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0The Kahler Hotel
Rochester, Minnesota
10.4 miles from Oronoco, MN
The ghosts of former Mayo Clinic patients are said to haunt the hotel, causing eerie sounds and smells and quick temperature changes.
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0Quarry Hill Nature Center
Rochester, Minnesota
10.8 miles from Oronoco, MN
The wooden "dead man's bridge" is, according to local legend, where a man hanged himself in the 1960s. Other eerie things on the premises are a small cemetery and several caves that are rumored to be haunted.
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Mantorville Opera House
Kasson, Minnesota
13 miles from Oronoco, MN
Built in 1918, the Mantorville Opera House building has been a club, a speakeasy, a silent movie house, a skating rink, a city hall and a civic center. It is believed to be haunted by several spirits, including former actors and entertainers and a woman who the staff nicknamed Ellen. ...
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St. James Hotel
Red Wing, Minnesota
27.6 miles from Oronoco, MN
The hotel building was built in 1875, and several spirits are believed to haunt it. The first is a hostile entity that haunts all floors of the building, and which has been known to attack guests and to slam doors. The second apparition is that of a lady in a ...
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Anderson House Hotel
Wabasha, Minnesota
29 miles from Oronoco, MN
Parts of this historic bed and breakfast inn date back to the 1850's, and it's not surprise that the place is said to be haunted. The most famous ghost in the old-fashioned establishment is a female spirit known as 'Sarah'. It is said that she was under the impression ...
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Quill and Quilt Bed and Breakfast
Cannon Falls, Minnesota
30 miles from Oronoco, MN
Built in 1897 for a prominent local physician, this bed and breakfast inn appears to now be a private residence. During the establishments heyday, guests reported catching glimpse of a shadowy apparition in the Quilters Haven Room. (Submitted by Callum Swift)
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Treasure Island Resort and Casino
Welch, Minnesota
32.6 miles from Oronoco, MN
One night after leaving the Treasure Island Resort and Casino, a man pulled over to take a nap. A few moments later, he heard footsteps coming toward his car, sounding like the walker was dragging one leg. The man looked out his car window and saw a bony old ghost ...
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It's 5 O'Clock Somewhere
Owatonna, Minnesota
34.8 miles from Oronoco, MN
The bar called It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere is said to be haunted. Reports say the apparition of a man in old-fashioned duds and a puddle of blood appear out of nowhere. The bar was a funeral home and a used furniture store in past incarnations.
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West Hills
Owatonna, Minnesota
35.3 miles from Oronoco, MN
Ghosts of orphaned children are rumored to linger in this former orphanage, laughing audibly. Witnesses also have seen the floor move and warp and smelled phantom cigar smoke. Books also have moved, temperature has been known to change drastically, and phone calls have been made to the police department from ...
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St. Olaf College
Northfield, Minnesota
38 miles from Oronoco, MN
The four buildings rumored to be haunted at St. Olaf College are Hilleboe Hall, where children singing and playing piano have been heard; Kelsey Theater, where deceased Miss Kelsey has been witnessed playing the piano onstage; Melby Hall, where the apparitions of a man and a woman in Victorian clothing ...
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Mrs B's Bed and Breakfast Inn
Lanesboro, Minnesota
41.4 miles from Oronoco, MN
It just wouldn't be a haunted inn without a famous ghost, and this delightful historic bed and breakfast is allegedly haunted by Buffalo Bill, where he stayed the night on several occasions. In Room #001 (River Song Room), a curious apparition has been reported. Guests have reported seeing a shadowy ...
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William G. LeDuc House
Hastings, Minnesota
41.9 miles from Oronoco, MN
Civil War quartermaster General William Leduc's home, built in 1865, and his family reportedly dabbled in spiritualism. Many spirits are said to reside here, and the apparition of General Leduc himself has been spotted. His daughter Alice and family friend Carroll Simmons are believed to be here as well, and ...
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St. Mary's College - Heffron Hall
Winona, Minnesota
42.5 miles from Oronoco, MN
Heffron Hall at St. Mary's College is known to have a ghost, that of Father Louis Lesches, who murdered Bishop Patrick Heffron in 1915, and who may have been involved in the suspicious burning death of Rev. Edward Lynch in 1931. Witnesses have seen apparitions, experienced cold spots, and had ...
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Rosewood Inn Bed and Breakfast
Hastings, Minnesota
42.6 miles from Oronoco, MN
People have reported seeing a strange glowing apparition walking around the grounds and inside the historic inn. When the inn was abandoned for a period of time, people were reportedly chased by the spirit on various occasions. (Submitted by Callum Swift)
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Treat Me Sweet
Hastings, Minnesota
42.9 miles from Oronoco, MN
Treat Me Sweet was a restaurant (no longer open) rumored to be haunted by a former owner who committed suicide in the kitchen.
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362 Cummings Street
Winona, Minnesota
43.8 miles from Oronoco, MN
The house at 362 Cummings Street is rumored to be haunted. Some of the things witnesses have experienced here include shadowy figures, moving objects, locked doors opening on their own, crashing sounds, and banging from the basement.
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Winona State University
Winona, Minnesota
45 miles from Oronoco, MN
At Winona State College, two halls are rumored to be haunted. On Lourdes Hall's 3rd floor, posters and pictures have been moved or taken off the wall, doors close and lock on their own, and voices can be heard when no one is there. On the 4th floor, which was ...
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Pieces of the Past
Winona, Minnesota
45.3 miles from Oronoco, MN
Pieces of the Past is an antique store housed in an 1850s building that's the setting for many a local legend. It has housed many businesses, including a law office and a brothel (and at the same time). At the brothel, so the stories say, one of the women was ...
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Hamlet Park - Dead Man's Pond
Cottage Grove, Minnesota
49.9 miles from Oronoco, MN
Legend has it that the little swampy, algae-covered pond in Hamlet Park claimed a victim long ago, and today it is haunted... and lies in wait for its next victim.
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Cottage Grove Cemetery
Cottage Grove, Minnesota
50.1 miles from Oronoco, MN
Reported in this cemetery have been an apparition seen in the storage shed window and phantom perfume aromas.
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Andy's Market Hill - Scott Park
Apple Valley, Minnesota
52 miles from Oronoco, MN
At the popular sledding spot called Andy's Market Hill, aka Dead Man's Hill in Scott Park, legend has it that a little boy named Dameon was sledding in 1998 when he was killed accidentally by an archer who shot him in the eye. Now, Dameon's sledding apparition is seen here ...
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Afton House Inn
Afton, Minnesota
52.2 miles from Oronoco, MN
The 1867 historic inn is rumoured to be haunted by a ghost or two. The spirit set here include a woman known as 'Margaret', a young boy in old-fashioned breeches and the apparition of a farmer. Other encounters indicate that disembodied footsteps, cold spots and the smell of ...
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Montgomery Golf Club
Montgomery, Minnesota
55.1 miles from Oronoco, MN
Montgomery Golf Club is home to two ghosts, maybe more. One's identity has been traced to a farmer who once lived on the land and is said to be buried on the first hole of the golf course. His apparition has been spotted in a hat and overalls. The other ...
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The Devil's Punchbowl
Menomonie, Wisconsin
55.6 miles from Oronoco, MN
Visitors have heard strange noises and experienced unexplained temperature drops here. Balls of light are sometimes seen and some legends even talk about people encountering gnomes; guests who joke about these entities say their cars suddenly won't start upon returning back. (Submitted by Chris Berglund)
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Le Sueur County Historical Society Museum
Elysian, Minnesota
56.5 miles from Oronoco, MN
Some odd things have been reported at this museum: disembodied voices, a typewriter and a record player that worked by themselves, and a service bell that rang on its own.
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Mabel Tainter Center for the Arts
Menomonie, Wisconsin
57.5 miles from Oronoco, MN
The center is believed to be haunted by the ghost who may be Mabel herself. She was the daughter of Captain Andrew and Bertha Tainter, who built the nonprofit theater for the community after their beloved daughter died at age 19. Other ghosts have been reported here as well, including ...
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0Lake Elmo Park Reserve
Lake Elmo, Minnesota
58.4 miles from Oronoco, MN
The forest all around Lake Elmo (lake) is rumoured to be haunted by a middle-aged man who walks the trails in the early evening hours. Visitors who approach or greet the apparition get a surprise when the man disappears into thin air, no-where to be seen. People who walk ...
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Wabasha Street Caves
Saint Paul, Minnesota
59.7 miles from Oronoco, MN
Wabasha Street Caves are sandstone underground caves available for tours. They are decorated with brick walls, stucco ceilings and carpet or tile floors. Apparitions seen here include a man in a panama hat, another man who meets a woman in the bar area around 3 a.m., a man who sits ...
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The Jonathan Padelford
Saint Paul, Minnesota
59.9 miles from Oronoco, MN
The Jonathan Padelford is a Mississippi River steamboat that's believed to be haunted by a man who drowned after climbing to the top of the pilothouse and then falling from it into the river. Both employees and passengers have heard this phantom scene replay, complete with footsteps and a large ...
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0Mounds Theatre
Saint Paul, Minnesota
60.1 miles from Oronoco, MN
At this 1922 playhouse building, folks have reported being grabbed physically while working late at night. An obscenity-shouting ghost named Red sometimes even throws objects at women, and a little girl in a pink dress may bounce a ball on the stage. But beware: Stories say some investigators didn't leave ...
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0Schmidt Brewery
Saint Paul, Minnesota
60.1 miles from Oronoco, MN
Allegedly haunted by a variety of employees who died there in various ways. Details on the actual haunted activity are scarce but seem to fall primarily into the "eerie feeling" and "random sound" categories.
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Marie Schmidt-Bremer House
Saint Paul, Minnesota
60.2 miles from Oronoco, MN
This house is known in these parts because it belonged to Marie Schmidt-Bremer, the daughter of Schmidt Brewing Company founder Jacob Schmidt. She and her husband Adolf Bremer had a son, Edward, who was kidnapped in 1934 by the Karpis-Barker gang. The house is haunted by an apparition of a ...
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St. Paul City Hall - Ramsey County Courthouse
Saint Paul, Minnesota
60.4 miles from Oronoco, MN
The Ramsey County Courthouse is haunted, say witnesses who have seen apparitions in old-style clothes and heard laughter in empty rooms and high heels walking down empty halls. The apparition of a shoeshine man has been seen in the lobby, and another man has been seen hanging from a noose, ...
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Forepaugh's Restaurant
Saint Paul, Minnesota
60.4 miles from Oronoco, MN
Forepaugh's Restaurant serves French cuisine in an 1800s Victorian mansion. It is believed to be haunted by Molly, a young maid who had an affair with Joseph Lybrandt Forepaugh. When Joseph's wife Mary caught them in bed, pregnant Molly hanged herself from a chandelier and threw herself out a third-story ...
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0Landmark Center
Saint Paul, Minnesota
60.5 miles from Oronoco, MN
This beautiful castle-like location is said to be haunted by Jack Pfeiffer, a former bellhop who got in with gangsters and began laudering money. He was arrested and, fearful of going to prison, killed himself by poisoning in his jail cell. Jack's ghost enjoys ladies, drinking and partying, and can ...
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Fitzgerald Theater
Saint Paul, Minnesota
60.8 miles from Oronoco, MN
The 1910 Fitzgerald Theater is reportedly haunted by Ben, thought to be a former stagehand, and Veronica, a former actress. During a restoration in 1985, workers removed a false ceiling and discovered a second balcony, on which was a note written to Ben. Since then, a male apparition has been ...
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Griggs Mansion
Saint Paul, Minnesota
60.8 miles from Oronoco, MN
The 1883 Griggs Mansion was turned into apartments, and then an art school in 1939. It has many ghosts, including a maid who hanged herself on the fourth floor landing in 1915; gardener Charles Wade, who has been heard flipping through books in the library; a thin man in a ...
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The Moonshine Saloon
Saint Paul, Minnesota
60.9 miles from Oronoco, MN
Previously known as the Noose Bar, Moonshine Saloon definitely has some ghosts, witnesses say. For one thing, a beer glass flew across the room and shattered against the wall, and for another, a jukebox started up on its own. A neon sign swung and fell despite a lack of wind, ...
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William Hamm Mansion
Saint Paul, Minnesota
60.9 miles from Oronoco, MN
This historic mansion seems to harbour a spirit determined to protect owners from peril. The ghost has been known to wake up tenants during the night to forewarn them of impending disasters, and is believed to be a former resident dating back to when the house was built for ...
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Minnesota State Capitol
Saint Paul, Minnesota
61.2 miles from Oronoco, MN
The Minnesota State Capitol was completed in 1905, replacing an older building that had burned down. Witnesses have described unexplained noises that come from the second story, cold gusts of air, and apparitions of deceased senators and governors in the halls and stairways. Something may be strange about Room 217 ...
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College of St. Catherine
Saint Paul, Minnesota
61.3 miles from Oronoco, MN
At College of St. Catherine's St. Mary’s Hall, a gray lady appears in doorways of the second floor rooms. Students also have reported something poking them awake right before their alarms go off or cold fingers on the backs of their necks. Some have heard the sound of someone running ...
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Oakland Cemetery
Saint Paul, Minnesota
62 miles from Oronoco, MN
Witnesses who have seen the ghost believed to haunt this cemetery have given a thorough description of her apparition. She is in her mid twenties and has shoulder-length brown hair and blue eyes, and wears a turn-of-the-century lace dress.
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0Lumber Barons - The Water Street Inn
Stillwater, Minnesota
62.9 miles from Oronoco, MN
Former Lumber Barons and now the Water Street Inn, the place is said to be haunted by the spirit of a drunken Confederate soldier. The soldier died on the S.W. suite of the second floor, and witnesses say his ghostly sweaty odor can still be detected.
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Warden's House Museum
Stillwater, Minnesota
63.3 miles from Oronoco, MN
The Warden's House Museum, built in 1853 as the home of the Minnesota Territorial Prison warden, is said to be haunted. Trudy, the daughter of Henry Wolfer, last warden to live here, got married and moved away. Right after she had a son, she died appendicitis, and her father raised ...
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Hamline University
Saint Paul, Minnesota
63.5 miles from Oronoco, MN
Hamline University has a few haunted halls, say the students. One building said to see the most ghostly activity is the Manor Hall, where apparitions, moving objects and strange noises abound. The third floor is the most active. Old Main and Drew Hall are no slouches either, as far as ...
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Roselawn Cemetery
Roseville, Minnesota
64.3 miles from Oronoco, MN
A ghost called Smiling Jack resides at the lovely Roselawn Cemetery. According to local tales, the police got several calls about a person who was trapped inside a mausoleum. When they responded, the police never found anyone, so the locals decided they had a ghost on their hands. He was ...
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Elk Mound Tower
Elk Mound, Wisconsin
64.6 miles from Oronoco, MN
According to local folklore, a dragon is buried under Elk Mound and a ghost haunts Elk Mound Tower. Witnesses have reported screams, howls, laughter, eerie lights, unexplained mists, and a nauseated feeling after visiting.
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Minnesota State Fairgrounds
Falcon Heights, Minnesota
64.6 miles from Oronoco, MN
The Minnesota State Fairgrounds, according to some, is haunted by a ghost pig, or half-human, half-pig called the Pigman. Other reports say a small brown bird that nests here is believed to be a reincarnation of Wayne Murray, a maintenance man who died here in 1986. Also, the ghost of ...
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Gibbs Museum Farmhouse
Falcon Heights, Minnesota
65.5 miles from Oronoco, MN
At the 1800s Gibbs Museum Farmhouse, spirits are a regular occurrence, some say. Doors and cupboards are known to open and close, a chair rocks with no one in it, toys are moved around in the night, footsteps are heard in the halls, and the apparition of a little boy ...
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