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Explore 60 haunted places in Nebraska. Read ghost stories, local history, source notes, and visiting information in the PHASM Haunted Atlas.
Alliance, Nebraska · Theater
Visit Nebraska recounts a performer killed by a falling stage fixture, whose voice is supposedly still heard practicing lines. Haunted Places adds shadow figures and running footsteps in the aisles, giving the theater several overlapping strands of local lore.
Lincoln, Nebraska · Natural landmark
The park story collected by Haunted Places centers on the field near the memorial and caretaker’s house. Witnesses describe humanlike apparitions crossing the open ground before disappearing among the trees.
Broken Bow, Nebraska · Hotel
In Haunted Places accounts, a man lingers in the cigar room while a red-haired woman appears upstairs. Staff have also reported unexplained booming sounds, shifted furniture and a former owner walking the kitchen stairs.
Aurora, Nebraska · Cemetery
Aurora’s graveyard legend labels a woman a witch executed by her neighbors. Haunted Places counters that the grave belongs to Susan Gavan, who died of illness and was buried with her baby, making this a legend attached to an ordinary family grave.
Springfield, Nebraska · Cemetery
Haunted Places describes a tall, hostile male apparition and the laughter of Mary Mumford. Visitors attribute tugging clothing to Mary and also tell of fallen grave markers inexplicably standing upright again.
Fremont, Nebraska · Natural landmark
Stories collected by Haunted Places link the former cemetery to a grieving woman on the Mormon Trail. Her daughter supposedly died at the camp, and the mother is said to wander the park crying.
Thurston County, Nebraska · Natural landmark
Haunted Places records a tragic lovers’ legend distinct from Chief Blackbird’s burial. A woman is supposedly killed by her jealous husband after reuniting with an earlier lover, and her screams are said to return on October 17.
Broken Bow, Nebraska · Other
Staff accounts collected by Haunted Places describe an argument between unseen speakers in the building’s southeast corner near closing time. Other reports involve children laughing and playing, accompanied by a sudden chill.
Omaha, Nebraska · Other
The restaurant’s ghost is remembered as a devoted regular in a smoking jacket and ascot. Haunted Places says this familiar diner continued appearing after his death, as though returning for another evening in his favorite restaurant.
Brownville, Nebraska · Historic house
The museum’s piano reportedly plays when nobody is seated at it, and doors refuse to remain shut. Haunted Places attributes the disturbances to Captain Bailey, whose local legend says he was poisoned by a jealous neighbor.
Brownville, Nebraska · Other
Museum employees’ stories collected by Haunted Places treat the vessel’s ghosts as familiar occupants. The most specific report is piano music playing without a pianist; the account explicitly distinguishes the instrument from a self-playing piano.
Valentine, Nebraska · Other
The former school’s best-known legend concerns a clarinet player whose reed was supposedly poisoned. Haunted Places describes sightings of the girl and music sounding from the old music room even without instruments present.
Clarkson, Nebraska · Theater
Residents and employees, in the account submitted to Haunted Places, describe laughter without a visible source and people in old-fashioned clothing wandering the opera house.
Columbus, Nebraska · Other
The employee ghost story collected by Haunted Places gives its apparition the nickname Scooter. Late-shift workers reportedly see him around the store and hear screeching near the dairy and produce areas.
Omaha, Nebraska · Historic house
Haunted Places describes a young man and an elderly former owner appearing separately in a parlor rocking chair. Unexplained nighttime footsteps and disturbances during celebrations extend the lore beyond the chair; a carriage-house story names another presence Emily.
Seward, Nebraska · Other
Residents’ stories collected by Haunted Places describe showers starting without anyone using them and electrical devices switching on by themselves. These everyday interruptions are the dormitory’s recurring paranormal motif.
McCook, Nebraska · Natural landmark
Visit Nebraska and Haunted Places repeat a story of a man who killed his family and himself in the canyon. His shadowy ghost, nicknamed the Duke, is blamed for tricks played on visitors and malfunctioning equipment.
Crete, Nebraska · Other
The library’s recurring apparition is a woman dressed in white. Haunted Places locates her in the basement and at a window on moonlit nights; Oh My! Omaha identifies the setting as Perkins Library.
Peru, Nebraska · Other
The residence’s legend names Eliza Morgan as its lingering occupant. Haunted Places relates a story that she lived in a house incorporated into the dormitory and died in its basement, which became the center of the haunting tradition.
Nebraska City, Nebraska · Other
Objects reportedly move without anyone handling them, according to Haunted Places. The building’s stories disagree over who is responsible, naming either former proprietor Mr. Bischof or a young man who died nearby.
Blair, Nebraska · Other
Dana’s college folklore places unexplained appliance activity in Argo Hall, shadow figures in the science building and phantom piano music in Madsen Fine Arts Center. Haunted Places also records voices and footsteps around Elkhorn Hall’s fourth floor.
Bellevue, Nebraska · Other
Haunted Places describes two library apparitions: an older man bent over books and a dark-haired girl wearing large round glasses. Neither figure is given a substantiated identity in the account.
Schuyler, Nebraska · Theater
The grounds’ legend involves black dogs with a missing eye or leg. In the account collected by Haunted Places, these animals disappear when witnesses look away and then turn back.
Fairbury, Nebraska · Other
Haunted Places records reports of objects moving without anyone touching them in the old commercial building. The same place has been known as a Montgomery Ward store and later TrailBlazers restaurant, so its tenant names should remain one profile.