Indiana
The Grey Lady of Willard Library — Evansville, IN
In Evansville, Indiana, Willard Library stands with the solemn patience of a place built to outlast the hands that raised it. Its…
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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
Wisconsin
The Bleeding Grave of Kate Blood — Appleton, WI
In Appleton’s Riverside Cemetery, where the living come softly and the dead keep their long, weathered silence, there is a family plot…
Iowa
The Bride Who Still Waits on Stony Hollow Road — Burlington, IA
There are roads that carry traffic, and there are roads that carry memory. Stony Hollow Road, on the wooded edge of Burlington,…
Iowa
Whispers in the Wards of Malvern Manor — Malvern, IA
By day, Malvern Manor looked tired rather than haunted. That was the first thing Daniel Voss noticed when he pulled up along…
Ohio
Footsteps in the Abolitionist’s Mansion — Trinway, OH
There are houses that welcome you. You know the kind. Porches with rockers, windows glowing butter-yellow in the dusk, a wreath on…
Indiana
Whispers in the Old County Poor Farm — Winchester, IN
People in Winchester know the road, though many will tell you they’ve never taken it after sundown. It runs out past the…
Indiana
The Upstairs Footsteps of Roads Hotel — Atlanta, IN
By the time the last freight train came through Atlanta, Indiana, most decent folks were already asleep. It was the kind of…
Missouri
Whispers in St. Joseph’s House for the Friendless — St. Joseph, MO
There are houses that look abandoned even when candles burn in every window. The Beattie Mansion was such a house. It stood…
Missouri
Whispers Beneath the Odd Fellows Towers — Liberty, MO
There are buildings that grow old the way people do—stooped, softened, full of aches in the joints and stories in the walls.…
North Dakota
The Organ That Plays for No Congregation — Sims, ND
By the time Mara Ellingson came back to Sims, the town was mostly a rumor told by fence posts. That was how…
Wisconsin
The Woman Who Still Keeps the Karsten Hotel — Kewaunee, WI
In Kewaunee, Wisconsin, where the river slips into Lake Michigan like a guilty secret and the harbor lights blink red and green…
Illinois
The Mourning Rooms Beneath Tinker Swiss Cottage — Rockford, IL
There are houses that look abandoned even when the lamps are lit. Tinker Swiss Cottage in Rockford, Illinois, is one of those.…