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This antiques store has been featured on the TV show “My Ghost Story”. It is said that it was originally the first jail in St Augustine, while the other was being built. Children spirits are there, as well as others. You can hear footsteps above you in the vacant area above the store.
Source: Gwen F.
Aparttment 2F is considered haunted after some sort of extremely violent event in the early 2000s. The staff decided to re-rent the place with new doors and carpets. At first the showers would go on by themselves and the closest apartment, which was closed each night, was open at mornings. This started getting worse as hair pulling and things getting thrown started occurring. Ripping papers with prayers and scratching of furniture with evidence of these markings. The attacks got more physical. Dogs would not enter the main room – they would get water or other things thrown at them. Several exorcisms took place but the “things” always came back worse. Residents were pulled out of bed and started to find mysterious bruises on their bodies.
Nevertheless, it is said that a new family has moved into the apartment recently, and has not experienced anything paranormal.
Source: Cat
I have worked here on graveyard shift for a little over 3 years and have heard many stories. Last night a co-worker came up to me and was visually shaken. He said he was in an older part of the building were customers can’t access and distinctly herd a little boy giggling. I went back with him and I could just feel a presence, like someone watching. There was no one even close, my coworker grew pale and had large goosebumps. I have personally felt very uneasy in this are in the past. Others have said they hear similar sounds in this area and have named it Johnny. Another hot spot is in the basement near the bakery, similar occurrences.
Source: John J.
The 1894 Lancaster Opera House is rumored to be haunted by Lady Lavender and other apparitions, including one of a man who hanged himself in the tower. Witnesses say lights turn on and off by themselves here as well.
John Dickinson Plantation is said to be haunted by John Dickinson himself, also known as the “penman of the Revolutionary War.” The sound of a quill pen writing on parchment has been recorded in his den and his bed mysteriously becomes rumpled in the afternoons, as if he has taken a nap.
On Feb. 5, 1924, Milford Mine, a manganese mine, was flooded when Foley Lake rose, killing 41 miners. The site is rumored to be haunted by the spirits of the miners who were killed or who witnessed the tragedy.
Morgan’s Corner was named after Dr. James Morgan who lived on the S-curve in the 1920s-1940s. In 1948, Therese Wilder, a 68-year old widow who also lived on Morgan’s Corner, was killed in her home by two escaped prisoners. They bound and gagged her; she suffocated. This may have led to the rumors of haunting here, but there is also an urban legend about a couple who was parked under a tree nearby. The car wouldn’t start, so the boy went to get help while the girl waited in the car. She waited a long while, hearing the wind scrape the tree’s branches on the roof of the car. When she awoke, she found that her boyfriend’s body was hanging from the tree, dead, and his fingertips were what was scraping on the roof of the car all night. Reports say this story is made up, but rumors of hauntings in this area persist.
Indiana University Bloomington is said to be haunted in several spots on campus. One is the Career Center, babies are heard crying, and at the Folklore Office a deceased department head has been seen. At the Indiana Memorial Union, suicide victims and a ghost dog roam, and apparitions have been seen and heard at the Lily Library. Reed Hall has the ghost of a murdered girl, and Read Dorm, the ghost of a resident advisor named Paula who threw herself down the stairs.
The Avon Haunted Bridge is a railroad bridge that was built in 1906, and legend has it that it’s haunted. So the story goes, a mother was walking with her baby on the tracks when they fell to their deaths. Locals would say every time you drove under the bridge you had to honk to drown out the sound of the ghost of the mother’s wails. Some locals still honk today.
The historic Fort Belle Fontaine, famously visited by explorers Lewis and Clark, is said to be home to a presence that appears as dark-red smoke or a red light on the stairs.
