Minnesota
The Phantom Sea Wing on Lake Pepin — Lake City, MN
Lake Pepin lies wide and deceptively calm along the Mississippi River, a broadening of the current between Minnesota and Wisconsin where the…
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Mid-West Ghost Stories
The Midwestern States are west of the Rocky Mountain States and north of the Southwestern and the Southern States. There are twelve Midwestern States. They are North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Michigan.
Stories from Mid-West Ghost Stories
Ohio
Ceely Rose and the Poisoned Farmhouse at Malabar Farm — Lucas, OH
On the grounds of Malabar Farm State Park near Lucas, Ohio, there stands a farmhouse with a name that seems to carry…
Nebraska
Crazy Horse’s Restless Death Site at Fort Robinson — Crawford, NE
Fort Robinson began in 1874 as a U.S. Army post near the Red Cloud Agency, set down on the open country of…
Wisconsin
The Shape-Shifting Ridgeway Ghost of Military Ridge Road — Ridgeway, WI
Before it was a legend, before its name was spoken in farm kitchens and tavern corners with the lowered voice people reserve…
Nebraska
The Northern Cheyenne Voices at Fort Robinson — Crawford, NE
At Fort Robinson, the wind does not simply pass through. It arrives with a voice. It comes down over the Nebraska hills…
Illinois
Old Book’s Funeral at Peoria State Hospital Cemetery — Bartonville, IL
At Bartonville, Illinois, where the former Peoria State Hospital stands in memory more stubbornly than in brick, the past does not present…
Minnesota
Molly, the Maid of the Forepaugh Mansion — Saint Paul, MN
At 276 Exchange Street South in Saint Paul, the house still seems to hold itself apart from ordinary time. It was built…
South Dakota
Seth Bullock Still Keeps Watch at the Bullock Hotel — Deadwood, SD
Deadwood was never a town that belonged entirely to daylight. It rose in a narrow fold of the Black Hills, clenched between…
Wisconsin
Agatha Karsten and the Restless Rooms of the Karsten Hotel — Kewaunee, WI
On the shore of Lake Michigan, where the wind comes in broad and cold and the water seems to breathe against the…
Wisconsin
The Watchful Ghost of Charles Pfister — Milwaukee, WI
The Pfister Hotel stands in Milwaukee not merely as a building, but as a kind of civic memory made stone and glass.…
Minnesota
Molly the Maid at Forepaugh’s Mansion — St. Paul, MN
In St. Paul’s Irvine Park, where old trees lean over the walks and the city’s earlier century still seems to breathe between…
South Dakota
The Bad Spirits of Sica Hollow — Sisseton, SD
In the northeastern shoulder of South Dakota, where the Coteau des Prairies rises in long, wooded swells above the prairie, there is…