chicago is out there by devils bridge.
Middlebury - on
CR.18 - Well a while back an Amish man
got hit by a car. Some of my neighbors have said they see him some
nights roaming the streets.
Mishawaka - 100
Center - Hacienda Mexican Restaurant -
Used to be a mansion, the owner had a affair when one of the
care-takers. When she discovered she was with child and he rejected
her, he hung herself in the attic. Employee's have reported seeing her
throughout the restaurant.
Mishawaka - Hacienda
Restaurant - Workers claim to hear
whispers and see apparitions throughout the old house. It has also been
said that the owner of the house shot himself in the basement of the
house. Now the maid hung herself in the attic of the house. Well the
office to the restaurant used to be in the upstairs part of the house
right by the attic. we had a manager say when she used to close up the
restaurant she would turn off the lights to the office and turn on the
alarm. she would walk away and then look back and the light would be
back on, so she unscrewed the light bulb an put in the middle of the
floor. well she walked away once again and then looked back and the
light was back on. well needless to say that room is now closed off.
other sayings are that you would be the only person in the bathroom and
the lights would go off and on and the water will come on by its self.
Mitchell - Spring
mill state park - There is an old village
there that is haunted. There are many old log houses and a mill that
are said to be haunted. After dark if you go out there you can see
lights and figures in the mill as well as in many other buildings.
There is also and old cemetery there that is haunted. If you go there
at night there is a blank grave of a man who gambled and lost. He was
found murdered and nobody knew who did it. At night you can see a
figure walk from the blank grave and stand in front of the grave of the
man who killed him.
Mooresville - Gravity
Hill - If you stop while going up hill
and put your car in neutral your car will roll up hill.
Morristown - Copper
Kettle Inn - This historic, local area
eatery known for its family style chicken is reputed to have several
active spirits haunting the facility.
Mount Vernon - Robin Hill - On the top
of a hill stands an old white house which has been abandoned for many
years. The house was once a stop on the underground railroad. The house
is now being remodeled, according to rumor, into a bed and breakfast.
It sits on the corner of Mill and 9th. Local lore says that the house
is very haunted, but no one really knows by who/what or why.
Mulberry - Hamilton
road - This is a very haunted road that
few people know about. Take state road 38 all the way to Mulberry and
look for a road called 900 west. If you are coming from Lafayette, go
right on it. You will come to a stop sign. Go thru the sign. That is
Hamilton road. There are 3 one-lane bridges on this road, when you get
to the third bridge, stop and flash your lights 4 times. As you then
cross the bridge, you will see a short man in your rearview mirror
chasing you. If you drive up the road about 50 feet you will come to an
old church graveyard. Go it the graveyard and park as close to the back
as you can get. Walk along the fence and you will see what looks like
flames coming from the woods. This is where the church once stood. It
is said that when it caught fire in the 1800s that everyone was killed.
Also there are old haunted tracks right after the graveyard. Go about
midnight and stop in the middle of the tracks. Put baby powder on your
rear bumper. You will hear a train whistle and see the lights come at
you. Then they will disappear. Get out and look at the back of your car
and you will see baby fingerprints. A little boy named Danny was killed
here in the early 1900s right after the tracks were built. WARNING:
THIS ROAD IS VERY DANGEROUS TO DRIVE ON IN THE WINTER. IF IT IS RAINING
OR SNOWING DO NOT ATTEMP TO DRIVE ON THIS ROAD!
Muncie - Apartment
on West 6th - A family moved into the
possible haunted home on West 6th Street in Muncie after the landlord
lowered the rent. He explained to the family that previous tenants
didn't want to stay longer than 2 months. After the family had lived
there for a while, the children were scared of the upstairs playroom
because of the old lady that lived there. The old lady that the kids
were seeing was a ghost. Later unexplained happenings were pacing
sounds in the playroom, kids tucked into bed, and items in the kitchen,
such as mayonnaise being moved. A boy had died in the bedroom and his
mother died there years afterwards. I have also heard about weird
occurrences like past tenants waking up and having some sort of oil
dumped on them. The new tenant of the home believes it's haunted also.
There is a road in Jay County, Indiana where if you drive it from one
direction, it's a normal road. If you drive from the opposite
direction, there looks to be blood forever stained on the road. It has
been given the name "Blood Road."
Muncie - Ball
State University - Elliot Hall - A
male student came to school after having fought in WWII. He was burned
during the war and his face was disfigured. Supposedly, he became
severely depressed and went to the fourth floor and hung himself from
the cross members of the ceiling. At night you can hear a table being
dragged across the floor to the point where the man was found hanging.
Munster - The
Bieker House - Update: Burned down - The beaker house is very well known in Munster
Indiana. A woman dressed in white can be seen during day or night. The
house is vacant [for years],and known for it's huge red barn. It is
owned by the city. As at one time, the city offered the huge house and
property "rent-free" &"utility-free" to anyone willing to live in
the house for the purpose of preventing vandalism to the house &
grounds. No offers were ever met - Update:
the big red beaker barn has burned down, there was an electrical fire,
and now its just the house.
New Albany - Culbertson
Mansion - This tourist attraction
contains the ghost of a woman on the 3rd floor. She is heard walking
about and some have seen her. She is believed to be the first wife of
the former owner and may have remained behind due to the mistreatment
of her surviving children by the husband's new wife. Note: this mansion
is open to the public and guided tours are available.
New Albany - St.
Joe Rd. Cemetery - in the middle of the
cemetery there is an old hanging tree in the day the hanging branch at
night it is there. and if you go to the very back and look to the front
there will be a huge blare of smoke.
New Carlisle - PrimRose - a road the
length of a quarter mile long surrounded by woods, its known to have a
ghost truck that changes color and is known to chase visitors out of
the area
New Castle - Community
corrections - disembodied voices heard.
New Corydon - Jay
County - The Laughing Scarecrow - Not
much is known about the mystery of the laughing scarecrow but at no
particular time mostly during and around the harvest season, it has
been reported that a figure or apparition, looking such as a scarecrow,
will appear out of the woods, which is located south of 116, off a
country road. It will screech and laugh at passersby. Also the whole
town of New Corydon, and surrounding area, is known for many unusual
phenomena. That includes a Cry Baby Bridge, the creature, and witches
of the old abandoned stone quarry. And strange lights. Many people
report a feeling of doom, coldness, evil there.
New Cordyon - Jay
county - OLd School Houses - it is told
to be that if you pass by the school house and look inside you will see
shadows of people walking around. it is also told that in the 1960's a
group of teenagers went to the school to see if it was really haunted
and one of the girls that was there died in the school and it is said
you can see her standing in the window if you look in there from afar,
but if you look to long at her she will run away from the window and
run out the front doors after you.
New Haven - Historical
City Hall Building - The building was
originally built in 1913 and served as the city hall, jail, and fire
station throughout most of the last century. The building is currently
being restored by Ellusions, Inc. - www.ellusionsinc.com, who is
currently renting it. Many employees have seen and heard many things in
the building. When questioned, police officers who used to work there
also verified unexplainable events. Ellusions had psychic Sandi Athey
tour the building remotely. She described several events that were
confirmed by previous tenants. Fort Wayne Ghost Trackers were asked to
conduct an investigation, which also proved fruitful and confirmed many
things posed by Psychic Sandi. The basement has documented cases of
different smells and orbs and video of orbs were recorded by the staff
of Ellusions and FWIGT.org. Rumor has it that the basement was once
used as a temporary morgue. Orbs were photographed in many rooms
throughout the building.
New Haven - The
Tunnel between New Haven High School and New Haven Middle School - There is a small, cramped tunnel that runs under the
highway between New Haven High School and New Haven Middle
School. Legend says that back in the early 70s, a homeless man
was beaten to death by a group of sixth graders returning from a
basketball game. For several days he was passed on by students
who, not realizing he was dead, kicked and prodded the body with
sticks. Some accounts even say that "Fat Mikey", one of the most
notoriously bad seventh graders, urinated on the man's prone form.
Finally, after a weeks time, someone reported the body to
authorities. However, when the police arrived, they found nothing
but a few scraps of clothe and bone fragments. Some speculate
that he had been devoured completely by "The Feral Dogs of Lincoln
Highway". Others believe that he now lives beneath the earth and
rises from the dead on the nights when basketball games are played,
waiting to prey on unsuspecting children. There are many eerie feelings
associated with this tunnel, and a few students claim to have heard
voices or even feel a rough hand gripping their shoulder.
Whatever the case, you can always smell urine there.
New Mount Pleasant - Cinderella's grave - Behind
the jay county conservation club down a short lane in the woods is a
cemetery dating back to the early to late 1800's. In this cemetery is a
gravestone marked Cinderella this is supposed to be the name of the boy
buried there. Go in at night and when you count the headstones one way
there are 13. When you go and count them back the opposite way there
are only 11.
Noblesville - The
Hare House - Another historic building on
South 8th Street in Noblesville. It was owned by one of the founding
families in Noblesville. The house was used for some time as a funeral
parlor. It was moved and restored in a new location within the past few
years. Hauntings that have been reported include "a creepy feeling when
being upstairs," "a white lady with a candle on the staircase," and "a
little boy who runs around, pointing and giggling at people."
North Judson
- Dogface Bridge - supposedly a couple was murdered here, and at midnight
you can hear the lady screaming and a dog howling. The car that they
supposedly drove still sits there, and the road has been shut down.
Rumor is if you go out there alone, your car turns itself around and
you can see car headlights coming at you
North Webster - North Webster Elementary - Some say a young boy wearing khakis and a blue sweater
roams the athletic areas playing sports and shutting off the lights.
When someone goes to turn the lights on the light switch is already on.
There is also a teacher in high heels on the second floor. People say
that they can hear high heel shoes clicking on the floor. Random
appliances in the school turn on and off by themselves. The young boy
can also be seen in the library trying to check out books.
North Vernon - Haunted Bridge - Back in
the 1960's, a teenaged girl could not accept the teasing and taunting
of the students at Jennings County High School. One evening
around midnight, she jumped from one of the local bridges killing
herself. Though her body was found, to this day people driving
across the bridge at around midnight have reported seeing a young girl
jump from the bridge, though after searching no bodies are ever found.
Oakland City - Oakland City College - Cockram Hall - where the wife of Colonel William Cochram, the founder
of Oakland City University, hung herself in the upstairs of the tower.
If you look in the windows at night u will see doors open and shut, and
see a bright orange glow come from some of the windows.
Oakville - An-urban
railroad - The An-urban railroad used to
run through Oakville. Eventually it went out of use and most of its
track was taken up. The empty trail where it once laid is said to be
haunted by slaves who built it and other unknown apparitions. Many have
encountered phantom chains along its path. One of the old an-urban
stations still stands in Springport. It is also said to be haunted.
Old Oaklandon - Fire Station - At
unpredicted times of the day and night, strange and mysterious things
occur at this station. Shadows have been seen and bay doors have been
known to open on their own.
Orange County - Paoli - Bon's Chapel - This
is the home of the headstone with a chain link that grows each year.
The stone has been replaced numerous times, but the chain just keeps
appearing. The story goes that the chain represents the love of a man
that was in the army and his girlfriend that waited for him. They were
going to get married before he left, but his parents kept them from
seeing each other and from getting married when they heard about the
news. He went off to the war and she waited for him even though that
they couldn't be together. The guy was killed in the war and they
brought his body back here for a proper burial. the young girl attended
the funeral, but she stood across the road and watched it from a
distance. They say that today you can see the chain glow at night, and
sometimes during the day you can see the young lady dressed in black
standing on the other side of the road watching the funeral.
Oragneville - Chain
grave - A slave owner from the 1800's beat
one of his slaves to death with a logging chain. The wife of the slave
had a local shaman put a curse on the slave owner. The curse was that
he would bear the reminder of his murder for eternity. After he was
buried, a chain appeared on his tombstone, and every year another link
is added. It is located at a church called Bonds Chapel which still
holds services. It is actually about five miles south (as the crow
flies) from Huron.
Osgood - Devils
Elbow - There is a road that the locals
all call Devils Elbow. Legend has it that it is haunted by evil
spirits. I was raised close to this road all my life. Over the years I
have seen and heard many of things such as, red glowing eyes, a woman
in white, a bay crying. and sometimes when you are driving on this road
your car will die or if it doesn't die, your headlights will get dim as
if something is feeding off the energy. About 15 years ago a man was
brutally murdered on that road. It was haunted way before the murder
incident. Makes one wonder if an evil spirit provoked the murder.
Parke - Bellmare
- old Bellmore schoolhouse ruins - In the
ground of the ruins of the school house there is an extreme change in
temperature to very cold and in the boiler room you can hear the voice
of a young boy screaming and sometimes playing. Legend has it he was
killed down there and put in one of the furnaces and when people go
down there rocks and bricks fly at you out of the dark.
Pekin - Washington
School - The third floor is the most
haunted place in the girls bathroom the lights turn on and off and on
the second floor in the old gym there is a bloody handprint on the back
of a basketball hoop on some days it moves.
Pendleton - Cry
Baby Bridge - it is on the way to
Pendleton. legend was that a woman drowned her child off of the bridge.
If you park your car there at midnight it will not start back up and
you will hear a woman crying or her baby crying.
Pendleton - Falls
Creek Park - In 1945 two lovers, Jon and
Rachael, were playfully chasing each other across the bridge early one
morning. They just spent the whole night together doing what lovers do.
As Jon chased her, Rachael tripped on her skirt and fell tragically
into the creek hitting her head on one of the rocks, killing her almost
instantly. Witnesses say that after Jon dove in after Rachael, it
appeared that he was being held under by Rachael's lifeless corps. Ever
since that day, some claim they can hear the whole tragedy and others
say they see it.
Pendleton - Main
Street Graveyard - It is located in the
outskirts of Pendleton, Indiana. Anderson is at least 20 miles away
from it. And Main Street Graveyard is located a half mile down the road
from that. It is where a little girl is suspected to be the devil. On
top of her grave there has been a plant growing over many of years.
this plant has now begun to shape like the Devil's Pitchfork.
Pendleton - Mt.
Giliad Church - If you run around this
church 10 times prior to going to Main Street Graveyard and Crybaby
bridge(see Anderson and Markleville listings) you will conjure up
spirits which will make your evening trip a little more interesting.
Take SR 38 east out of Pendleton to County Road 50 West. Then turn
south about 3 miles to Mt. Giliad Church. After running go south about
2 more miles and you will cross the county line and then turn right on
Hancock County road 675. It is there you will then find Crybaby Bridge
and Main Street Graveyard a little beyond that. The lane to the
graveyard is blocked by boulders.
Peru - Hookmans
Cemetery - no matter what time of day you
go there there is a fog that’s sits at the top of the hill no breeze,
no birds, or insects. If you go there he is not buried where its mark
you have to walk 1.5 miles back you’ll know when you get there because
its like a cold pocket.Urban legend Stories say on some
cold fall nights you can see Hookman walking old lovers lane looking
for his next victim.
Peru - Kings Courts
- where the old pizza hut used to be.
Near highway 31,and if you take that road all the way back till you see
a trailer court you found it! There have been seen strange creatures
and very strange noises back there. There’s a cemetery on the side
dating back to the 1800s and there been dry lighting hitting it for
some time now (worth a look).
Peru - Okie
Pinokie - This site is located off of
River Road (on your way to Mississinewa Resevoir). You will come to a
"Y" in the road, where you will hang a right. You will soon after see a
small cluster of pillars at the entrance of a gravel road. This site
used to be swampy and marshy and there have been at least 8 decaying
bodies found there (reported by Mississinewa staff). This site may be
an old burial ground of some sort or battlefield, as to the thousands
of spirits hiding within the trees. You will drive down this gravel
road, and the trees will begin to swarm and intertwine above you. You
will then come to a circle. Getting out the car, it is said that if you
whistle, someone will begin whistling with you from deep in the forest.
It is also said that a noise like a pig squeel and dogs barking can be
heard like it is right next to you. And last but NOT least, you will
hear screams like a small child is being tortured; supposedly it is a
7-year-old girl named Stephanie. Also, traveling a long a path you will
find a tree that has indents that appear to be much like deer antlers;
HOWEVER, these are horizontal instead of vertical and have a place for
an opposable thumb. - Warning: DO NOT GO
HERE, UNLESS YOU REALLY WANT TO BE TERRIFIED. (P.S. Do not "Ouija" here
for the spirits do not like it.)
Peru - Old
Stone House - Part of the old under
ground rail road near the Wabash river on old stone road, it is said on
some foggy nights you can drive by and see strange lights coming from
the house, It was burned on the inside years ago and is not safe to
enter but it has been bought and is going to be converted into a
church.
Petersville - Petersville
House - Before the house burned down a
couple years ago a team went to investigate this house. Using a 35mm
camera with 400 speed film they report taking about 4 rolls worth of
pictures of the site. Out of all those pictures there was 3, maybe 4,
of them had several orbs in the picture. Another picture had figure in
bright white standing in the broken out window. Further examination of
the photo appears that it was a female and she was wearing a dress.
Hopefully they will send the pics in soon to share with us. Since the
house has burned down there has not been any more orbs/women standing
in any other picture.
Pike County - Blackfoot
Cemetery - This old cemetery is located
out in the middle of nowhere. It contains gravestones dated from the
1800's, and is a known spot for paranormal activity. Many people
visiting the cemetery have reported seeing strange lights and hearing
scary noises. There is even a lone gravestone in the cemetery that is
separated from all the others. Legend states that a witch is buried
here.
Plevna - Ferrell
House - There used to be and old deserted
house and barn, there were occasions of flaming faces, a woman hanging
from a rafter in the barn (that is how she died) a body on the roof,
red orbs, there was a closet upstairs that had no flooring just a
bottomless hole (when you drop things down it you will never hear it
hit.) If you went directly underneath it on the first floor there was
no hole. Now at the location where the building was there is an eerie
blackness, they have tried to grow crops there and they will not grow.
Plymouth - Hayloft
Restaurant - Has recently burned to the ground - This place was originally built in the 1800's. Up
until 1970 the restaurant was a working barn. The ghost moves objects
about the restaurant; sometimes knocking things over and sometimes
making them disappear altogether. He also turns up every once in
awhile, looking just like an old Indiana farmer. When he's around
people report smelling some thing that smells like burning wood.
Poland - Poland
Cemetery - There is a gravestone for a
five-year-old little boy who was said to be taken over by demons. His
family put a color picture on his marker and it is still in perfect
condition. When you look at the picture, you can see horns on his head.
Poland - Zion
Church Cemetery - its has been told of a
ghost coming out in the road and just stopping in front of the cars and
make you stop. Locals believe its a warning about this haunted place.
And it tell you to turn around and go back. If you do go around the
haunted place don't say you weren't warned!
Porter - Michigan
City - Devils Bridge - Laporte border - It
is said that in the early 1920s the mob used this area to bury bodies
that have never been found. Currently it is a known devil worshipping
spot. Orbs, images, and disappearing men have been seen here. It is
located off county line rd, on Porter County side.
Porter - Porter
County - Historical Society of Porter County Old Jail Museum - has had paranormal activity recorded and when open for
Halloween haunted houses many orbs and strange things have been seen
and people have gone missing
Portage - Old
Porter Road - Late at night often during
the winter months shadow-like figures has been seen along the train
tracks in between Portage and Burns Harbor that line Old Porter Road.
This lonely strip of road has seen many tragic events over it's rich
history, some resulting in injury or even death, no one can pen down
the explanation to the figures, some describe as dog like, as if a dog
had grown long thin legs, and a long thin tail, stretched to twice the
size of a medium sized canine and given glowing yellow eyes. A young
person who lives on the desolate portion of this road has often been
subjected to visions of these spectral beasts, roaming through her yard
at night terrorizing the family pet, breathing, scratching, and
growling at the windows and doors to the house. Some of the conductors
say they can see the hounds running along side the trains as they blow
by in the night, yellow eyes glowing bright, baying as they chase the
wind.
Portage - Wolf
Mansion - As the story goes. back in the
day, the owner killed all of his slaves, even their children after
slavery was made illegal. Some have even said he went crazy and killed
his family, dismembered the bodies, hide them and then shot himself.
Sometimes you can see the light in the bell tower come on for no reason
and there is no switch for it. People have been seen in the windows
when the house was not occupied. Orbs have been spotted. One person who
did an install at the house claims that when in the basement they felt
breathing down their neck and that something brushed against their
hair. When coming back up the stairs, something was passing along their
heels. Reports of doors opening and closing by themselves and things
missing and showing back up .Hauntings include ring of the bell in the
bell tower(there is no bell anymore),monks walking around, and screams.
Portland - Old
Portland High School - In the auditorium
of the former Portland High School a janitor was fixing a light bulb
over the stage on a tall ladder with someone holding it at the
bottom. The janitor lost balance and fell, colliding with the man
at the bottom. It didn't break his fall though, and was instantly
killed from a broken neck. Since then there have been reports of
a weird cold breezes in the auditorium at night, and sometimes a
sighting of the dead janitor. The Portland High school was turned
into the junior high when a new high school was built, and then torn
down in 2002.
Princeton - Bulldog
Bridge - This is an old bridge located on
back roads heading east out of Princeton, the bridge has been host to
many suicides, the favorite way was hanging. A man was also found there
dead in his car, doors locked, windows up. This was in the middle of
the summer when temperatures reached well into the upper 90's. When
they found him he was already decomposing. The place is supposedly
haunted by these people who hung themselves or were found dead, cold
spots are often felt and in the summer you can see your breath like you
do in the winter. Growling in the corn fields has also been reported.
Redkey - Shoetree
and Crybaby bridge - First the shoetree
has many pairs of sneakers in it all tied together and flung in there.
The story goes that a man was killed and then had his shoes thrown up
in the tree. He now haunts this place and if you go there at night and
get out of your car he will murder you and thrgw your shoes up there
with his. A half a mile down the road is Crybaby Bridge. Supposedly a
school bus full of girl scouts went over and now you can hear them
crying down there. If you stop on the bridge and turn off your car it
might not start again.
Reedsville - Dick
Huffman bridge - Well as it is told if
you go to the bridge and flash your headlights you will see some one
walking towards you it looks like a old man. They say this man got
drunk one night and plunged off the bridge. Or what we say he thought
he could fly.
Reelsville - Four
Arches - Four Arches is a train trestle
with a tunnel running through it over the four arches. The last arch
supposedly contains the body of a murdered woman buried in the cement.
People have reported seeing a figure standing at the last arch
resembling a woman. There is also a ghost train that comes through here
on certain nights.
Reelsville - Reners
Quarry - there was an explosion in the
mine that killed 40 people now you can hear the boom and the screaming
, moaning in the shaft
Rensselaer - Memory
Gardens - This is a cemetary that has a
statue of a saint in the back. it is said that if you go there at night
and walk by the statue, it will move. It will move as if it was
following or staring at you. Its arms move from their original position
when you come in. and its head also moves as if it were watching your
every move. - DO NOT TRESPASS HERE! You
WILL be arrested.
Rennsalaer - Moody's
Light - Way aut in the farm fields a man
is said to carry a lantern up and down the road that his family lived
on. The light, it changes shape, size, and color throughout the night.
Rensselaer - St.
Joseph's College - There is said to be a
spirit in the chapel of St. Joseph's College. Sometimes at night, there
is a light that is visible at the very top of the chapel. The light is
only seen by lovers who are walking on the campus. When you look back
at the light, you won't see anything.
Rensselaer - St.
Joseph's College - Aquinas Hall - supposedly
the site of an exorcism. When any of the priests are asked about it,
they quickly become furious and tell you to mind your own business.
However, the place has been closed down for apparently no reason. This
dorm had offices one the first floor and had students living there a
few years ago. After that it was used mainly for the nursing student
offices. In 2002 there are still offices and there are now athletic
coaches living in the residence area.
Rensselaer - St.
Joseph's College - Drexel Hall Drexel
Hall is now restricted and on the list of Indiana's most Endangered
Landmarks. Though the rest of the building is in ruins, the chapel is
in perfect condition according to my sources. Also, people who enter
begin hearing voices in their heads.
Rensselaer - St.
Joseph's College - Dwenger Hall - It
is supposedly possessed. Students of the dorm next to this shut down
building have claimed to see lights coming from inside. Many also claim
a force compelling them to look into the windows. Rumor is that the
priest who preformed the exorcism, committed suicide after it failed.
(If it was in Dwenger Hall or The Theater is unclear.)
Rensselaer - St.
Joseph's College - Hallas Hall - supposedly
haunted by a baby. Legend has it that a young woman gave birth there
and the baby died. It has been there ever since and students report
hearing it cry at times. There is also a claim about a girl who woke up
in the middle of the night to see a very young boy at the foot of her
bed.
Rensselaer - St.
Joseph's College - Theater - There
are multiple places on campus that are either haunted or possessed. All
in all, this campus may be one of the most haunted in the country.
First of all, and the most widely acknowledged among the student body
is the theater. Legend has it that one of the many priests on campus
hung himself there after an exorcism went awry. Others believe it is a
student who didn’t get a part that killed himself, rather than a
priest. People still feel things touching them when they are on the
catwalk and doors move without reason.
Rensselaer -
Twin Cemeteries - on a road just out of
Rensselaer, there are two cemeteries, on each side of the road. Legend
has it, that there was a young couple whose families didn't get along.
They decided to kill themselves Romeo and Juliet style. They left in
their notes to be buried side by side. Their families didn't honor
their wishes and put them in different cemeteries. Late at night, if
you drive there and park your car between the two cemeteries, and shut
your lights off, you can see a brunette women in white and a man in
black walking across the road to meet each other. Warning: If you shut
your car off, it will not start again. Also, the woman was from a
religious family, so it is said that if you supposedly cuss, you submit
yourself do the danger of being attacked.
Richmond - Earlham
College - -BACK CAMPUS-...On Halloween
night in 1857 there were 2 students who were walking in the back of
campus. There is a big pipe line that goes over the creek. Rumor has it
the 2 students were trying to cross the creek on the pipe line and fell
off into the creek which is only about 2 foot deep. To this day on
Halloween night if you go there you can see fingernail scratches on the
pipe where they slipped off and hear screaming from down below.
Ridgeville - Sleepy
Hollow Road - This road is a gravel road
and it has trees surrounding it. You can't see the sky because the
trees are like a dome over the road. If you turn your lights off you
can't see anything. If you drive down the road you will come to another
like drive way or a little road like that. Down the road about a
half-mile is a school bus if you go back there you will be chased back
to your car by the team that was stranded back there.
Rockport - The
Rockport Inn - This is a Bed and
Breakfast over a hundred years old. One of the owner's wives died in
the Inn and is said to haunt it and roam the halls. A ghost of a lady
has been seen and heard for many years and by many of the owners and
guests.
Rochester - dead
man's college - it is a one room
school that was built before 1876 on top of an abandoned family
cemetery. There is a grave under the front step. it is linked to the
story of Prill school because supposedly "sister Sarah’s" baby is one
of the graves located at this school. At night you can hear children
asking you to come play with them.
Rochester - Earl's
Tree Cemetery - This graveyard is off of
St Rd 25 on 300 south. Take a tape recorder out there on any night of
the week and just have normal conversations. Nothing eerie
happens...until you listen to the tape! You will hear the raspy,
whispery voice of what we believe might be a 3-year-old boy named Earl.
This is an old graveyard...we believe that he may be telling us
something about the tree next to his grave. Listen VERY CLOSELY to the
recording however, you may mistake his voice for one of your own!
Rochester - Olson
Road - There is an old slaughterhouse on
Olson Road between Old and New 31. It is off of the river. If you drive
by, sometimes you can see it and sometimes you can't. It's huge when
you do see it, so you know that when it's gone...it's really gone! If
you get out of your car and try to walk to it, you can't get to it.
Rochester - Prill
School - March 2008: Has been removed
Rockport - Eureka
Rd - Reports of different residents
hearing men having a conversation and a spectral train when there is
none on the tracks, while lying in bed. They have also, heard a man
calling their name and the televisions turn themselves on and off.
Children have also complained about toys moving across the floor and
seeing horses running through the upstairs.
Rolling Prairie - Lambs Chapel - ghostly
sightings and cold spots have bean reported the legend behind lambs
chapel is said to have a beautiful young lady running through the
cemetery at 12\00 on the dot it is said that she was driving by lambs
chapel and her car broke down so she got out and she saw a man he
chased her through the cemetery and you drive by your car might just
brake down
Salem - Henderson
- When inside the gates you get the
feeling you are being watched. you hear things move and nothing is
there. The grim reaper has been seen there. in the seventies there were
three girls savagely cult murdered there.
San Pierre - Dog
Face Bridge - Back in the 1950's a couple
were driving over a bridge heading out on their honeymoon, When a dog
ran out in front of them the couple swerved and ended up driving off
the side of the bridge still killing the dog Now there are 2 stories,
one both died, and the there the male died but either way the woman’s
head and the dogs head was chopped off and they were unable to find the
woman’s body and the dogs head, Now it is said as you walk down the
path there are 2 bridges the first bridge is weak and very old the
second is the one they crashed off, It isn’t even there yet you can see
the Cement sidings from where it once stood. Supposedly when you go
down the path you will see the body of the woman wearing the dogs head,
if you do not beat her off of the first bridge and back to your car she
will kill you, by supposedly eating you alive. there have -rumored-
been bodies found, and people being shot at reported. as you walk you
can hear strange animal snorting howls and growls , while the entire
area is made of swamp and it is a known fact that, Wolves and Coyotes
do NOT go near swampy areas.
Schererville - Scherwood Lake Apartments - Many years ago when the apartments were first built, a
woman was alone with her son one day near the lake feeding the ducks.
The boy threw a temper tantrum as they were getting ready to leave and
in an angry rage the woman pushed him into the lake. Not being able to
swim, the little boy drowned. Residents say you can hear the little
boys screams for help in the night, and many have seen a little boy
drowning but when they jump into save him, there is no one there.
Scottsburg - Bridgewater
Cemetery - Isolated from civilization
this cemetery sets on top of a hill overlooking the grassy fields. It
is said that if you go there after midnight you will see a glowing
tombstone of the man that awakens at night and guards the front gate.
Scottsburg - Scott
County Heritage Center and Museum - This
building was originally the county poor farm. Many families who lost
everything and had no where else to go came here. We are currently
turning it into a county history museum. The building is haunted by
former residents who liked living there so much that they refused to
leave. We've heard a baby crying, footsteps on the second floor when no
one is up there; strange odors; and the lights being turned on when the
building is closed. This building will be open for tours starting in
October. A fee will be charged.
Sellersburg - Old
Man Ike’s - murders that happened years
ago has made this old house haunted. Screams and loud banging can be
heard where a man tortured and hung many members of a family. Located
behind an old factory out of Sellersburg where Ike worked at
Seymour - Papa
John's Pizza- A "Person" in a blue
uniform has been seen by many employees, at various times of the day,
but dissapears before fully coming into veiw. Seen especially late at
night and early in the morning. Knocking sounds have also been heard on
the walls coming from the empty store next door.
Shadowwood - Is
the national headquarters of Sigma Pi Fraternity. It is haunted by the
ghosts of the children of the original owner, cold spots and other
various qualities made this house #7 on Unsolved Mysteries top 10
haunted places.
Sharpsville - The
old Factory - There is an old factory in
town and when u go by there at night you can see something in window
but the factory has been closed down for years. If you go up to the
building you can hear banging of metal or something like that and you
hear people talking like they were working.
Shelby - Waldron
- River Road - Apparition of a man has
been seen and cries for help are heard.
Shelbyville - The
Twins House - A long time ago there were
two teenage boys who had gone crazy after their mother was killed by
their father. The two boys killed their father in cold blood. The house
is still haunted by the two boys. The house is symmetric on both sides
one for both twins to live on. On July 4th, 1940 the two stabbed each
other to death. On July 4th it is said that you can hear the two boys
screaming in pain from the fighting.
Shelbyville - Werewolf
Hollow - If you drive down the lane at
Werewolf Hollow, there is a stop sign. Look close and you will see
blood flowing on it. As you go on, there are cornfields. You can see a
male ghost. Be careful not to stop your car because he will scratch
your car. He is trying to warn you not to go on. There are some
abandoned houses and if you get out of your car (if you dare) and go up
to the houses, you can see a ghost in one window. In another window,
you hear noises and a hole in it.
Shoals - Brooks
Bridge - there was a girl about 17 who
threw herself off the bridge. A couple day's later they found her dead
body. Often on the 5th of every month you can here her screams as she
throws herself off the bridge. Then a splash then silence. Many say
that if u go down to the bridge after you hear the screams and u catch
her before she jumps than she will chase you and yell at you for
distracting her.
Shoals - Peggy
Holler - From dusk until dawn it is said
that you can drive to a spot known as Peggy Holler located in the
outskirts of Shoals and hear strange noises, displaced fogs, a man's
voice crying out "Peggy" and possibly even witness the headless ghost
of the spirit many residents have come to know as Peggy. It is said
that her husband cut off her head in a maddened rage and in an insane
state of existence is still left calling out her name...
Shoals - The
New Gym - The new gym that was built in
Shoals, Indiana, is said to be built where there are some bodies
buried. They say if you go in there at night you can here the tapping
of the people wanting out. Basketballs come bouncing out of some of the
doors. Doors slam shut. Sometimes you can even hear popcorn popping in
the concession stands.
South Bend - If
you go back on the old trail and walk towards the bridge over Juday
Creek, you will see an old train engineer standing with his lantern.
The ghost supposedly committed suicide.
South bend - Council
Oak Cemetery - Sounds of a horse taking
off through the cemetery when walked through at night!
South Bend - Lincoln
Elementary school - It is said that this
school used to be a old hospital for kids. In the restroom when you are
in the stall ,lights flicker and the sink goes on and off by itself.
South Bend - Old
Roller Coster Rd ( Sycamore Rd) - Reports
of phantom cars chasing people.
South Bend - Potato
Creek State Park - Over the years many
children have drowned here swimming at the beach, when fishing at night
on the fishing pier across from the beach next to the cemetery you can
hear the sound's of a child crying and calling for it's mother when you
go over to the beach where you hear the cries there is no one there....
South Bend - St.
Joseph - Primrose Rd. - January 2007
Update: Submissions have been removed at request of the property
owners.
South Bend - St.
Mary's College - Le Mans hall - the bell tower - there is seen to be a girl hanging from a rope. She
committed suicide there. Also on the 4th floor infirmary there are
blood spots on the floor from a girl who died there.
South Bend - Tippecanoe
Place Restaurant - This is the mansion
home of Clement Studebaker, one of the original brothers who was of the
Studebaker dynasty. It has been many things since being inhabited, a
home for deaf children and now a fancy restaurant. There was a fire in
the nurserey in the early 1900's and a nanny and child were severely
burned, and Mr. Studebaker committed suicide after the Studebaker
empire was crumbling (although it's disputed as to whether or not he
actually killed himself in this house). According to bartenders,
especially at night late, they feel chills, see things move out of the
corner of their eyes, one of the workers says, his room mate, also a
worker, was speaking to patrons about the "legends" and mentioned that
he personally did not believe it ghosts...as soon as he said it an
expensive bottle of liquor flew off of a top shelf about 8 ft off the
ground and crashed right behind him. The very top floor is a ballroom
and was used for dances when it was lived in, and appears to have the
most activity, as well as the floor directly below it, which is where
the nursery was, now where the bar is.
South Bend - The
University of Notre Dame - has a long and
grand tradition of academic excellence. Founded over one-hundred years
ago, it has graduated it's fair share of learned folk, and even a few
celebrities. Some have since moved to the afterlife, and some of these
restless spirits have stayed on. Before the university came to be as we
know it today, the Patawatami Indians lived their lives along the
shores of what is now known as the St. Joseph River. They buried their
dead in the area and some of their dead still seem to be around.
Washington Hall now houses the university dramatic theater, but it once
served as a dormitory for the one and only George Gipp. Gipp was known
as a wonderful football player, and something of a gambler. His ghost
is said to haunt the stage and greenrooms. Columbus Hall dates to the
beginning of the university's infancy. Ghostly Native Americans, and
their spectral horses, have been seen riding up and down it's stone
front steps.
South Bend - Holiday
Inn City Center - Some flight attendants
and pilots who stay at the hotel have sworn that they have seen a
flight attendant sitting on the edge of the bed looking in the mirror
at them. Some say that awhile back, her pilot in the room killed a
flight attendant.
South Bend - N.
Michigan / Dreamworld - It is said that a
lady walking her dog down the train tracks that used to run by this
location was hit and killed by a train. it has been told to this day
even though the tracks are not there you can see premonitions of her
and her dog. on some nights it is told you can even hear her calling
her dog looking for it.
South Whitley - old train tracks - Apparitions
of 3 little girls walking and talking, sometimes witnesses see just 1
little girl with a teddy bear.
South Whitley - Whitko High School - When
Whitko High School was being built, directly behind a cemetery off of
SR 14, a construction worker was confronted by an old woman. She told
him that every year the school was open at least one student would die.
When the construction worker turned around, the old woman disappeared.
So far this has held to be true. Rumor is one student has died every
year since the school was built.
Southport - Train
Tracks - You can here a woman screaming
for her baby that killed by a train. Every time a train goes by you can
see her by the side of the tracks.
St. Paul - Old
Railroad Bridge over Flat Rock River - A
man fell from this railroad bridge and was killed when this bridge was
first built. A light can be seen from the bridge late at night. It
looks like an old lantern light. Moans can be heard from the top of the
bridge, but no one is there.
St. Paul -
Trestle - If you go to the trestle in
Saint Paul you will hear a crying sound. Then if you flash your lights
at it 3 times you can see three friends who died there. The story goes
that all these friends were walking across the trestle and they fell.
It was around 3:00 in the morning when they fell.
Sullivan - Free
Springs Bridge - There are many stories
that deal with murder about this bridge that lies out in the country in
this small town. There have been sightings of a "headless man" walking
around looking for his head that had once been severed. He had been a
bum that feel out of a train and got ran over.
Sullivan County - Cass - Antioch Cemetery - Reparts
of seeing a man dressed in a dark colored suit with flowers in his
hands looking down at the grave on foggy nights around 1:30a.m.
Witnesses also see shadows of people flashing past and over their
vehicle accompanied by scratching & tapings heard.
Sunman - Guilford
- on a bridge going across the creek to
the Guilford park you can sometimes here a woman screaming and a train.
It is said that the woman was hit and knocked into the creek next to
the train tracks and the creek carried her down to the bridge were her
body was then found. they never found out who the woman was because
when the police were investigating the body it started raining and the
creek rose and washed the body away.
Tab - The
Locust Grove Cemetery - Reports of the
sound of army cadence. Sounds believed to be Harrison's troop marching
to the Battle of Tippecanoe.
Terre Haute - hells
gates - Some say that if you go under all
three bridges and under the third bridge you might see the devil. If
the Devil has his back to you then you will have a good life but if he
is staring you in the face the rest of your life is doomed. Others say
that if you see your name under the bridge the next day you are suppose
to die. Its a great place to go for a scare.
Terre Haute - The
Golf Course - apparitions are said to
appear but not confirmed. Pictures produce orbs. Every night there is
said to be a kid named Alex that roams around the 6th hole of the
Country Club Golf Course. One night Alex was drinking with his friends
and passed out and died. Now people say that every night if you go out
there around 12:00 A.M. You might see Alex roaming around but you will
definitely hear Alex vomiting and screaming for help. This is at the
Terre Haute Country Club.
Terre Haute - Highland
Lawn Cemetery - Just the old story of
Stiffy Green. Supposedly Stiffy (a dog) and his dead master can be seen
walking in the cemetery at night. February
2005 Update/Correction: Stiffy Green did not roam the cemetary, but
instead was inside the mausoleum of his owner. He was removed several
years ago because the cemetary didn't want kids driving through the
cemetary late at night.
Terre Haute - Historical
Museum - Witnesses claim to have Caught
many things on film here. Everything from orbs to a small mist. The
arbs seem to center around the old front staircase. The building was
used as a halfway house for several years by the 3rd owners of the
property. It is now used as a historical museum. Supposedly the old
crib in one of the upstairs exhibits moves occasionally even though the
area is closed off.
Terre Haute - Indiana
State University - Burford Hall - the
ghost is Barb, a young woman who died of alcohol poisoning in the
residence hall. Students have often reported hearing Barb vomiting
and/or crying in bathroom stalls. Also, there have been reports of
strange happenings like sounds, whispers, things moving and things of
that sort. February 2005 Update: It was
torn down several years ago and turned into a parking lot.
Terre Haute - Indiana
State University - Cromwell Hall -
a white cross under the window is seen on the 12th floor where the man
jumped, on the west side of the building in room 1221. Now you can hear
footsteps and strange noises in the hallways.
Terre Haute - Old
Mil Dam - Use to be part of the Under
Ground railroad. It is very haunted at night. Certain nights stuff
happens, a report of a small girl stands near the creek. They used to
have the Underground Tunnels open but they are closed now. If you are
in Terre Haute and go to Old Mil be careful. You might get a surprise.
Terre Haute - Terre
Haute Regional Hospital - A night nurse
reported seeing a former deceased cancer patient walking from the
hallway to her former room 540 on the West end of the 5th floor.
She was reported as a wandering patient, when staff told her that wing
had just been closed. When they investigated, the hall and room
were empty, the patient disappeared.
Tunnelton - The
Tunnelton Train Tunnel - A ghost of a man
has been reported their many times. He was decapitated during
construction and still searches for his head. Rumor -
The tunnel also has a graveyard on top of it its been rumored that
while building the tunnel caskets fell through. Also, you can hear the
screams of a ghost family that was killed when their horse and buggy
crashed into the river down the hill.
Union Mills - Old
U.S. 30 - on the way into Hana. On the
railroad tracks on 600 w. Around 2:30-3:30 a.m. There has been a
blue-tinted shadowy figure, that looks as if is carrying a lantern,
walking on the railroad tracks into Hana.....In 1987, a man was coming
home from work at est. 3:00 a.m. and was hit by a train........
Upland - Spook's
Corner - Supposedly a busload of school
children were killed when the bus ran off of the road. The bus still
sits there in what is now a graveyard. There is a bridge up the road
that the bus fell off of and supposedly if you go too slow over the old
iron bridge, your engine will die and you will have to push the vehicle
off of the bridge to get it started. You will hear children screaming
and crying while you are pushing your car.
Utica - witches
castle - August 2004 update/correction:
This submission was removed as it was not true.
Valparaiso - Stereo
Bridge - well long time ago two trains on
the same track had collided under the bridge so at night on the certin
day you’re on the bridge you can hear a train blow its steam and one
other train on the opposite side are coming at the same time to collide
under the bridge and during the day u can see that the track looks the
exactly the same from the left side and the right side like a circle .
Valparaiso - Valparaiso
University - Alumni Hall - two
young children run up and down the halls at about 2:00 in the morning-
they talk to some of the residents and say that they are playing tag.
They are 8 or 9 years old and wearing jogging pants
Vanderburgh - Evansville
- Boehne Camp Hospital - This is an old
abandoned tuberculosis hospital. Several people have reported sightings
of the ghosts of patients who were held there against their will as to
not contaminate others. The property is now privately owned, but
students from the nearby university often are caught trespassing on the
property. - Trespassers will be reported
to the police. - June 2008
Update: the hospital was torn down only right across from it is the
other building that was connected by the tunnel it is being renovated
to apartments and there is still a utility shed with access the tunnel
which is not smart it is usually flooded and cluttered with old desks
lots of bats and creatures of the night.
Versailles - Silver
Bell Nursing Home - call lights go off in
empty rooms.. the sound of children playing loudly can be heard in a
room of the facility, people whistling in the halls at night when all
the residents are asleep...several nurses have reported hearing someone
in a room at night only to go in and it's empty but they can still feel
the presence of someone there...a nurse's aid reported that the doors
to the laundry room shut and locked on her and she had to climb out a
window to get out and when the nurse went to check, the doors were
locked...it used to be a hotel in the 1800's before becoming a nursing
home in recent years.
Vincennes - Purple
Head Bridge - One story is there is an
old one lane toll bridge that cross the Wabash river on the outskirts
(south 6th road) to saint Francesville IL. It is said that long ago it
was a place where a man jumped from the bridge to hang his self. When
he did his head ripped off, and was never found. If you go there on a
raining night and park on the bridge and wait you WILL SEE a purple
head floating toward you. The other is the bridge is supposedly a
bridge they hung people off of in the 1800s, giving it its name purple
head. Vincennes University legend has it that if you go out there you
will hear screams from the spirits that have been hung.
Vincennes - Sigma
Pi House - Is said to be haunted by Civil
War Colonel. Doors open and close as well as strange clouds and figures
appear all the time.
Wabash - Miami
school - Bloodcurdling screams heard at
night sometimes, was a murder in the gym, some say that the school
received letters from an unknown person telling them to move the
school, they didn't then the school mysteriously burnt down.
Wabash - Mississinewa
Battle Grounds/Graveyard - Upon
approaching the graveyard you can see an abandoned church behind a
picket fence. Further back a graveyard with about 20-30 graves, not
arranged. Strange groaning and sounds coming from the woods along with
actual physical contact that was witnessed by myself and others in my
group. Recorded on camera non refracting light when stilled appears to
be a shape of a apparition running a crossed the film. Also recorded on
camera, fresh blood on tombstones that was not previously there. Other
reports indicate, and witnessed by this group also, deeper into the
woods in another section, places closed off by the state for
unexplained reasons where strange noises can be heard coming from.
Pictures and video are available for evidence.
Wabash - Wabash
County State Forest - Near the Salamonie
Reservoir, black shadows have been seen running through the forest.
Strange lights also have been known to appear, along with a foul odor.
Witnesses have even claimed to see wolf-like creatures wondering about
the forest. Hikers say that time seems to stand still while hiking and
the trails appear to shift, causing some unlucky people to be lost.
Walkerton - Railroad
tracks that go through the middle of town - The tracks are set back behind houses this worker was
building the tracks. There was one more spike to set he was trying to
finish it when he was hit by a train. He wears a blood spattered on his
railroad uniform he still doesn't realize it's been placed. There is
also a suicidal teenage girl who killed herself
Wayne County - Richmond - Goshen Cemetery - Cemetery is just North of Richmond, IN on 227 N.
Numerous signs of ghosts can be detected here. A lady in white stands
over one of the graves, and when approached she disappears. Footsteps
in the grass can be heard either following, or coming towards you.
Shadows and small white lights can be seen in the woods surrounding the
cemetery. The most frightening area is definitely the Northwest corner
of the cemetery underneath an Oak tree. This section contains the
graves of children. It's the darkest section of the cemetery, and if
you stand in the path right by these graves. Something will sound like
it's falling out of the tree, and will hit the ground with a thud.
There is never anything there. Other oddities include a sudden
temperature drop over some of the graves.
Wayne Town - Lester
B. Sommer Elementary - Some people say
that a little girl lived there when Sommer was not built yet. She was
tortured and abused by her father. Then one night, she tried to run
away and her dad came chasing after her. He grabbed his gun, and shot
her and she fell and died. To this day she is buried under Sommer, at
night you can go in the rest room and the lights will flicker and you
can look under the stall and see her sneaker and boot.
Warsaw - Devils
Back Bone (St Rd 25) - It has been said
that if you drive down Devils Back Bone on ST RD 25 late at night
around mid-night you will hear a freight train in the distance. It is
believed that a train used to run through there but due to the
quicksand it sank. No one even knows how the quicksand even got there.
There is no evidence of any quicksand being there.
Wayne - Richmond
- Star piano building - People say that
you can hear the voices of the people buried under the building, From
when there was a cemetery there. - October
2004 update: The main building has been filled with grafitti over the
years, and many of them seem to move, not just to watch visitors, but
at times to even shift from floor to floor of the five storie bulding.
At times a large truck cam be heard from the loading area in the
basement, and you can also hear footsteps and even see debris shifting
benieth the feet of an unseen person. Witnesses have reported phenimena
from the common cold chills and sense of a "presence" to actual
possession.
Wells County/Warren - Willow Road - Thirteen Graves - January 2006 Correction – This was posted twice under
Wells County and Warren. - on State Road
3 off of Willow road is the old Batson cemetery, no one has been buried
there since like the late 1960s , there is thirteen unmarked graves. As
you count them there is thirteen and supposedly if you turn to count
them backwards one grave vanishes. No one knows who is buried there. Some believe it is remnants of an old
limestone walkway, The walkway can be proven with pictures at
Huntington library taken of the cemetery in the early 1930's. Also it has a glowing grave, at night when you drive
by you can see one particular grave glowing at night. Some people have
also witnessed an old ragged looking man who is supposed to be the
caretaker of the cemetery. He is believed to be the caretaker of a
blind school not some 100 ft from the cemetery that was tore down in
past years do to deterioration. He would supposedly watch over the
cemetery at night after the children were asleep. UPDATE: The cemetery is under
surveillance due to numerous complaints of vandalism and destruction,
you will be escorted off the property and possibly arrested. NO
TRESPASSING December 2003 addition - They say
when there is a full moon, you will see a boy with a hatchet that will
chase you down the road. They also say that if you throw a rock at a
certain grave a girl (one of the thirteen dead), will come out to talk
to that person and only that person. About one mile back in the woods
near the cemetery is the site of an old house. The old house is where a
family of 13 people died from a extremely deadly disease. When the
bodies were buried, there were too many of the bodies for a proper
grave. The bodies were buried and cement pored over the bodies so the
disease couldn't escape. There is a light that hovers above one of the
graves, and it is only visible when all lights are off. One resident
has noticed that every time a person walks into the cemetery, a tree
nearby will make a squeaking sound. To date, that tree has done that
every time they have walked into the cemetery.
West Lafayette - Cumberland School - An
apparition of a male seen by the window.
West Pittson - The Smurl Haunting - The
claimed incidents began in 1974 and lasted until 1989 in the home of
Jack and Janet Smurl. Whether the haunting was genuine or an elaborate
hoax is debated. According to the Smurls, the first signs of paranormal
activity began in 1974. They reported that a television set burst into
flames, and a stain appeared on a carpet overnight. Water pipes began
to leak even though they were repeatedly re-soldered by a plumber, and
scratches resembling those from a large cat appeared on paintwork and
bathroom fittings. Toilets flushed without human intervention,
footsteps were heard on the stairs, chest drawers opened and closed
unaided, radios worked when they were not plugged in, rocking chairs
rocked while empty, and a sour smell filled the house. In 1985, John
and Mary claimed to hear loud, obscene language, and Jack and Janet's
house became often extremely cold. Two days after this, an icy cold
swept the house and a strange black human shape allegedly materialized
in the kitchen in front of Janet. It was about five feet nine inches
tall, and with no facial features. It later appeared to Mary Smurl in
her kitchen. Several TV specials and movies like A Haunting where made
about the experiences here.
Whiting - Wahaula
Beach - If you go there at night, there
is a small patch of woods that overlook the beach. There you can see
ghostly outlines of old sail boats and people dressed in old time
bathing suits swimming and in inner-tubes. You can also hear splashing
and laughing.
Willard - Willard
Library - Haunted by the Lady in Grey,
you can try to catch an image on www.libraryghost.com
Williams - Williams
Covered Bridge - It is said that before
the bridge was covered a man was riding his horse across it and the
horse jumped off. Supposedly if you go there at midnight whenever you
can hear the horse neighing and the man screaming as they jumped off
the bridge.
Winslow - Austin
Arnold Road - This is a road in pike
county where an old hermit found out that the coal mine was moving out
by where he lived, burned down his crops, destroyed his home, he later
laid down a tarp shot his dog and then himself. There is an old
building left on the property it might have been a garage. Cold spats
and strange fog are accustomed to this spot. - Reprisal: It was mentioned formerly that he killed his
family, this was untrue.
Woodburn - Blue
Cast Road - The Old Blue Cast Sanitarium - The
places used to be a sanitarium back in the 40’s.They shut it down and
made it a natural spring water plant. Then tore that down in the 70’s.
Reports of dark moving shadows, red glowing orbs, cold spots shouting
and other strange noises have all been reported.
Zionsville - Holiday
Drive Bridge - Stories of a lynching here
by the KKK. Road is very narrow and quite isolated. Very dark at night.
Gravel road. Many curves through the woods. Reported screams heard here
late at night. Located off of North Michigan Rd. past N. Michigan and
Willow Rd. On left hand side. Look for small green street sign. - March 2008 Update: The bridge still exists, but they
have "bridge out" signs all over it. it may not be safe to investigate.
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