In
North Dakota
Abercrombie - Fort Abercrombie - ghostly
Indians and soldiers have been seen here.
Akra/Leroy - Road between
Akra and Leroy - it's to be said that a lady has
been seen with a rope around her neck in a white dress walking across
the road. Back in the 1940's it's said that the lady hung herself after
getting the message that her husband has been killed by a gunshot at
war. She lurks around sometime at 11:00P.M-12:00A.M.
Amidon - Georgia's and the
Owl - Not only a fine place to dine, Georgia's
and the Owl is home to several paranormal activities. A little
boy has been reported to run around the restaurant, playing and bumping
into people. Occasionally, music and voices can be heard.
Potato chip bags clipped to a rack have been found strewn about the
floor when the restaurant was opened for the day. A local team of
investigators has conducted extensive investigations here and has
recorded some strange muttering voices.
Anamoose - Sage Hill Bed
and Breakfast - This is now a bed and breakfast,
but used to be the first school house in North Dakota, in the early
1800's. It is said that at one time there was a fire started by a coal
burning stove in which the Superintendent(who smoked cigars) died in
along with a young school boy. When the people that turned the old
school into the bed and breakfast begin tearing down things that needed
repair things started happening such as objects vanishing and moaning.
Lights flickering on and off and a light would turn on in the cellar
that when you used the switch to turn it off it would not go off. Also
when working one day the smelled cigar smoke, neither of them being
smokers went to see what it was. In the cellar there was smoke in the
air, cigar smoke coming from a cigar that was still hot. Once they
started putting things back things gradually got better. Witnesses
report feelings of being watched and there's cold spots and sometimes
the hair stands up on the back of your neck.
Belcourt - Belcourt School
- It has been said that a long time ago a fire
was at the school and a couple of people had died there ,kids
have said to have said to have seen a man dressed really old clothes
holding his hat down and looking at the ground in a shocked sort of
way, also people have said to have turned the lights off while going to
the bath room and when they were done they found the lights back on and
they never heard anything.
Bismarck - Apple Creek
Country Club - It has been said that about 10
years or more ago, a janitor had died of natural causes in the middle
of the night while cleaning and was found the next morning. Since then,
strange occurrences have happened with nobody being in control of them.
At night there are weird noises and your hair on the back of your neck
stands up. This especially happens when you are there alone. A woman
chef that used to work there around the same time as the janitor has
since passed away and has been spotted in the kitchen and could also be
a part of the occurrences.
Cannonball - Kelly’s bar -
people say there was a man about 6'0" feet tall
wearing a black trench coat and had hoofs with a hat on he walked in
and said I know you all and walked in the bathroom and around the
corner there was a tail slide around the corner even though there is no
windows in the cowboys bathroom he never came back out and when someone
went in there, no one was in there??
Dickinson - Ear, Nose and
Throat Clinic - There have been many reports of
toilets flushing by themselves and the feeling of being
watched/followed by workers in the early morning hours. The ghost is
said to be that of a doctor who went on a fishing trip, but never
returned. He is believed to have drowned on that fateful trip.
Dickinson - Praire Hills
Mall - There are reports that a figure can be
seen walking the mall after hours. One story goes that a police officer
was making his rounds in his vehicle and saw someone inside in the
mall. When he went to investigate, he could find no one.
Dickinson - St Joseph’s
Hospital - It is said that the elevator door
leading to the morgue often opens by itself at night. The key is that
the doors can only be activated from the inside of the morgue. The area
near the cafeteria is also said be haunted. A soft, eerie moan can
sometimes be heard coming from the area late at night. There are
reports of the nurse's call button being pressed late at night on the
third floor in unoccupied rooms. The voices of children laughing and
running can often be heard in the old section of the admin offices from
the basement.
Dunseith - Camp Mondak - a camp once used as a reform ranch for boys, there are
reports of hearing laughter in the trees where a boy hung himself after
he and 4 other campers murdered the councilors/owners of the camp.
there is also a feeling of being watched or chased thought the trees.
Dunseith - San Haven - There was a sound of babyies crying. Also when you go
there you can sometimes even see them in the windows. It is known to be
very scary around Dunseith.
Edmore - Edmore City
Museum - Sightings of a male figure in the
doorway and flickering lights.
Fargo - Buena Vista
trailer park - it's been said that there have
been 2 15 year olds walking around at night 1 boy and 1 girl that where
hit by two car's racing on Santa Cruz Dr you also can here screaming
and yelling
Fargo - Moorhead train
tracks - There are train tracks that go through
Fargo and Moorhead. A couple of years back, a woman tried jumping on to
a train but instead was dragged all the way through town. Her body was
later found with nothing really left. A couple of homeless guys were
sleeping by the train tracks and reported seeing the woman. He woke up
to see her in the distance with glowing red eyes. He thought if he was
to shut his eyes and ignore her that she would go away. He opened his
eyes to see if she was gone but she was only closer with her red eyes
still on him. Frightened, he awoke his friend and they left to seek
slumber else where.
Fargo - North Dakota State
University - Ceres Hall - There have been
many weird happenings on the 3rd floor of this building, most believe
that it has to do with a man who hung himself from a heating pipe
during WW II. In the basement: hairs stand up on the back of the neck,
a strong feeling of fear forms in the stomach and the "fight or flight"
instinct kicks in with most people leaving the basement in a hurry. The
presence and sense of evil is much stronger in the basement than on the
third floor which seems to have a separate entity occupying it.
Fargo - North Dakota State
University - Minard Hall - Back in the
1920s the 4th floor attic in the building which was built in 1901 was
the dance room. Nobody knows what exactly happened but in the morning
the janitor found two people dead. The investigators thought that it
was a double homicide. After that incident the ballroom closed and was
turned into a zoology lab. And then in the 1960s it was closed off
because of unstable floorboards. After that kids have snuck up there
and held séances. Strange feelings of something there and not
being alone.
Fargo - Northern School
Supply Warehouse - This building, built around
1910, is haunted by the ghost of a small boy who fell down the elevator
shaft many years ago. People working there late at night have reported
hearing a child crying from inside the elevator shaft, sounds of
running feet, and the apparition of a small boy who will appear and
stand there staring at you.
Fargo - Riverside Cemetery
- Reports of EVPs being recorded. Also reports
that a cassette recorder placed on top of a particular crypt will
record knocking noises coming from inside the crypt.
Fargo - Shanley High
school - This building was built in 1951 as the
parochial high school. There were a few strange happenings. A teacher
was working late one night when she heard footsteps in the hall she
looked out and saw no one. In the gymnasium an electrician was working
on an air-conditioning unit that was located under the bleachers when
he happened to look up and he saw a hooded figure float from one wall
to another through a solid brick wall on both sides. A young lady was
working at night cleaning on the third floor for two nights. And for
two nights she saw a girl come out of a closed door in the hall and go
right through a picture of Mary on the opposite side. For some reason
all of the ghost activity has been seen around the theatre. Soon
Shanley high will be torn down in November and turned into apartments.
Fargo - Trollwood Park - Trollwood is currently home to the performing arts
school and has had numerous ghostly reports. It was discovered to have
been the home of a pauper's cemetery and you can see the three
locations where people were/are still buried. These are now marked with
small stone monuments. The most common occurrences are the ghost of a
lady seen dancing around a willow tree while the students are
performing or music is playing. She appears blue/grey and in 19th
century dress. There have also been EVPs recorded and the voice of an
old farmer that used to reside there is heard telling people to get off
his property. Others report the feeling of being followed, seeing
people walking around that aren't there when they look again. Voices
calling to them and being "touched" These are just a few of the reports
heard.
Fargo - Yunker Farm - The
Children's Museum - The entrance to a 2nd story
terrace becomes unlocked by itself. There are two doors, both locked
with deadbolts. One becomes unlocked repeatedly - when there is only
one person with a key - and this person has not been near the door. The
elevator sometimes goes up and down without anyone in it. There is a
presence of not being alone - not malevolent. This house used to house
a family with 10 children in the early 1900's. The ghost is lovingly
referred to as "Vanessa" after the mother of these children. It is not
known if anyone ever died there - or of who the ghost may be.
Fort Yates - Black tongue
hill - 15 miles south of Fort YatesThis story
goes back more then forty years. Black Tongue Hill gets it's name from
Old Lady Black Tongue who used to live on that hill. She could have
been walking to or from there, but whatever she was doing on that road
she was hit by a car. Now people from way back and even today say that
they see her walking even running by your car looking in your window
wearing a long black dress and shall at night.
Fort Yates - Grant School
gym - Inside the boys locker room you can hear
weird sounds like lockers slamming and the showers turning on by
themselves. You can also hear people talking in the locker room when
you are by yourself.
Fort Yates - OLD
GOVERNMENT JAIL - There is an old white building
the government now uses as a storage area for facility management, when
you walk by this building at night you can see someone looking at you
out the barred windows. I was told by my grandmother is once was a jail
in the early 1900's. My friends and I were walking around one night and
seen it for our self, shadows and profile outlines of people like
things looking out at us, I never realized I could run so fast.
Fort Yates - Old Luger
Hotel - This very old home was built around the
1950's. Richard Luger and family live on the main floor and the rooms
upstairs numbers 1-6 were either rented or just for one night stays.
Luger would get complaints about room #4. They always said they saw a
little girl in a white gown with long curly hair standing at the foot
of the bed at night. They could also hear her giggling during various
hours of the day, she'd somehow move things, make something fall, or
the closet door would open! Luger didn't know what to tell his guests.
His grandfather had built the place, Rich didn't know of anything like
this happening in the past so he couldn't explain. His daughter sleeps
in that room now and her sister, who sleeps in room #6 has claimed to
see that little girl run by her room and into room 4. She'd walk in
that room and see nothing except her younger sister sound asleep in her
bed. It is also said to be haunted in the basement by a man, an old
woman, and two women. You never really hear or see the man or old woman
as much as you can hear the two women talking.
Fort Yates - Standing Rock
High School - Rumor of a child being killed in
the basement of the auditorium. The people always talk about it that
there is a young boy about 6 years old and he is always walking around
the auditorium and you could hear some voices from the down stairs of
little kids.
Grafton - high school - sightings of a man walking in the hall ways and
playing around with the lockers
Grand Forks - Altru
Hospital - Formerly United Hospital - The staff elevator makes several runs per night, often
empty. Many staff members have claimed to have seen the elevator open
on their floor and caught a glimpse of a figure inside, Strange,
unexplained shadows set off the door alarms in the psych ward. When
seen on video camera, the shadows appear to slide under the door and
reappear on the other side. - April 2007
Correction/ Update: The Altru and United Hospital submissions were
combined, United Hospital became Altru sometime around 2000.
Grand Forks - Lake Agassiz
Elementary School - In the auditorium of the
school there have been reports of giggles and basketballs moving by
themselves. There have also been strange nauseating odors, which come
and go. The piano has been heard playing at night when no one else is
in the building. The ghost of a little boy has been reported as being
seen.
Grand Forks - St. Ann's
Nursing Home - This building used to be a
convent for nuns. It was left vacant for years and people have seen a
figure of a woman in the bell tower windows. It has recently become a
nursing home and the bell tower is sealed off from residents. The
figure is presumably Sister Mary Murphy, who through herself from the
tower in 1978.
Grand Forks - University
of North Dakota - John C. West Hall -
An apparition of a torso of a young girl accompanied by electrical
problems, TVs and lights shutting off. The dorm complex (several
buildings) is now connected by partially underground tunnels to a
dinning center (Wilkerson). - October 2007
Update/Additional Information: The story is that during a cold North
Dakota night, a girl tried to take a short cut across a parking lot
only to find that the door to the dorm was locked. It is said she froze
to death outside the dorm. The tunnel system was later built and
connected to the door near where she died. At the time of the incident
there were no tunnels.
Grand Forks - University
of North Dakota - Stacher Hall (Technology Department) - Several students have witnessed an apparition of an
arm laying on the floor out of a doorway in the second floor graphics
darkroom. Each student described the arm as a man's arm, appearing
sporadically throughout the year and visible both during day and night
time. A professor conducted soundings of the building and discovered
abnormalities on the second floor, tracing them back to the darkroom
film developing closets. Most students, without any knowledge of the
ghost's existence, report a feeling of being watched and a brooding
presence. Other students have experienced a floral perfume scent
wafting through the second floor computer lab during down times for the
school, and experienced a sense of being watched by a young woman. This
second ghost moves throughout the computer lab area, causes small
breezes in a air controlled room.
Garrison - Stoney End - A man was killed who once lived in the Stoney End. It
is now a restaurant and many worker claim to see him and experience
unexplainable things such as (things out of place, lights turning on
and off, and some even say they have seen him!) some of the small town
locals have claimed to see him outside on the small road leading to and
from Stoney End, and also next to Stoney end on highway 83 leading
through Garrison.
Harvey - Harvey Library - It has been said that at night when no one is in the
building there have been books pulled from shelves and left on the
floor open. When the workers come in for work they find the books
pulled out.
Horace - Horace Elementary
- Several people have heard footsteps or seen
ghostly figures at night.
Jamestown - Anne Carleson
School for Children - Many people claim to see a
little blonde girl walking through hallways and she will appear in the
laundry room and sit in the corner and stare at you. There are also
many reports of strange occurrences in dorm rooms.
Jamestown - Kroeze Hall - It is said that if you go to room D15 late at nights
you can hear the rhythmic sounds of a click. There was a college
student that use to live in this dorm room that had obsessive
compulsive disorder with Rubik's Cubes. When sent to the state hospital
after attacking a fellow dorm mate for stealing his Cube, he killed
himself but still haunts the room for his toy of joy.
Jamestown - Watson Hall - A young girl (age 5-7) is occasionally seen walking up
and down the 2nd floor hall late at night. There have also been many
strange occurrences in a 1st floor room such as bottles flying off
dressers, posters being ripped off the walls, and doors slamming shut.
Killdeer - Lost bridge -
Highway by Killdeer - On some nights people in
car's drive by and there and cars break down and then they say a hoof
man comes out or you see someone on or near the road
Leroy - White Lady Road - The In the old days of traveling
salesmen there was one salesman who fell for a
farmer’s daughter... He took her for a walk on a
remote road. When they came to a bridge over a swampy
area he made his move. When the Girl spurned his
advances He killed her...... Now at different times when
people travel over the road at night they see a woman in
white standing on the road. Next thing they know she is on their
vehicle looking in with glowing red eyes apparently looking for
the murderer.... One group of people knocked her off the vehicle
by driving away at great speed and by swerving back and forth but a few
miles down the road she jumped back on the car and continued
looking over each person till she was satisfied that who she
was looking for was not there. This manifestation has gone on for
years and there is many who claim to have seen her
Mandan - Ft. Lincoln
National Park - Custer House - Custer Haunts the
recently rebuilt Custer House were she and Gen. George Custer lived
before the little big horn.
Mandan - Mandan Community
Center - 16 year old male was found hanging in
the building during its construction, an apparent suicide. noises are
heard coming from the swimming area locker room, and wet footprints
have been seen on the concrete walkways in the morning, even though the
building has been closed for the night.
Mandan outskirts - Custer
House boardwalk - The spirit of the wives of the
soldiers who were killed in the battle of the Little Big Horn remain
here. On occaision a terrible moaning and wailing cry comes from a spot
on the boardwalk just to the south side of the Custer mansion. It is
followed by a rushing wind-like energy that shoots upward from the
ground. Lights appear at night in the downstairs and upstairs windows.
Mandaree - Mandaree Public
School - Some say that in the girls locker room
you can hear voices and see people. Also basketballs bouncing around in
the gym, people walking around, voices and other odd things. Plus all
around Mandaree it is haunted with witches, spirits and little people.
Medora - Chateau Demores -
Everyone that goes there experiences the feeling
of always being watched and cold spots. Medora was supposed to return
but she died before getting the chance to do so. I think when driving
home from the Medora Musical I saw the lights on in one room.
Medora - The Fudge Depot -
It is supposed to be haunted by a person
(possibly a woman) who haunts only once a year. Her birthday. Even
though it is an ice cream shop it is unnaturally cold in there, even in
the 100-degree plus heat. The whole town is full of ghosts, ask a local
and they will tell you where to look.
Medora - The Rough Rider
Hotel - One of the rooms on the top floor is
said to be haunted by a young boy. You can hear a child's laughter, the
toilets flush when there is nobody in the room.
Menoken - A ghost has been
seen in the field across the road from the cemetery there. He looks
like an old time farmer running with a bucket, and is about 5 or 6 feet
off the ground.
New Town - The Civic
Center - In the hallways you hear whispers and
where they hold funerals you can see a something there and feel
something too!
New Town - Four Bears
Village - In the Four Bears Village have
seen little men walking around and some say they have seen BIG FOOTE in
the hills and many other spirits like a little girl in the four bears
gym. so beware when come to the village.
New Town - The Rail Road
Tracks - Some people say that when you walk by
the railroad tracks at night, that you could see bright red lights that
will follow you until you get on mainstreet then they will disappear.
Solen - Solen High School
- This one time when This gurl was walking in
the hallway she heard some basketballs bouncing in their gym. So she
walked down there to see whats up, but when she got there noone was in
there. She started walking back up to her class.Then she heard them
again so she ran back down there.Then she saw these two gurl playin
basketball. She told her counsler and her counsler said it was her team
mates that had died that year before.
Standing Rock - Standing
Rock High School - In the school during
basketball games the cheerleaders get ready and do cheers before the
game and they hear or see a little boy running by them... one time he
shut the door and turned off the lights...one time this janitor was
taking pictures in the juniar high hall way and there was nothing there
and when he developed the pictures there was someone standing by locker
220-221 then in the boys locker room there is a mirror when your just
about to enter the lockers people always see a lil boy standing beside
them gr behind them!
township - school house - old school house that had burned down in 1907 three
people were killed in side two kids and one teacher there bodies were
never found and we went out there we heard walking screaming our names
on the black boards lake of fire pickup with no driver and a lot of
unexplainable things
Valley City - Valley City
High School - A teacher who fell from the roof
and died has been sighted floating through the halls at night. Some say
she keeps raving "how sweet is it that it's Friday that's so sweet!!!"
West Fargo - West Fargo
High School - In the auditorium it is noted that
a ghost "Rupert" is haunting the place. The lights flicker the sound
shuts off. (When no one is at the controls.) It could be of a janitor
who fell from the high lighting equipment in the early 80's.
West Fargo - West Fargo
Middle School - It is said that late at night
you can hear crying in the girl's locker room. The lights have been
known to turn on and off by themselves, and lockers slammed shut, just
to be opened and slammed shut again. There have also been reports of
seeing a girl 13-14 years of age walking around in the auditorium.
Williston - The Old Armory
- Mannequins move on their own. Whispering is
heard, but no body knows what it's saying. In the basement there used
to be and old staircase, but it got sealed up and some people have said
they have seen an old soldier standing there guarding it.
Wishek - Wolf House - It is said that many people go to this location just
to see what happens. There have been reports of persons feeling cold
hands on there back, hearing voices, and being attacked an apparition.
The apparition appears to be that of a young women who was hung in the
backyard by her husband. It is said she only leaves marks on men.
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