35 haunted destinations cataloged across Nebraska, spanning 22 counties. The collection features museum, outdoor, and cemetery — every listing verified with family ratings, accessibility info, and practical visit logistics.
Omaha, NE
Nate Raterman began collecting objects he believed were haunted in 2006, later building the collection with his wife Kaleigh into the Museum of Shadows. After operating at earlier Omaha-area addresses, including a stint in downtown Plattsmouth, the museum settled in June 2020 into the historic Christian Specht Building at 1110 Douglas Street in Omaha's Old Market district, its current location.
Crofton, NE
The Historic Argo Hotel opened in 1912 in Crofton, Nebraska, built by local businessman Nick Michaelis to serve passengers of the booming railroad town. The brick building briefly operated as a sanitarium during the 1930s through 1950s before falling into disuse. It was restored in 1994 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.
Aerial survey · USDA NAIPSpringfield, NE
Ball Cemetery is a small rural cemetery in Sarpy County, Nebraska, dating to 1869 and originally serving the Ball family and other early Springfield-area settlers. The cemetery is the burial site of William H. Liddiard — Rattlesnake Pete of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show — and a number of additional 19th-century pioneer interments.
North Platte, NE
The Neville Center for the Performing Arts is a 1929 movie palace at 401 N Jeffers Street in North Platte, Nebraska. Originally the Fox Theater, designed by F. A. Henninger for the North Platte Realty Company headed by Keith Neville and Alex Beck, it opened on November 24, 1929 as the first Nebraska theater built to Fox's design standards for sound films. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985 and donated to the North Platte Community Playhouse in 1980.
Kearney, NE
The Trails & Rails Museum in Kearney is the Buffalo County Historical Society's open-air history complex, made up of roughly a dozen relocated historic buildings. Its centerpiece is the Loup River Freighter Hotel, built in 1884 as a stagecoach and freight-line lodging house, alongside a Union Pacific–era depot moved from Shelton, a one-room schoolhouse, a log cabin, and a country church.
Aerial survey · USDA NAIPFremont, NE
Barnard Park occupies a city block on Military Avenue in Fremont, Nebraska, layered with two significant histories. Brigham Young and the vanguard company of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints camped here on April 16, 1847; the park later sat atop the city's first municipal cemetery, which was relocated in the 1880s with some burials reportedly left in place.
Omaha, NE
Brother Sebastian's Steakhouse & Winery opened in 1977 as a fine dining establishment in Omaha, Nebraska. The restaurant operates as a locally owned business featuring USDA Choice Prime Rib and over 150 wine selections. The distinctive architectural design incorporates monk-themed decor elements and atmospheric interior spaces.
Omaha, NE
Hummel Park was developed on 202 acres donated to the City of Omaha in 1930 and named after Joseph B. Hummel, long-time superintendent of Omaha's Parks and Recreation Department. The site has a documented history of violent crime stretching back to 1933, including a 1992 kidnapping and murder of a high school student and the 2006 discovery of a missing 12-year-old's body. Before city acquisition, the property was part of Joshua Brown's family farm and historically adjoined Cabanne's Trading Post site.
Omaha, NE
Ollie the Trolley is Omaha's longtime trolley and charter company, operating since 1985, whose seasonal Haunted Cemetery Tour narrates the city's early-20th-century era as a 'Wicked Little City' of gangsters and brothels through stops at historic cemeteries and mansions.
Omaha, NE
Prospect Hill Cemetery in North Omaha was established in 1858 and is the oldest formally established cemetery in the city of Omaha. The grounds hold the remains of many of Omaha's territorial-era pioneers and have been documented as a focus of local ghost lore since at least 1874.
Omaha, NE
US Ghost Adventures operates its Omaha program under the local brand Omaha Ghosts, running a nightly downtown walking tour covering the Museum of Shadows, O'Connor's Pub, and Hummel Park.
Lincoln, NE
Antelope Park takes its name from Antelope Creek, which runs through central Lincoln. Its core dates to 1905, when the Lincoln Water Department bought the 40-acre Sager tract for well sites and set the leftover land aside as parkland. William Jennings Bryan donated 10 acres in 1907, Omaha banker W.T. Auld added two more tracts around 1915, and the city bought the adjoining Lincoln Auto Club campground in 1920.
Aerial survey · USDA NAIPLincoln, NE
Rudge Memorial Park in Lincoln, Nebraska occupies the site of a former dairy farm that was converted to a skating rink, and later drained to become the deep grassy park visible today. Charles Rudge, who funded the park's renovation, died unexpectedly of blood poisoning. The site is sometimes called Lake Street Lake for the body of water that once filled the depression.
Lincoln, NE
Nebraska Wesleyan University in Lincoln, Nebraska was founded in 1887 by Methodist leaders and grew into a liberal arts institution. The campus's paranormal reputation centers on Clara Urania Mills, a music professor and department chair who taught piano, music theory, and music history at the university for 28 years before dying of a heart attack at her desk on April 12, 1940.
Lincoln, NE
US Ghost Adventures operates its standardized nightly walking-tour format in Lincoln, Nebraska under the consumer-facing brand Lincoln Ghosts, meeting at the Thomas P. Kennard Historic Site.
Aerial survey · USDA NAIPBellevue, NE
Jewell Park in Bellevue, Nebraska takes its name from Arthur Jewell, a farmer-turned-developer who created the park around 1908 by platting his 160-acre farm around a natural wooded grove. In 1917, residents successfully sued to preserve the park as permanent public green space. The site hosted horse shows and regional rodeos — including Bellevue's 'Arrows to Aerospace' event — and served as the final regular-season venue for the Mid-States Rodeo Association in 1985.
Bellevue, NE
Bellevue, Nebraska's oldest settlement, began its public library tradition in 1929 with twelve donated books in a private residence; the collection moved through the Presbyterian Church, the county courthouse, and two buildings at Washington Park before the John Rice Memorial Library opened in September 1975. The library has served the Sarpy County community continuously since then, named for John Rice, a figure in mid-century Bellevue civic life.
Brownville, NE
The Captain Bailey House at 404 Main Street in Brownville, Nebraska, was built near the Missouri River before the shifting channel threatened the structure. In 1877, the house was disassembled brick by brick and rebuilt at its current location on Main Street. Captain Bailey was a Civil War officer; the house is now operated as a museum by the Brownville Historical Society, open mid-May through mid-October.
Brownville, NE
The Captain Meriwether Lewis is a side-wheel steam dredge built for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, launched in 1931 to channel the Missouri River. Retired in 1969, it was given to the Nebraska State Historical Society, moved to Brownville, and reopened as a museum. It is a National Historic Landmark.
Hastings, NE
The Hastings Regional Center opened in 1889 on 160 acres west of Hastings as Nebraska's Hospital for the Incurably Insane. Renamed several times — Asylum for the Chronic Insane (1895), Nebraska State Hospital (1905), Ingleside Hospital for the Insane (1915), and later Hastings State Hospital — it housed patients considered chronically or incurably ill. The state closed the center in 2019, and since 2020 most of the campus, including the landmark Building 3, has been demolished.
Aerial survey · USDA NAIPHastings, NE
The Hastings Regional Center was established in 1887 as Nebraska's 'Hospital for the Incurably Insane.' Admission records from its early decades list reasons including 'domestic trouble,' 'masturbation,' and 'overwork.' The facility used insulin shock therapy, fever therapy, and electroshock through the 1930s and 1940s. Over 1,400 patients who died at the institution were buried in Ingleside Cemetery with numbered markers only — the last burial was in 1959. Following a 2009 court ruling, the Adams County Historical Society obtained the list linking numbers to names.
Aerial survey · USDA NAIPNebraska City, NE
Seven Sisters Road is the popular name for a stretch of hilly rural road — designated L Road today — located roughly five miles southeast of Nebraska City in Otoe County. It is the setting of one of Nebraska's best-known ghost legends. No historical or police records have ever been found to substantiate the legend's central murders; the road itself was built years after the events the story describes.
Nebraska City, NE
Wildwood is a ten-room brick house built in 1869 in Nebraska City for the family of Jasper and Ellen Ware. It has operated for decades as a docent-guided historic house museum, preserved with period furnishings and set within Steinhart Park.
North Platte, NE
Buffalo Bill Cody's Second Empire-style mansion was constructed in 1886 at Scout's Rest Ranch near North Platte, Nebraska. The house was the largest residential structure in North Platte at the time of its construction. Cody lived there until 1913, using the property as a base during gaps in his Wild West show touring schedule. The property was acquired by the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission in 1964 and opened to the public as Buffalo Bill Ranch State Historical Park.
Aerial survey · USDA NAIPNorth Platte, NE
Dodge Hill Road is a rural road near North Platte, Nebraska, in Lincoln County, locally known for sledding in winter and for a small adjacent cemetery. The road has documented fatal crashes attributed to its sheer drops and winding curves. We did not surface formal historical records for the cemetery itself through general web search.
Alliance, NE
The building at 410 Box Butte Avenue started as the 1903 Preston/Charter Hotel and became a movie house in 1910. It was rebuilt as the New Imperial Theatre in 1914, expanded with a Wurlitzer organ in 1919, bought by Fox West Coast in 1929, and given its current Streamline Moderne face in a 1937 remodel that reopened it as the Fox Alliance Theatre.
Beatrice, NE
The Gage County Historical Society Museum occupies the former Burlington Railroad passenger depot in Beatrice, built in 1906 at 2nd and Court streets. It was among the first Neo-Classical Revival stations on the Burlington line and now houses the county's history collections.
Chadron, NE
The Olde Main Street Inn, originally the Hotel Chadron, opened on August 8, 1890, in Chadron, Nebraska. Built in the Italianate style by the O'Hanlon family, it is best known historically as the headquarters of General Nelson A. Miles when he arrived to investigate the Wounded Knee Massacre the day after it occurred. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.
Crawford, NE
Fort Robinson was established in 1874 near the Red Cloud Agency in northwest Nebraska. The Lakota leader Crazy Horse was fatally wounded there in September 1877, and in January 1879 the Northern Cheyenne under Morning Star (Dull Knife) broke out of confinement, an escape that ended with many killed. The post is now a Nebraska state park.
Aerial survey · USDA NAIPGeneva, NE
Smitty's Curve is the local name for a curvy rural road with two bridges just outside Geneva, in Fillmore County, Nebraska. It has been called the most haunted road in the state by regional outlets. The legend centers on a young man known only as 'Smitty' who is said to have crashed his car at the curve and died after crawling to a nearby barn for help.
Norfolk, NE
Verges Cave is a concrete-lined cave dug around 1933 on the former site of the Norfolk Brick and Tile Company, which operated from 1888 to 1907. The Verges family used the cave for gatherings, and it later became a museum-managed local attraction.
Ogallala, NE
Boot Hill Cemetery in Ogallala, Nebraska developed during the lawless Texas Trail era of the 1870s, when rough cowhands and criminals flooded the community. The cemetery contains at least 48 documented graves from the era before its abandonment in 1885. The name derives from the custom of burying cowboys with their boots on. The site was restored in the 1960s with new wooden markers replacing original stones.
Seward, NE
Concordia University Nebraska was established in Seward in 1894 by the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod on 85 acres originally offered by four founding families. David Hall, built in the 1970s as a student dormitory, was constructed after the discovery of 18th-century Native American human remains underground. The remains were recovered and removed before construction proceeded, per an agreement with city authorities.
Sidney, NE
The Fort Sidney Post Commander's Home is an 1871 residence built for the commanding officer of Fort Sidney, a U.S. Army post established in 1867 (originally Sidney Barracks) to protect Union Pacific Railroad workers and travelers. The home and surrounding fort buildings are listed on the National Register of Historic Places and are preserved as a museum by the Cheyenne County Historical Association.
Valentine, NE
Centennial Hall was built in 1897 in Valentine and is reputed to be the oldest standing high-school building in Nebraska. It now operates as a Cherry County historical museum.