Reports say there are many ghosts and apparitions of all shapes and sizes at the Sacramento City Cemetery. Among them are a ghost girl seen playing near her headstone, a phantom pit bull who follows visitors and then simply disappears, and a couple wearing all black.
Sacramento City Cemetery
Egg Plantation
Egg Plantation has a ghost locals call “menacing.” It manifests as a movement from the corner of one’s eye, seen by patrons seated at the bar. When they look directly at the spot from where the movement comes, nothing is there.
Detroit Masonic Temple
Detroit’s Masonic Temple has more than 1,000 rooms, plus secret passageways, hidden staircases and concealed compartments under its floors. Of course, a building like this has to have a ghost! This one’s is thought to be George D. Mason, who went bankrupt while funding its construction and, when his wife subsequently left him, committed suicide by jumping from its roof. Security guards have spotted his apparition climbing up the stairs to the roof.
Calcasieu Courthouse
Calcasieu Courthouse is said to be haunted by Toni Jo McQuiston (born Annie Beatrice McQuiston), a murderess and the only female to die in Louisiana’s electric chair. Toni was a beauty but a tough girl, into drugs and prostitution. But after she fell in love with Claude Henry (nicknamed Cowboy)at her brothel workplace, they were married, and Toni cleaned up. Cowboy was shortly thereafter arrested on a murder charge from his past and sentenced to 50 years in prison. Toni Jo and her buddy Harold Finnan (Arkie) Burks planned to bust Cowboy of prison, so they stole a getaway car and murdered its owner, leaving his body in a ditch. But when they bragged about the crime, they were caught and sentenced to death at the courthouse. Ever since then, folks say her ghost whispers, and occasionally screams; her perfume wafts in the air; and her footsteps echo throughout the building.
Harlow House
Harlow House is a Bavarian-style mansion with wooden gutter spouts that are life-size carvings of various silent film stars like Pickford and Valentino. It was formerly owned by actress Jean Harlow and her MGM producer husband Paul Bern. The home is said to have been cursed when Bern committed suicide by shooting himself in the head. After this, two people drowned in the pool, and subsequent owners have had bad luck as well. Jay Sebring, who was romantically attached to actress Sharon Tate, was one of the later owners. Reports say Sharon saw an apparition of Paul Bern and another of a phantom murder scene when staying alone one night in the mansion. Some say the murder scene was the ghost trying to warn her about her later murder at the hands of Charles Manson.
Nelson House
The Nelson House was used as a model for the stage sets on the 1950s-1960s TV show The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet. Ozzie Nelson’s ghost has been seen several times inside the home in many different locations. Owners also have noted doors that open and close by themselves, disembodied footsteps, and lights and faucets that operate on their own.
California's Great America
At California’s Great America, aka Paramount’s Great America, a ghost of a boy who was killed on a ride is said to haunt the area where the ride once stood. Many other spots at this amusement park are also said to be haunted as well. For example, a man’s ghost has been spotted at the Big Arcade & Drop Zone. He shows up on security cameras right next to living security guards, but the living guards can’t seem him. And at the Paramount Theater, the ghost of a man walks across the stage, and witnesses have reported cold spots, unexplained noises, their names being called, taps on the shoulder and unseen fingers on the back of their necks. Rumor has it that at the Roast Beef Shop, a man once froze to death after being trapped in a walk-in freezer. His ghost, wearing a blue shirt, is said to appear nightly from 10 to midnight, screaming inside the freezer. The IMAX Theatre may be haunted too: Folks have heard whispers and seen the lights go on and off without cause.
Hollenbeck Cemetery
Tiny Hollenbeck Cemetery, with about 25 graves, hasn’t been used since before the turn of the century. But legends abound about the place; folks have witnessed a headless horseman, a woman in white, ghostly babies crying, screams for help, knocking sounds, orbs, and tombstones that are said to have disappeared. A 1996 memorial placed by the Township of Ellicott in the center of the graveyard alludes to the fact that some of the stones were stolen in July 1995.
Medaille College
Medaille College, formerly called the School for Boys, is said to be haunted by some of its former students. Ghost boys wearing 1940s clothing have been spotted sitting in classrooms.
Cohoes Music Hall
The 1874 Cohoes Music Hall is believed to be haunted by Vaudeville actress Eva Tanguay, who died in 1947. Cohoes Music Hall was where she made her debut–and was booed offstage. Eva was known as the “I Don’t Care” Girl because of her famous song. Many folks who work here have had contact with the ghost, who has made herself known with gusts of wind, giggles, phantom perfume, and unexplained noises. Sometimes props go missing, doors open by themselves, and lights turn on, and it’s always attributed to their theater ghost, Eva.
