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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.
Sidney, Nebraska · Other
Local lore describes an officer’s wife falling on the servants’ stairs while carrying laundry. Haunted Places says listeners later heard footsteps followed by a tumble, even when the staircase was hidden behind boards. The haunting is still associated with those stairs.
Pender area, Nebraska · Road or bridge
In the legend collected by Haunted Places, a former railroad bridge reappears as a dark shape over Logan Creek. The story connects this impossible span with a vigilante hanging, glimpsed indirectly where the physical trestle once stood.
Friend / Dorchester area, Nebraska · Cemetery
Haunted Places associates the cemetery’s disturbances with the Gilbert pioneer family. The reported phenomena are unexplained sounds among the graves and markers that seem to change position.
Lake Waconda / Plattsmouth area, Nebraska · Cemetery
Hannah’s legend centers on a mother searching for her lost baby. Haunted Places describes crying heard across the fields, a floating lantern and a grave where snow supposedly will not remain. The family tragedy explaining these signs is unverified folklore.
Hastings, Nebraska · Other
Haunted Places records an apparition of a music professor in the music building, sometimes appearing as a light. A second campus tradition gives Altman Hall a protective presence identified as Clara Altman, watching over its residents.
Crofton, Nebraska · Hotel
Alice gives Crofton’s Argo Hotel its most familiar ghost story. The operators describe a woman searching for her baby within a building that has welcomed railway passengers, patients and overnight guests.
Omaha, Nebraska · Natural landmark
Omaha’s woodland Hummel Park has a celebrated staircase whose steps supposedly change number between the climb up and the walk down.
Omaha, Nebraska · Natural landmark
Haunted Places records a baby crying, unexplained running footsteps and a man’s desperate calls for help. Some storytellers add the sensation of something grabbing their legs as they pass through the park.
Loup City, Nebraska · Natural landmark
The former zoo’s haunting is an auditory one: visitors’ accounts collected by Haunted Places describe children laughing after dark when no children can be found. Old animal enclosures help give the story its distinctive setting.
Bellevue, Nebraska · Natural landmark
Jewell Park’s stories include the sounds of a rodeo where no event is happening. Haunted Places also records unexpected footprints, mist and figures that seem to appear among the grounds, alongside unexplained animal noises.
Omaha, Nebraska · Natural landmark
The legend collected by Haunted Places follows the trail’s railway past: on cold, misty nights, people claim to hear and see a train where tracks no longer remain. The account identifies the stretch near 90th and Fort streets.
Ogallala, Nebraska · Historic house
Haunted Places records two distinct reports at the museum: lights drifting through rear rooms after dark and a male figure walking through the house during the afternoon. Staff and visitors are both cited in the account.
North Platte, Nebraska · Hotel
According to the account submitted to Haunted Places, former occupants heard footsteps and other unexplained noises on an otherwise empty third floor. The disturbances belong to the building’s period of use as a hotel.
Omaha, Nebraska · Other
Haunt Bound recounts visitors feeling touched and hearing voices around the museum’s collection. Owners associate some activity with dolls named Ayda and Demus, including a claim that cameras captured Ayda moving. The reports are part of the museum’s haunted-object presentation.
Lincoln, Nebraska · Other
Capitol folklore centers on a figure seen falling through the tower, accompanied by screams or crying. Haunted Places records several competing identities, from a maintenance worker changing a bulb to a visitor who fell near the spiral stairs.
Wayne, Nebraska · Other
The hall’s resident legend names Cora, said to haunt the basement after her death. Haunted Places also records a separate child apparition in the tunnels connecting residences, associated in the story with an electrical accident.
North Platte, Nebraska · Theater
The former Fox Theatre’s balcony lighting booth is the focus of its ghost story. Haunted Places reports abrupt chills there and the sensation of an unseen hand touching people working in the booth.
Weeping Water, Nebraska · Cemetery
Haunted Places preserves a single, stark witness claim that spirits emerge from graves at night and confront visitors. The account offers no named ghost or detailed historical explanation.
Chadron, Nebraska · Hotel
The inn’s friendly ghost is called Jack in accounts collected by Haunted Places. Guests and staff attribute unattended footsteps and belongings found in different places to this unseen resident.
Murdock, Nebraska · Cemetery
The cemetery’s lore includes children playing where no living children can be found. Haunted Places connects the sounds with May Carter, a child supposedly killed when a school collapsed in a storm, and says her grave was later moved.
Omaha, Nebraska · Other
Haunted Places places the reported disturbances in the kitchen and upstairs bar. People have described shadow-shaped figures in those areas and footsteps when no visible person accounts for them.
Omaha, Nebraska · Cemetery
Haunted Places retells an 1874 newspaper story about a woman in white looking for her children. She allegedly questioned people beside the cemetery, then returned to a grave and disappeared.
Lincoln, Nebraska · Natural landmark
Haunted Places collects reports of voices, laughter, cries and drumming in the cave. Its legends fold together supposed fugitives, secret tunnels and earlier ceremonies; the sounds themselves, rather than the unverified outlaw histories, form the core haunting account.
Lincoln, Nebraska · Natural landmark
Haunted Places preserves a wintertime story from the former Lake Street Lake: a boy killed by bullies supposedly appears near the creek. The legend connects the park’s grassy depression with its earlier use as a skating lake.