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Last Updated: March 2008
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Aitkin - 40 Club Restaurant & Bar- The 40 Club Bar & Restaurant in Aitkin, MN is haunted by the spirit of a man that died in an upstairs apartment in 1999.The man that died was not found until days after his death when he hadn't reported for work. Late at night TV's turn themselves on and are only static when there should be normally a picture on them. Also noises can be heard late when only the staff is in the building, Cold breezes can be felt throughout the building as well as "hot spots". Footsteps can be heard upstairs when no one is up there. Since the death, the upstairs apartment has been boarded up and no one has entered the room.
Alexandria - Old Broadway Restaurant - Old Broadway was once a brothel and a morgue. It is now a restaurant. Patrons and staff have reported that they witnessed an old woman walking upstairs during the evenings. She has also been seen in the mirrors as staff cleaned off the tables. The old woman is believed to be friendly.
Annandale - Thayer's Bed and Breakfast - Not only is the place haunted by a little girl ghost, a bride, but also there are two ghost cats, and the owners husband, plus the two original owners! But, the best part is that the current owner is psychic, and gives readings to guests (by appointment.)
Anoka - Anoka State Hospital - Anoka State hospital has tunnels leading underground that link the buildings together. Mental patients were known to try to escape through the tunnels, were caught and murdered, or committed suicide by hanging themselves from the pipes along the ceiling of the tunnels. Spirits have been heard laughing and whispering, and have been known to appear in the tunnels, which are now closed except to security and maintenance.
Anoka - Billy's Bar & Grill - It is rumored that this now local bar at one time was a whore house. Not to the liking of the owner at the time she was over powered by her male employees and was unable to keep the establishment a simple tavern for the traveling loggers working on the nearby Rum River. She died up stairs in one of the bedrooms not to soon after the uprising. To this day several people (patrons & employees) have noticed tables set in the morning when arriving to work, pictures on the wall moved around, and simple cleaning tasks done when no one had actually done them. The old maid has also been seen in the bar and restaurant wandering aimlessly.
Anoka - Cal's Cornor the old River Front Restaurant - The front door mysteriously locked its self at all hours of the day.
Anoka - Coonrapids - Tequilaberrys - Glasses crashing, When there was nothing broke, in the bar all the glasses were sitting on the floor. Hearing your name called, You turn around no one there
Apple Valley - Andy's market - The haunted place is called Dead Man's Hill. The story is a little boy named Dameon. He was sliding down the back hill, when an arrow shot him in the eye. He is heard moaning, and pushing people in their sleds into trees. He can be harmful but all he wants is a buddy.
Apple Valley - Andy's Market Hill - Back Hill - In 1998, a ten-year-old boy was sliding down the back hill when an arrow shot him in the eye. He is usually seen at night by night sleders walking around on the top of the back hill, and sometimes pushing sleders into trees. Yet even some, very few, but some, are driven away from trees if they are naturally heading for it. It is suspected that only children are able to see him. Adults are only capable of hearing these things.
Apple Valley - Falcon Ridge Middle School - While being built in the summer of 1995, a construction worker was buried alive in the digging process. He's been reportedly seen late at night walking through the commons, unlocking doors, and moaning. The lights surrounding the school mysteriously go on and off late at night also.
Apple Valley - Lake Alimagnet Trails - sightings of a figure who seems to look like a clown have been reported. The clown does not seem to be harmful, but stares at you. The only intent is to scare you away from the wooded trails. Sightings have been reported mostly at dust, just as the sun sets.
Aurora - High School - There was a very horrible fire at the school in 1977. In this fire many lives were taken because at the time there was a bunch of kids just going around pulling the alarms. There have been sightings of 2 boys walking on the third floor yelling and there’s been reported sightings of a girls on the seconds floor crying for someone to help her.
Bayport - Stillwater Prison - The living unit that is called B West has an ghost which appears on the 3rd floor. The area called the "brake" area between cells 301 and 732 has an inmate that supposedly died while in prison standing in the corner by a mop sink.
Blaine - Blaine High School - Believed to be haunted by a girl possibly named Alana. In the hallway, if someone is alone, we would hear footsteps, like real close be you. But when you turn around or look around, you see no one, but you still hear footsteps. Then in the girls bathroom, someone wrote Alana 6-1978. The janitor took it off, but like a few days later, it is still there, the exact same way, the same exact writing, just everything.
Bloomington - Jefferson High School - Sometime in the 1970s a kid was climbing up the stairs in the auditorium to get some props. While he was climbing up there he apparently fell and died. Now there is a railing and a fence at the top of the prop room and across from that is a painting of a guy falling.
Bloomington - Radisson South Hotel - Footsteps are heard and the feeling they are coming toward you.
Breckenridge - Cinema 6 Theater - There have been two fires at the theater itself. The first one started in the projection room. I don't know where the second one started. There used to be a hotel in the exact spot where the theater is. In 1977-1979(I'm not sure what year) the hotel was burnt down with almost everyone dead including the man who started the fire. Some people in Breckinridge think that his spirit started the fires in the theater. Some people have claimed that they saw a transparent man wandering the halls during the movie, including some employees.
Brooklyn Center - Regal Cinemas - Man fell while the theatre was being bilt from the roof near theatre 10. Managers and workers have said they heard foot steeps and loud noises up stairs where they play the movies. When they have these experences they are compleatly alone.
Brooklyn Park - AMF bowling lanes - A avid bowler passed away and his soul still comes back to bowl. Late at night you can hear the sound of bowling balls going down the lane and pins knocking over. This happens late after closing and all of the lanes are turned off. - July 2005 Update - it should be noted the bowling alley is now closed and boarded up, and will be torn down in a matter of months. If you try to investigate this place without permission, you will be arrested.
Brooklyn Park - Schmits Music Warehouse - haunted by a man who had a heart attack and died in a doorway to the warehouse in the back of the store. While cleaning up after hours, staff have heard the pianos play by themselves, and the drums and other instruments hanging on the walls play by themselves.
Buffalo - Sturges Park - The old bathroom is reportedly the sight of a lot of paranormal activity. Names written in blood on the mirror. Strange balls of light floating in and out. Old man Sturges, a wealthy businessman of Buffalo in the 1880s is seen occasionally wandering through his old house, which is right next to the park.
Burnsville - Benchwarmer Bob's Restaurant - Several employees have seen an apparition of an Indian in the basement hallway of the restaurant. The k-9 dogs for Burnsville Police will not enter that area of the restaurant. - March 2008 Update: Currently owned by a local bank – they want NOTHING to do with any ghost hunters/paranormal groups or even the rumor of such.No Trespassing
Burnsville - Burnsville Center - A worker who fell to his death from the scaffolding while the building was being constructed seems to haunt the facility now. Reparts have been made of hearing footsteps on metal steps.
Camp Ripley military base - Reports by many U.S Army soldiers of old units of cavalry sent to fight the Indians riding up and down the firing ranges in full battle dress flags flying and all sounds of bugles and thundering horses also heard at night
Chanhassen - Chanhassen Dinner Theater - This theater was built over the site of a house that burnt down with a woman still inside. She is said to haunt the new structure. There is another ghost here of an actor who was hit by a car when she was bicycling home from work. Her spirit has been spotted backstage. - March 2008 update: According to Chanhassen Dinner
Theatre AND the Carver County Historical Society - there isn't now and never was a haunting.
Chanhassen - Water Tower - Downtown - not known who its haunted by. but on any giving night strange noises can be heard, and a ghostly figure can be seen dancing around it and on top of it.
Cloquet - Cloquet High School - Over the stage where the lights and catwalk are the door sometimes mysteriously opens and slams shut. Many of the female actors see a white figure up there, assuming it is a techie they dismiss it. Yet, sometimes when the techies are all around the white bodiless head stares at you and once you speak disappears. This mostly happens during performances. This spirit will not show itself to men, because many scared girls attempt to show it to the boys and they can't see it, while the girls see it is plainly there.
Columbia heights - Pizza Hut - The old baker that used to work there when it was doughnut shop. Hung himself in the backroom. People see him from time to time and sometimes the lights will all of the sudden turn off also the faucets will turn on and off.
Cottage Grove - Cottage Grove Historical Cemetery - Many spirits in this cemetery, one seen in the window of the storage shed, and also smells of perfume in certain areas.
Cottage Grove - dead mans pond - It is said that a little boy was pulled under the water and drowned. To this day the ducks will sit at the edge of the water but will not go near the middle. And if you look closely you can see bubbles rise up from the middle of the pond.
Crookston - University of Minnesota - McCall Hall - A former resident claims always being able to hear people laughing and stomping in the hall with no one there when you would open the door. Also hearing their door open and then shut again and seeing apparitions of a girl. This building is one of the oldest on campus and used to be used to house students when it was an agricultural high school, the building is about 100 yrs old who knows if it is drafts or someone who doesn’twant to leave the building.
Crosby - Milford Magneses Mine - It is believed to have become haunted after a great tragedy when the mine flooded and killed 41 people and then the mine later reopened and men started to quit without giving reasons and few years later after that they closed it and now its just sits there.
Delano - Delano Middle School - A long time ago a teacher got really mad at a boy and killed him after school in the boys bathroom and sometimes when boys go in the bathroom they can here someone saying i didnt do it but no one will be there and they never saw the teacher since.
Delano - Fountain Lake - They say a women drowned in the lake and every night at midnight you can hear her ghost scream.
Delano - Lake Rebecca Park - a man haunts a bench on the trail were he killed himself.
Duluth - Charlie's Club - There is a night club in the western part of Duluth called Spirit Valley,(go figure). The building was built in the late 1800's and was previously 4 stories tall, now a single story due to a fire. Even though no one was hurt or killed in the blaze, the bar has quite alot of paranormal activity. It was quite a colorful place back in the day, being a reported "house of commercial affection", gin mill, speak easy, etc. There are a couple of ongoing events that are quite commonplace. Near the west doors are a couple of pool tables. Just off the far right corner there is a corner drink table where many people have had been either shoved, poked brushed or had their stick bumped to only discover that there is noone there. The other instance is the old woman who shows herself only to men. Mostly men who work there, including yours truly. Many staff members have heard the bathroom's doors open and close, slam shut, swing open violently, the back security door open and slam shut, and no one being there. Attesting to this is it mostly happens after closing time when only the staff is there cleaning up with perimeter alarms set that if anyone was in these areas it would trip the alarms.
Duluth - Denfeld High School Auditorium - Varied stories of people falling off balcony, a murder under the stage and also lights falling onto actors while on stage. Cold spots and invisible presences felt.
Duluth - Duluth Central High School - Back in the 1970's a girl was raped in the girl's bathroom on the first floor. She didn't know what to do, afraid they would attack her again, so she killed herself in her home 3 days before graduation. Ever since students have heard moans in the girl's bathroom when they are alone and red fingerprints on the mirrors. Janitors have also claimed to find papers and belongings that had the victims name on them.
Duluth - Duluth International Airport - The ghost of a woman murdered on a nearby road haunts the airport to which her murderer fled after stabbing her to death. The ghost has been seen by security staff and causes doors to open and close sounding alarms with no one in the secured areas.
Duluth - East High School - Little Theater - The drama director of many years ago (initials RC) was writing a play, but before he could finish it, he fell off the balcony of the theater and died. No one has seen the play that he was writing. Then one day, it showed up on an English teacher's desk with a note on the old East High stationery saying "please perform this" with the initials "RC" on the bottom. The play has never been performed. The lights in the light room mysteriously turn on when the theater is dark. Many students say that it is cold in some parts of the theater, especially near the light board.
Duluth - East High School - there was a janitor nicknamed "Red Monkey." The story says that he got locked in a closet in the school and eventually died there. Some students have seen money dressed in red walking around the school's halls, and then disappearing.
Duluth - Glensheen Mansion/Congdon Mansion - Haunted by maid who was murdered there and by the woman who was murdered there too by her own children Delete- Duluth - Congdon Mansion - Elisabeth Congdon and her nurse haunt the house they were murdered in.
Duluth - Morgan park middle school - glowing red light from inside of one of the rooms, on the rooftop of the school, a tall looking figure staring at witnesses. Hearing a little girl's scream for help.
Duluth - Spirit Mountain - some person died on this ski hill and one night me and my friends went sledding down the snowboard park and at the bottom there is a announcer stand and over the speakers they play music on the speakers when the place is closed and me and my friends herd the shed hissing at us and when we went down passed the shed we saw someone standing in the shed.
Duluth - University of Minnesota Duluth - Griggs Hall S - On the first floor in the bathroom two presences haunts one of the toilets. The first year after the building was opened two students died in the bathroom of alcohol poisoning. Sounds of puking are often heard. And moaning. And profanity. And a smelly stench.
Duluth - Walgreen's - There was a guy that died in a house nearby and in the Walgreen's parking lot people have seen a white shadowy figure in their headlights.
Eagan - Blockbuster Video - After the store closes every night, 2 dark figures, one short and one tall, have been seen running between aisles and appearing out of people's eyes.
Elysian - Le Sueur County Museum - Employees say they have heard many voices talking. When they checked all over, they found no one around. In one event, a typewriter started typing by itself. Another time, a very old record player started playing by itself. And another time after hours, all 3 employees were in the staff room on the second floor, and heard the small service bell ring. They all went downstairs and no one was there. NOTHING could have fallen on the bell, or have made it ring. There’s a toilet in the basement that nobody uses, and one day 2 employees were upstairs and heard a loud crash. When investigating downstairs, they realized the toilet seat was down, when it was left up. All these events occurred over much time, and not very often. The employees wonder what happens during the 5 months the museum is closed.
Embarrass - Heritage Park House - In the house the family that lived there a dad had killed his son by telling him that if Jesus could walk on water so could he, the boy then drowned under the bridge near the house. The father continued to beat his children until he later died. To this day people have reported sightings of the boy who was drowned by the bridge, and the house remains abandoned.
Eveleth - Eveleth-Gilbert High School - in the auditorium people say they were painting on the stage and glanced up on the balcony and saw a person walk by, and there is also paranormal activity in the red room upstairs from the auditorium
Faribault - Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf - Many ghost encounters are said to have occurred here. People have claimed to see a black ghost sitting in the balcony of Noyes Hall. Lights often go out in Noyes Hall and Tate Hall. Witnesses have also claimed to see a number other ghosts on the campus. The origins of the spirits are unknown.
Faribault - Shattuck St. Mary's- The old abandoned infirmary has been around since 1861. It was originally a ski lodge. It has housed all the sick and dying students with incurable diseases until 1912. The inhabitants have included crazy war veterans from the civil war, and the victims of horrible epidemics. Due to the high levels of asbestos the building has been closed, but students still claim to see sickening ghostly figures with boils, rashes, and raw openings appear in the upper floor windows. Two young women were possessed in 1971 and an exorcism had to be performed.
Forest City - Mystery Road 660 - If you go through Forest City be sure to get on road 330 and then turn on to 660. Bring your level with you. Drive down the road a hundred feet and check the road, it should be perfectly level. Now turn your car around and put it in neutral. Your car will get pulled backwards on a perfectly level road. People also get headaches on this road.
Grey Cloud Island - Many strange occurrences have been rumored and reported on this Island. It is a place that is walked by Chief Grey Cloud...and something(s) else.
Grove City - Blue Moon Restaurant - Footsteps heard coming from the kitchen area to the end of the hall by the restroom. The footsteps were heard nightly between 11-12 pm. Also, apparitions of a tall gentlemen (about 6 ft) wearing a long black cape. No facial characteristics were noticed since light was coming from behind the apparition. This restaurant is located about 5 miles north of Cosmos, MN on HWY 4.
Hastings - LeDuc Mansion - is rumored to have a ghost of a former resident.
Hastings - Treat Me Sweet - Treat me sweet has been haunted for some years now. Treat Me Sweet use to be a restaurant some time ago It is haunted by a man. This man used to be the owner of this restaurant. He committed suicide in the back of the kitchen.
Hibbing - Hibbing High School Auditorium - An apparition of an older male sitting in seat J47 has been photographed many times. It is thought to be the ghost of a stage manger, but this is untrue. There has always been an odd occurrence in the auditorium, but the rumor wasn't believed until the apparition was captured in the photograph after a play practice in 2000. - October 2004 update: currently being investigated by Northern Minnisosta Paranormal Investigators. The origins of the ghost are still unknown.
Hibbing - Little Swan Cemetery - Zim Rd. - Reports of anomalies in pictures taken there and severe temperature changes.
Highland - Hillcrest Recreation Center -From the top floor you can hear laughing when no body is there. Plus cold air is found up there when there is no air-conditioning.
Hoyt Lakes - Hoyt Lakes Cemetery - It is said that after being left in the cemetery a young girl was frightened to death, and now is seen at nights waiting for her ride to come back for her.
Hutchinson - Harrington House - On the north side of Park Elementary, there is a 1-story house, built around 1820, the first in our town of Hutchinson. The house was built by the Harringtons and was inhabited for 40 yrs by the Harringtons. One night, Litte Crow, a Crow Indian known around here as hero, spent the night with two of his friends, and both were shot in the house, one in the basement, and one on the top level. The ghosts of the two Indians haunt the house. Pictures fall, blood comes through the floor, and voices are heard. - November 2003 Update/ correction: Little Crow was a Sioux, not a Crow Indian. Little crow and his son were shot but a farmer while picking berries near Hutch. The son lived. Little Crow's body was dragged into town, abused by the locals who put firecrackers in his ears and dumped in the local landfill.
Kandiyohi - Twin Lakes Hill - When you park your car at the beginning of the hill and start walking up the hill; you feel as if someone is watching you. At the top of the hill when it's dead quite you can hear people talking and no one is around. Going down the other side and walking until you see a few trees knocked over, you might catch a glimpse of a young girl named Kirsten who was shot there. In that area there's a feeling of sadness and depression. heading back to your car down the hill you can hear screams and all the sudden feel a great sense of anger and hatred. By the time you reach your car you get a strong feeling as though someone has followed you right to your car.
Kimball - Laundry mat - People have said when they are there washing their clothes late at night they have heard strange crying, and one lady says she has seen a little girl running from the door into a wall.
Lake Elmo - Demontreville - Monastery at Demontreville - There is a ghostly monk dressed in a brown robe that runs out into the road just in front of the monastery between the hours of midnight and one o'clock a.m. This monk will run right out in front of your car and you think you are going to hit him. Then he will completely disappear in front of your eyes. He is described as being tall, thin and young, perhaps in his 20s or early 30s.
Lamar - Barton County Hospital - The staff have heard someone walking down the hall, things moving (heavy furniture).
Lino Lakes - St. Joesph's Catholic Church - It has been said that before the church was built, it was a Catholic school. The current office was built where one of the nun's office was. People have described that they see her often around the church. She has been said to be the cause of calls to the Lino police in places where there are no phones (such as the religious classrooms). The people who work in the office have experienced doors opening and slamming shut, and the piano player has witnessed the keyboard being played & no one was sitting on the bench. Another witness said that she was sitting at her desk and a bible fell off the shelf. After putting it back up, a few minutes later it fell back down. This when on for a while. One of the teens in the church has said to have heard heels walking behind her and there was no one there. Then she heard someone whisper "Stop That!" No one was there.
Litchfield - Ness Church - This church is haunted by The Sioux Indians. Many reports say that the lights of the church turn on, strange figures appear, a little girl named Annie was buried it has been said that she will come out to your car at night and sit on top to of the roof of your car and if you drive off with her on your car she will haunt you for the rest of your life unless you let her get off on her own, and last at the stroke of midnight a car would appear and drive behind you and all of a sudden disappear once you hit the end of the rode.
Long Lake - Holbrook Park - in the park around midnight and 2:oo a.m. a little lost girl is sighted walking around the park as if she was lost or just walking but always disappears when you get to close. She fades away after a while and later comes back with her father. But when she is with her father she is carrying apples in her dress. They are only seen on Sunday nights but don’t get to close to her stay away or her father gets defensive and will attack and leave you with a hurt gut and markings on the face and body.
Loon Lake - Loon Lake cemetery - The cemetery at Loon Lake, Minn. is said to be haunted by the ghost of a witch that is buried there. You can find the cemetery on the Lake's southeast shore. Turn into "Brown's Campgrounds" they have signs directing you to it's sight. It's open during the day only!
Mantorville - Opera House - A lady was in the dressing room in the basement when a lady who was wearing the same dress came into the room and started talking to her and telling her about the time when she played the same role in the play years earlier, but when she turned around there was no one there. She ran upstairs to tell her friend who played the villain about what happened when they both saw a shadowy figure up in the rafters that looked like the costume he was wearing. They left everything and left the place very quickly.
Maple Grove - Hunted Crick - there where two cars that crashed and killed 4 people. And the ghosts still drive by the bridge over the crick and if you get in their way you gets the chills.
Maplewood - Maplewood Community center - A boy has been spotted at the bottom of the pool, and known to tug on you and pull you under.
Miller Hill Mall - There once was a woman that gave birth in the bathroom in the Miller Hill Mall. She flushed it down the toilet, and people have been saying they been hearing sound's of a baby crying in the bathroom.
Minneapolis - Ascension Place - You can hear knocking on doors at 3am, and no body is there, televisions, water faucets turn on by themselves, cold spots and a host of other things. You can feel it the minute you walk in the door! Weird things happened in all the rooms with a 6; like 116, 216.
Minneapolis - City Hall - the fifth floor is haunted by a man was hung there.
Minneapolis - First Ave. night club - apparition of a blonde woman with a green jacket that has been seen quite often. The staff has seen her on a number of occasions and one poor women has seen her hanging in the 5th stall of the women's bathroom. The DJs have heard strange sounds coming from their headsets and people have been said to see dancing apparitions with no legs.
Minneapolis - Guthrie Theatre - The story is that an usher who committed suicide as a teenager haunts the theater. He can be seen in the aisles when the lights in the house are down and there is light shining in from the corridor. - January 2007 Update: Guthrie theatre in Minneapolis was closed down and moved to a brand new building built in another location.
Minneapolis - Minneapolis College of Art and Design - has a ghost loose. Many students have been woken up in the night, frozen and not able to move, and heard screaming inside their heads. Apparently, some one had been raped and killed in one of the basement apartments at one time.
Minneapolis - Minneapolis Institute of the arts - Areas of extreme, 'cold spots', especially in the, Connecticut Room, (a 1700's style room).
Minneapolis - Stillwater - Arcola Trail Bridge - A young wife searches to find her husband along the abandoned railroad tracks of Arcola Trail in Stillwater Minnesota. You may find her walking about with her lantern in her white gown late at night.
Minneapolis - Treasure Island Casino - The casino is located about 1 hour from the Minneapolis area near the Wisconsin / Minnesota border. Returning home from the casino (on Hwy 18 along the Mississippi river) alone after midnight, a witness reports he stopped his car on the shoulder of the highway to take a little nap as it was late and he was tired. Shortly after he closed his eyes, he heard the soft muted sound of footsteps walking towards his car. The footsteps sounded like a person with a broken leg because it was dragging one leg as it walked. He got up to see who it was because he didn't want the cops to give him a ticket. He peered out of the car window to see an old man(?) with dark hallow eyes and frayed white hair leaning on the passenger window behind the driver's seat. The old man was rotten and his clothes were tattered! That was all he could make out of the ghost before he quickly started his car and drove off in a hurry.
Minneapolis - The University of Minnesota - Washington Avenue Bridge - The Washington Avenue Bridge connects the east bank from the west bank which house separate portions of campus. There have been several suicides off of the bridge into the Mississippi river below, most often by students. Late at night if you walk through the tunnel you can sometimes hear footsteps following you. If you turn around they will stop, and then continue again when you start to move. Also, the University of Minnesota had to remove several flags from the bridge, because they were being ripped down by an unseen force. Even while under surveillance.