Haunted Missouri

Knob Noster

Knob Noster

Knob Noster is a small Missouri town close to Whiteman Air Force Base.

The legend says that at one time there was a hermit, who lived up on the hill avoiding the rest of the town as much as possible.

He had a slave who used run errands for him and he was liked by the locals, When the locals saw the hermit running his own errands after learning that the slave went missing they got concerned .

The rumours spread around the town that The Hermit had killed his slave, after this incident there was a terrible storm and people witnessed a laten moving up the hill before the lightning hit the town.

The next day Hermit's body was discovered on the hill, his face frozen in terror.

People still see the light from a lantern moving up and down the hillside on stormy nights.

There are stories of a great tribal battle fought on the hill. Following the battle, the tribes formed mounds as either a monument or a burial site for warriors slain during the battle. Others claim that an Indian treasure, the main portion of it gold, was carried to the mounds and buried. Locals claim the area is haunted by the spirits of Indians guarding the gold.

Another legend A wagon train that was ambushed by Osagian Indians in 1825.

Southeast Missouri State University

Southeast Missouri State University

Southeast Missouri State University’s Cheney Hall is rumored to be haunted by a female student who committed suicide in a bathtub.

Students claim door slams by itself and noises have been heard in the room

The Music Building is also said to be haunted by apparitions and slamming doors, and the Rose Theatre is believed to contain the ghost of a lady who murdered her husband.

It’s said that Mary the ghost who haunts the Music building likes to make herself known by playing tricks Other rumour is of an old man haunting the theatre and a blood stain on the concrete that can’t be removed.

Lorimer Cemetery

Lorimer Cemetery

I'm sure everyone knows about Jesse James, so I don't think it will surprise any one that James Family’s farm is one of the most haunted places in Missouri.

The farm is open to public visits, while visiting you got to learn about how Jesse & Frank were raised, and how Jesse was beaten & almost hung by the soldiers while he was in search for his brother, his half brother was also killed while he was in search for Jessie & Frank

Before relocating Jessie's remains to Olive Cemetery his remains was in the farm and his mother was charging visitors to come and visit his grave, but ofcourse relocating his remains didn't stopped the hauntings, visitors had many experiences while visiting the farm

The Screaming House Of Union

The Screaming House Of Union

This is the The Amityville Horror of Missouri

In 2001 corporate trainer Steven LaChance and his three children were going through hard times, his wife left him with his 3 children.Steven took his children to the town of Union. Steven rented the multistory home from a local property management firm.The LaChances were thrilled to be starting anew. Just on the day they moved in, car had pulled up and shouted “hope you will get along well with them” and ofcourse nor Steve, neither his kids knew what was waiting them.

Lights were the first thing family began to notice was the lights. They found no electrical  issues.

Doors started to open and closed on it's own, the activity in their began to increase .

Children started get scared and they didn't want to walk from one room to other room alone 

 One of sons had a scary experience with a clown look alike creature, Children regularly heard screams. 

When the problems gone worse, Steve contacted paranormal investigators, & groups but had no luck. 

The final straw was when the house began to shake & screams filled the house. 

The Catholic Church and the Screaming House Paranormal groups and the Catholic Church were called in to investigate the home.

The house was supposedly built on the remains of a slave quarters cabin from the pre-Civil War era. Within five hundred feet of the home was an older cemetery, while across the street in a separate home, a violent ax murder once took place. Steven and the groups believed the entire land was poisoned from a bloody history.

Famous inmates of Missouri State Penitentiary : Kate Richards O'Hare, “Pretty Boy” Floyd, Carl Austin Hall and Bonnie Heady, James Earl Ray and Sonny Listen.

James Earl Ray, who was about to serve 20 years in the penitentiary for robbery in 1967, he managed to escape, James Earl Ray changed history when he killed Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

JEFFERSON BARRACKS & CEMETERY

Jefferson Barracks Military Post Cemetery

The cemetery was established after the American Civil War in an attempt to put together formal network of military cemeteries. It started as the Jefferson Barracks Military Post Cemetery in 1826 and in 1866 it became United States National Cemetery .

The first known burial was Elizabeth Ann Lash, the infant child of an officer stationed at Jefferson Barracks.

The cemetery is administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs on the former site of Jefferson Barracks. It covers 331 acres. The cemetery is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

By 1869, more than 10,000 deceased Union soldiers had been transferred to the national cemetery. In 1876, 470 unknown Union remains were transferred from Arsenal Island in Illinois, the U.S. Army’s contagious disease hospital located on an island in the Mississippi River, known during the war as “Smallpox Island." Flooding washed away the cemetery’s wooden markers, making identification of the remains impossible when they were reinterred.

JEFFERSON BARRACKS & CEMETERY is believed to be haunted by a number of ghosts. Building 1 is said to be haunted by an older Confederate Civil War general who has been spotted at the post commander's office, as well as a man's shadowy ghost who sits at a desk on the second floor.

In Building 25, lights are known to come on by themselves.

In Building 29, witnesses have reported footsteps, flushing toilets

Building 37 is said to be haunted by a hazy apparition and at the Powder Magazine, a ghost sentry has been known to appear.

• Medal of Honour recipients 
• Major Ralph Cheli (1919-1944), for heroism while leading a bombing mission in World War II.

• Donald D. Pucket (1915-1944), pilot in the U.S. Army Air Forces, for action World War II

  • First Lieutenant Michael Joseph Blassie (1948-1972), previously interned as the "Vietnam unknown soldier" at the Tomb of the Unknowns, re-interred here after DNA testing positively identified his remains

    • Peter J. Cook, the last Spanish–American War Veteran to die.

    • Walter Mayberry (1915-1944)- college football player who died in a Japanese POW camp
    • Private Richard Gentry, veteran of the Revolutionary and the Indian Wars. He was present at the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown.Major Russell Bissell (1756-1807), veteran of the Revolutionary and Indian Wars.
    • Colonel Thomas Hunt (1754-1808), a "Minuteman" at the Battle of Concord, April 1775. During the revolution he was wounded at the Battle of Stony Point and Siege of Yorktown. He was also a veteran of the Indian Wars and commanded the 1st Infantry Regiment.
    • Mass grave of sixty-one merchant marines and sailors who died in the fire aboard the SS J. Pinckney Henderson on August 19, 194
    Mass grave for 123 of the 139 victims of the Palawan Massacre
  • Remains of 5 crewmen from B-36 Bomber 075 lost on the coast of British Columbia, Canada while conducting a training mission on February 13, 1950 

Epperson House

Epperson House

Uriah Spray Epperson died in 1925, leaving his baronial Tudor-Gothic mansion at 52nd and Cherry Streets in Kansas City, Mo., to his wife, Mary Elizabeth

She was his inspiration when he build the house, Those were the days it was known as Hawthron Hall, and It was later called Epperson House

The house’s construction lasted 4 years, from 1919 to 1923, Uriah hired the most skilled craftsmen available, the Epperson House was meant to stand in lasting remembrance of a man that grew from poverty to wealth in Kansas City and always considered it to be his hometown.

Mrs. Epperson lived in Hawthorn Hall until her death in 1939. Uriah’s closest business associate,had been given the Hawthron ownership of the house and the Epperson estate, by. In September 1942, Lynn instead donated it to the University of Kansas City.

The resident ghosts are those of Uriah's adopted daughter and Uriah .

The daughter died in the home while the organ was being constructed in the house. She appears in an evening gown accompanied by organ music late at night.

In addition, a man's arm in a blue suit has been seen turning off a light. The Epperson House is one of the Top 5 U.S. Haunted Houses.

Ravenswood Mansion

Ravenswood Mansion

Nadine & Charles Leonard build the Ravenswood Mansion in 1880, they were a couple who loved entertaining, they loved hiring an orchestra and inviting their friends to dance all night. 

Sound so dreamy is not it :) waltzing all night.  

The Vaile Mansion was built for Colonel Harvey Merrick Vaile and his wife, Sophia, beginning in 1871 – both of them would die within the walls, their lives shattered by scandal.

Colonel Vaile was born in Vermont in 1831. He graduated with a law degree from the University of Louisville and moved to Kansas City, Missouri in 1859, He was one of the founders of the Republican Party in Jackson County. Vaile carefully built his fortune

Construction of his mansion began in 1871 and lasted for 10 years. It was finally completed in 1881

But that was when things started to go bad. In the early 1880s Vaile was involved in a scandal and he was charged with defrauding the government, he faced two trials, in 1882 and 1883. Both of them ended in a not guilty verdict.

The rumors are Mrs Valie is had to face the embarrassment of the accusations of her husband

Sophie committed suicide by taking an overdose of morphine. She died in the house while Colonel Vaile was still in Washington, D.C.

Colonel Vaile lived in the mansion until his death in 1895.

After Sophie's death Colonel Vaile could not bear to be without her, so he buried her on the estate in a glass-topped coffin so that he could look on her face.

Legend says The neighbours protested glass-topped coffin in his backyard and that forced him to give his wife a more conventional burial

After Vaile’s death, the court battle over his estate lasted for five years. Eventually, the house was sold and was turned into an inn for a time and then a private asylum and sanitarium. After that, a mineral water company, Vaile Pure Water Co., operated there for many years before it was turned into a rest home.

After Vaile Pure Water Co, mansion was acquired by Roger and Mary Mildred DeWitt in the 1960s, the home was saved from destruction. It’s been preserved by a non-profit group since 1983.

Besides former owner Mrs. Vaile appearing in the window or around the property grounds, it is also believed that the home's former use as an asylum left negative energies and residual hauntings.

Bone Hill Cemetery

Lander’s Theater