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Medora, North Dakota · Other
The Little Missouri Saloon acknowledges its own ghost reputation: its official history says employees and guests have encountered spirits in the building. It also describes investigators spending nights across the saloon’s different levels, without identifying a particular ghost or publishing detailed findings.
Near Killdeer, North Dakota · Road or bridge
The Lost Bridge road story pairs inexplicable car trouble with a particularly odd visitor: drivers are said to see a hoofed man, or another figure standing beside the road, after their vehicles stop working. Library of Congress records the original 1930 bridge demolished in 1994. The legend belongs to the crossing; no new sightings are asserted for the replacement. Do not stop in traffic or enter restricted riverbanks.
Medora, North Dakota · Other
The Depot’s unusual legend gives its female ghost an annual appointment: she supposedly returns on her birthday, although nobody knows her name or the date. In a 2022 visit, Dave Miller heard staff describe a broken clock starting, objects moving and unusual cold; his own investigation found no evidence.
Fargo, North Dakota · Other
Minard Hall’s former attic dance space is associated with a story about two bodies supposedly discovered after a dance. Retellings describe an unsettling unseen presence in the building. The alleged deaths remain unverified campus lore, but Minard’s ghost reputation is also acknowledged in the university’s student-led ghost tour.
Fargo, North Dakota · Other
Fargo folklore locates a small boy near the old warehouse elevator: late workers reportedly heard crying from the shaft and running feet, or saw a child standing silently before them. The tale explains him as an accident victim, although the fatal fall is not independently documented in the inspected sources.
Williston, North Dakota · Theater
Visitors and staff have reported faint voices with no visible speaker, while mannequins are said to shift on their own inside Williston’s Old Armory. An older local account adds a uniformed figure stationed beside a sealed basement staircase, as though still guarding it.
Fargo, North Dakota · Other
The old school’s theater area collected stories of footsteps in an empty corridor, a hooded figure crossing the gym through solid walls, and a girl walking through a closed doorway and a religious picture. These reports concern the former north Fargo building, rather than today’s Shanley campus.
Dickinson, North Dakota · Hospital
Former hospital stories focus on the morgue lift traveling without passengers, doors operating on their own and whispers near the cafeteria. A longer account tells of an elderly patient announcing his departure to a nurse after he had already died; his room’s call button supposedly continued activating when empty.
Grand Forks, North Dakota · Other
UND’s tunnel legend describes the upper half of a young woman appearing near West Hall, accompanied by televisions or lights behaving strangely. The explanation that a student froze outside a locked dorm is disputed in witness comments. It remains a recognizable campus story rather than a verified death account. UND confirms original 1964 West Hall demolished in 2021; replacement opened in 2023. Historical haunting is attached to the original site/tunnel tradition, not asserted to be witnessed in the new building.
Bismarck, North Dakota · Hotel
Retellings describe phantom big-band music and party sounds drifting from an unused upper floor. In Peacock Alley downstairs, staff reportedly arrived to find clean glasses removed from their hanging rack and set out overnight, although the bar had been locked. The atmosphere is associated with former hotel workers and guests.
Dickinson, North Dakota · Other
A shadowy figure is said to walk the closed mall after everyone has left. In the best-known version, a police officer notices someone inside, enters to investigate and finds the building empty. A former night janitor commented that he had never experienced anything paranormal there.
Fargo, North Dakota · Cemetery
Haunting accounts focus on odd sounds around Riverside’s mausoleums, along with photographs said to contain unexplained lights or mist. Other visitors report an uneasy feeling in older sections. These are the cemetery’s paranormal reputation, separate from the documented lives and burials commemorated in its grounds.
Medora, North Dakota · Hotel
The hotel’s familiar ghost story concerns an unseen boy upstairs. Accounts describe a child laughing in an otherwise empty top-floor room and toilets flushing without anyone inside. A traveler who stayed at the hotel repeated the local tale but explicitly reported no encounter of her own.
Near Anamoose, North Dakota · Hotel
Stories about this converted schoolhouse describe the smell of cigar smoke without a smoker, passing dark shapes, inexplicable cold spots and possessions that disappear or change position. Lore attributes the cigar scent to a former superintendent, but the claimed school fire and fatality details vary and are not established history. Recent booking-directory listing is not proof of current availability. Claims it was North Dakota’s first school or built in early 1800s conflict with a local visitor account identifying the 1926 White School; those claims omitted.
Near Dunseith, North Dakota · Hospital
Even the demolition crews had a story: contractor Austin Harris told KFYR that workers heard footsteps behind them while walking through the hospital. Earlier visitors associated the abandoned complex with shadowy figures and children’s sounds. Those stories now belong to a demolished institution rather than an explorable hospital.
Sims, North Dakota · Historic house
Prairie Public records the Gray Lady as a kindly presence connected with Bertha Dordal, a pastor’s wife and organist. Residents described an unseen hand laying a blanket over a sleeping guest, a pump handle working itself, windows opening and closing, and organ music after the instrument was gone.
Grand Forks, North Dakota · Other
The strangest Starcher account describes an arm appearing at a second-floor darkroom doorway, without the rest of a body. Students also reported a watchful presence, floral scent and small unexplained drafts around the former computer lab. Older directories misspell the building as Stacher Hall.
Garrison, North Dakota · Other
Workers at Stoney End told of a male apparition, objects being moved and lights switching themselves on or off. Residents also placed the figure along the road outside. The legend identifies him as a former occupant of the building.
Minot, North Dakota · Other
Former gallery manager Wendy Kimble described footsteps crossing the marble gallery when no one was there. Her North Dakota Tourism account also recalls a man in a fedora and trench coat walking downstairs, turning behind a wall and disappearing before she could speak to him.
Fort Totten, North Dakota · Hotel
An account submitted to Haunted Places says guests have seen shadowlike figures of a man and a woman following them through the former officers’ quarters. The innkeepers offered a more ordinary interpretation in a State Historical Society feature, attributing such impressions to the building’s creaks, shadows and noises.
Fargo, North Dakota · Natural landmark
A woman in a long blue dress is said to dance near Trollwood’s willow trees, and other accounts describe children’s shapes or voices. Meet Fargo interviewed a mother about a purported encounter and reported its own ambiguous shadow sighting, while documenting the former county poor farm and burial grounds beneath the park.
Minot, North Dakota · Other
In North Dakota Tourism’s first-person account, Eric Vintner describes doors moving during renovation and security-camera alerts showing chairs in changed positions. Investigators reportedly recorded a deep greeting from the basement and a scream near a former tunnel entrance.
Jamestown, North Dakota · Other
Watson Hall stories describe a small girl wandering the upstairs hallway late at night. A separate account centers on disturbances in a lower-floor room: possessions thrown or displaced, wall posters torn down and doors shutting sharply. The identity of the reported girl is not established.
Leroy / Walhalla area, North Dakota · Road or bridge
Local versions tell of a woman in white walking a rural lane or appearing near a bridge; drivers also report crying or screaming. Some connect her with Anna Story, killed by Samuel Kalil in 1921. Other versions substitute a tragic marriage or a returning soldier’s widow. One consolidated road-legend profile. Akra–Leroy Road, White Lady Road and the Walhalla/Tetrault Woods versions are not proven separate sites. Exact route and bridge identity unresolved; no pin or driving directions.