Haunted Kansas

38 haunted destinations cataloged across Kansas, spanning 22 counties. The collection features museum, other dark tourism site, and outdoor — every listing verified with family ratings, accessibility info, and practical visit logistics.

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Museum / Historical Site

Haskell Indian Nations University

Lawrence, KS

Haskell Indian Nations University was established in 1884 in Lawrence, Kansas as the United States Indian Industrial Training School — one of a network of non-reservation boarding schools designed to forcibly assimilate Native American children. At least 103 children died while attending the institution, primarily during its first 30 years, and are interred in the campus cemetery. The institution evolved over the 20th century into a tribal land-grant university.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate
The Italianate tower and widow's walk of the 1873 Sauer Castle, a National Register landmark on Shawnee Drive in Kansas City, Kansas.
Haunted House / Historic Home

Sauer Castle

Kansas City, KS

Sauer Castle is an Italianate-style residence at 935 Shawnee Drive in Kansas City, Kansas, designed by architect Asa Beebe Cross and built between 1871 and 1873 for German immigrant Anton Sauer. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977, the two-and-a-half-story home with its central tower and widow's walk is regarded as Kansas's finest surviving Italianate residence.

$ All Ages Family: High
Second Empire brick facade of the historic Eaton Hotel / Carey House in downtown Wichita
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Other Dark Tourism Site

Eaton Place (Carey House / Eaton Hotel)

Wichita, KS

Completed in 1887 as the Carey House, this five-story Second Empire brick hotel was built by Wichita mayor and businessman John B. Carey. On December 27, 1900, temperance activist Carrie Nation famously stormed its barroom, smashing mirrors and damaging the bar's decor. Renamed the Eaton Hotel, the building was rehabilitated in 1999 and now operates as Eaton Place mixed-use apartments. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

$ All Ages Family: High
The six-story brick facade of the Eldridge Hotel at 7th and Massachusetts Street in downtown Lawrence, Kansas
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Haunted Hotel / Inn

The Eldridge Hotel

Lawrence, KS

The Eldridge Hotel anchors downtown Lawrence at 7th and Massachusetts. The original Free State Hotel was built in 1855 by New England abolitionists, burned twice during Bleeding Kansas and Quantrill's 1863 raid, and rebuilt each time. The current building dates to 1925, set on the original cornerstone Colonel Shalor Eldridge salvaged from the ashes.

$$$ All Ages Family: Moderate
The 1930 Art Deco Reno County Courthouse in downtown Hutchinson, Kansas
Museum / Historical Site

Reno County Courthouse

Hutchinson, KS

The Reno County Courthouse in Hutchinson, Kansas was built in 1929-1930 in the Art Deco style with buff brick and Bedford limestone. It was the county's fifth courthouse and cost $386,500. The fifth floor housed prisoners until a new law enforcement facility was completed in 1971. The former jail floor was later altered for public works and, after 2005, for the district attorney's office.

$ All Ages Family: High
Historic limestone barracks at Fort Dodge, Kansas, now part of the Kansas Soldiers' Home
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Battlefield / Military Site

Fort Dodge / Kansas Soldiers' Home

Fort Dodge, KS

Fort Dodge was established in 1865 along the Arkansas River to protect travelers on the Santa Fe Trail. The post served through the Indian Wars and was decommissioned as a military installation in 1882. Following federal authorization in 1889, the grounds reopened as the Kansas Soldiers' Home in February 1890, a function the site has continuously served for more than 130 years.

$ All Ages Family: High

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Wichita — 9

Broadview Hotel in Wichita Kansas, 1922 high-rise on Douglas Avenue, now Drury Plaza
Haunted Hotel / Inn

Drury Plaza Hotel Broadview

Wichita, KS

The Broadview Hotel opened on May 15, 1922, in Wichita, Kansas, after only eight months of construction under owner George Siedhoff. Built along the banks of the Arkansas River near the Chisholm Trail, it served railway passengers and hosted Charles Lindbergh, Clyde Cessna, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Al Capone. Drury Hotels renovated the property in 2011 and reopened it as the Drury Plaza Hotel Broadview.

$$$ All Ages Family: Moderate
Art Deco facade and control tower of the former Wichita Municipal Airport terminal
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Museum / Historical Site

Kansas Aviation Museum

Wichita, KS

The building is the Art Deco terminal of the former Wichita Municipal Airport, designed by Glen H. Thomas and dedicated in 1935. It served as Wichita's commercial passenger airport from 1935 until 1954, when operations moved to what is now Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport. The terminal was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990 and now houses the Kansas Aviation Museum.

$$ All Ages Family: High
Lawrence-Dumont Stadium Wichita Kansas, demolished 2018
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Other Dark Tourism Site

Lawrence-Dumont Stadium

Wichita, KS

Lawrence-Dumont Stadium opened in 1934 as the home of the National Baseball Congress and its annual NBC World Series, founded by Wichita native Raymond 'Hap' Dumont. Renamed in 1978 for Dumont — who died in his stadium office in 1971 at age 66 — the stadium was demolished in November 2018 and replaced by Riverfront Stadium (Equity Bank Park).

$ All Ages Family: High
Murdock House at Old Cowtown Museum, a relocated 1874 frame home on the museum's residential street
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Museum / Historical Site

Old Cowtown Museum (Murdock House)

Wichita, KS

Old Cowtown Museum is a 23-acre living-history museum re-creating frontier Wichita as it appeared between 1865 and 1880, with more than fifty period and re-created buildings. Its centerpiece, the Murdock House, was built in 1874 and was the home of Col. Marshall M. Murdock, founder of The Wichita Eagle newspaper.

$$ All Ages Family: High
Historic facade of the Orpheum Theatre in downtown Wichita
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Theater / Performance Venue

Orpheum Theatre

Wichita, KS

The Orpheum Theatre opened September 4, 1922, as a 1,800-seat atmospheric-style vaudeville and movie palace designed by John Eberson with a Spanish garden and courtyard motif. Funded by a group of ten local businessmen contributing $20,000 each, the building cost about $750,000 to complete. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

$$ All Ages Family: High
Salon 5thirty5 storefront at 535 W Douglas Ave, Wichita, former Travel Air Manufacturing Co building
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Other Dark Tourism Site

Salon 5thirty5 (former Travel Air Manufacturing Building)

Wichita, KS

The building at 535 W Douglas Avenue is best known as the 1920s home of the Travel Air Manufacturing Company, founded in 1925 in Wichita by aviation pioneers Clyde Cessna, Walter Beech, and Lloyd Stearman. The building now houses Salon 5thirty5 (The Perfect Touch beauty salon), an active hair and nail salon.

$$ All Ages Family: High
Spektrum Muzik storefront at 905 W Douglas Ave, Wichita, former Central Plains Novelty
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Other Dark Tourism Site

Spektrum Muzik (former Central Plains Novelty)

Wichita, KS

The building at 905 W Douglas Avenue is more than 120 years old and sits in Wichita's historic Delano district. For roughly six decades it housed Central Plains Novelty, a family-run costume and novelty store. Today the storefront is home to Spektrum Muzik, a record store and print shop selling vinyl, CDs, and tapes.

$ All Ages Family: High
Limestone Romanesque facade and corner tower of the 1892 'Palace of the Plains' City Hall, now the Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum
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Museum / Historical Site

Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum

Wichita, KS

Designed by Proudfoot & Bird and completed in 1892 at a cost of about $100,000, the Romanesque limestone building was nicknamed the 'Palace of the Plains' and served as Wichita's City Hall from 1892 to 1976. After a new city hall was built nearby, the building was preserved and reopened in 1981 as the Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum.

$ All Ages Family: High
Brick facade of Wilner Auditorium on the Wichita State University campus
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Other Dark Tourism Site

Wilner Auditorium (Wichita State University)

Wichita, KS

Wilner Auditorium was built in 1938 as the Auditorium and Commons Building of what was then the University of Wichita, funded by the federal Public Works Administration. The 553-seat theater is home to WSU's theater program and was renamed for George D. Wilner, longtime head of the speech and theater program from 1923 until his retirement in 1959.

$ All Ages Family: High

Topeka — 3

Former Moose Lodge 555 building at 1901 N Kansas Ave in North Topeka, Kansas, now operating as The Woodshed Event Center
Other Dark Tourism Site

Former Moose Lodge 555 (The Woodshed Event Center)

Topeka, KS

Topeka's Moose Lodge 555 at 1901 N Kansas Ave in North Topeka was the site of a significant historical event on April 11, 1955, when Officer Clarence 'Boots' Shields of the Topeka Police Department was fatally shot after surprising two burglars on the roof of the lodge. The lodge continued operating for over 60 years until the chapter relocated to Kansas City in 2016. The building is now The Woodshed Event Center, with a ballroom and memorial plaque dedicated to Officer Shields.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate
Site of the former Topeka State Hospital in Topeka, Kansas
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Asylum / Hospital

Topeka State Hospital

Topeka, KS

Topeka State Hospital operated as a Kansas public psychiatric institution from 1872 until its closure on May 17, 1997. Over its history it became notorious for documented patient neglect and abuse, including prolonged restraint and forced sterilizations under Kansas's 1913 eugenics law. The historic buildings were demolished in 2010, leaving a patient cemetery as the principal surviving feature.

$ All Ages Family: Low
Exterior of the Great Overland Station, a restored 1927 Union Pacific depot in North Topeka, Kansas, now a railroad heritage museum
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Museum / Historical Site

Great Overland Station

Topeka, KS

The Great Overland Station at 701 N Kansas Ave in North Topeka opened in January 1927 as a Union Pacific Railroad passenger depot designed by architect Gilbert Stanley Underwood. Regular passenger service ended in 1971, the building was abandoned by 1989, and a 1992 fire damaged its western section. After a full rehabilitation from 2000 to 2002 it reopened as a railroad heritage museum and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 1, 2002.

$ All Ages Family: High

Hays — 2

Historic American Buildings Survey cover sheet drawing of the Old Fort Hays blockhouse in Hays, Kansas, documenting the surviving frontier post structure on the National Register of Historic Places.
Battlefield / Military Site

Old Fort Hays

Hays, KS

Old Fort Hays was a frontier U.S. Army post active from 1865 to 1889, established to protect the Smoky Hill Trail, the Kansas Pacific Railroad, and travel between Fort Riley and Fort Wallace. It was the duty station of George Armstrong Custer's 7th Cavalry, was visited by Wild Bill Hickok and Buffalo Bill Cody, and is now preserved as the Fort Hays State Historic Site.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate
Frontier Historical Park along Big Creek in Hays, Kansas
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Outdoor / Natural Site

Frontier Historical Park (Old Swinging Bridge)

Hays, KS

Frontier Historical Park (commonly called Frontier Park) sits along Big Creek in Hays, Kansas, on the former grounds of the Fort Hays Military Reservation. In the 1930s, a Civilian Conservation Corps veterans' camp built park infrastructure here, including a notable swinging footbridge over Big Creek. The deteriorated swinging bridge was dismantled in the 1970s.

$ All Ages Family: High

Alma — 1

A small Kansas Flint Hills cemetery with weathered limestone headstones set against rolling prairie
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Cemetery / Burial Ground

Alma Cemetery

Alma, KS

Alma Cemetery is the public burial ground for the small community of Alma in Wabaunsee County, Kansas, in the Flint Hills west of Topeka. The cemetery is a typical late-nineteenth-century prairie burial ground; no archival documentation accessed during research substantiates the dramatic origin story attached to it in folklore.

$ All Ages Family: High

Atchison — 1

Two-story residential Sallie House on N 2nd Street in Atchison, Kansas
Haunted House / Historic Home

Sallie House

Atchison, KS

The Sallie House at 508 N 2nd Street in Atchison, Kansas is a two-story residence built by the Finney family in the mid-1800s, where physician Dr. Charles Finney maintained a medical practice. Local legend — uncorroborated by any documentary evidence — holds that a young girl named Sallie died on Finney's basement operating table. The house gained national attention in 1993 when renters Tony and Debra Pickman documented unexplained fires, physical scratches on Tony's body, and poltergeist phenomena that were captured on live cameras.

$$ All ages for day tours; overnight guests should confirm age policies when booking Family: Low

Coffeyville — 1

Brown Mansion three-story Gilded Age architecture in Coffeyville, Kansas
Museum / Historical Site

Brown Mansion

Coffeyville, KS

The Brown Mansion is a 16-room, three-story mansion completed in 1904 by William Pitzer (W.P.) Brown, a businessman who accumulated wealth through lumber and natural gas interests in Coffeyville. The structure was designed by the Kansas City architectural firm of Wilder and Wight at a cost of $125,000. The mansion was the family residence until 1970, when Violet Brown, the sole surviving child, sold it to the Coffeyville Historical Society for use as a museum.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Ellis — 1

Southwest view of the Ellis Railroad Museum at 911 Washington Street in Ellis, Kansas, a National Register building formerly known as Memorial City Hall.
Museum / Historical Site

Ellis Railroad Museum Jail Cell

Ellis, KS

The Ellis Railroad Museum in Ellis, Kansas occupies a building roughly a century old and preserves Union Pacific railroad heritage in this western Kansas town. Founded in 1994, it houses artifacts, photographs, and a large operating model railroad layout, along with an on-site historical jail cell now used for storage.

$ All Ages Family: High

Emporia — 1

Rocky Ford Bridge (Bird Bridge) over the Cottonwood River near Emporia, Kansas
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Outdoor / Natural Site

Rocky Ford Bridge (Bird Bridge)

Emporia, KS

The Rocky Ford Bridge is a one-lane metal bridge dating to 1907 that carries a rural road over the Cottonwood River southeast of Emporia, Kansas. It is popularly called 'Bird Bridge' after the 1983 death of Sandra (Sandy) Bird, wife of Lutheran pastor Thomas Bird, whose case became the basis of the 1987 CBS miniseries 'Murder Ordained.'

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Fort Scott — 1

Restored 1840s frontier-army buildings at Fort Scott National Historic Site, Bourbon County, Kansas.
Battlefield / Military Site

Fort Scott National Historic Site

Fort Scott, KS

Fort Scott National Historic Site preserves a restored 1840s U.S. Army frontier post that served sequentially as a peacekeeping outpost on the Permanent Indian Frontier, a Bleeding Kansas border garrison, a Civil War supply depot, and a federal court venue. The site was designated a National Historic Site in 1965 and is operated by the National Park Service.

$ All Ages Family: High

Galena — 1

Oak Hill Cemetery on a hilltop in Galena, Kansas
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Cemetery / Burial Ground

Oak Hill Cemetery (Witch's Grave)

Galena, KS

Oak Hill Cemetery, also known as Empire Cemetery, sits on a hill in Galena, Cherokee County, Kansas, a town rooted in the lead-and-zinc mining boom of the late 1800s. The cemetery holds burials from the Empire City and Galena communities and is documented by Find a Grave and BillionGraves.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Gardner — 1

New Century AirCenter in Johnson County, Kansas, showing the former Naval Air Station Olathe hangar complex
Other Dark Tourism Site

New Century AirCenter

Gardner, KS

Naval Air Station Olathe opened October 1, 1942, as a WWII primary flight training base. John Glenn completed his first military solo flight from the base in its first class of cadets. The base later served as continental headquarters for the Naval Air Transport Service. It was closed June 30, 1970, and transferred to Johnson County government, which developed it into New Century AirCenter — a commercial airport, industrial complex, and business center.

$ All Ages Family: High

Hutchinson — 1

Hutchinson Fox Theatre 1931 Art Deco marquee lit at night, Hutchinson, Kansas
Theater / Performance Venue

Hutchinson's Historic Fox Theatre

Hutchinson, KS

Hutchinson's Fox Theatre opened on June 8, 1931, designed by the Boller Brothers as a 1,221-seat movie palace and vaudeville house. After closing in 1985 and standing empty for five years, it was purchased by Hutchinson's Historic Theatre, Inc., a non-profit, and reopened in 1999 after a $4.5 million restoration.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Independence — 1

Ruins of the Le Hunt cement plant near Independence, Kansas
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Outdoor / Natural Site

Le Hunt Cement Plant Ruins

Independence, KS

Le Hunt is a ghost town in Montgomery County, Kansas, a few miles northwest of Independence. It began in 1905 when the United Kansas Portland Cement Company bought 1,500 acres and built a large cement plant. The company went bankrupt by January 1914, and the town faded to ruins. The plant's remains, including its smokestack, still stand in the woods near Elk City Lake.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Lawrence — 1

Exterior of the former Lawrence Community Theatre building, a 1950s former church at 1501 New Hampshire Street in Lawrence, Kansas
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Other Dark Tourism Site

Old Lawrence Community Theatre Building

Lawrence, KS

The building at 1501 New Hampshire Street in Lawrence began life in the 1950s as a church for the Full Gospel Christian Assembly. After the congregation dissolved, the Lawrence Community Theatre purchased the building in 1984 and converted it into a performing arts center, staging productions there until the company relocated to a new $7 million facility on Bauer Farm Drive in 2013. Since roughly 2014 the original building has been occupied by Vintage Church, which retained the stage and theater seating.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Lenexa — 1

The two white farmstead buildings at 10240 Pflumm Road in Lenexa, Kansas, home to Grinders Stonewall restaurant
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Haunted Dining / Bar

Grinders Stonewall (formerly Kieltyka's Stonewall Inn)

Lenexa, KS

The property at 10240 Pflumm Road in Lenexa, Kansas is identified as one of the area's earliest farmsteads. The Kieltyka family began operating a restaurant in the larger of the two white farmstead buildings in 1978, serving traditional Polish dishes alongside American bar food. After years as Kieltyka's Stonewall Inn, the location transitioned to Grinders Stonewall, which operates there currently.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Medicine Lodge — 1

Red gypsum hills landscape near Flower Pot Mountain west of Medicine Lodge, Kansas
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Outdoor / Natural Site

Flower Pot Mountain

Medicine Lodge, KS

Flower Pot Mountain is a Gypsum Hills landmark west of Medicine Lodge, Kansas. The broader area carries deep significance as the site of the 1867 Medicine Lodge Treaty Council, in which the United States negotiated three treaties with the Kiowa, Comanche, Plains Apache, Southern Cheyenne, and Southern Arapaho.

$ All Ages Family: High

Newton — 1

The 1879 Old Mill Plaza building with its restored Mansard roof in Newton, Kansas
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Museum / Historical Site

Old Mill Plaza

Newton, KS

The Old Mill Plaza in Newton, Kansas was built in 1879 as the Monarch Steam Mill. Bernhard Warkentin purchased the mill in 1886 to grind Turkey Red hard winter wheat, the variety that transformed Kansas grain agriculture. The mill ceased flour production in 1964 and was scheduled for demolition in 1973 before Lloyd and Jacqueline Smith bought it the night before to begin a multi-decade restoration.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Prairie Village — 1

Homestead Library Athletic Club football team, 1899
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Haunted Dining / Bar

Homestead Country Club

Prairie Village, KS

Homestead Country Club in Prairie Village, Kansas traces to a 1952 land donation from J.C. Nichols; the clubhouse opened the following year in 1953. The club filed for bankruptcy in 2014 and was acquired by Hulsing Enterprises in late 2017, which led a 2018-2022 expansion adding a covered tennis building, expanded fitness facilities, and six pickleball courts. The facility operates as an active private club.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Sedan — 1

Round Mound Cemetery atop a hill in Chautauqua County, Kansas
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Cemetery / Burial Ground

Round Mound Cemetery

Sedan, KS

Round Mound Cemetery is a small rural cemetery situated atop a distinctive round hill in Chautauqua County, in far south-central Kansas near the Oklahoma line. It is documented as a recognized cemetery feature in the county's records and serves the surrounding farming community.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Stull — 1

View of headstones at Stull Cemetery in rural Stull, Douglas County, Kansas
Cemetery / Burial Ground

Stull Cemetery

Stull, KS

Stull Cemetery is a small rural burying ground in the unincorporated community of Stull, Douglas County, Kansas, west of Lawrence. The cemetery dates to the mid-nineteenth century and serves families of the original Evangelical settlement. Its modern reputation began with a 1974 University Daily Kansan article that has been the subject of decades of folklore.

$ All Ages Family: High

Valley Center — 1

Theorosa's Bridge over Jester Creek at 109th & Meridian near Valley Center, Kansas
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Outdoor / Natural Site

Theorosa's Bridge

Valley Center, KS

Theorosa's Bridge crosses Jester Creek on 109th Street North at Meridian Avenue, about 12 miles north of Wichita near Valley Center (founded 1872). The original wood-and-iron span burned in 1974 and again in 1976, and the current concrete-and-iron bridge was built in 1991. Local historians note no Theorosa appears in 1800s census or newspaper records.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

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