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Explore 60 haunted places in Missouri. Read ghost stories, local history, source notes, and visiting information in the PHASM Haunted Atlas.
Kansas City, Missouri · Hotel
Room 505 is central to the Savoy's stories about Betsy Ward, though accounts disagree about her death. HauntedPlaces.org records voices, shadows, and doors apparently operating alone nearby. Elsewhere, a little girl in Victorian dress is associated with the fourth floor, where elevators are also said to behave strangely. Historical explanations and identities are folklore unless independently sourced.
St. Louis, Missouri · Other
HauntedPlaces.org gathers several barracks stories: a shadowy seated man, a general's apparition, and a sentry near the Powder Magazine. Other accounts describe lights operating alone and an unseen voice shouting a military dismissal in Building 29. These are grouped as one historic complex rather than counted building by building. Historical explanations and identities are folklore unless independently sourced.
Kansas City, Missouri · Historic house
Soldier apparitions reportedly stand guard at doorways and appear on the balconies of the Wornall House. HauntedPlaces.org connects the haunting tradition with its Civil War hospital role near the Battle of Westport. The story suggests watchful military figures rather than one identified resident ghost. Historical explanations and identities are folklore unless independently sourced.
Kansas City, Missouri · Theater
The Music Hall's reported ghosts are an audience of another era. HauntedPlaces.org describes figures in formal clothing from different twentieth-century decades appearing during performances. The account offers no single named spirit, instead suggesting that former patrons still return to enjoy a show. Historical explanations and identities are folklore unless independently sourced.
Boonville, Missouri · Other
A phantom female cadet is said to jog around the former school's track, disappearing at the point where legend says she was killed. HauntedPlaces.org also associates several barracks with disturbances. The story belongs to the old military-school campus rather than a separate new location created by its later educational use. Historical explanations and identities are folklore unless independently sourced.
Springfield, Missouri · Theater
A spectral janitor supposedly watches rehearsals from the balcony, one of several theater ghosts described by HauntedPlaces.org. Other tales concern a crying baby and a tall man in Elizabethan dress seen looking from an upstairs window. Staff and visitors also report unseen followers and taps on the shoulder. Historical explanations and identities are folklore unless independently sourced.
St. Louis, Missouri · Hotel
Shadowlike figures, unexplained conversation, and banging sounds are reported at Lehmann House. HauntedPlaces.org identifies the supposed presence as former owner Edward Rowse, linking him to a death in the dining room. That identification remains part of the inn's haunting lore. Historical explanations and identities are folklore unless independently sourced.
St. Louis, Missouri · Historic house
In St. Louis, the former home of a prosperous brewing family has become an inn, restaurant and center of ghost stories. The Lemp Mansion’s guided tours recount the family’s rise and losses, while special nighttime experiences invite guests to explore rooms associated with persistent paranormal reports.
St. Charles, Missouri · Other
The St. Charles campus stories include organ music in Sibley Chapel with nobody playing and a white-dressed woman seen in Cobbs Hall. HauntedPlaces.org groups these with other college hauntings. The chapel and residence-hall reports are retained here without importing the separate Belleville auditorium story into Missouri. Historical explanations and identities are folklore unless independently sourced. Directory combines auditorium folklore with St. Charles. Separate Belleville, Illinois auditorium is excluded; only St. Charles chapel and Cobbs Hall claims retained.
Cape Girardeau, Missouri · Cemetery
Lorimier's Tapping Ghost announces itself with repeated touches on the shoulder. HauntedPlaces.org says visitors sometimes first mistake the sensation for something falling from a tree, until it happens again. Other accounts describe a tug on a visitor's hair, with no visible hand responsible. Historical explanations and identities are folklore unless independently sourced.
Valles Mines, Missouri · Other
A soldier-shaped apparition is reportedly seen at an upper window, looking down toward the street. In a contributor's account on HauntedPlaces.org, visitors also describe touches from unseen hands and puzzling photographic details. The place-specific story concerns the house museum at Valles Mines. Historical explanations and identities are folklore unless independently sourced.
Hannibal, Missouri · Hotel
Kitchen disturbances dominate Lula Belle's stories: utensils reportedly bend and objects move or fly. HauntedPlaces.org adds footsteps, voices, figures reflected in mirrors, and a woman dressed in white. The accounts connect the building's later hospitality use with an enduring reputation for mischievous unseen company. Historical explanations and identities are folklore unless independently sourced.
Weston, Missouri · Other
A contributor to HauntedPlaces.org reports objects shifting or disappearing, voices, and the smell of cigarette smoke when the owner was alone. Visiting investigation teams reportedly experienced similar movements and unexpectedly drained batteries. The account is tied to the Galleria building in Weston and does not identify a named ghost. Historical explanations and identities are folklore unless independently sourced.
Ste. Genevieve, Missouri · Hotel
The inn's upper floor is associated with an early-morning racket attributed to a man said to have died there in the nineteenth century. HauntedPlaces.org presents him as an attention-seeking but harmless presence. The story emphasizes noise and personality rather than a dramatic visual apparition. Historical explanations and identities are folklore unless independently sourced.
Jefferson City, Missouri · Prison
The old prison's corridors are associated with apparitions and noises without a visible source. HauntedPlaces.org reports these experiences among visitors and paranormal investigators, while Missouri tourism presents the institution's ghost tours as a way to hear accounts of former inmates said to linger in the decommissioned cellblocks. Historical explanations and identities are folklore unless independently sourced.
Dittmer, Missouri · Hotel
At Morse Mill, HauntedPlaces.org records sightings of apparitions alongside disembodied voices, footsteps, and unexpected cold currents of air. Investigators also interpret unusual photographs as part of the haunting. The site's colorful guest stories are separate historical claims and are not needed to understand the reported experiences. Historical explanations and identities are folklore unless independently sourced.
St. Charles, Missouri · Other
Moving objects and unexplained footsteps are part of the Mother-in-Law House's folklore. HauntedPlaces.org includes an unusual claim that guests' names appeared on Easter eggs without staff writing them. Some interpreters identify the presence as the lonely mother-in-law associated with the house's divided living arrangement. Historical explanations and identities are folklore unless independently sourced.
Kansas City, Missouri · Hotel
A woman dressed in blue reportedly appears on different hotel floors. In the account submitted to HauntedPlaces.org, she is associated with a theater and imagined as either a patron or an actress. Her identity and the suggested theater connection remain features of the legend rather than established biography. Historical explanations and identities are folklore unless independently sourced.
Doniphan, Missouri · Cemetery
A woman reportedly appears between the graves, while unseen speakers are said to be heard elsewhere in the cemetery. HauntedPlaces.org records a more theatrical midnight legend about the monument to Belle Neal: the statue supposedly becomes animate when the clock reaches twelve. Historical explanations and identities are folklore unless independently sourced.
Boonville, Missouri · Prison
A young prisoner's apparition reportedly appears and pounds on the old cell doors. HauntedPlaces.org also records shadowy figures at the jail complex. The jail and hanging barn are treated as one site, avoiding a second count for a structure within the same attraction. Historical explanations and identities are folklore unless independently sourced.
Lexington, Missouri · Historic house
The Anderson House's haunting tradition centers on Civil War soldiers. HauntedPlaces.org describes spectral men associated with fighting at and around the house. The account gives no named ghost or detailed encounter, leaving a concise battlefield-haunting tradition rather than a documented individual story. Historical explanations and identities are folklore unless independently sourced.
Parkville, Missouri · Other
Herr House is associated with footsteps from empty rooms and a tragic student legend, while the campus theater has a different ghost: a gray-suited man identified as Jenkin David. HauntedPlaces.org records both traditions. They are treated here as one campus profile, with no assumption that student residential spaces are open to visitors. Historical explanations and identities are folklore unless independently sourced.
Ironton, Missouri · Hotel
Doorbells sound without callers and clocks or radios reportedly switch themselves on and off at the Parlor. HauntedPlaces.org also recounts voices, touches to the face, shadows, and apparitions in the turreted house. The building's former funeral-home use is background to a wider collection of guest experiences. Historical explanations and identities are folklore unless independently sourced.
Cape Girardeau, Missouri · Other
The restaurant's female ghost is nicknamed Belle. HauntedPlaces.org recounts that a bartender chose the name and a downstairs bell later rang on its own, taken as her approval. She is described in an old-fashioned long dress, with footsteps and unexplained noises also reported by diners and staff. Historical explanations and identities are folklore unless independently sourced.