Haunted Missouri

82 haunted destinations cataloged across Missouri, spanning 40 counties. The collection features cemetery, haunted hotel, and outdoor — every listing verified with family ratings, accessibility info, and practical visit logistics.

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The former Marquette schoolhouse, used as the Pi Kappa Alpha Pike Lodge near Cape Girardeau, Missouri

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Other Dark Tourism Site

Pike Lodge (Former Marquette Schoolhouse)

Cape Girardeau, MO

The Pike Lodge in Cape Girardeau, Missouri occupies a former rural schoolhouse known as Marquette School, built in 1924 and described at the time as the finest rural school in Cape Girardeau County. The building served as a schoolhouse from 1924 to 1968. It was acquired in the late 1970s by the Pi Kappa Alpha (Epsilon Iota) chapter at Southeast Missouri State University for use as their lodge.

$ All Ages (drive-by viewing only) Family: High

Garth Woodside Mansion, an 1871 Second Empire Victorian bed and breakfast outside Hannibal, Missouri

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Haunted Hotel / Inn

Garth Woodside Mansion

Hannibal, MO

Garth Woodside Mansion is a Second Empire Victorian country estate completed in 1871 by Colonel John H. Garth and his wife Helen Kercheval Garth, both childhood schoolmates of Samuel Clemens. Twain stayed at Woodside on his return visits to Hannibal, including a documented 1882 trip up the Mississippi on the steamer Baton Rouge. The property has operated as a bed and breakfast since 1987.

$$$ All Ages Family: High

Java Jive Coffee Shop and Bakery storefront in the former Haydon hardware building on N Main Street in Hannibal, Missouri

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Haunted Dining / Bar

Java Jive Coffee Shop and Bakery

Hannibal, MO

Java Jive Coffee Shop and Bakery occupies the former Haydon hardware store at 211 N Main Street in Hannibal's downtown historic district. The cafe was established in 2000, with its bakery foundation tracing back over 35 years to a small pottery studio. It is an active member of the Hannibal Area Chamber of Commerce.

$ All Ages Family: High

207 N 5th Street in Hannibal, Missouri, the former Captain Munger residence that later housed LaBinnah Bistro

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Haunted Dining / Bar

LaBinnah Bistro (Captain Munger House)

Hannibal, MO

The Victorian house at 207 N 5th Street (5th and Center) was the residence of W.A. Munger, a former Hannibal mayor and the host of the December 29, 1888 card party that wealthy lumber and ice merchant Amos J. Stillwell attended on the last evening of his life. Stillwell was axe-murdered in his bed at 112 S 5th Street later that night — Hannibal's most famous unsolved homicide. The former Munger residence later housed LaBinnah Bistro, which closed by February 2026.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

111 Bird Street, the purpose-built 1917 brothel building in Hannibal, Missouri, formerly LulaBelle's restaurant and bed & breakfast

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Haunted Hotel / Inn

LulaBelle's (Riverside Inn Hannibal)

Hannibal, MO

The three-story building at 111 Bird Street in downtown Hannibal was constructed in 1917 by madam Sarah Smith as a purpose-built brothel — reportedly the only Hannibal bordello specifically designed and constructed for the trade. It was later operated by madam Bessie Heolscher into the 1950s. The LulaBelle's restaurant and B&B operation closed by March 2026; the building currently operates as the Riverside Inn Hannibal.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

The Hannibal Old Police Station and Jail, an 1878-79 Victorian eclectic brick building on Hill Street

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Prison / Reformatory

Old Hannibal Jail (Old Police Station & Jailhouse)

Hannibal, MO

The Hannibal Old Police Station and Jail was built in 1878-1879 as a two-story late-Victorian eclectic brick building with two octagonal towers of different heights and a complex roofline. It is on the National Register of Historic Places (listed July 17, 1979) and contributes to the Central Park Historic District. Tour narration places the building at 208 Hill Street; the structure no longer functions as an active police station.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

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St. Louis — 14

Haunted House / Historic Home

Lemp Mansion

St. Louis, MO

The Lemp Mansion was built in 1868 at 3322 DeMenil Place in St. Louis, serving as the residence and later brewery office headquarters of the Lemp brewing dynasty. Between 1904 and 1949, four members of the family died by suicide within the property, ending one of America's most prominent pre-Prohibition brewing empires.

$$ All Ages for dining; 13+ for paranormal events Family: Low

Restored Georgian Revival facade of the former Saint Louis City Hospital, located in the City Hospital Historic District on Lafayette Avenue in St. Louis, Missouri.

Asylum / Hospital

Old St. Louis City Hospital (The Georgian)

St. Louis, MO

The St. Louis City Hospital was founded in 1845 in response to a cholera outbreak. The site at 1515 Lafayette Avenue saw three successive hospitals: an 1846 building destroyed by fire in 1856, an 1857 replacement destroyed by the 1896 'Great Cyclone,' and the surviving 1912 Georgian Revival administrative building designed by Albert Groves, which closed as a hospital in 1985 and was redeveloped into condominiums.

$ All Ages Family: High

Bellefontaine Cemetery 314-acre rural cemetery and arboretum in north St. Louis, Missouri

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Cemetery / Burial Ground

Bellefontaine Cemetery

St. Louis, MO

Bellefontaine Cemetery was founded in 1849 by the Rural Cemetery Association of St. Louis as a response to rapid urban growth and a cholera epidemic. The 314-acre grounds were modeled on Père Lachaise in Paris and Mount Auburn in Cambridge and now contain 87,000+ interments. The cemetery is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is also an accredited arboretum.

$ All Ages Family: High

Calvary Cemetery 470-acre Catholic cemetery, St. Louis, Missouri, established 1854

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Cemetery / Burial Ground

Calvary Cemetery

St. Louis, MO

Calvary Cemetery was founded in 1854 by the Archdiocese of St. Louis and is the city's principal Catholic cemetery. The 470-acre grounds contain more than 300,000 interments, including Dred Scott (whose 1857 Supreme Court case shaped the constitutional history of slavery), Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman, playwright Tennessee Williams, and author Kate Chopin.

$ All Ages Family: High

Three-story red-brick Greek Revival Campbell House at 1508 Locust Street, downtown St. Louis

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Museum / Historical Site

Campbell House Museum

St. Louis, MO

The Campbell House was built in 1851 by St. Louis architect William Fulton and purchased in 1854 by Scottish-born fur trader Robert Campbell. Campbell and his family lived in the house until 1938, when the last surviving son died; in 1943 it opened as a house museum and has operated continuously since, retaining a remarkable proportion of its original Campbell-family furnishings.

$ All Ages Family: High

Greek Revival Chatillon-DeMenil Mansion on DeMenil Place in Benton Park, St. Louis

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Museum / Historical Site

Chatillon-DeMenil Mansion

St. Louis, MO

The mansion was built in 1848 as a two-story brick farmhouse by Henri Chatillon, a fur trader and Oregon Trail guide. In 1856 Chatillon sold the house to Nicolas DeMenil, who beginning in 1861 substantially enlarged and remodeled it into the Greek Revival mansion that stands today. The Chatillon-DeMenil House Foundation has operated the property as a house museum since the mid-twentieth century.

$ All Ages Family: High

Fabulous Fox Theatre 'Siamese Byzantine' movie palace, 527 N Grand Boulevard, St. Louis

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Theater / Performance Venue

The Fabulous Fox Theatre

St. Louis, MO

The Fabulous Fox Theatre opened in January 1929 as one of five 'Fox' picture palaces commissioned by film magnate William Fox. Designed by C. Howard Crane in a 'Siamese Byzantine' style, the 4,500-seat auditorium was the second-largest in the United States at its opening. After decades of decline the theatre closed in 1978 and was restored by the Fox Associates beginning in 1981, reopening in 1982 as the centerpiece of Grand Center.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Romanesque limestone Grandel Theatre (former First Congregational Church) at Grandel Square, Grand Center, St. Louis

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Theater / Performance Venue

The Grandel Theatre

St. Louis, MO

The building at 3610 Grandel Square was constructed in 1884 in a limestone Romanesque style as the First Congregational Church of St. Louis. After the congregation departed in the early 20th century the building was reconfigured for performance use and became The Grandel Theatre. Today it is a Grand Center Arts District performing-arts venue.

$$$ 16+ Family: Moderate

Romanesque Revival Lehmann House Bed and Breakfast at 10 Benton Place, Lafayette Square, St. Louis

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Haunted Hotel / Inn

Lehmann House Bed and Breakfast

St. Louis, MO

The Lehmann House was built in 1893 in St. Louis's Lafayette Square Historic District for financier and real-estate developer Edward S. Rowse, who developed Benton Place itself as a private residential park. The 26-room Romanesque Revival mansion has operated as a bed-and-breakfast since the 1990s and is the longest-running B&B in the city.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Lemp Brewery Complex industrial buildings at 3500 Lemp Avenue, Marine Villa, St. Louis

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Museum / Historical Site

Lemp Brewery Complex

St. Louis, MO

The Lemp Brewery complex was purchased by William J. Lemp in 1864 and built up through the late 19th century atop the Cherokee Cave lagering tunnels in what is now the Marine Villa neighborhood. At its peak it was one of the largest American breweries; today the 13.7-acre 27-building complex serves as industrial / warehouse / studio space. It is a separate property from the in-corpus Lemp Mansion (3322 DeMenil Place) and is treated here as its own venue.

$$ 16+ Family: Low

Powell Hall (former St. Louis Theatre) Italian Renaissance facade at 718 N Grand Boulevard, St. Louis

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Theater / Performance Venue

Powell Hall (Powell Symphony Hall)

St. Louis, MO

Powell Hall opened on October 18, 1925 as the St. Louis Theatre, an Orpheum-circuit vaudeville and movie palace designed by Rapp & Rapp. The St. Louis Symphony Society purchased the building in 1966 and reopened it on January 24, 1968 as Powell Symphony Hall, named for benefactor Walter S. Powell. A major renovation was completed in 2025.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Stifel Theatre (former Kiel Opera House) facade at 1400 Market Street, downtown St. Louis

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Theater / Performance Venue

Stifel Theatre

St. Louis, MO

The Stifel Theatre is the 3,100-seat performing-arts component of the St. Louis Municipal Auditorium complex, designed by Louis LaBeaume and Eugene Klein and completed in 1934 as the Kiel Opera House. The auditorium operated through 1991, sat dark for two decades, and reopened in 2011 as the Peabody Opera House before being rebranded the Stifel Theatre in 2018.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Italianate Tower Grove House, Henry Shaw's country residence, within Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis

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Museum / Historical Site

Tower Grove House (Henry Shaw's Country Home)

St. Louis, MO

Tower Grove House was designed by architect George I. Barnett and completed in 1849 as Missouri Botanical Garden founder Henry Shaw's country residence. Shaw opened the Garden on the surrounding estate in 1859 and lived at Tower Grove House until his death from malaria in his bedroom there on August 25, 1889. The National Park Service added Tower Grove House to the Underground Railroad Network to Freedom in recognition of the documented histories of the people Shaw enslaved.

$$ All Ages Family: High

1894 Richardsonian Romanesque St. Louis Union Station head house at 1820 Market Street

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Haunted Hotel / Inn

St. Louis Union Station

St. Louis, MO

St. Louis Union Station opened in September 1894 as a Richardsonian Romanesque railroad terminal designed by architect Theodore Link. At the height of rail travel it was one of the busiest passenger terminals in the world. Closed to passenger trains in 1978, the complex was redeveloped beginning in 1985 and adaptively reused as a hotel, festival marketplace, aquarium, and event venue.

$$$ All Ages Family: High

Hannibal — 5

Finn's Food and Spirits, a historic Main Street restaurant and bar in downtown Hannibal, Missouri

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Haunted Dining / Bar

Finn's Food and Spirits

Hannibal, MO

Finn's Food and Spirits occupies a historic commercial building at 214 N Main Street in Hannibal's downtown historic district. The restaurant operates as an active New American eatery and bar, and is a member of the Hannibal Area Chamber of Commerce. The North Main Street block is part of the late-19th-century commercial core of Hannibal preserved as the central tourism district.

$$ All Ages for dining; bar is 21+ Family: High

Garden House Bed & Breakfast, an 1896 Queen Anne Victorian mansion in Hannibal, Missouri's Central Park Historic District

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Haunted Hotel / Inn

Garden House Bed & Breakfast

Hannibal, MO

The Garden House Bed and Breakfast occupies an 1896 Queen Anne Victorian mansion at 301 N 5th Street in Hannibal's Central Park Historic District. It was built by Albert Wells Pettibone Jr., son of the founder of the Hannibal Saw Mill and Sash Companies and a leading northeastern-Missouri philanthropist. The property has operated as a B&B for several decades and remains in active operation as of 2026.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Mark Twain Cave entrance and Cave Hollow grounds near Hannibal, Missouri

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Outdoor / Natural Site

Mark Twain Cave

Hannibal, MO

Mark Twain Cave was originally known as McDowell's Cave after St. Louis anatomist Joseph Nash McDowell acquired it in the late 1840s and used it as a secret laboratory. The cave opened to paying tourists in 1886 under farmer John East, was renamed for Mark Twain in 1880 following the 1876 publication of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and has operated continuously as a show cave ever since — the oldest in Missouri.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Old Baptist Cemetery, hilltop pioneer cemetery established 1837 at Section and Sumner Streets in Hannibal, Missouri

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Cemetery / Burial Ground

Old Baptist Cemetery

Hannibal, MO

Old Baptist Cemetery was established in 1837 on a hilltop at Section and Sumner Streets in Hannibal. It is the oldest cemetery in the city, holds graves of pioneer settlers from Virginia and Kentucky, Civil War soldiers, and many formerly enslaved Black residents of Hannibal. Mark Twain drew on its setting for the graveyard scenes in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Rockcliffe Mansion, a Colonial Revival house museum atop a limestone bluff in Hannibal, Missouri

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Haunted Hotel / Inn

Rockcliffe Mansion

Hannibal, MO

Rockcliffe Mansion was built in 1898 by lumber baron John J. Cruikshank Jr. on a limestone cliff overlooking Hannibal and the Mississippi River. After Cruikshank's death in 1924 the 13,500-square-foot Colonial Revival mansion sat empty for 43 years until private owners began restoration in 1967. It is on the National Register of Historic Places and operates as a house museum and bed and breakfast.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Kansas City — 3

Museum / Historical Site

Alexander Majors House Museum

Kansas City, MO

Alexander Majors built this antebellum mansion in 1856 at the height of his success as co-owner of Russell, Majors, and Waddell — the largest overland freighting company in the American West. In 1860, Majors partnered with Russell and Waddell to launch the Pony Express, a relay mail service that operated for just 18 months before the transcontinental telegraph made it obsolete.

$ All Ages Family: High

Looking up at One Kansas City Place, the tallest building in Kansas City.

Haunted Hotel / Inn

Hotel Savoy Kansas City

Kansas City, MO

The Hotel Savoy at 219 W. 9th Street in Kansas City was constructed in 1888 by owners of the Arbuckle Coffee Company and opened in 1889 as Hotel Thorne, receiving its current name in 1894. The hotel hosted Theodore Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Ronald Reagan, and Will Rogers, among others. Closed for renovations in 2016, it reopened as the 21c Museum Hotel in 2018 and returned to the Hotel Savoy name in early 2025 under new management.

$$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Other Dark Tourism Site

Hy-Vee Arena (Formerly Kemper Arena)

Kansas City, MO

Kemper Arena opened in Kansas City's West Bottoms neighborhood on September 30, 1974, designed by German architect Helmut Jahn. The innovative suspended-roof structure hosted the 1976 Republican National Convention, NBA and NHL professional sports, and NCAA Final Fours before transitioning to a youth sports facility. Renamed Hy-Vee Arena after a $39 million renovation completed in 2018.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Springfield — 3

Roadside motel exterior on North Glenstone Avenue in Springfield, Missouri

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Bass Country Inn (former Howard Johnson's)

Springfield, MO

The Bass Country Inn occupied a former Howard Johnson's location at 2610 N Glenstone Avenue on Springfield, Missouri's commercial north corridor. The property has changed hands and operating names several times, later trading as the Campus Inn. It has never been a marketed haunted destination, and its paranormal reputation derives from staff and guest accounts rather than promotional material.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Battlefield / Military Site

Bloody Hill

Springfield, MO

Bloody Hill represents a Civil War battlefield in Missouri where combat occurred during the conflict. The location has historical significance to Civil War history.

$ All Ages Family: High

Stone bridge in Phelps Grove Park at evening with park landscape

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Outdoor / Natural Site

Brooks Phelps Grove Park Bridge

Springfield, MO

Phelps Grove Park was established in 1914 as one of the first parks acquired by Springfield's Park Board. Named for Gov. John S. Phelps and his wife Mary Whitney Phelps, whose homestead once occupied the land, the park features fieldstone pavilions and bridges constructed during its founding period. The park has evolved from its origins as a private estate into a 95-acre public green space.

$ All ages Family: High

Branson — 2

Theater / Performance Venue

Music City Centre

Branson, MO

Music City Centre is a performance venue on Branson's W 76 Country Boulevard, Missouri's primary entertainment strip. The venue has operated as a community and performance space in the Ozarks entertainment economy, hosting theatrical productions, faith-based programming, and community events.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Rural Ozarks road near Branson, Missouri, winding through wooded hillside near the former community of Garber

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Outdoor / Natural Site

Noland Road

Branson, MO

Noland Road runs near the site of the former Ozarks community of Garber, a small settlement that existed in the Taney County hills before the modern Branson entertainment economy reshaped the region. The old trail that passed through here predates roads as they exist today. The postmistress of Garber, Ada Clodfelter, died when a mail thief burned her store. A church was built in Garber in 1927 but held only one service — her funeral — before being repurposed as the new post office.

$ All Ages Family: High

Excelsior Springs — 2

Tudor Revival limestone exterior of the historic Elms Hotel in Excelsior Springs, Missouri

Haunted Hotel / Inn

Elms Hotel & Spa

Excelsior Springs, MO

The Elms Hotel traces its origins to 1888, when Excelsior Springs' mineral water reputation drew wealthy visitors from across the Midwest. Two devastating fires — in 1898 and 1910 — destroyed successive structures. The current 1912 building, constructed of Missouri limestone with Tudor Revival and Gothic Revival detailing, survived Prohibition as a speakeasy and gained national attention when Harry Truman spent election night there in 1948.

$$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

The Elms Hotel exterior in Excelsior Springs Missouri, historic stone resort building

Haunted Hotel / Inn

The Elms Hotel & Spa

Excelsior Springs, MO

The Elms Hotel in Excelsior Springs, Missouri opened in 1888, was destroyed by fire in 1898, destroyed again in 1910, and rebuilt in 1912 using fireproof limestone and concrete. Harry Truman spent election night 1948 at the Elms while awaiting the results of his upset victory over Thomas Dewey. During Prohibition, Al Capone used the basement as a speakeasy, hosting all-night gambling parties. The hotel operates today as a Destination by Hyatt property with full spa facilities.

$$$ All ages Family: Moderate

Independence — 2

Below-street-level entrance to the Courthouse Exchange at 113 West Lexington Avenue in Independence, Missouri

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Haunted Dining / Bar

Courthouse Exchange

Independence, MO

The Courthouse Exchange has operated as a bar and restaurant at 113 West Lexington Avenue in Independence, Missouri since 1899, making it one of the longest-continuously operating restaurants in the state. The below-street-level establishment is situated at the historic convergence of three western emigrant trails in downtown Independence — a city that served as the departure point for the Santa Fe, Oregon, and California Trails.

$ All Ages Family: High

Hill Park Cemetery in Independence, Missouri — resting place of Frank James and Ann Ralston James on a grassy hillside

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Cemetery / Burial Ground

Hill Park Cemetery

Independence, MO

Hill Park Cemetery in Independence, Missouri occupies land that originally formed part of the private holding of blacksmith Adam Hill. The cemetery's most historically notable interment is that of Frank James, older brother of Jesse James, along with his wife Ann Ralston James. Frank died February 18, 1915, and was cremated by request; his ashes remained in a bank vault until Ann Ralston James died in 1944, at age 91, when both sets of remains were interred here on July 26 of that year.

$ All Ages Family: High

Nevada — 2

Red Brick 1st Baptist Church on Walnut Street in Nevada, Missouri

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Haunted House / Historic Home

1st Baptist Church on Walnut Street

Nevada, MO

The 1st Baptist Church on Walnut Street in Nevada, Missouri is one of the oldest structures in the city. The red brick church building was constructed during Nevada's earliest period of development. In 1998, the Community Council on Performing Arts (CCPA) temporarily housed their operations in the former church, converting it to the Red Brick Playhouse for staging community theatrical productions.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Blanche Skiff Ross Memorial Library exterior

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Museum / Historical Site

Blanche Skiff Ross Memorial Library

Nevada, MO

Blanche Skiff Ross Memorial Library is a historic library in Missouri.

$ All Ages Family: High

Republic — 2

Battlefield / Military Site

Wilson's Creek National Battlefield

Republic, MO

The Battle of Wilson's Creek, fought on August 10, 1861, was the first major engagement of the Civil War in the Trans-Mississippi Theater and the second major battle of the war overall. Union General Nathaniel Lyon launched a surprise dawn attack on Confederate forces under General Ben McCulloch, resulting in Lyon's death — the first Union general killed in the war — and over 2,500 total casualties. The Confederate victory secured southwestern Missouri for the South and energized Confederate sentiment throughout the state.

$ All Ages Family: High

Battlefield / Military Site

Wilson's Creek National Battlefield

Republic, MO

The Battle of Wilson's Creek, fought on August 10, 1861, was the first major Civil War battle west of the Mississippi River and the second major engagement of the war. Union General Nathaniel Lyon was killed leading a charge on Bloody Hill, becoming the first Union general killed in combat during the war. The 2,539 combined casualties forced a Union withdrawal and shaped Missouri's contested Civil War experience.

$ All Ages Family: High

St. Joseph — 2

Museum / Historical Site

Glore Psychiatric Museum

St. Joseph, MO

The State Lunatic Asylum No. 2 in St. Joseph, Missouri opened in November 1874 with 25 patients and expanded to house nearly 3,000 patients at its mid-20th century peak. George Glore, a Missouri Department of Mental Health employee, began building exhibit models for Mental Health Awareness Week in 1966; his collection became a formal museum in 1967 and is now operated by St. Joseph Museums as one of the most comprehensive psychiatric history collections in the country.

$$ All Ages for museum; evening investigation events have own restrictions Family: Moderate

Brick exterior of the Glore Psychiatric Museum in St. Joseph, Missouri

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Asylum / Hospital

Saint Joseph State Hospital

St. Joseph, MO

Saint Joseph State Hospital opened in 1874 as Missouri's State Lunatic Asylum No. 2, expanding to nearly 3,000 patients by the 1950s. The original campus closed in 1994 and now houses a state prison, while the adjacent Glore Psychiatric Museum preserves the institution's two-century medical history.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Webb City — 2

Asylum / Hospital

Jane Chinn Hospital

Webb City, MO

The Jane Chinn Hospital opened in March 1911 in Webb City, Missouri, funded by a $60,000 gift from Jane and Charles R. Chinn to provide medical care for the lead and zinc miners working the Tri-State district. The 33-bed hospital replaced an earlier Salvation Army hospital and operated for decades before its conversion to senior apartments.

$ All Ages Family: High

Mt. Hope Cemetery in Webb City, Missouri, with the large central angel statue on an elevated section of the grounds

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Cemetery / Burial Ground

Mt. Hope Cemetery

Webb City, MO

Mt. Hope Cemetery was incorporated on April 12, 1905, when eleven businessmen from Webb City and Joplin purchased 77 acres from Eliza Jane Webb Bigger for $11,500. The site was chosen for its elevation — it occupies the highest ground in Jasper County — and for its central location between the two cities. During the Civil War, the land had strategic value for the same reason. Eight of the nine prominent family mausoleums on the property were constructed between 1905 and 1918, during the golden age of private cemetery monuments.

$ All Ages Family: High

Arcadia — 1

Haunted Hotel / Inn

Arcadia Academy

Arcadia, MO

Arcadia Academy was founded in 1846 by Methodist circuit rider Jerome C. Berryman as a high school in Arcadia, Missouri, in the Iron County Ozarks. The campus served as a Union hospital during the Civil War (1861-1863). In 1877 the Ursuline Order purchased the property for $30,000 and operated it as a girls' school until the final graduating class in 1971. The nuns continued to run a daycare on site until 1991, when they held a public auction and relocated to St. Louis. The campus is now under private family ownership, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and operates as a bed-and-breakfast retaining its 19th-century structures.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Auxvasse — 1

A small concrete-and-gravel rural bridge over a wooded creek in Callaway County, Missouri, near Auxvasse

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Outdoor / Natural Site

Nine Mile Bridge

Auxvasse, MO

Nine Mile Bridge is a small rural bridge near Auxvasse in Callaway County, Missouri. No archival or county-level historical documentation accessed during research confirms a specific named event at the bridge; the site is documented primarily through folklore.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Berger — 1

Small-town bar building in Berger, Missouri, Franklin County, formerly Mac's Cafe

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Haunted Dining / Bar

Mac's Cafe (now Darlene's One Stop)

Berger, MO

Mac's Cafe was a bar in Berger, Missouri in Franklin County that later operated as Darlene's One Stop, a sports bar and grill. Regional sources suggest the establishment may have closed. The building was associated with an apartment above the bar where a man named Jack Schaefer is reported to have lived and died.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Blackwell — 1

Upper Blackwell Road and the Big River bridge crossing in St. Francois County, Missouri, at dusk

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Outdoor / Natural Site

Upper Blackwell Road & Black Tram Bridge

Blackwell, MO

Upper Blackwell Road is a 3.6-mile rural road in St. Francois County, Missouri, running from Highway E outside Bonne Terre to the small community of Blackwell on Big River. The Black Tram Bridge, a steel suspension bridge over Big River, was a long-standing landmark on the road before being demolished and replaced with a concrete structure. The road crosses territory with documented Native American history.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Boonville — 1

Pictures from the long abandonded Kemper Military School in Boonville, MO. The school shut down in 2002 and the grounds have sent empty since. The city of Boonville owns the property and the fields are used for soccer games and other activities, but the buildings sit falling down and apart. Mothe

Museum / Historical Site

Kemper Military School and College (Closed)

Boonville, MO

Kemper Military School and College in Boonville, Missouri was founded on June 3, 1844 by Frederick T. Kemper — the oldest military school west of the Mississippi River at the time of its founding. The 46-acre campus operated for 158 years before the institution filed for bankruptcy and closed on May 31, 2002. Notable alumni include Will Rogers, Hugh O'Brian, and multiple Medal of Honor recipients.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Burlington Junction — 1

The abandoned one-room Workman Chapel near Burlington Junction in Nodaway County, Missouri

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Other Dark Tourism Site

Workman Chapel

Burlington Junction, MO

Workman Chapel is a one-room country church built in 1901 by Pastor John Workman in rural Nodaway County, near Burlington Junction in northwest Missouri. Named for the Workman family rather than a fraternal order, the chapel and its adjoining cemetery have long since fallen out of use, and the structure has lost its steeple to decay. The Workman Chapel Cemetery holds more than 340 recorded burials.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Chillicothe — 1

Small rural family cemetery in Livingston County, Missouri

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Cemetery / Burial Ground

Slagle Cemetery

Chillicothe, MO

Slagle Cemetery is a small rural burial ground in Livingston County, Missouri, associated with Joseph Slagle, an early county settler who operated a mill on the property in the mid-nineteenth century. The companion Slagle Bridge has since been demolished.

$ All Ages Family: High

Crestwood — 1

Historic 19th-century gravestones at Sappington Cemetery in Crestwood, Missouri

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Cemetery / Burial Ground

Sappington Cemetery

Crestwood, MO

Sappington Cemetery in Crestwood is one of the oldest burial grounds in Missouri, established by the Sappington family in the early 19th century on land that was once a vast plantation. The cemetery is now owned and maintained by the City of Crestwood as a historic site.

$ All Ages Family: High

Creve Coeur — 1

Suburban Drury Plaza Hotel exterior on Olive Boulevard, Creve Coeur

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Haunted Hotel / Inn

Drury Plaza Hotel St. Louis Creve Coeur

Creve Coeur, MO

The Drury Plaza Hotel St. Louis Creve Coeur sits at 11980 Olive Boulevard near Interstate 270 in suburban St. Louis County. The property operates as part of the family-owned Drury Hotels chain founded in Missouri, offering the brand's standard amenities including free hot breakfast and evening Kickback service.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Davisville — 1

Stone staircase leading up the hillside to Woodlock Cemetery's circular enclosure, Davisville, Missouri

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Cemetery / Burial Ground

Woodlock Cemetery

Davisville, MO

Woodlock Cemetery was established by the Woodlock family, Irish immigrants who settled near Davisville, Missouri in the mid-1800s. Patrick and Henrietta Dawson Woodlock received the original homestead as a gift from Henrietta's father, William Dawson of St. James. The stonemason-built circular enclosure and the hilltop setting reflect the family's ambition and craft skill in the region.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Dixon — 1

A small rural family cemetery off a county road in Maries County, Missouri, with few surviving headstones

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Cemetery / Burial Ground

Wheeler Cemetery

Dixon, MO

Wheeler Cemetery (also known as Byrd Cemetery or Rumfelt Cemetery) is a small family burial ground off Highway DD in Maries County, Missouri, near Dixon. The earliest marked burial is that of Ella A. Wheeler in May 1917, and the cemetery is documented as being in poor condition on private land.

$ All Ages Family: High

Doniphan — 1

The angel-figure monument at Oak Ridge Cemetery in Doniphan, Missouri.

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Cemetery / Burial Ground

Oak Ridge Cemetery (Doniphan)

Doniphan, MO

Oak Ridge Cemetery in Doniphan, Missouri, serves the small Ripley County seat near the Arkansas border. Sometimes referred to as Doniphan Cemetery in local usage, it contains an angel-figure monument that has become the focal point of the cemetery's regional folklore.

$ All Ages Family: High

Eminence — 1

The red Alley Spring Roller Mill beside the spring at Alley Spring, Ozark National Scenic Riverways, near Eminence, Missouri.

Museum / Historical Site

Alley Spring Mill

Eminence, MO

Alley Spring Mill is an 1894 roller mill standing directly above one of the largest springs in the Missouri Ozarks. Built by George Washington McCaskill, the bright red mill anchored the small Alley community of farmers, dancers, and ballplayers who gathered for grain processing days. It is now preserved by the Ozark National Scenic Riverways and was featured on the 2017 America the Beautiful quarter.

$ All Ages Family: High

Jefferson City — 1

Prison / Reformatory

Missouri State Penitentiary

Jefferson City, MO

The Missouri State Penitentiary opened in 1836 as the first state penal institution west of the Mississippi River, operating continuously for 168 years before its 2004 closure. During its operation it housed as many as 5,000 inmates, conducted 40 executions in the gas chamber, and earned the epithet 'the bloodiest 47 acres in America' from a 20th-century magazine profile. The facility is now operated as a museum and tour venue by the Jefferson City Convention and Visitors Bureau.

$$ 13+ for ghost tours and hunts; 17+ for overnight investigations Family: Low

Kirksville — 1

Concrete Baird mourning chair sculpture in Highland Park Cemetery, Kirksville, Missouri

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Cemetery / Burial Ground

Highland Park Cemetery — Devil's Chair

Kirksville, MO

Highland Park Cemetery in Kirksville, Missouri holds a concrete chair sculpture installed around 1890–1891 as a memorial commissioned by William Baird, a prominent Kirksville banker, to honor deceased family members. Sculptors Charles Grassle and John C. Baird crafted the piece. The chair belongs to a 19th-century cemetery tradition of mourning chairs — resting places for visitors to contemplate alongside the dead.

$ All Ages Family: High

Liberty — 1

The restored Jacobethan Revival orphanage building at Belvoir Winery, formerly the Odd Fellows Home in Liberty, Missouri

Asylum / Hospital

Belvoir Winery (Former Odd Fellows Home)

Liberty, MO

The Independent Order of Odd Fellows established a 240-acre fraternal-care complex in Liberty, Missouri, that operated as an orphanage, nursing home, hospital, and school built in the Jacobethan Revival architectural style. The hospital, completed in 1951, served members of the fraternity, their widows, and their orphans. The site has since been restored and reopened as Belvoir Winery and Inn.

$$ 21+ for tasting room; All Ages for tours Family: Moderate

Marceline — 1

Mom's Restaurant storefront on North Kansas Avenue in Marceline, Missouri

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Haunted Dining / Bar

Mom's Restaurant

Marceline, MO

Mom's Restaurant at 116 North Kansas Avenue in Marceline, Missouri has operated for many years in Linn County. Marceline is best known as the childhood home of Walt Disney, who spent his early years in the town before his family moved to Kansas City. Mom's Restaurant has been a local institution associated with persistent reports of paranormal activity over an extended period.

$ All Ages Family: High

Maryland Heights — 1

View across Creve Coeur Lake in the St. Louis County park near Maryland Heights, Missouri

Outdoor / Natural Site

Creve Coeur Lake Memorial Park

Maryland Heights, MO

Creve Coeur Lake Memorial Park is a 2,145-acre St. Louis County park anchored by Creve Coeur Lake — one of Missouri's largest natural lakes, formed as an oxbow of the Missouri River. The park's name comes from French settlers, with French place-name lore predating American settlement and the legend of a heartbroken Indigenous woman attached secondarily.

$ All Ages Family: High

Milan — 1

Milan C-2 School District campus in Milan, Missouri

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Other Dark Tourism Site

Milan C-2 School District

Milan, MO

Milan, the county seat of Sullivan County, Missouri, sits on land with a pre-European occupation history that became visible during courthouse construction. Excavation for the second Sullivan County Courthouse in the 1850s disturbed a V-shaped earthen mound elevated approximately 15 feet, from which three Native American skeletal remains were recovered. Milan has been the county seat since Sullivan County's formation and the C-2 school district has served the community for generations.

$ All Ages Family: High

Millersburg — 1

Trail at Little Dixie Lake Conservation Area in Callaway County, Missouri, with oak canopy and lake visible

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Outdoor / Natural Site

Little Dixie Lake Conservation Area

Millersburg, MO

Little Dixie Lake Conservation Area in Callaway County, Missouri was acquired by the Missouri Department of Conservation in 1957. The 205-acre lake was created by damming Owl Creek, flooding land that had been agricultural for generations. The conservation area now covers 733 acres and supports more than 10 miles of trails as well as university fisheries research.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

New Haven — 1

The rural Boeuf Creek crossing on Enoch's Knob Road in Franklin County, Missouri, former site of the 1908 truss bridge

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Outdoor / Natural Site

Enoch's Knob Bridge (Site)

New Haven, MO

Enoch's Knob Bridge was a 185-foot Parker through-truss bridge built in 1908 by the Missouri Bridge and Iron Company, carrying a remote gravel road over Boeuf Creek in Franklin County, between Washington and New Haven, Missouri. Long a destination for ghost hunters across the Midwest, the deteriorating iron span was demolished in 2013 and replaced with a concrete structure.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Paris — 1

Union Covered Bridge spanning the Elk Fork of the Salt River near Paris, Missouri

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Outdoor / Natural Site

Union Covered Bridge State Historic Site

Paris, MO

Union Covered Bridge is an 1871 covered bridge spanning the Elk Fork of the Salt River near Paris in Monroe County, Missouri. Built by Joseph C. Elliott using a Burr-arch truss, it is the only example of that design among the four surviving covered bridges in the state. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1970 and is preserved as a Missouri State Historic Site.

$ All Ages Family: High

Patterson — 1

Rural community of Patterson, Missouri along Route 34, site of Civil War Union Fort Benton

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Battlefield / Military Site

Old Fort Benton / Old Patterson School Site

Patterson, MO

Patterson is an unincorporated community in northwest Wayne County, Missouri, approximately 7.5 miles east of Piedmont on Route 34. Union Fort Benton was constructed at Patterson in 1861 to anchor a string of fortifications protecting Union Missouri from Confederate Arkansas. The 1863 Battle of Patterson took place at the site.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Phillipsburg — 1

Lonesome Hill Cemetery on a hilltop in Phillipsburg Township, Laclede County, Missouri

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Cemetery / Burial Ground

Lonesome Hill Cemetery

Phillipsburg, MO

Lonesome Hill Cemetery occupies a hilltop site in Phillipsburg Township, Laclede County, Missouri, near Lebanon. The cemetery holds 39 recorded graves spanning from the mid-19th century into the modern era and has been documented in historical photographs dating to approximately 1905.

$ All Ages Family: High

Pilot Knob — 1

Earthwork remains of Fort Davidson with the powder-magazine crater and Pilot Knob hill in the background, Iron County, Missouri

Battlefield / Military Site

Battle of Pilot Knob State Historic Site (Fort Davidson)

Pilot Knob, MO

Fort Davidson was a hexagonal earthwork fortification built in 1863 at the base of Pilot Knob in Iron County, Missouri, to protect local iron deposits and the railroad. The September 27, 1864 Battle of Pilot Knob, fought as part of Confederate General Sterling Price's Missouri Expedition, saw outnumbered Union defenders repulse repeated assaults before detonating the powder magazine and slipping away overnight.

$ All Ages Family: High

Poplar Bluff — 1

The historic Beigley Building at Vine and Broadway in downtown Poplar Bluff, Missouri

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Other Dark Tourism Site

Overby's Furniture Store (Beigley Building / Hays the Music Store)

Poplar Bluff, MO

The building at 401 Vine Street in downtown Poplar Bluff - known as the Beigley Building and historically as Overby's Furniture Store, now Hays the Music Store - survived the catastrophic tornado of May 9, 1927 that killed roughly 100 people. In the storm's aftermath the building reportedly served as an emergency shelter and morgue, and local accounts say a temporary courtroom operated on an upper floor while the destroyed Butler County Courthouse was rebuilt.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Raytown — 1

A narrow wooded rural road with weathered chevron signs approaching a wooden bridge

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Outdoor / Natural Site

Rickey Road

Raytown, MO

Rickey Road is a short rural backroad in Raytown, Missouri, in the southeastern Kansas City metro. The road runs through wooded terrain off Old Noland Road and includes a wooden bridge and a series of chevron signs that anchor the local legend cycle.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Saint Louis — 1

Battlefield / Military Site

Fort Belle Fontaine

Saint Louis, MO

Fort Belle Fontaine was established in 1805 under Lt. Col. Jacob Kingsbury as the first U.S. military installation west of the Mississippi River. The grounds north of St. Louis include a grand limestone staircase built by the Works Progress Administration in 1936. The site was acquired by St. Louis County in 1986 and now operates as Fort Belle Fontaine Park.

$ All Ages Family: High

Sedalia — 1

20160711 22 Hotel Bothwell, Sedalia, Missouri

Haunted Hotel / Inn

Bothwell Hotel

Sedalia, MO

The Hotel Bothwell opened in 1927 in downtown Sedalia, Missouri, becoming a landmark hospitality establishment. The historic property has hosted notable guests including U.S. President Harry S. Truman, actress Bette Davis, and actor Clint Eastwood. The hotel continues operations as a Choice Hotels Ascend Collection property, maintaining its historic architecture while providing modern amenities.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Senath — 1

A rural ditch-bank bridge near Senath in Dunklin County, Missouri

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Outdoor / Natural Site

Crybaby Bridge (Senath)

Senath, MO

Crybaby Bridge is a small bridge on the ditch-bank roads near Senath in Dunklin County, deep in Missouri's Bootheel. It is one of dozens of 'crybaby bridge' sites across the United States and is locally paired with the 'Senath Light,' a roadside ghost-light legend that has drawn curiosity-seekers for decades and been covered by regional television news.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

St. James — 1

The gravel county road known as Spook Hollow Road winding through dense Ozark forest toward Pine Hill Cemetery, Phelps County, Missouri

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Cemetery / Burial Ground

Spook Hollow Road & Pine Hill Cemetery

St. James, MO

Pine Hill Cemetery is a small rural burial ground in Phelps County, Missouri, located at the end of County Road 3450 between Rolla and St. James. The road, formerly called Pine Hollow Road, earned the nickname Spook Hollow Road from generations of local teenagers who visited the isolated cemetery after dark. The cemetery dates to the 19th-century settlement of the Phelps County hill country.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Ste. Genevieve — 1

Open Graph image from historicstegen.org

Other Dark Tourism Site

Downtown Ste. Genevieve

Ste. Genevieve, MO

Ste. Genevieve is the oldest permanent European settlement in Missouri, established between 1735 and 1750 by French Canadian colonists drawn to the fertile agricultural plain known as Le Grand Champ. The town preserves the largest concentration of French colonial vertical-log architecture in North America and became the 422nd National Park in October 2020.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Sullivan — 1

Other Dark Tourism Site

Sullivan, Missouri

Sullivan, MO

Sullivan, Missouri is a city of approximately 7,000 in Franklin County along historic Route 66, situated between St. Louis and the Missouri Ozarks. Rather than a single venue, the Shadowlands listing for 'Sullivan' reflects a cluster of distinct regional sites: Woodlock Cemetery in nearby Davisville with its unusual circular headstone arrangement and reported phantom horse; the Bourbon Road Ghost Lights, floating orbs documented since the early 1960s; the former Ramada Inn (now Holiday Inn) tied to the legend of a girl named Aggie; and the Possum Hollow Road bridge connected to a reported fatal accident.

$ All Ages Family: High

Valle Mines — 1

Entrance to the 240-foot M.R. & B.T. Railroad tunnel at Valle Mines, Missouri, showing the stone portal and surrounding hillside

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Museum / Historical Site

Tunnel Bill's — Valle Mines Railroad Tunnel

Valle Mines, MO

Valle Mines (Valles Mines) is one of Missouri's oldest European settlements, founded by French colonist Francois Valle around 1749 and developed into a major lead-mining center through the 1800s. In 1890 the Mississippi River & Bonne Terre Railway blasted a 240-foot tunnel through solid rock to service the mines, creating the community known as Tunnel Town. After lead demand collapsed following World War I, the settlement was largely abandoned.

$ All Ages Family: High

Verdella — 1

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Cemetery / Burial Ground

Bluff Cemetery

Verdella, MO

Bluff Cemetery is a historic cemetery in Missouri serving the local community.

$ All Ages Family: High

Verona — 1

Rural Lees Cemetery near Verona, Missouri along a country road

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Cemetery / Burial Ground

Lees Cemetery

Verona, MO

Lees Cemetery is a small rural burial ground near Verona in Lawrence County, Missouri. No significant historical events beyond its use as a community cemetery have been documented in available sources. The cemetery appears on regional paranormal listings primarily because of the phantom truck legend rather than any documented historical trauma.

$ All Ages Family: High

Washington — 1

Haunted Hotel / Inn

Thias House

Washington, MO

The Thias House at 304 Elm Street in Washington, Missouri was built in 1888 by Henry Thias as a three-story Victorian intended to be 'an ornament to the city.' The house is on the National Register of Historic Places in Missouri. It has operated at various times as a restaurant and bed and breakfast, although some sources indicate those operations are no longer active.

$ All Ages Family: High

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