Haunted Minnesota

Welcome to the Haunted Minnesota page. Below are a collection of haunted locations in Minnesota. The locations that have a link to them have either been investigated by us or else there are photos and more information available on that location. If you have a location that you would like us to add to this list, please fill out our "Submit a Haunting" form .

Please remember that most of these locations are private property. Always ask for permission before any visits or investigations.

! = this location has been investigated by mnpig

* = Taken from the Shadowland website.

*Alexandria - Old Broadway Restaurant - Old Broadway was once a brothel and a morgue. It is now a restaurant. Patrons and staff have reported that they witnessed an old woman walking upstairs during the evenings. She has also been seen in the mirrors as staff have been cleaning off the tables. The old woman is believed to be friendly.


*Albert Lea - Borland House - It was the summer of 1893 and James Jensen was building his home on the south side of Albert Lea when he began to notice the presence of a restless ghost in the upstairs south bedroom. He felt someone or something peering over his shoulder when he worked in that room. In 1946 Jensen moved out of the house. In the 53 years that he lived there, he rarely used the south bedroom. Over the years, the house has changed owners 14 times. Each time they were driven away by some unspeakable problem. For several years the home stood vacant until 1964, when Dick and Anita Borland and their 9 children bought the home. Within weeks of moving in, the figure of a tall, thin woman in a flowered pink dress started appearing near the upstairs south bedroom. She was also seen on a small balcony outside the room, in the second floor hallway and, most often, near a closet inside the south bedroom. Before long, none of the Borlands would sleep in this room with the presence who has haunted this house for over 100 years.


!*Annandale - Thayer's Bed and Breakfast - Not only is the place haunted by a little girl ghost, a bride, but also there are two ghost cats, and the owner's husband, plus the two original owners! But the best part is that the current owner is psychic, and gives readings to guests (by appointment.)


*Anoka - Anoka State Hospital - Anoka State hospital has tunnels leading underground that link the buildings together. Mental patients were known to try to escape through the tunnels but were caught and murdered, or committed suicide by hanging themselves from the pipes along the ceiling of the tunnels. Spirits have been heard laughing and whispering, and have been known to appear in the tunnels, which are now closed except to security and maintenance.


!*Anoka - Billy's Bar & Grill - It is rumored that this local bar at one time was a whore house. Not to the liking of the owner at the time she was overpowered by her male employees and was unable to keep the establishment a simple tavern for the travelling loggers working on the nearby Rum River. She died upstairs in one of the bedrooms not too soon after the uprising. To this day several people (patrons & employees) have noticed tables set in the morning when arriving to work, pictures on the wall moved around, and simple cleaning tasks done when no one had actually done them. The old maid has also been seen in the bar and restaurant wandering aimlessly.


*Anoka - Cal's Corner The Old River Front Restaurant - The front door mysteriously locks itself at all hours of the day.


*Anoka - Coonrapids - Tequilaberrys - Glasses have been heard crashing when there was nothing broken, in the bar all the glasses were sitting on the floor. Hearing your name called, you turn around but no-one is there.


*Apple Valley - Falcon Ridge Middle School - While being built in the summer of 1995, a construction worker was buried alive in the digging process. He's reportedly been seen late at night walking through the commons, unlocking doors and moaning. The lights surrounding the school also mysteriously go on and off late at night.


*Apple Valley - Lake Alimagnet Trails - Sightings of a figure who seems to look like a clown have been reported. The clown does not seem to be harmful, but stares at you. The only intent is to scare you away from the wooded trails. Sightings have been reported mostly at dusk, just as the sun sets.


*Aurora - High School - There was a very horrible fire at the school in 1977. In this fire many lives were taken because at the time there was a bunch of kids just going around pulling the alarms. There have been sightings of 2 boys walking on the third floor yelling and there’s been reported sightings of a girl on the second floor crying for someone to help her.


*Bemidji - St. Julia Asylum - At the St. Julia Asylum there have been moaning noises that no-one can explain where they come from. Other times in the morning it's so silent - almost too silent. There’s also a sighting of a little girl on the second floor looks out her window at you.


*Chanhassen - Chanhassen Dinner Theater - This theater was built over the site of a house that burnt down with a woman still inside. She is said to haunt the new structure. There is another ghost here of an actor who was hit by a car when she was bicycling home from work. Her spirit has been spotted backstage.


*Collegeville - St. John's University - An angry mother haunts the campus of this Catholic school for men. During construction of Abbey Church in the 1880s, a young monk fell from a scaffold and was killed. The mother of the monk was never satisfied with the Abbott's explanation. After a heated argument at the dedication of the church, the woman was killed when her buggy overturned in a nearby lake. Afterwards strange, wet footprints were regularly found down the center aisle of the church and people complained of feeling an agitated presence there. Years later, when a new church was built on the same spot, a huge crack formed down the center aisle on the day of dedication. Wet footprints are also left behind by the ghost of Brother Anselm Bartolome, who drowned at nearby Sagatagon Lake. He haunts the shores of the lake as well as the halls of the university where he taught.


*Columbia Heights - Pizza Hut - The old baker that used to work there when it was doughnut shop is reported to haunt the property. He hung himself in the back room. People see him from time to time and sometimes the lights will all of the sudden turn off. Also the faucets will turn on and off by their own accord.


!*Cottage Grove - Cottage Grove Historical Cemetery - Many spirits in this cemetery, one seen in the window of the storage shed. Also smells of perfume in certain areas.


*Crookston - University of Minnesota - McCall Hall - A former resident claims they were always able to hear people laughing and stomping in the hall with no-one there when you opened the door. Also they reported hearing their door open and then shut again and seeing apparitions of a girl. This building is one of the oldest on campus and used to be used to house students when it was an agricultural high school. The building is about 100 yrs old. Who knows if it is draughts or someone who doesn't want to leave the building.


*Delano - Fountain Lake - They say a women drowned in the lake and every night at midnight you can hear her ghost scream.


*Duluth - Charlie's Club - There is a night club in the western part of Duluth called Spirit Valley (go figure!). The building was built in the late 1800's and was previously 4 stories tall, now a single story due to a fire. Even though no one was hurt or killed in the blaze, the bar has quite a lot of paranormal activity. It was quite a colorful place back in the day, being a reported "house of commercial affection", gin mill, speak easy, etc. There are a couple of ongoing events that are quite commonplace. Near the west doors are a couple of pool tables. Just off the far right corner there is a corner drink table where many people have had been either shoved, poked, brushed against or had their stick bumped to only discover that there is no-one there. The other occurance is the old woman who shows herself only to men, mostly men who work there. Many staff members have heard the bathroom doors open and close, slam shut and swing open violently and the back security door open and slam shut with no-one being there. Attesting to this is it mostly happens after closing time when only the staff are there cleaning up with perimeter alarms set so if anyone was in these areas it would trip the alarms.


*Duluth - Duluth International Airport - The ghost of a woman murdered on a nearby road haunts the airport to which her murderer fled after stabbing her to death. The ghost has been seen by security staff and causes doors to open and close sounding alarms with no one in the secured areas.


*Duluth - Glensheen Mansion/Congdon Mansion - Haunted by a maid who was murdered there and also by the woman who was murdered there too by her own children. Elisabeth Congdon and her nurse haunt the house they were murdered in.


!*Elysian - Le Sueur County Museum - Employees say they have heard many voices talking. When they checked, they found no one around. In one event, a typewriter started typing by itself. Another time, a very old record player started playing by itself. And another time after hours, all 3 employees were in the staff room on the second floor, and heard the small service bell ring. They all went downstairs and no one was there. NOTHING could have fallen on the bell, or have made it ring. There’s a toilet in the basement that nobody uses, and one day 2 employees were upstairs and heard a loud crash. When investigating downstairs, they realized the toilet seat was down, when it was left up. All these events occurred over much time, and not very often. The employees wonder what happens during the 5 months the museum is closed.


*Embarrass - Heritage Park House - In the house one family that lived there a dad had killed his son by telling him that if Jesus could walk on water so could he. The boy then drowned under the bridge near the house. The father continued to beat his children until he later died. To this day people have reported sightings of the boy who was drowned by the bridge, and the house remains abandoned.


*Forest City - Mystery Road 660 - If you go through Forest City be sure to get on road 330 and then turn on to 660. Bring your level with you. Drive down the road a hundred feet and check the road, it should be perfectly level. Now turn your car around and put it in neutral. Your car will get pulled backwards on a perfectly level road. People also get headaches on this road.


!*Goodhue - Holy Trinity Church Cemetery - Tunis Parkin, a house painter was the first to see a tall figure shrouded in mist following people near the cemetery. T. W. Taylor, the town's marshal, set up trap to capture the ghost. The plan was simple, he and Parkin would hide in the woods near the cemetery and nab the ghost as it passed, but they never succeeded.


*Grove City - Blue Moon Restaurant - Footsteps heard going from the kitchen area to the end of the hall by the restroom. The footsteps were heard nightly between 11-12 pm. Also, apparitions of a tall gentlemen (about 6 ft) wearing a long black cape. No facial characteristics were noticed since light was coming from behind the apparition. This restaurant is located about 5 miles north of Cosmos, MN on HWY 4.


*Hastings - Treat Me Sweet - Treat me sweet has been haunted for some years now. Treat Me Sweet use to be a restaurant some time ago. It is haunted by a man. This man used to be the owner of the restaurant. He committed suicide in the back of the kitchen.


*Hibbing - Hibbing High School Auditorium - An apparition of an older male sitting in seat J47 has been photographed many times. It is thought to be the ghost of the stage manager who died of a heart attack while working there in 1942. There have always been odd occurrences in the auditorium, but the rumor wasn't believed until the apparition was captured in the photograph after a play practice in 2000.


*Hutchinson - Harrington House - On the north side of Park Elementary, there is a one-story house, built around 1820, the first in the town of Hutchinson. The house was built by the Harringtons and was inhabited for 40 yrs by the Harringtons. One night, Little Crow, (Little Crow was a Sioux) known around here as a hero, spent the night with two of his friends, and both were shot in the house, one in the basement, and one on the top level. The ghosts of the two Indians haunt the house. Pictures fall, blood comes through the floor, and voices are heard.


!Isanti - Pershing School House - Coming soon...


!Lake Shetek - Strange dancing lights and invisible footsteps pushing down the grass are thought to be caused by the ghost of the local settlers, massacred by a band of Indians during the Sioux uprising of 1862. The victims of the massacre are buried under an earthen mound in an area that is now part of the state park.


!Lamberton - Sanborn Corners Graveyard - An apparition of a 12 year old girl, who was accidentally buried alive, is said to haunt the hillside of this cemetery. People have heard her moaning and crying at the four way stop near the cemetery.


*Luverne- - The Palace Theater - The historic Palace Theater in Luverne seems to hold to the old adage that every good theater has a ghost, but in this case, the theater seems to have two. The theater, which can be found on the National Register of Historic Places, was built by Herman Jochims in 1915. It opened on September 29, 1915 for showing silent moving pictures and it has remained in operation ever since, despite undergoing some restoration work in recent years. In 1919, Herman married Maude Jochims who provided piano music to accompany the silent films that were shown at the Palace. In 1926, she would start playing the pipe organ that Herman had installed.... and some say she is still playing that organ today. The theater has long been rumored to be haunted. People in the audience and ushers at the theater claim that they have seen the ghost of Herman Jochims standing in the balcony and looking out over the seats. It is also said that Maude returns to her place at the pipe organ too. Some believe that the couple still watch over the place and occasionally make things happen to let the patrons and staff members know they are still present. Things occasionally go missing in the theater, only to appear again later, and lights sometimes turn off and on by themselves.

A few years ago, during some restoration work, the pipe organ was no longer working. The organ was under repair and no one could possibly play music on it.... although someone did. People who were in the theater at night, including night janitors, would say that they had heard the sound of the organ playing in the auditorium. They would check the building and find no one was there and an organ that simply did not work.

Luverne, Minnesota is located in Rock County in the extreme southwest corner of the state. The Palace Theater is located at the corner of Main Street and Freeman Avenue in Luverne.
Copyright 1998 by Troy Taylor. All Rights Reserved.


*Litchfield - Ness Church - This church is haunted by the Sioux Indians. Many reports say that the lights of the church turn on, strange figures appear, a little girl named Annie was buried. It has been said that she will come out to your car at night and sit on top to of the roof of your car and if you drive off with her on your car she will haunt you for the rest of your life unless you let her get off on her own. And last at the stroke of midnight a car would appear and drive behind you and all of a sudden disappear once you hit the end of the road.


!*Lakefield- Loon Lake Cemetery - The cemetery at Loon Lake, Minn. is said to be haunted by the ghost of a witch that is buried there. You can find the cemetery on the Lake's southeast shore. Turn into "Brown's Campgrounds" they have signs directing you to its site. It's open during the day only!


!*Le Sueur - Brewery Hill Ghost Light - The area south of town was known as Old Brewery Hill for the brewery that was started there around 1875 by George Kienzli. He constructed a small building on the hill and beneath it dug two deep cellars into the earth. Large wooden casks were brought in to store the beer while it aged and to hold ice that would keep the earthen chambers cool in the summer. The beer that was brewed there was hauled to nearby towns and it was fairly successful for a number of years. Eventually, it was sold twice more and closed down. The buildings later burned down but it is said that visitors along the east side of Ottawa road can still see the remains of the cellars if they can find the right side of the hill.

While the brewery is long since gone, the story of a ghost remains. It is to be a man who once lived in one of the brewery caves and people claimed to see him walking along and carrying a red lantern. It was said that if you tried to approach him, he and the lantern would disappear. Curiosity-seekers who explored the cave found some old clothes, a straw mattress, and human bones.

Apparantly, the hermit who lived in the cave had died long ago, but someone was seen leaving the place at night and walking along the railroad tracks! A brakeman aboard a passing train reported that one night, the train was forced to stop because of someone carrying a lantern along the tracks. When the brakeman got down from the train to removed the man from the path of the train, there was no one there. The engineer and several workers on the train all swore that they had seen a red lantern.

As time has passed the ghost of the old hermit still haunts the stretch of tracks near Old Brewery Hill, still waving his red lantern as he walks along and still vanishing if anyone gets too near.

The small town of Le Sueur, Minnesota is located in the south central part of the state, about fifty miles southwest of Minneapolis/St. Paul. Brewery Hill is located south of town along the road to Ottawa. The hill is located on the east side of the highway. The only maker left is a sign that reads "Old Brewery Hill Tree Farm". The tracks are still in use to this day and great caution is advised when walking along this section of the tracks.


*Milford - Milford Magneses Mine - This two-hundred-foot deep mine is haunted by a ghost who never left his post. On February 5th 1924, a miner dug through a wall that abutted Foley's pond and a rush of water flooded the mine. In 15 minutes, the mine was underwater and 43 men had died. The seven survivors spoke of the heroism of one man, Clinton Harris, Who could have escaped but remained to sound warning bells to miners on the upper levels. His warning bell rang for over 5 hours after the mine was flooded. It took over three months to drain the mine of water. The first miners who volunteered to go back down in the mine found a horrible scene at the bottom of the shaft. There was the ghostly form of Clinton Harris, still holding the escape ladder, his gaze directed upwards. The men ran from the mine and never returned.


!*Minneapolis - City Hall - The 5th floor of the Minneapolis City Hall is haunted by several ghosts. One of the ghosts is that of John Moshik who was hung in the Chapel Courtroom in March 1898. He was convicted of murdering another man during a robbery that netted him $14. As the noose was put over his head the guards tightened the noose and bound his hands and legs securely. They swung the trap door, the noose slipped from his neck to under his chin. It took several minutes for the guards to realize that the noose did not set correctly and he began to choke on his own vomit. The guards released him and then reset the noose tightly around his neck. They once again hung him and it took about 3 minutes for him to die. Upon examination of the noose after the execution, it was found that the noose was not properly made. His ghost has been seen by the Minneapolis Police Detention Center roaming along the area where they house inmates. He has also been seen on the 5th floor by maintenance workers. People also report an icy cold breeze down the hallway of the 5th floor.


!*Minneapolis - First Ave. Night Club - The First Avenue nightclub is one of the most well known haunted spots in the Twin Cities. Before it was a nightclub, First Avenue was the site of the old Greyhound bus depot, where the homeless would spend many nights sleeping on the benches, a few of which are still used in the bar. Before that it was a livestock stable where sheep and cattle were slaughtered and before that it was a school playground. Some have even said that it was built on holy ground. But ask any of the staff who work there and they will say that it is haunted. One of the legends is that a young woman either committed suicide or died from a drug overdose in the bus station, on one of the benches that still resides in the bar.

A woman in a green army jacket, long blonde hair, bell bottom jeans and bare feet walked out of the entry, smiled at the two staff, walked into the main room and then vanished before their eyes. One staff member recalls her encounter with a ghost. "I opened the door to the stall in the woman's restroom and saw a woman hanging up there. She was wearing a green army jacket, and had long hair. It wasn't anything gory but she was just hanging there with her neck to one side. I thought that someone had just hung themselves. I then looked back, and there was nothing there."

Others report flying ash trays, changes in the air temperature and depth perception, a laughing gangster emerging from the wall, unearthly sounds in the DJ's headset, ghostly manifestations and the sounds of baa-ing sheep in the basement. An after hours séance revealed 257 channeled dead children claiming that "there is a bad thing in the club"

Could this all be the product of a bunch of people with overactive imaginations who had one too many late nights or too much to drink? If not who is the girl in the army jacket?

This club is open to the public with a cover charge to get in. Who knows you might even see some of the long lost party goers!


*Minneapolis - Minneapolis Institute of the Arts - Areas of extreme 'cold spots', especially in the Connecticut Room, (a 1700's style room).


!Minneapolis - Lakewood Cemetery - Coming soon...


!*Monticello - Old Mealey Place - This old farmhouse was built by Tobias Gilmor Mealey in 1855. It is said that T. G. Mealey still haunts this farmhouse. In the 1940's Marion and Jeannette Sebey moved into this home. Within a few weeks, they reported many strange paranormal events, including lights turning on and off, loud rapping and thumping noises and sounds of furniture being moved in the upstairs bedroom when there was no-one around. In 1965 a couple by the name of Bob and Marion Jameson bought the house and began to remodel. After the remodeling was complete, they moved in. For the next few years, they had to live with loud footsteps coming from the 2nd floor in the middle of the night, knocking sounds on doors and windows, and a large bluish light that hovered near the front door. The Jameson's 2 dogs refused to enter the room. The family avoided the upstairs bedroom at night and anyone who slept in that bedroom was awakened by something tugging at the bed sheets.


*Montgomery - Montgomery Golf Club - Haunted by at least two ghosts. One of the ghosts is reported to be the ghost of the farmer that used to live on the current golf club grounds and is actually buried on the first hole. He will watch the clubhouse from various locations on the course as the employees lock up at night wearing a hat and overalls. The second ghost is of one of the Golf Club founders. He has been spotted sitting at the bar and peering in windows as, again, employees lock up at night. Televisions have turned on by themselves long after they have been turned off and the air conditioner dial will mysteriously turn itself down past 50 degrees without anyone touching it.


*Mt. Iron - Haunted Tree - Somewhere off Highway 7 there is a tree where a man had hung his two daughters and then hung himself. It has been reported that late at night the branches will be pushed down and shoot up and shake like something has fallen off of them.


*Northfield - St. Olaf College - Hilleboe Hall - This hall is said to have had a variety of ghostlike experiences. One is that when there was only one student in the entire dorm during the summer, she heard childlike singing and the piano playing and after going to investigate she found all of the sinks turned on in all of the rooms on her corridor. It is also said that mysterious child-sized handprints appear on the outside of third floor windows.


*Northfield - St. Olaf College - Kelsey Theater - It is said that the ghost of Miss Kelsey herself has been seen playing the piano onstage long after her death and has been heard warning an actor who was rehearsing alone late at night that he was about to fall into the orchestra pit.


*Northfield - St. Olaf College - Melby Hall - the oldest on campus, it said that a man and a woman in period clothing from the Victorian era have been seen in halls and rooms as well as the stairway.


*Northfield - St. Olaf College< - Thorson Hall - There have been sightings of the "Red Hat Boy" believed to possibly be the ghost of a student who died, not on campus, but while he attended St. Olaf and lived in that dorm. What is believed to be the boy's dog has also been seen with him and roaming around campus by itself. He also appears in a certain room, one that is assumed was his.


*Northfield - Vang Lutheran Church - Strange voices have been heard in this 170 year old church. In the late 1930's a blurry apparition was seen crossing the church to the basement steps. No-one has been able to identify members of the ghostly congregation.


*Owatonna - Kaplan's woods - There are many unrested spirits there.


!Owatonna - West Hills - Ghosts of orphaned children haunt what used to be an orphanage.


*Pipestone - Pipestone County Museum - The Pipestone County Museum is formerly the old City Hall. A little blonde girl has been seen there by several people. She is dressed in a blue 19th century dress with a white apron. Often, loud sounds are heard upstairs when no one is there (footsteps, stomping...). The old doctor's office is located off the library upstairs. Several employees and guests have heard the long since dead doctor working in the office when no one is actually in there. The chair squeaks, papers shuffle.


*Pipestone - Pipestone National Monument - Unexplainable footsteps, war drums, shadows of what appear to be humans. Also there have at times been heard voices.


*Plato - Glencoe - Ferguson's Cemetery - The cemetery is out in the middle of nowhere alongside a county blacktop surrounded by corn fields. Supposedly haunted by a little boy. The small grave stone for him is separate from the rest of the cemetery. It sits in the southwest corner all by itself. The cemetery is framed by large pines and large iron gate at the front of the cemetery there is a small dirt field road on the west side that runs along the length of the cemetery and ends next the boys grave. In the center of the cemetery is a large tree or trees growing out one base. At night after 12am if you count the trees at the center of the cemetery and if you go to the boy’s grave and come back the number of trees has changed. Most of the time it's thirteen but sometimes as few as six. It also feels as though someone is watching you and that you're not welcome there. Some people are reported to have seen dogs by the boys grave as you are backing out with a car.


*Plymouth - Holy Name Cemetery - Holy Name Cemetery is located on the corner of Holy Name Drive and a county road. It's across the street from a brick church. Reports of misty headlights pulling in and vanishing before your eyes. Witnesses have heard voices, footsteps, when it was horribly windy while calm outside the cemetery, and have seen a white apparition.


!*Ramsey - Mary Schmidt-Bremer Mansion - Cold spots, an apparition of a woman with brown hair and wearing a long white dress, and the sound of someone climbing the stairs when there is no one around have been reported.


*Redford Township - Redford Hospital - The Redford Hospital is abandoned but the spirits still live there. There are many reports from the people that maintain the building that there are 5 to 10 ghosts in the building. One is a little boy who died in the hospital because his mother abused him and then left him at the hospital to die. People see the little boy usually on the 2nd floor. Some say he is still trying to find his Mother for revenge.


*Rochester - Quarry Hill Park - Many strange things have happened here. There is a wooden bridge near the quarry itself called "Dead Man's Bridge", where it is rumored a man hung himself in the 60's. There is also a small cemetery in the park. There is a large memorial to a group of people who died from an epidemic around 100 years ago, and there are rumored to be four unmarked graves. There are also several caves in the park, with strange goings-on reported. Unfortunately, some (not all) of these caves have been closed up.


*Sauk Center - Palmer House - This hotel was built in 1901 on top of another hotel that had burned down in 1900. There are stories of a small boy bouncing a ball down one of the hallways late at night


*St. Cloud - St. Cloud Times - For years it's been reported by night employees that a man who is either dressed in a white shirt and bow tie or a printer's shirt appears in the basement of the building. Sometimes the sound of banjo playing is heard. He's been known to tamper with office equipment and lights from time to time.


*St. Cloud - St Cloud State University - Riverview - There are stories of a lady ghost in Riverview, the second oldest building on campus. Long after everyone else is gone and only the janitors remain, there are reports of hearing a lady walk around with high heel clicking sounds. She'll also move chairs and open doors. Riverview used to be where the students of SCSU would go to teach the children and there is also a ghost child that roams around, bouncing a ball.


*St. Cloud - St. Cloud State University - James W. Miller Learning Resources Center - The new library was built over an unmarked graveyard. Children's and adult's bones were found and later studied by students and staff. The most common ghost is a solider dressed in his time period's uniform, walking through the hallways.


*St. Cloud - St. Cloud State University - Lawrence Hall - This is the oldest building on the campus. It was built in 1904. In 1950 a janitor in the building murdered two teachers who had offices in the building. It was abandoned in 1968 for unknown reasons. Today students have reported seeing a figure of a bald headed man standing in the doorways of the building. Some see lights flash on and off from outside!


*St. Cloud - St. Cloud State University - Shoemaker Hall - In the early 1900's a student at the St. Cloud Normal School had an affair with a janitor at Shoemaker Hall, which was the dormitory for the students. She became pregnant and hung herself in the meat locker of the kitchen (now the basement). Shoemaker is still a dorm and many students report objects being moved, clocks flashing impossible numbers, lights and TVs turning on for no reason and an apparition of a woman floating above beds late at night.


*St. Cloud - North Shoemaker Hall - North Shoemaker Hall was built in the early part of the twentieth century. Legend states that one of the lunch ladies hanged herself in the basement meat locker. Many of the resident advisors have reported hearing strange things in the meat locker. They even say that the door will unlock by itself after employees have locked it.


*St. Louis Park - Aizman House - Orbs have been sighted on several occasions in the living room and basement after 10:30. Halloween trick-or-treaters have run out after having a tour of the basement, and it's "friends". The orbs and the apparition of a man with only eyes and a mouth, dressed in a gray sweater with his white collar showing and blue jeans, are believed to be victims of "Kid Can" and his gang.


*St. Paul - College of Visual Arts - Many occurencess happen, especially in the darkroom. The spirit playfully moves objects around and changes the time on the timer. It is said that a wealthy man (a carpenter whose studio was in the darkroom) lived there and was cheating on his wife with the maid. After refusing to leave his wife the maid hung herself on the main stairwell banister. The late night janitors experience sounds, lights turn on and off nightly and they hear children. One employee saw the man in his flannel.


*St Paul - The Fitzgerald Theater - Another of Minnesota's haunted theaters is the Fitzgerald Theater in downtown St. Paul. If every good theater is supposed to have a ghost.... the staff at this theater would be happy to donate their resident spirit to another theater who doesn't have their own. The haunting began in 1985 when the theater underwent some renovations. The removal of a false ceiling revealed that the theater had an additional balcony that no-one knew about and it also uncovered a note to an old stagehand named Ben. It is this former stagehand who is believed to be the ghost that haunts the place... but who he really is remains a mystery.

Once the renovations started, so did the strange events. People in the theater began to experience inexplicable cold spots and started getting glimpses of a dark figure walking around. Puzzled stage set workers started discovering that their tools were moved around or missing and, strangely, an antique bottle of muscatel, which was always empty, started appearing mysteriously in unlikely places. Many believe that the construction on the building has awakened the dormant spirit of an old stagehand. While "Ben", as the staff have nicknamed him, is not usually harmful or dangerous, one incident has staff members wishing that perhaps he would move on to the next world.

Two theater workers were walking in a work area backstage. There were no lights, so they were guided by flashlights only. Suddenly, a large chunk of ceiling plaster fell to the stage between them, narrowly missing both of their heads. They quickly directed their flashlights upward and saw a hazy figure moving in the catwalks, about 60 feet above. The figure abruptly vanished. What makes this experience especially strange is that the ceiling in the theater is not made from plaster.... no one has any idea where the chunk of material may have come from. Theater workers also say that Ben is not alone in the building. While she has never been seen, there is also a ghost here named "Veronica" who is believed to be an actress who died many years ago. She makes her presence known by singing... which many staff members have heard echoing in the auditorium at night.

The Fitzgerald Theater is located in downtown St. Paul.


!*St Paul - Griggs Mansion - The most reported haunted house in St. Paul is located on Summit Ave. in St. Paul. This 24-room mansion was built in 1883 by Chauncey W. Griggs. The house changed hands like a hot potato. It has been a private residence, apartment and an art school. Haunting have been reported since 1915 when a young maid upset over a love affair hung herself near the 4th floor landing. People have felt her presence ever since. Visitors to the house have reported uneasy an uneasy feeling near the top landing while climbing the staircase.

Other apparitions that have been reported within this house are Charles Wade - a gardener who has been seen in the library reading books on gardening, Amy - a teenage girl who died young, has been reported playing the piano in the house - it is not know if there is a connection between her and the house - and a thin man in a black suit that has been spotted popping in and out of the rooms both day and night. Footsteps have been heard in empty staircases, doors open and close by themselves, rasping coughs come from behind closed doors on empty rooms and heavy drapes swing for no reason. A college student staying in a basement apartment woke up to see a floating head of a child above him.

In February 1969 two reporters for the Pioneer Press arranged to spend the night in the house. They decided to stay on the top floor in the skylight room, where most of the activity have been reported. Within a short time, they began to feel uneasy. With no sign of danger in the room, they had no explanation to the uneasiness that they felt. Throughout the night they experienced several paranormal events and at 4:00am they packed up and left the house. Both reporters have said "We all agreed on one thing. There is no prize on earth that could get us to spend a single night in that great stone house that seems to speak in sounds we can't explain or understand."


!*St. Paul - Forepaugh's Restaurant - Forepaugh's Restaurant is located in an old Victorian mansion named after the mansions' original owner, Joseph Forepaugh. Mr. Forepaugh was into the dry goods business, so when his fortune was made, he bought this beautiful mansion. He also decided to hire himself some servants to accompany his new found wealth. Well, Mr. Forepaugh became rather fond of one of his servants in particular. Her name was Molly, and the two of them soon began to have a steamy love affair together. However, things got rather ugly after Mrs. Forepaugh caught the two together in the midst of their lovemaking. She insisted Mr. Forepaugh break off the affair, and so he did. This did not settle well with Molly, who was now pregnant with Mr. Forepaugh's child. She became so distraught over the situation that she went to the third floor, tied a noose around herself and a light fixture, then threw herself out of the window. Mr. Forepaugh was so devastated over her death that he went into a deep depression and eventually shot himself at the nearby railroad tracks. It is said that Mr. Forepaugh and Molly now haunt the mansion. People have claimed to see Molly near the area where she hanged herself. Mr. Forepaugh, on the other hand, has been seen by employees and customers in the dining room area. They say that a nice looking guy just walks through the dining room as if he owns the place.


*St Paul - Hamm House - The current owners of the William Hamm house, of Hamm's Brewery fame, have had a connection with the old mansion that has dated back more than twenty years. Even before they bought the place, they had a strange attraction to it. Could spirits from the past have been seeking someone to restore the place? Karin and Rich DuPaul are the current owners of the house and they are convinced that the place is haunted. They believe that the house itself, right down to the very wood and stone of the place, contains a spirit that somehow influences what happensthere.

They did not exactly fall in love with the place at first sight either. The mansion was a dilapidated ruin when they first looked at it and they knew it would take a monumental effort to restore it. But something about the house attracted them and they couldn't get it out of their minds. After finally deciding to buy the place, they realized that there was something strange about the place. One night they were still in their former home and both Karin and Rich got the terrifying feeling that they should go to the Hamm mansion.... they couldn't explain it, it just an urgent need to go there. When they arrived, they found that the water pipes had burst and water was dripping everywhere. Their coming to house averted a very expensive disaster. On another night, after moving in, Rich was shaken awake by something. He felt the urge to go down to the basement and was shocked to find several cardboard boxes that had been stacked next to the chimney were smoldering. The furnace had not been working and they had been using the fireplace for heat. Do the strange events bother the DuPauls? Not according to them, in fact, they believe that the living and the dead can easily co-habituate... you just get used to one another, they say.

The Hamm Mansion is a private residence on North Greenbrier Street in St. Paul, Minnesota.


*St. Paul - Minnesota State Capitol - Funny noises come from the second floor and unusual cold air has been felt in the state capitol. There have also been reports of people being locked in room 217. Some say that room 217 was once a judge's office.


!*St. Paul - Marian Center (Old Mounds Park Hospital) - The Marian Center in St. Paul is a nursing home located in what was once the old Mounds Park Hospital. It was closed as a hospital sometime in the 70's and reopened as a nursing home in the late 80's/early 90's. The story is that an off duty policeman who was working as a security guard was shot and killed as he was getting off the elevator in the basement, which is where the morgue was located. There are four elevators in the building, but if you get on that particular elevator, no matter what direction it is going or what floor you push, it will go straight to the basement, open, and then close again before going to where it's directed. The employee break room is in the basement but is rarely used, as you have to walk past the old morgue to get to it and there are strange noises there at night. There was also a tunnel from the basement leading to the old nurse's dormitory, which was once used for storage. The maintenance men disliked using it because they reported hearing strange noise and lights flickering off and on. The property sits across the street from a group of Indian burial mounds.


!*St. Paul - Oakland Cemetery - A woman haunts the cemetery and has appeared to many people that have frequented the cemetery over the years. She is a woman in her mid twenties with shoulder length brown hair, blue eyes, Caucasian, approx 5'5" to 5'7" in height wearing a long white lacey style dress from about the turn of the century.


!St. Paul - St. Paul Street Caves - Coming soon...


!*St. Paul - St. Paul City Hall - Like the City Hall in Minneapolis, the Ramsey County Courthouse in the sister city of St. Paul is also a haunted municipal building. It is even haunted by a criminal who was executed on the site, but there the resemblance ends. Psychics who have investigated the courthouse describe it as almost a "spirit party" because the ghosts so like to visit there.

The Ramsey County Courthouse has been the center of community activity for many years and for nearly all of them, the place has been rumored to be a place where ghostly activity can be found too. Late night cleaning crews and security guards are the most frequent witnesses to strange events here and have reported the most encounters. They claim to have heard laughing in empty rooms and have seen spirits walking up and down the corridors wearing clothing from the 1930's and 1940's. A ghostly shoeshine man has been seen still plying his trade in the building's lobby. Metal coat hangers often stir in empty closets and the tapping of women's high-heeled shoes is commonly reported in deserted hallways.

The only frightening spirit seemed to be that of a man who has been reported hanging from a noose. His is thought to be a criminal who was executed in the courthouse many years ago. A workman named Tim Mahanna was interviewed some time back by the St. Paul Pioneer Press. He had been one of the workers who helped renovate the building in 1992 and he was convinced that the place was haunted. Tools and lumber moved about from place to place, things would disappear and then turn up again later and even pipes that had been sitting disconnected for weeks would suddenly have water coming out of them. "Strange things happened there that have never happened at another job site" he was quoted in the article. "I think there are people there who died and never left".

The Ramsey County Courthouse is located near the state capitol building in St. Paul.


*St. Paul - St. Paul Hotel - A ghost of a bellboy still tries to make the guests comfortable.


!St. Paul - Minnesota State Fair - Coming soon...


!St. Paul - Landmark center - Coming soon...


!St. Paul - Mounds park - Coming soon...


!St. Paul - Gibbs Farm - Coming soon...


!St. Paul - Gambel Mansion - Coming soon...


!St. Paul - Fort Snelling - Coming soon...


!St. Paul - Fish Island - Coming soon...


!St. Paul - Roselawn Cemetery - Coming soon...


!St. Paul - Palace Theater - Coming soon...


*St. Paul Park - Grey Cloud Island - Unimproved roads surrounding the site. There are two interesting haunted locations in this area. The first is a small cemetery located about 150 yards off the main highway. On moonlit nights, an indistinct figure can be seen leaning against a gatepost smoking a cigarette. Another figure that can be seen is a translucent motorcyclist riding silently past late night walkers and drivers.


!*Stillwater - Lumber Barons (hotel/restaurant) - A Confederate military man passed away in a drunken stupor on the second floor S.W. suite. His curious sweaty odor is heavy in the air.


*Stillwater - Arcola Trail Bridge - A young wife searches to find her husband along the abandoned railroad tracks of Arcola Trail in Stillwater, Minnesota. You may find her walking about with her lantern dressed in her white gown late at night.


!*Stillwater - Stillwater Prison - The living unit that is called B West has a ghost which appears on the 3rd floor. The area called the "brake" area between cells 301 and 732 has an inmate that supposedly died while in prison standing in the corner by a mop sink. This location was burned to the ground by an arsonist in 2003.


*Taunton - Taunton Cemetery - People have seen a 12 year old girl sitting in the rocking chair rocking it back and forth next to her grave.


*Thief River Falls - Dead Man's Trail - Dead Man's Trail is an old Indian trail that runs along the river. It's been said that Indians have been seen along the trail. Chilly breezes come from out of nowhere, and people have mysteriously died years back on that trail. Stories are of an old cave that had to be closed up and hidden in rocks for reasons unknown. Trails that were used by Indians many years ago can still be seen going across the river, which was much lower back then. When you walk along this trail, you can't help but notice the dead silence.


*Willmar - Sibley State Park - Timberlake Road - A woman's children were killed in her house many years ago while she was gone. She came back to discover that they were all dead. She then hung her self. She haunts Timberlake Road looking for the killer. Her house was strangely burnt down a couple years ago. There have been many sightings of red eyes in the forest, screams, dogs barking and the barking getting closer and closer to you, moans from the women, and strange shadows. In the winter there are many piles of dead rats. There is a cemetery on the same road where she was said to be buried. Children have been seen in the cemetery. Many people in Willmar and New London/Spicer know the stories and have seen it for themselves.


*Winona - St. Mary's College - Heffron Hall - Two ghosts are known to haunt this campus. One of them, the ghost of Father Lesches, has been reported to haunt Heffron Hall. Student have reported hearing footsteps, tapping of a cane on the floor and unusual draughts and cold spots on the 3rd floor. Papers have lifted from the hall bulletin board and female students have had the same identical nightmares on the same night.

A student walking down the stairs between the 3rd and 4th floor was restrained by an unseen force. In 1969 staff members from the student publication spent 2 nights in Heffron hall. Using high speed cameras with infrared film and other equipment, they set out to document the haunting on the 3rd floor. Both nights they recorded a temperature drop between 10-15 degrees in the hallway occurring between 1:30am and 2:00am. This was the time that Father Lesches had died. The priest was known to walk with a cane, possible accounting for the tapping sounds heard up and down the hall.


*Worthington - Old Bernardy House - This house was owned by attorney Cy Bernardy, who lived there with his 2 sons. Cy rented out some of the rooms to local college students. In 1980 students felt a presence following them from room to room and heard loud banging sounds coming from the attic. Soon after that students started reported seeing a face of a man with green eyes and white hair. A man has been said to have committed suicide in the attic of the home. An old diary has been found under a windowsill and it is suspected to have belonged to the man who committed suicide. The diary has never been read out of respect for this gentleman and this seems to pacify this spirit.