Ghosts of Indiana retells a legend in which the cemetery's first undertaker appears above the staircase and shows visitors a vision of their death. Conflicting counts on the ascent and descent supposedly determine the vision's fate. Other tales describe an unseen hand pushing people who stray from the steps.
Supernatural claims are attributed accounts. Historical backstories have not been independently corroborated. Not Cloverdale Cemetery, a separate location.
An employee account collected by Haunted Places describes knocks, whistles and whispering in the library, along with dragging sounds and toys apparently moving in the children's area. Fleeting shadows and figures seem to watch staff, with reports particularly associated with people remaining after closing.
Supernatural claims are attributed accounts. Historical backstories have not been independently corroborated.
Avon's bridge has several competing legends. Haunted Places recounts a mother and baby caught on the railway and the mother's cries lingering beneath the span. Another version concerns a construction worker entombed in a support. The wailing and moaning belong to local folklore rather than a single established historical explanation.
Supernatural claims are attributed accounts. Historical backstories have not been independently corroborated.
Reports collected by Haunted Places describe unusual lights and sounds around Blackfoot Cemetery. Local lore singles out a grave standing apart from the others and identifies its occupant as a witch, making the isolated marker a focal point for the cemetery's supernatural reputation.
Supernatural claims are attributed accounts. Historical backstories have not been independently corroborated.
A spectral policeman associated with a blue light is one of this cemetery's most unusual figures. Haunted Places also records ghostly dogs with red eyes and other apparitions among the graves. The tales give the burial ground a reputation extending beyond the more familiar anonymous cemetery shadow.
Supernatural claims are attributed accounts. Historical backstories have not been independently corroborated.
Local lore collected by Haunted Places identifies seven graves with sisters said to have been witches. The associated legend warns that their spirits can awaken and pursue visitors. Separate accounts describe luminous orbs that appear to follow people through the cemetery.
Supernatural claims are attributed accounts. Historical backstories have not been independently corroborated.
Ghostly adults and children are said to appear inside the Crump Theatre. Haunted Places also records unexplained scents and noises, including music apparently coming from the head of a stairway, as though a performance were continuing somewhere out of sight.
Supernatural claims are attributed accounts. Historical backstories have not been independently corroborated.
Haunted Places places Earlham's reported ghost specifically in the Athletic and Wellness Center. The spirit is said to play basketball during the night, suggesting an unseen player who continues using the gym after the living have left. This profile concerns that building rather than the entire college.
Supernatural claims are attributed accounts. Historical backstories have not been independently corroborated.
Ghosts of Indiana tells of Edna, a girl who drowned in Little Walnut Creek and still answers the remembered signal of her parents' car horn. Reports include a child's laughter and small marks on cars, while another account describes a dark figure on the covered bridge. The tragedy's details vary between versions.
Supernatural claims are attributed accounts. Historical backstories have not been independently corroborated.
The cemetery's folklore centers on a boy known in the story as Cinderella. According to Haunted Places, visitors say gravestones move or disappear, and counts made while approaching the boy's grave fail to match counts made on the return. The shifting numbers are the legend's signature feature.
Supernatural claims are attributed accounts. Historical backstories have not been independently corroborated.
Hotel lore collected by Haunted Places puts former owner Thomas Taggart near the service elevator, accompanied by tobacco scent or mist. Other accounts describe the sound of festivities behind an empty ballroom's doors, unseen footsteps upstairs and calls reaching reception from vacant rooms. A ghostly bellhop also appears in the hotel's stories.
Supernatural claims are attributed accounts. Historical backstories have not been independently corroborated.
Haunted Places records a couple in old-fashioned clothing and a briefly glimpsed, staring man among the Gray Hotel's apparitions. Reports from the building also mention abrupt door slams, unexplained steps and touches, and lights switching themselves. One investigation account describes a child asking to play with a hula hoop.
Supernatural claims are attributed accounts. Historical backstories have not been independently corroborated.
Haunted Places records pale apparitions and cold air felt even during warm, still weather. Stories concentrate particularly on the Tebbs family graves, where visitors describe an intense impression of being watched. The reported figures are variously described as white or gray.
Supernatural claims are attributed accounts. Historical backstories have not been independently corroborated.
The opera house's legends identify spirits as founder O.K. Guyer and a boy said to have died during a gun demonstration. Haunted Places reports dressing-room lights illuminating in sequence, banging behind the auditorium, shutting doors, sudden cold and a figure's outline beyond backstage windows.
Supernatural claims are attributed accounts. Historical backstories have not been independently corroborated.
According to the legend retold by Haunted Places, people escaping slavery died when an overturned lamp set their hiding place ablaze, and their spirits remained in the cellar. Visitors report figures, moaning and cold patches belowstairs. An apparition identified as Alexander Hannah is said to appear upstairs and on the balcony.
Supernatural claims are attributed accounts. Historical backstories have not been independently corroborated.
Visitors in Haunted Places' account report crying and moaning among the graves, sometimes coupled with a touch from an unseen hand. Other stories describe objects thrown without an apparent source and gravestones that seem to change position, adding a poltergeist element to the cemetery's lore.
Supernatural claims are attributed accounts. Historical backstories have not been independently corroborated.
A grave marked by a pitchfork-shaped plant inspired a local 'devil's child' legend at Hays Cemetery, also called Main Street Graveyard. Haunted Places records the story as part of the burial ground's supernatural reputation; the plant's shape is the central image in the tale.
Supernatural claims are attributed accounts. Historical backstories have not been independently corroborated.
The cemetery's best-known legend concerns Stiffy Green, John Heinl's devoted dog. Haunted Places tells of phantom barking at Heinl's mausoleum and appearances of both owner and dog, sometimes accompanied by pipe smoke. Another tale centers on the unexplained use of a telephone installed in Martin Sheets' tomb.
Supernatural claims are attributed accounts. Historical backstories have not been independently corroborated.
According to an account on Haunted Places, a luminous figure appears in guest rooms during the late night or early morning. Closet doors reportedly move without anyone touching them. Voices and distant ballroom music add the impression of a social gathering continuing beyond the hotel's visible guests.
Supernatural claims are attributed accounts. Historical backstories have not been independently corroborated.
Reports collected by Haunted Places describe figures and moving shadows across the former hospital grounds, with cries, moaning and unexplained footfalls adding to the atmosphere. Electrical equipment is also said to switch on or off. Local ghost stories connect these disturbances with former patients.
Supernatural claims are attributed accounts. Historical backstories have not been independently corroborated.
Haunted Places recounts a theater legend about a former artistic director who exercised around the upstairs mezzanine. After his death, staff reportedly continued hearing the floor creak with the rhythm of his run, especially when cold or rain would have kept him indoors.
Supernatural claims are attributed accounts. Historical backstories have not been independently corroborated.
In the account collected by Haunted Places, a firefighter who died in a 1992 blaze returns to wake people during the night. The apparition's apparent effort to rouse sleepers gives this former athletic club a haunting centered on rescue rather than menace.
Supernatural claims are attributed accounts. Historical backstories have not been independently corroborated.
At this Fortville house, the ghost story follows a purchased antique piano. Owners quoted by Haunted Places associated its arrival with unexplained banging and the tread of unseen feet, rather than phantom music from the instrument itself.
Supernatural claims are attributed accounts. Historical backstories have not been independently corroborated.
Haunted Places records sightings of a young girl associated in mansion lore with a drowning in the basement pool. Accounts also place unexplained voices in the attic and describe belongings disappearing or moving, even furniture apparently changing position. Some storytellers identify another presence as Allison himself.
Supernatural claims are attributed accounts. Historical backstories have not been independently corroborated.