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0Crescent Hotel
Eureka Springs, Arkansas
5.3 miles from Holiday Island, AR
One of the most well-known haunted hotels in America, the Crescent hotel has a history that just requires there to be ghosts and haunts associated with it. And the Crescent has plenty. The site of a former hospital run by a con artist who had previously been convicted of practicing ...
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0Basin Park Hotel
Eureka Springs, Arkansas
5.7 miles from Holiday Island, AR
A haunted tour is offered here, and the hotel even has its own ghosts, including a young woman with blonde hair and blue eyes and a toddler-aged girl wearing pigtails and a yellow dress. Witnesses have also reported orbs and objects that move by themselves.
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Pea Ridge National Military Park
Garfield, Arkansas
16.9 miles from Holiday Island, AR
On the battlefield in the middle of the night, witnesses have heard musket fire and seen apparitions of soldiers from the Battle of Pea Ridge. Some guests to the site have reported a feeling of being followed by something unseen.
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Radar Road Phantom
Rogers, Arkansas
20.3 miles from Holiday Island, AR
Locals have reported seeing a phantom horse and rider on the outskirts of the city of Rogers. (Submitted by Callum Swift)
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Concord Cemetery
Exeter, Missouri
21.1 miles from Holiday Island, AR
Investigators claim to have captured orbs in photographs taken at this cemetery, and mysterious breathing noises appear on audio recordings.
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The Shepherd of the Hills
Branson, Missouri
26.8 miles from Holiday Island, AR
The Shepherd of the Hills is an outdoor theater venue rumored to be haunted by the ghost of a Confederate soldier. Witnesses have seen him running from the actors during night performances of a show about the Bald Knobbers, a group of 1880s Missouri vigilantes.
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Station Cafe
Bentonville, Arkansas
27.6 miles from Holiday Island, AR
Once a theatre, this building is now home to a restaurant called "The Station Cafe". Items are moved in the main dining room and kitchen, sometimes violently. A ghostly figure of a man has been seen roaming the hallway.
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Peel Mansion
Bentonville, Arkansas
28.4 miles from Holiday Island, AR
This historic mansion, built by Samuel Peel in 1875, is said to be haunted by Peel himself and by his daughter, Minnie Belle. Minnie Belle is known to play the piano when no one is in the room.
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Music City Center
Branson, Missouri
28.8 miles from Holiday Island, AR
Music City Centre is believed to be haunted by several spirits, including one of a little girl named Amy and another of an older man who likes to tinker with elevators and electrical devices.
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John Walsh Mansion
Monett, Missouri
32.1 miles from Holiday Island, AR
House has at least 3 paranormal residents. A man in formal dress is often glimpsed, especially in upper bedroom areas. A small child most likely female is also present and likes to play with the household dogs. A middle age woman visits the "music room' part of the ...
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Inn at Carnall Hall
Fayetteville, Arkansas
37.6 miles from Holiday Island, AR
Originially built in 1905 as a women's dorm, the building now houses a 50-room hotel and Ella's French restaurant. Witnesses here have seen the floating apparition of a woman in a gown, without a head or feet, and indentations on the bed as if someone were sitting on it. Other ...
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Tilly Willy Bridge
Fayetteville, Arkansas
39.7 miles from Holiday Island, AR
The bridge was demolished in 2010 or 2011; the map shows the location of theh former bridge. It is said that a woman in the 1970s drove off the bridge, killing herself and her children. Her phantom car was seen driving across the bridge, and her apparition has been spotted ...
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All Star Pizzeria
Noel, Missouri
42 miles from Holiday Island, AR
This historic building was a former pizzeria, but is now boarded up. People who drive past late at night have seen a white apparition standing at the windows, and while it was in operation, staff would report all sorts of various paranormal activity. (Submitted by Callum Swift)
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0Avilla, Missouri
Reeds, Missouri
53.8 miles from Holiday Island, AR
Shadow Folk are known to haunt the old abandoned part of this historic village along Route 66. The shadowy people can be seen walking along the street and going about daily business, usually from the corner of your eye. The Avilla Death Tree is haunted by Civil War-era bushwhacker Rotten ...
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Springfield National Cemetery
Springfield, Missouri
54.2 miles from Holiday Island, AR
The 1860s Springfield National Cemetery is home to some lingering spirits of Civil Wars soldiers, according to those in the know. Some of the gravestones here are known to glow, and orbs and other anomalies have shown up in photographs.
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Phelps Grove Park
Springfield, Missouri
54.7 miles from Holiday Island, AR
Phelps Grove Park has a ghost known as the Bride under the Bridge. According to local legend, a just-married couple lost control of their car here, killing them both. The ghost is seen evenings under the park's third bridge, holding the hem of her gown. She has only darkness in ...
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Southwest Missouri State University
Springfield, Missouri
55.4 miles from Holiday Island, AR
Southwest Missouri State University's Freudenberger House, or Freddy House, built in 1959 and named for a Latin professor who taught for 45 years, has a female ghost affectionately referred to as the Dorm Mom. She's most often spotted on Floor 5.
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Landers Theater
Springfield, Missouri
55.5 miles from Holiday Island, AR
Landers Theater, aka Springfield Little Theater, was built in 1909 and was renovated in 1970. It is said to be haunted by several ghosts. One is a janitor who perished in a 1920 fire. His apparition is seen in the balcony watching rehearsals. Another is an African-American man who was ...
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Gillioz Theatre
Springfield, Missouri
55.7 miles from Holiday Island, AR
Gillioz Theatre, which opened in 1926, is rumored to have been haunted by a ghost boy since the 1960s. The child's apparition has most often been seen around the area of the restrooms.
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0Walnut Street Inn
Springfield, Missouri
55.7 miles from Holiday Island, AR
The hauntings at this 1890s-era inn building occur in one of its three buildings called the Main House, which has six rooms. The Rosen Room is haunted by the ghost of an elderly woman who has been spotted many times there and in the hallways.
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University Plaza Hotel
Springfield, Missouri
55.7 miles from Holiday Island, AR
A ghost called "The Colonel" is said to haunt this hotel, seen by almost all the staff between midnight and 4 a.m. He is usually seen in the ballroom and back hallways and appears as an older man dressed in black. Folks speculate that in life he was a decorated ...
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Drury University
Springfield, Missouri
56.4 miles from Holiday Island, AR
Drury University began in 1873, and was built on land that was both Indian burial grounds and a Civil War battle area. One ghost here is that of a little girl who lived here before Smith Hall was built. She perished in a fire when she re-entered her burning home ...
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0Grand Avenue Bed and Breakfast
Carthage, Missouri
56.6 miles from Holiday Island, AR
The ghost in residence at this early-20th-century house is said to be a male whose cigarette smoke smell fills the dining room and parlor when he is around. The spirit is thought to be that of Albert Carmean, a former owner in its early days.
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0Pythian Castle
Springfield, Missouri
56.9 miles from Holiday Island, AR
The haunted castle was originally a senior citizens' home and orphanage built by the Knights of Pythias in 1913. It's said to be haunted and has been featured on TV shows. Ghost tours and other events are offered at the castle, now privately owned.
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0Prosperity School Bed and Breakfast
Joplin, Missouri
58.2 miles from Holiday Island, AR
A school in its olden days, this building stood empty for three decades before it was renovated into an inn. During the time it was empty, it became known as a hot spot for haunts. TV's Ghost Hunters has caught an image of ghost children running down a hall; shadow ...
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Missouri Southern State University
Joplin, Missouri
58.3 miles from Holiday Island, AR
Missouri Southern State University has a ghostly Dark Lady who is known to move objects and create cold spots. Some also maintain that the Billingsly Student Center is haunted.
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Joplin Spook Light - Hornet Spooklight
Seneca, Missouri
58.4 miles from Holiday Island, AR
Joplin Spook Light, aka Hollis Light or Hornet Spooklight, is a ball of light or group of lights that appear in an area called the Devil's Promenade. The lights have been seen as far back as the mid-1800s. Legend has it that the phenomena has to do with two deceased ...
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Kendrick Place
Carthage, Missouri
58.5 miles from Holiday Island, AR
Kendrick Place, or Kendrick House, was built in 1849 and is said to be haunted, perhaps by a slave woman who was hanged from a nearby tree dring the Civil War.
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Bass Country Inn - Campus Inn
Springfield, Missouri
58.6 miles from Holiday Island, AR
Formerly the Bass Country Inn and before that, Howard Johnsons, the Campus Inn is home to a ghost called Carl. His apparition has been seen in the hallways and in the kitchen. Objects also are said to fall off the shelves when no one is there. A female spirit is ...
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Chester House Inn and Antiques
Chester, Arkansas
60.9 miles from Holiday Island, AR
The 1887 hotel primarily served railroad passengers and workers until the late-twentieth century. Now a delightful bed and breakfast inn with an adjoining antiques store, employees and guests staying at the establishment have reported many strange instances of paranormal activity. The place is rumoured to have been a brothel ...
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Peace Church Cemetery
Joplin, Missouri
63 miles from Holiday Island, AR
This cemetery dates back to the mid 19th century, but has been more or less abandoned for the past three decades. Its most famous "inhabitant" is probably Billy Cook, who killed six people during a 22-day criminal rampage between Missouri and California in the early 1950s. He was ...
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Oak Hill Cemetery - Witch's Grave
Galena, Kansas
65.9 miles from Holiday Island, AR
Legend has it that there is a grave of a witch toward the back of this cemetery, and some claim that apparitions, voices, and strange sounds will come from the area, especially around the hour of 3:33 a.m.
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Cotter Bridge
Cotter, Arkansas
67.9 miles from Holiday Island, AR
Witnesses have experienced a number of spooky things at the bridge: The ghost of a woman being chased by hounds, apparitions of children playing on the tracks below the bridge, disembodied footsteps/footprints, and the sound of a phantom baby crying.
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Opossum Walk Cemetery
Hartman, Arkansas
69.8 miles from Holiday Island, AR
Opossum Walk Cemetery is reported to have gates that are hot to the touch, even in winter, and witnesses have heard footsteps walking behind them and seen apparitions out of the corner of their eye.
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Cherokee County Courthouse
Tahlequah, Oklahoma
79.7 miles from Holiday Island, AR
Previously the city's hospital, the courthouse is believed to be haunted. Folks have reported the sound of the jail door closing when no one is there, and the sound of a hospital gurney being rolled across ceramic tile has been reported even though the areas have been carpeted or tiled ...
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Hotel Vinita - Napoli's Italian Restaurant
Vinita, Oklahoma
79.7 miles from Holiday Island, AR
Built in Spanish Revival-style, the 1927 hotel now features a quaint restaurant on the ground floor. The guest rooms have since been refurbished as apartments, but the original ballroom still retains its period features. This part of the building is haunted according to visitors, who have reported ghostly piano ...
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0King Opera House
Van Buren, Arkansas
80.5 miles from Holiday Island, AR
Allegedly haunted by the ghost of a young actor who was killed by an enraged father who objected to the actor's intentions to elope with his daughter.
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Old Fort Smith Courthouse
Fort Smith, Arkansas
85.3 miles from Holiday Island, AR
The old courthouse that still stands here was the sight of many a death sentence handed out in the late 19th century - the hangings occurred just outside. It is said that the ghosts of the condemned men still roam this area.
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0Fort Chaffee
Fort Smith, Arkansas
87.2 miles from Holiday Island, AR
This historic site, now an Army National Guard station and training center, is reported to be haunted. The site, which experienced major fires in 2008, has also been used in several films, including A Soldier's Story in 1984, Biloxi Blues in 1988, and The Tuskegee Airmen in 1995. Elvis Presley ...
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Arkansas Tech University
Russellville, Arkansas
88.8 miles from Holiday Island, AR
Arkansas Tech University, several locations are rumored to be haunted. One is Caraway Hall, where students describe noises in the attic, footsteps on the stairs and whispers in the hallways. There are two legends to explain the hauntings. One is that it is build on top of a Cherokee burial ...
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Moore Hill Cemetery
Dardanelle, Arkansas
96.7 miles from Holiday Island, AR
Locals swear that if you hang around the "Hovis" gravestones at night you'll eventually find the ghost of a man who killed his wife.
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Kansas Army Ammunition Plant
Parsons, Kansas
97.4 miles from Holiday Island, AR
Rumor has it that the Kansas Army Ammunition Plant is haunted by a victim of an explosion in the late 1980s. When the plant was reopened for the Persian Gulf War in the 1990s, workers suffered from nightmares and visions and heard the phantom sound of bicycle bells once used ...
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Cottey College
Nevada, Missouri
99.8 miles from Holiday Island, AR
Cottey College, founded by Virginia Alice Cottey Stockard in 1884, has a piano-playing ghost. The spirit is thought to be that of Vera Neitzert, a student from 1920 who perished when her clothes caught fire while she was cooking candy. Her ghost has been seen in Main Hall and the ...
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Fort Scott
Fort Scott, Kansas
108 miles from Holiday Island, AR
Fort Scott, originally Camp Scott in honor of General Winfield Scott, was established in 1842. It is restored as a historic site, and is rumored to be haunted. Ghostly soldiers and officers are seen on the lawn, around the courtyard, in the cell blocks and in the stables. They have ...
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Springfield - Des Arc Bridge
Holiday Island, Arkansas
109.1 miles from Holiday Island, AR
At the Springfield Bridge or Des Arc Bridge, an iron bowstring truss bridge over Cadron Creek, witnesses say they have heard a ghostly baby crying, a girl screaming, and other strange noises.
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Old Bigelow Gym
Bigelow, Arkansas
119.7 miles from Holiday Island, AR
Down the road from the Bigelow High School, there is an old recreational gym there. If you go into the attic of the old gym, you can here the screams of a young boy who died there a long time ago. There is also the sound of a piano being ...
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