Are there any stories or rumors about haunted places where you live?

[Three'sCompanyrules]

Do you have any haunted places where you live (or I should say stories or rumors of any haunted places where you live?) There are three in Holdrege. One place is the nursing home just on the west end of town it used to be an orphanage and aparently some kids died there and people can still here a piano playing, I scared one of my friends who works there,and she said thanks for telling me,another place is the speak easy which is a resturant in the country about 7 miles southeast of town people have said they have seen some glowing eyes inside way after closing time and the final place is the Funk Odessa road which the story there is a guy got killed by three ladys and still haunts the roadway,now there have been alot of accidents on that road so some people are afraid to go down it. I don't believe in any of this stuff,but I enjoy reading stories about them. Sorry if this has already been a topic.

[DarleneIllyria]

That's a pretty interesting question. I don't think anything in my town is haunted. I love to read stories about haunted places and such. It fascinates me.

[Hollow]

Im pretty convinced that my mom haunts my house. B4 she died from cancer she said that when shes gone she'll always follow us and since she passed away we've been feeling her presence and sometimes i feel breezes outta nowhere but it doesnt scare me at all cuz i like knowing shes here.

[Three'sCompanyrules]

Originally posted by Jenny
That's a pretty interesting question. I don't think anything in my town is haunted. I love to read stories about haunted places and such. It fascinates me.

I love to read stories about that to.they are very interesting. There is a website (although I can't think of the name of that site at the moment) that has a whole bunch of haunted stories and peoples experiences,just by reading some of them its kind of like one of those believe it or not type things,but like I said they are very interesting and that site posts haunted places in every state as well as other countries. I forgot another story but I'm not sure if its Holdrege or a neighboring town but apparently a ghost of a young beautiful women walks down the street late at night.

[Brandon]

no, cuz there are no such things as 'hauntings'.

[Three'sCompanyrules]

Originally posted by Buffy&Angelique
no, cuz there are no such things as 'hauntings'.

I know there are such things as hauntings,but I just like reading stories about other peoples so called experiences and what not.

[CollegeGirl]

There are hundreds of haunting stories around here. I live in an area heralded for being famous during the Civil War, so there are all types of haunted stories about local places. I speculate that a lot of it is all for publicity, though. Townspeople want to be known for something, so they publicize their connection to the Civil War. And what draws attention more than ghost stories?



I work night shift, though and I swear that if I believed in ghosts, I'd think the place was haunted. Often, I have heard footsteps behind me, and turned to find nothing. I have heard voices, that broke out into laughter in rooms where no one was. I have seen shadows move. But, I blame it on a tired, over active imagination. I don't really think there are any ghosts present. At least, I hope not.

[Three'sCompanyrules]

Originally posted by CollegeGirl
There are hundreds of haunting stories around here. I live in an area heralded for being famous during the Civil War, so there are all types of haunted stories about local places. I speculate that a lot of it is all for publicity, though. Townspeople want to be known for something, so they publicize their connection to the Civil War. And what draws attention more than ghost stories?



I work night shift, though and I swear that if I believed in ghosts, I'd think the place was haunted. Often, I have heard footsteps behind me, and turned to find nothing. I have heard voices, that broke out into laughter in rooms where no one was. I have seen shadows move. But, I blame it on a tired, over active imagination. I don't really think there are any ghosts present. At least, I hope not.

I know what you mean alot of people will do anything for publicity and telling how there connected with Ghosts or whatever is one of the main ways to get there publicity.


Some of my friends claim they have seen the Speak Easy Ghost and they want me to come with them to prove it. I said sure but now they won't do it. So I just laugh at them and tell them I 'm still waiting for proof.

[Faith]

I went to a website that has a list of haunted places, broke down by state and City here is the ones in my city.


Bakersfield - Bakersfield High School - Reports of apparitions of a young couple, they look to be 16 to 18 years old. The girl is wearing a prom dress and the guy is wearing a football jacket with "BHS" embroidered on the back. The area has a strange chill to it, and a feeling of being watched. Where they are seen is up near the top of the bleachers.

Bakersfield - Bakersfield High School - Harvey Auditorium - Supposedly, while they were building Harvey Auditorium, a worker fell from the rafters all the way into the basement. They say that the Auditorium is haunted by his ghost, as well as some others.

Bakersfield - Bakersfield High School - the Quad - The Quad is supposed to be very haunted. There used to be a hospital on the grounds of BHS and they would bury body parts from the operations in the area of the quad.

Bakersfield - Central Park - A lady with the flowing robe seen wafting along the canal at dawn. A lifelong resident of this city was told the ghost belongs to a woman believed murdered. Her bones were found buried in the old foundry across from the park. The bones, discovered when the foundry's floor was torn up, had bullet holes in them.

Bakersfield - Club Paradise - Reports of apparitions, locked employees in the storeroom from the inside, pushed people in the bar room hallway, grabbed, groped customers, objects move.

Bakersfield - Garces Circle - People have reported that right before a major car accident at the circle (there's been quite a few) people can either see the hands of the statue moving or they hear him muttering in prayer for them.

Bakersfield - Highland High school Theater - Westley Anderson Hall - There is a spirit of an older man that likes to play tricks on people. He will turn the stage lights off when people are on the stage but never during a performance where he just sits and observes. He also likes to whispers in peoples ears and rummage through the costumes in the costume loft.

Bakersfield - Melodrama Theater - Unexplainable things happen at the Melodrama where the attic used to be (the attic was removed and replaced with all the things a theater needs). Also, the women's dressing room seems to have strange occurrences: the sequin dresses on the clothes racks "rattle" on their own violation, and shadows can be seen where no one is standing.

Bakersfield - Norris School built in 1882 - now Kern County Museum - Witnesses report hearing the tapping of chalk on the chalkboard, but saw nothing.

Bakersfield - Pioneer Village - Reportedly, someone witnessed a ghostly birthday party in the Weill house. Others have seen children in front of the 1882 Norris School Building.

Bakersfield - The Bakersfield Californian Newspaper Building - This old building is haunted by a few ghosts. A German Shepard Dog who can be seen, waiting patiently for his master to come and pick him up. An old security guard who can sometimes be seen in the lunch room. Finally, the former editor of the Californian can be seen walking through the hallways of the building.


for the people who want to maybe look your city up the website is:
http://theshadowlands.net/places/index2.htm

[CollegeGirl]

Originally posted by Three'sCompanyrules


I know what you mean alot of people will do anything for publicity and telling how there connected with Ghosts or whatever is one of the main ways to get there publicity.

Exactly! And these towns are full of budding writers waiting for an audience to prey on. What better way to make money/sell books than to tell ghost stories? And they claim they want to maintain the historic beauty of the town and keep out commercialism. Well, if they really wanted to do that I doubt they would have stuck a college right in the middle of it! And then flown the president in for peace talks so they could get write ups in all the national publications.

Some of my friends claim they have seen the Speak Easy Ghost and they want me to come with them to prove it. I said sure but now they won't do it. So I just laugh at them and tell them I 'm still waiting for proof.

Yeah, I'm one of those "I have to see it to believe it" types too. And sometimes, even when I see it, I don't believe it!

[White_Daisy]

I live about ten minutes away from Sleepy Hollow, NY. Y'know, the Headless Horseman and all. Well, apparently...now he roams the entire county through the woods that we all share. I never thought about how the legend can apply to everyone because of the woods. Sleepy Hollow has a HUGE graveyard and the Woods are just beyond it. The scary part about it is that everything Washington Irving mentioned in the legend is really there....the bridge, the cannon, the road leading through the woods.

And don't confuse it with the movie, my friends at Sleepy Hollow have banned it because it's so inaccurate.

[Penny Lane]

My daughter and her family live in a 100+ year old renovated schoolhouse. They have had a few weird things happen. Also they have a "cold spot" right in the center of the house. Who knows?

[Georgia's on my Mind]

i don't think there are...

[JoPol_wannabe]

Well there are two places about 5 miles from where I live and there near a cemetary (go figure) and one is a bridge and we call it hangman's bridge because the story is about this guy who hung himself and when you drive or walk across it at night you can hear him wimpering and your supposed to see this shadow of him hanging off the side by a rope. And we take people out there and make them walk across it and we flash our head lights twice then turn them off and then your supposed to here him wimpering and see his shadow. This has worked before or at least that is what I've heard. And the other place is a mile from the bridge and it's called deadmans gorgue it's by a river and it's in a low drop off area and they said that a bunch of people died in a car accident there and you can still here them screaming. Oh and at that Cemetary (Farmers Valley) people claim that they have seen orbits but I've been down there tons of times and I've never seen one. Oh and also at the cemetary there was this one person (I don't know who it was) but they dug up this body and smoked the bones (now that is just stupied).

[Titania]

Valley Forge is definitly haunted...

same with Gettysburg- when you're at either place theres just this presence. Theres a library built where a civil war hospital used to be- theres a story that sometimes in the corners of the library people will see a doctor appear and ask them to help bandage a soldier.

and theres this mansion just a few miles away that is supposed to be haunted

and the "bat house" my aunt lived there for awhile- its this huge old house that has about a million bats in the attic that no one can get rid of and is supposedly haunted

and there are quite a few revolutionary and civil war graveyards that have some legends attached- and old battlefields. down the street theres a battlefield that has been built over and some of those houses change owners pretty often...