The Most Haunted Places in Oklahoma

Ranked

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   1. Constantine Theater Pawhuska · Theater / Performance Venue · Family Comfort: High

   This Pawhuska building opened as the Pawhuska House hotel in the 1880s before C.C. Constantine remodeled it into a Greek Revival opera house that opened in 1914; it ran as the Kihekah theater until closing in 1974, restored and listed as historic in 1986. Restoration workers in the 1980s first reported Sappho Constantine, the owner's daughter, describing footsteps and a backstage apparition. Staff describe a presence, sighs, and a door sound repeating three times.

   6 original accounts · documented across 2 decades, 1980-2009 · retold in 5 later publications

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   2. Belvidere Mansion Claremore · Haunted House / Historic Home · Family Comfort: Moderate

   HauntBound identified four distinct published accounts at this historic home, across three kinds of published source. Four later publications retell those accounts. Reported phenomena include apparitions and disembodied voices.

   4 original accounts · documented across 10 decades, 1904-2025 · retold in 4 later publications

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   3. Fort Sill (Geronimo's Grave & Apache Cemeteries) Lawton · Cemetery / Burial Ground · Family Comfort: Moderate

   HauntBound identified five distinct published accounts at this burial ground, across four kinds of published source. Reported phenomena include apparitions and disembodied voices.

   5 original accounts · documented across 3 decades, 1980-2023

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   4. Brady Theatre Tulsa · Theater / Performance Venue · Family Comfort: High

   HauntBound identified two distinct published accounts at this working theater, across three kinds of published source. Four later publications retell those accounts. Reported phenomena include apparitions and disembodied voices.

   2 original accounts · documented across 2 decades, 1920-2004 · retold in 4 later publications

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   5. Fort Washita Historic Site Durant · Battlefield / Military Site · Family Comfort: Moderate

   HauntBound identified two distinct published accounts at this military site. Four later publications retell those accounts. Reported phenomena include apparitions and cold spots.

   2 original accounts · documented in 1861 · retold in 4 later publications

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   6. Skirvin Hilton Hotel Oklahoma City · Haunted Hotel / Inn · Family Comfort: High

   HauntBound identified five distinct published accounts at this working hotel, across three kinds of published source. Six later publications retell those accounts. Reported phenomena include cold spots and objects moving.

   5 original accounts · documented across 1 decade, 2010-2014 · retold in 6 later publications

7. 7. Tulsa Little Theatre (Delaware Playhouse) Tulsa · Theater / Performance Venue · Family Comfort: Moderate

   Tulsa Little Theatre, organized in 1922, completed its home at 15th and South Delaware in 1932 and served as Tulsa's community-theater hub for decades. Staff describe two spirits: George, a producer-director said to have died of a heart attack during rehearsal, and Sarah, a dancer said to have been struck and killed by a car after a recital. Witnesses report balls of light near the stage curtain, apparitions behind actors, and unseen touches backstage.

   3 original accounts · documented in 2009 · retold in 1 later publication

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   8. Coleman Theatre Miami · Theater / Performance Venue · Family Comfort: High

   HauntBound identified three distinct published accounts at this working theater, across four kinds of published source. Two later publications retell those accounts. Reported phenomena include phantom smells.

   3 original accounts · documented in 2023 · retold in 2 later publications

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   9. Cain's Ballroom Tulsa · Other Dark Tourism Site · Family Comfort: Moderate

   HauntBound identified three distinct published accounts at this documented site, across three kinds of published source. Seven later publications retell those accounts. Reported phenomena include a sensed presence and apparitions.

   3 original accounts · documented across 1 decade, 2006-2007 · retold in 7 later publications

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    10. Henry & Anna Overholser Mansion Oklahoma City · Haunted House / Historic Home · Family Comfort: High

    Henry and Anna Overholser built this Chateauesque mansion in 1903, considered Oklahoma City's first mansion; Anna lived there until her death in 1940, and the home opened as a museum in the 1970s. Staff and visitors describe a woman in a gown glimpsed in the upper hallways or at the third-floor turret windows, believed to be Anna, along with footsteps, a piano note with no one at the keys, and cold drafts in the bedroom.

    3 original accounts · retold in 2 later publications

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