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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.
Gering, Nebraska · Other
The brief local account recorded by Haunted Places describes a woman in white walking at the foot of the bluff. Sightings are traditionally placed around late July or early August, without a known identity for the figure.
Scribner, Nebraska · Hotel
The upper floors are the focus of accounts collected by Haunted Places: shadowy figures, unidentified voices and patches of cold air. Local explanations connect them to rumored deaths in the hotel, though the directory does not substantiate those deaths.
Nebraska City, Nebraska · Road or bridge
Visit Nebraska retells the legend of a man who hanged his seven sisters on separate hills. Later travelers report screams and vehicles malfunctioning along the road. The murders belong to the legend rather than a verified historical account.
Cambridge, Nebraska · Other
Haunted Places recounts an owner seeing an elderly man in a magenta suit and an employee following a long-haired woman down the basement stairs. When the employee reached the basement, nobody was there.
Spring Ranch / Clay County, Nebraska · Road or bridge
Haunted Places connects the bridge’s ghosts with Tom Jones and Elizabeth Taylor, siblings lynched during an 1885 neighborhood dispute. Their spirits are said to linger by the Little Blue River crossing where the story locates the hanging.
Columbus area, Nebraska · Cemetery
The Glowing Graveyard is known for headstones that seem luminous in moonlight. Haunted Places notes reflected light as an ordinary explanation, while a neighboring-bridge legend claims small handprints appear on cars after a fatal school-bus accident.
Homer, Nebraska · Cemetery
Stories collected by Haunted Places turn Lottie into a vengeful graveyard figure who curses would-be jewelry thieves. The same source challenges that tale, reporting an ordinary death from illness and noting that school storytelling helped spread the legend.
Lincoln, Nebraska · Theater
University theater lore includes the sound of chairs being hurled in empty rooms, attributed to former drama chairman Dallas Williams. Haunted Places also tells of an apparition during Shakespeare performances and dancing footsteps with no visible performer.
Harrison area, Nebraska · Other
Visitors’ stories recorded by Haunted Places describe running footsteps in the woods, unexplained speech and a luminous green mist near the battlefield monument. The account interprets these as traces of the site’s violent past.
Kimball, Nebraska · Hotel
A woman is said to watch the street from an upstairs window. Haunted Places records a local explanation connecting her to a Prohibition-era basement speakeasy, although her identity remains unknown.
Omaha, Nebraska · Other
Haunted Places describes a woman in a long white gown appearing in the lobby or seeming to float along the halls. Fleeting figures at the edge of residents’ vision also feature in stories linked to the building’s reported former hospital use.
Nebraska City, Nebraska · Historic house
A contributor to Haunted Places describes a woman in a long black dress in the kitchen, footsteps in the dining room and children’s voices upstairs. An investigating group also reported flashlights switching on and off and batteries losing charge.