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0Joplin Spook Light - Hornet Spooklight
Seneca, Missouri
13 miles from Ottawa County, OKJoplin 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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Oak Hill Cemetery - Witch's Grave
Galena, Kansas
20.1 miles from Ottawa County, OKLegend 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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Hotel Vinita - Napoli's Italian Restaurant
Vinita, Oklahoma
23.5 miles from Ottawa County, OKBuilt 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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Peace Church Cemetery
Joplin, Missouri
24.6 miles from Ottawa County, OKThis 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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Missouri Southern State University
Joplin, Missouri
26.4 miles from Ottawa County, OKMissouri 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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All Star Pizzeria
Noel, Missouri
27 miles from Ottawa County, OKThis 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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0Prosperity School Bed and Breakfast
Joplin, Missouri
29.3 miles from Ottawa County, OKA 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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0Grand Avenue Bed and Breakfast
Carthage, Missouri
35.6 miles from Ottawa County, OKThe 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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Kendrick Place
Carthage, Missouri
37.2 miles from Ottawa County, OKKendrick 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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Kansas Army Ammunition Plant
Parsons, Kansas
37.3 miles from Ottawa County, OKRumor 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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0Avilla, Missouri
Reeds, Missouri
45 miles from Ottawa County, OKShadow 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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Concord Cemetery
Exeter, Missouri
45.8 miles from Ottawa County, OKInvestigators claim to have captured orbs in photographs taken at this cemetery, and mysterious breathing noises appear on audio recordings.
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Peel Mansion
Bentonville, Arkansas
45.9 miles from Ottawa County, OKThis 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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Station Cafe
Bentonville, Arkansas
46.2 miles from Ottawa County, OKOnce 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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Brown Mansion
Coffeyville, Kansas
46.2 miles from Ottawa County, OKCompleted 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
46.5 miles from Ottawa County, OKElmwood 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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Dale Apartments
Coffeyville, Kansas
46.7 miles from Ottawa County, OKPeople 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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John Walsh Mansion
Monett, Missouri
49.5 miles from Ottawa County, OKHouse 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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Radar Road Phantom
Rogers, Arkansas
49.9 miles from Ottawa County, OKLocals have reported seeing a phantom horse and rider on the outskirts of the city of Rogers. (Submitted by Callum Swift)
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Pea Ridge National Military Park
Garfield, Arkansas
50.6 miles from Ottawa County, OKOn 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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Belvidere Mansion
Claremore, Oklahoma
57.3 miles from Ottawa County, OKBelvidere 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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Rogers State University
Claremore, Oklahoma
58.2 miles from Ottawa County, OKAt night, students say, an elderly Native American man's apparition can be seen walking on the grounds. Also, legend has it that when the school was a military academy, a cadet died in a hazing accident, and he now haunts the college TV station. The former radio station is rumored ...
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Inn at Carnall Hall
Fayetteville, Arkansas
63.8 miles from Ottawa County, OKOriginially 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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Cherokee County Courthouse
Tahlequah, Oklahoma
64.3 miles from Ottawa County, OKPreviously 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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Timber Ridge Cemetery
Catoosa, Oklahoma
65.6 miles from Ottawa County, OKLocals have nicknamed this place Haunted Hollow. Legend has it that a Native American boy who was hit by a car and killed while riding his bicycle in 1989 is buried here. Witnesses say that his spirit, along with his bicycle, can be seen along the roadside. Some say they ...
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0Crescent Hotel
Eureka Springs, Arkansas
66.4 miles from Ottawa County, OKOne 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
66.6 miles from Ottawa County, OKA 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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Tilly Willy Bridge
Fayetteville, Arkansas
67.8 miles from Ottawa County, OKThe 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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Pink House Restauant
Wagoner, Oklahoma
68 miles from Ottawa County, OKThe 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
68.1 miles from Ottawa County, OKThe 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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Fort Scott
Fort Scott, Kansas
69.9 miles from Ottawa County, OKFort 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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Cottey College
Nevada, Missouri
73.3 miles from Ottawa County, OKCottey 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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0McBride House
Fort Gibson, Oklahoma
75.3 miles from Ottawa County, OKThis 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
75.3 miles from Ottawa County, OKThe 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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Thomas-Foreman Historic Home
Muskogee, Oklahoma
81.3 miles from Ottawa County, OKThis 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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