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Explore 50 haunted places in Minnesota. Read ghost stories, local history, source notes, and visiting information in the PHASM Haunted Atlas.
Aitkin, Minnesota · Other
The 40 Club's stories connect unusual electrical behavior with a former employee called Tom. HauntedPlaces.org describes lights flickering, unexplained cold spots, televisions and radios behaving strangely, and a jukebox playing unattended. One tale says it played a funeral song absent from its selection. Historical explanations are reported lore unless independently verified.
Wabasha, Minnesota · Hotel
HauntedPlaces.org describes Sarah, a friendly female presence said to leave dimes for the proprietor. Her legend tells of a woman who mistakenly believed her husband had died in a steamboat accident. The small coins are interpreted in the story as approval of the hotel's care. Historical explanations are reported lore unless independently verified.
Anoka, Minnesota · Other
HauntedPlaces.org reports footsteps, murmuring voices, laughter, and abrupt cold spots in the former hospital buildings and service tunnels. Local stories identify the presences with people who died at the institution. The source's broader tales of patient escapes and mistreatment remain unverified folklore in this profile. Historical explanations are reported lore unless independently verified.
Anoka, Minnesota · Other
HauntedPlaces.org records upstairs apparitions and pictures moving without explanation at Billy's. The restaurant's lore associates them with a former brothel and its madam, Mrs. Jackson, although conflicting versions give different accounts of her death. Historical explanations are reported lore unless independently verified.
Two Harbors, Minnesota · Other
At the Two Harbors Blackwoods, HauntedPlaces.org describes a woman dressed in white, unexplained footsteps, and sudden chills. One account has the apparition touching the furniture as though inspecting it for dust. This profile concerns the Two Harbors location, not the chain's other restaurants. Historical explanations are reported lore unless independently verified.
Pipestone, Minnesota · Hotel
HauntedPlaces.org recounts calls to reception from locked, empty Room 207 and an especially active Room 308. Other hotel stories describe a brightly dressed woman disappearing in a hallway, a dining-room piano playing without a pianist, and a suited man who vanishes when approached. Historical explanations are reported lore unless independently verified.
Saint Paul, Minnesota · Other
At St. Mary's Hall, HauntedPlaces.org records a gray-clad woman appearing in upstairs doorways. Student stories also describe being nudged awake before an alarm, feeling icy fingers at the neck, and hearing someone running along an apparently empty corridor. Historical explanations are reported lore unless independently verified.
Minneapolis, Minnesota · Other
The tale collected by HauntedPlaces.org connects Cuzzy's with Betsy, an entertainer said to have died before a promised reunion with her soldier sweetheart. The reported present-day disturbance is smaller: glasses tipping without explanation. Betsy's romantic history is presented as the bar's lore. Historical explanations are reported lore unless independently verified.
Norwood Young America, Minnesota · Cemetery
A boy peering around a grave marker is the central figure in Ferguson's Cemetery lore recorded by HauntedPlaces.org. Visitors also describe lights or orbs, an unsettled feeling, and barking when no dog can be seen. Historical explanations are reported lore unless independently verified.
Minneapolis, Minnesota · Other
First Avenue's folklore collected by HauntedPlaces.org includes growling in DJs' headphones and a female apparition in a restroom. Another story describes a dancer in a green military jacket whose legs are missing. The tragic wartime romance attached to her is presented as local legend. Historical explanations are reported lore unless independently verified.
Saint Paul, Minnesota · Theater
The Fitzgerald's folklore collected by HauntedPlaces.org names Ben, a former stagehand, and Veronica, an actress. Reports describe tools changing position and a male figure appearing after restoration work revealed an old balcony. Singing heard in the auditorium is attributed to Veronica. Historical explanations are reported lore unless independently verified.
Saint Paul, Minnesota · Other
HauntedPlaces.org records two familiar figures in the mansion's restaurant lore: Molly, a maid said to be seen and heard in the building, and Joseph Forepaugh, described strolling the dining room looking contented. The tragic romance attached to Molly is a legend, not independently established history here. Historical explanations are reported lore unless independently verified.
Falcon Heights, Minnesota · Other
HauntedPlaces.org describes a little boy appearing at the Gibbs farmhouse, reportedly noticed by visitors and guides. Toys change position, an empty chair rocks, and footsteps sound in the halls. Doors and cupboards opening or closing without assistance feature in the same collection of stories. Historical explanations are reported lore unless independently verified.
Duluth, Minnesota · Other
HauntedPlaces.org records the belief that the violent deaths of Elisabeth Congdon and nurse Velma Pietila gave rise to hauntings at Glensheen. Its account supplies a tragic explanation rather than a specific ghost encounter. This is a reported reputation, not a claim endorsed by the estate. Historical explanations are reported lore unless independently verified.
Rush City, Minnesota · Hotel
The account collected by HauntedPlaces.org describes laughter and conversation without visible speakers, footsteps, and furniture shifting during the night. Its most distinctive apparition is a woman who appears in mirrors behind hotel guests. Historical explanations are reported lore unless independently verified.
Hibbing, Minnesota · Other
HauntedPlaces.org describes bus windows opening or shutting without assistance and shadowy figures disappearing at the Greyhound museum. Its lore speculates that the nearby cemetery supplied the museum's spectral visitors. The reported phenomena are distinct from the source's unsupported assertion that investigators proved spirits were present. Historical explanations are reported lore unless independently verified.
Saint Paul, Minnesota · Other
In the mansion's lore collected by HauntedPlaces.org, a former gardener turns library pages, a top-hatted man appears, and a child floats above a bed. A maid and a girl called Amy are also named among its ghosts. Reports include footsteps, coughing, independently opening doors, and breaking light bulbs. Historical explanations are reported lore unless independently verified.
Saint Paul, Minnesota · Other
HauntedPlaces.org collects Hamline stories of shifting objects, unexplained noises, and figures at Manor Hall, particularly its upper floor. At Old Main, witnesses describe a floating apparition and portraits whose eyes seem to move. These campus traditions are retained together rather than counted as separate sites. Historical explanations are reported lore unless independently verified.
Saint Paul, Minnesota · Other
Landmark Center's ghost lore names Jack Pfeiffer as a former prisoner who still enjoys a party. HauntedPlaces.org reports tipped or missing drinks and figures appearing in event photographs. The stories particularly associate Jack with the third floor and women's restrooms. Historical explanations are reported lore unless independently verified.
Elysian, Minnesota · Other
HauntedPlaces.org reports voices without visible speakers at the Le Sueur County museum. An unattended typewriter, a record player apparently operating itself, and a service bell ringing with no hand on it are the distinctive objects in its ghost stories. Historical explanations are reported lore unless independently verified.
Stillwater, Minnesota · Hotel
The Water Street Inn's lore, recorded under its former Lumber Barons name by HauntedPlaces.org, centers on a Confederate soldier said to have died in a second-floor suite. Rather than a clear apparition, witnesses describe a lingering, unexplained smell of perspiration. Historical explanations are reported lore unless independently verified.
Mantorville, Minnesota · Theater
HauntedPlaces.org describes heavy bootsteps along the upstairs hallway, lights switching unexpectedly, and cold patches in the opera house. Staff call one reported female spirit Ellen. Other accounts suggest former performers remain attached to the theater, while the basement is associated with the sensation of being watched. Historical explanations are reported lore unless independently verified.
Crosby, Minnesota · Other
HauntedPlaces.org records a local belief that the miners lost in the 1924 Milford Mine flood still linger at the disaster site. The account associates the haunting with the mining tragedy but does not describe a specific apparition or encounter. Historical explanations are reported lore unless independently verified.
Minneapolis, Minnesota · Other
HauntedPlaces.org links the fifth floor's ghost stories to John Moshik, who was executed in the building. Accounts describe his apparition or shadow, together with unexplained footsteps and noises. The identification belongs to the building's ghost tradition rather than a demonstrated explanation for the experiences. Historical explanations are reported lore unless independently verified.