Search Results for "Polk, Iowa"
Searching near: Polk County, Iowa, United States of America within 50 miles
Found 29 haunted location(s)
Saydel High School
there is a little girl that sings around the hallways at night.
Polk
Merle Hay Mall Tower - Merle Hay Mall, and a building in the mall known as the Merle Hay Tower, is built over the site of a Monastery that was closed in the 1950's. Rumor has it that on occasion a...
East High School
There has been seen a glowing blue light in a restroom there. The light flashed right behind two students who witnessed it in the mirror and disappeared before they could turn around. Before the...
Urbandale High School
Bulit over an old coal mine, footsteps and talking voices can be heard lat at night when nobody is around.
Terrace Hill
There have been witnesses who have seen a transparent little girl, eyes in pictures following them and many other things. In the middle of the elevator(which is code activated)goes up and down and opens.
Pleasant Hill
El Azteca Restaurant - When this restaurant was called Clay's, one evening while dining a butter knife forged it's way up between two tables that were pushed together (teeth side up) and fell...
Drake University Observatory
The Drake University Observatory is said to be haunted by Dr. Robert Morehouse. He was the first Chairman of the Astronomy and Physics Department and his claim to fame was discovering a comet in...
Lincoln High School
Mainly occurs in the balcony of the auditorium. Unexplained lights flashing on and off in the light booth when it has been locked and nobody is in there. Seats of the wooden folding chairs...
Dowling high school
Reports of a purple orb seen.
West Des Moines
Barnes and Noble - Employees and patrons have seen books pulled off of shelves and dropped. They don't fall off it looks like an invisible hand has pulled it off and then it drops straight down.
Air Lanes
Be hind the bowling alley lanes there is an upstairs that is rumored to have been used to be used for illegal gambling in the 1920's. Well if you go up stairs, down the hallway, and into this room...
Des Moines International Airport
The Cloud Room - In offices that were originally a restaurant named the Cloud Room during the 60's and 70's. Supposedly haunted by a deceased young flight attendant who materializes usually in the...
Iowa Correctional Institute For Women
Two little girls are repeatedly spotted wandering around these grounds, and another can be heard singing in the basement of one of the oldest buildings there.
The track
Apparition of a man holding an old lantern walking the tracks, then disappears.
Springbrook
There is a legend told about this scary dead guy called Uncle Charlie.You can see him running through the woods late at night. An elementary school student saw a flesh eaten face at her window...
Mt Hope Cemetery
Toward the back of the cemetery there are five graves of children from the same family. One of them is Sara. She likes to follow visitors around and several have said they hear a child's voice...
Simpson College
In the late 1800s, a woman fell down the staircase of College Hall. She was apparently walking from the third floor when she tripped, broke her neck during the fall, and died instantly. On every...
Iowa State University
C. Y. Stephens Auditorium - The auditorium is haunted by the benevolent ghost of C. Y. Stephens. He is especially present in the basement tunnels that run between the auditorium and the coliseum...
old story county home
The old Story county home is said to be haunted it closed down 15 yrs ago. They say if you drive by it at night you can see glows like a light was on. It is condemned now with no trespassing signs...
The Boone News
Republican - Working at night in the old newspaper office you can hear footsteps running up or down six or so steps to and from the production area. No one is there. Also, once and awhile you...
Kate Shelly High Bridge
Kate Shelly was famous for saving a train from going off of the tracks on the bridge that is now known as the Kate Shelly high bridge. It is said that if you look up at the tracks (bridge) at...
apartment building
The apartment building use to be a an old funeral home. There are only 3 apartments. In the 3rd apartment there is 18 steps and when you go down the steps someone always follows yous. You can also...
cemetery
the grave of the first settler in New Virginia is said to be haunted. At midnight every night you can see a glowing light coming from this stone. They say the ghost if mad because they changed his...
Central College
Graham Hall - A room that is locked up, believed to be haunted by the Penguin Lady. Residents have held sheets of paper under her door to watch her grab them with a sucking action, and later when...
Riverside Cemetery
There is a chair made from concrete that looks like it is made of wood, that supposedly if you sit in it you will die within one year. There are rumors that some people, who died very normal...
Reece park
A young women will appear in the corn field and you will hear her screaming. The young women killed herself out there, and it is her ghost that is known to haunt that very place.
Grinnell College
according to an article in the Des Moines Register, there is an old wheelchair on the stage of the performing arts bldg. it belonged to the director of the theater dept, who retired by dying. It?s...
Cemetery
When going east out of Guthrie Center there is a cemetery to the left of you. In this cemetery is a gravestone shaped like a chair. This chair has been named "The Devil's Chair" it is said if you...
Vegor's Cemetery
In the middle of three miles of woods, is a cemetery that is over 150 years old. It was once the ancient burial ground of the local Indian tribe. When the settlers came, they dug the Indians'...