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Explore 50 haunted places in Kansas. Read ghost stories, local history, source notes, and visiting information in the PHASM Haunted Atlas.
Atchison, Kansas · Historic house
McInteer Villa’s tower and stained glass frame a more intimate haunting: footsteps overhead, moving belongings and a woman’s unexpected approval of a new chandelier. Reserved stays bring visitors inside this Atchison house.
Hardtner, Kansas · Other
The former hospital's reports include abrupt cold spots, an elevator appearing to operate without a passenger and sightings identified as Charlie Achenbach. HauntedPlaces.org also records disturbing basement marks as claims, not authenticated evidence. Supernatural account attributed, not a verified event. Historical backstory and present-day access require independent checking.
Alma, Kansas · Cemetery
Alma Cemetery's lore combines strange mists and light spots in photographs with a cursed seat known as the Devil's Chair. The chair legend names an angry former landowner as the supposed source of the curse. Supernatural account attributed, not a verified event. Historical backstory and present-day access require independent checking.
Beaumont, Kansas · Hotel
Hotel lore names Zeke, a cowboy said to have been killed at the inn. Reports collected by HauntedPlaces.org describe his apparition, jingling spurs and objects shifting without anyone touching them. Supernatural account attributed, not a verified event. Historical backstory and present-day access require independent checking.
El Dorado, Kansas · Cemetery
Visitors reportedly experience camera trouble near Clara Wiley's grave. Another local tradition names a spirit called Two Moons, linked in the account to disturbance of a burial during construction. Supernatural account attributed, not a verified event. Historical backstory and present-day access require independent checking.
Concordia, Kansas · Theater
HauntedPlaces.org records a local tradition of a resident theater ghost, reportedly most noticeable around the start of the performance season. The venue itself advertises haunted tours and paranormal group rentals. Supernatural account attributed, not a verified event. Historical backstory and present-day access require independent checking.
Coffeyville, Kansas · Other
Brown Mansion's local legend concerns greenish lights seen around the property during a period when it reportedly stood empty without electrical service. HauntedPlaces.org notes the tale while also saying staff had no supporting evidence. Supernatural account attributed, not a verified event. Historical backstory and present-day access require independent checking.
Wichita, Kansas · Other
Contributor Callum Swift recounts unexplained perfume, footsteps upstairs and unusual lights in the historic shop. Customers and workers reportedly also glimpsed people dressed in old-fashioned clothing who vanished again. Supernatural account attributed, not a verified event. Historical backstory and present-day access require independent checking.
Coffeyville, Kansas · Other
Contributor Callum Swift recounts residents hearing cries and groans when nobody seems nearby. The apartment building's other reported presence is a dark figure associated with slamming doors. Supernatural account attributed, not a verified event. Historical backstory and present-day access require independent checking.
Wichita, Kansas · Hotel
The Broadview's directory account describes guest-room lights flickering, doors shaking, and furniture apparently shifting while a room is briefly empty. Supernatural account attributed, not a verified event. Historical backstory and present-day access require independent checking.
Ellis, Kansas · Other
The museum's old basement cell is associated with a prisoner said to have drowned during a flood. The directory recounts unexplained sounds and a fleeting figure at the windows. Supernatural account attributed, not a verified event. Historical backstory and present-day access require independent checking.
Coffeyville, Kansas · Cemetery
The cemetery's reported disturbances are sounds without an apparent source and shadows that seem to pursue witnesses. HauntedPlaces.org relates the reputation to the burial ground containing Dalton Gang and town-defender graves. Supernatural account attributed, not a verified event. Historical backstory and present-day access require independent checking.
Hays, Kansas · Other
The Blue Light Lady is identified in local lore as Elizabeth Polly, remembered for nursing during a cholera epidemic. HauntedPlaces.org recounts sightings of her figure around the former military post. Supernatural account attributed, not a verified event. Historical backstory and present-day access require independent checking. Directory labels locality Ellis, but the actual historic site is in Hays.
Fort Riley, Kansas · Other
Fort Riley's stories include a chained woman crossing the grounds and phantom horsemen near the former Custer residence. Inside the Custer House Museum, visitors reportedly hear heavy footsteps and find a toy bear moved. Supernatural account attributed, not a verified event. Historical backstory and present-day access require independent checking.
Fort Scott, Kansas · Other
Visitors reportedly mistake spectral soldiers around the restored fort for costumed interpreters. HauntedPlaces.org also describes an emotionally charged Officers' Quarters story and mist-like forms at a chimney. Supernatural account attributed, not a verified event. Historical backstory and present-day access require independent checking.
Hutchinson, Kansas · Theater
The Hutchinson theater's lore features doors banging after hours and empty seats moving up and down. HauntedPlaces.org also recounts a fire-extinguisher cabinet's glass reportedly breaking without anyone nearby. Supernatural account attributed, not a verified event. Historical backstory and present-day access require independent checking.
Lawrence, Kansas · Other
Campus stories collected by HauntedPlaces.org describe doors moving at Hiawatha Hall, an unexplained audience member in the auditorium and crying heard backstage. These accounts are grouped as one campus profile; the institution's real boarding-school history should be treated separately and respectfully. Supernatural account attributed, not a verified event. Historical backstory and present-day access require independent checking.
Hanover, Kansas · Other
Pony Express riders figure prominently in the station's lore, appearing alongside sounds of hoofbeats and calls. HauntedPlaces.org also attributes hidden or rearranged objects to former station owner Gerat Hollenberg. Supernatural account attributed, not a verified event. Historical backstory and present-day access require independent checking.
Holton, Kansas · Hotel
HauntedPlaces.org contributor Callum Swift recounts guest reports of voices in an empty dining room and dark figures appearing in bedrooms at night. Supernatural account attributed, not a verified event. Historical backstory and present-day access require independent checking.
Hutchinson, Kansas · Other
The directory places a white-clad woman's apparition on the courthouse's fifth floor. Office disturbances in the account include banging doors and documents discovered out of place. Supernatural account attributed, not a verified event. Historical backstory and present-day access require independent checking.
Hutchinson, Kansas · Other
Library lore names former librarian Ida Day Holzapfel as its lingering caretaker. HauntedPlaces.org recounts a basement apparition that reportedly spoke with an employee after Holzapfel's death. Supernatural account attributed, not a verified event. Historical backstory and present-day access require independent checking.
Parsons, Kansas · Other
Workers reportedly heard phantom bicycle bells, resembling those once used by plant supervisors. HauntedPlaces.org links these reports and disturbing visions to a story about an employee killed in an explosion. Supernatural account attributed, not a verified event. Historical backstory and present-day access require independent checking.
Wichita, Kansas · Other
Museum employees reportedly heard vintage music, conversation and banging doors when no source was evident. The directory also describes a man wearing a 1940s-style hat and a separate pilot story attached to a yellow crop-dusting aircraft. Supernatural account attributed, not a verified event. Historical backstory and present-day access require independent checking.
Topeka, Kansas · Other
Capitol lore includes hammering attributed to a worker still finishing his job after death. A separate staircase story describes unexplained footsteps and weeping associated with a woman's apparition. Supernatural account attributed, not a verified event. Historical backstory and present-day access require independent checking.