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Avilla, Missouri
Reeds, Missouri
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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Kendrick Place
Carthage, Missouri
9.9 miles from Avilla, MO
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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Grand Avenue Bed and Breakfast
Carthage, Missouri
10.2 miles from Avilla, MO
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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Prosperity School Bed and Breakfast
Joplin, Missouri
16.8 miles from Avilla, MO
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
19.4 miles from Avilla, MO
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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John Walsh Mansion
Monett, Missouri
21.9 miles from Avilla, MO
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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Peace Church Cemetery
Joplin, Missouri
23.5 miles from Avilla, MO
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
29.3 miles from Avilla, MO
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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Joplin Spook Light - Hornet Spooklight
Seneca, Missouri
32 miles from Avilla, MO
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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Concord Cemetery
Exeter, Missouri
34.7 miles from Avilla, MO
Investigators claim to have captured orbs in photographs taken at this cemetery, and mysterious breathing noises appear on audio recordings.
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Landers Theater
Springfield, Missouri
46.2 miles from Avilla, MO
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
46.2 miles from Avilla, MO
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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Cottey College
Nevada, Missouri
46.3 miles from Avilla, MO
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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Drury University
Springfield, Missouri
46.5 miles from Avilla, MO
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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Phelps Grove Park
Springfield, Missouri
46.6 miles from Avilla, MO
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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University Plaza Hotel
Springfield, Missouri
46.6 miles from Avilla, MO
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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Walnut Street Inn
Springfield, Missouri
46.7 miles from Avilla, MO
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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Southwest Missouri State University
Springfield, Missouri
46.8 miles from Avilla, MO
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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Pythian Castle
Springfield, Missouri
47.4 miles from Avilla, MO
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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Springfield National Cemetery
Springfield, Missouri
47.7 miles from Avilla, MO
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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Bass Country Inn - Campus Inn
Springfield, Missouri
47.9 miles from Avilla, MO
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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All Star Pizzeria
Noel, Missouri
49 miles from Avilla, MO
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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Pea Ridge National Military Park
Garfield, Arkansas
51.8 miles from Avilla, MO
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
54.4 miles from Avilla, MO
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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Fort Scott
Fort Scott, Kansas
54.7 miles from Avilla, MO
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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Station Cafe
Bentonville, Arkansas
57 miles from Avilla, MO
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
57.3 miles from Avilla, MO
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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The Shepherd of the Hills
Branson, Missouri
58.3 miles from Avilla, MO
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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Kansas Army Ammunition Plant
Parsons, Kansas
58.3 miles from Avilla, MO
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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Crescent Hotel
Eureka Springs, Arkansas
58.5 miles from Avilla, MO
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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Basin Park Hotel
Eureka Springs, Arkansas
58.9 miles from Avilla, MO
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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Music City Center
Branson, Missouri
61.7 miles from Avilla, MO
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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Hotel Vinita - Napoli's Italian Restaurant
Vinita, Oklahoma
68.6 miles from Avilla, MO
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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Inn at Carnall Hall
Fayetteville, Arkansas
77.8 miles from Avilla, MO
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
81.6 miles from Avilla, MO
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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Dale Apartments
Coffeyville, Kansas
82.7 miles from Avilla, MO
People who live in this historic apartment complex have heard screams and moans when there is no one around, as well as seeing a shadowy apparition that slams doors. (Submitted by Callum Swift)
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Brown Mansion
Coffeyville, Kansas
82.7 miles from Avilla, MO
Completed in 1904, the grand Brown Mansion is said to be haunted. Although the staff complain to have no evidence of the haunting, local tales tell that when the building spent several years vacant, with the power turned off, glowing green lights could be seen coming from the mansion grounds.
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Elmwood Cemetery
Coffeyville, Kansas
82.9 miles from Avilla, MO
Elmwood Cemetery contains the graves of the Dalton Gang bank robbers and the town's defenders from the gun battle of October 5, 1892. Witnesses describe odd noises, shadows that chase them, and uneasy feelings.
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Cherokee County Courthouse
Tahlequah, Oklahoma
100.2 miles from Avilla, MO
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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Belvidere Mansion
Claremore, Oklahoma
102.2 miles from Avilla, MO
Belvidere Mansion, built by John M. Bayless around in 1902, is a gothic-style brick home. Its third floor is a ballroom. In 1907, six months before it was completed, Mr. Bayless died of complications from appendicitis surgery. Mary Bayless and their six surviving children finished the mansion and lived there ...
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Pink House Restauant
Wagoner, Oklahoma
109.6 miles from Avilla, MO
The 1906 Pink House Restaurant was recently painted green amid local controversy, and is supposedly haunted by a frustrated female spirit who is very much against change. During the initial renovations, tools and furniture were constantly moved around by unseen hands, and doors slammed shut of their own accord. ...
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James Parkinson House
Wagoner, Oklahoma
109.7 miles from Avilla, MO
The 1892 Victorian mansion is rumoured to be haunted, according to the current residents. Orbs have been known to show up in photographs, and lamps have been known to flicker for no apparent reason. In an upstairs bedroom, strange noises and ghostly voices have been heard. The current owner ...
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McBride House
Fort Gibson, Oklahoma
114.5 miles from Avilla, MO
This private home is now abandoned but its former owner claims it was haunted by numerous ghosts. She's even written a book about it. She claims that the previous owner and original builder of the house still resides there and is prone to throwing ghostly parties at 2 am. ...
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Fort Gibson
Fort Gibson, Oklahoma
114.5 miles from Avilla, MO
The legend of Vivia Thomas is told around Fort Gibson. So it goes, one morning in 1870, a soldier was found dead atop a grave in the nearby cemetery. When the doctor examined the body, he found she was a woman. Vivia Thomas had been educated and elegant, and she ...
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Ottawa Municipal Auditorium
Ottawa, Kansas
116 miles from Avilla, MO
According to witnesses, disembodied voices chat, footsteps stroll across the stage, and chairs move from place to place -- all while the area is empty of people. Living ones, anyway.
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Thomas-Foreman Historic Home
Muskogee, Oklahoma
121.6 miles from Avilla, MO
This 1898 home-turned-house-museum built in former "Indian Territory" is said to be haunted by the ghost of former resident Mrs. Foreman, who passed away in the home in 1968. Its caretaker said he often looked up while working outside to see the apparition of Mrs. Foreman in the doorway watching ...
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