Post by Jana on Oct 8, 2004 12:47:56 GMT -5
Do any of you have haunted places in your town? If your not sure check out this website:
www.theshadowlands.net/places/
Here are the ones that are listed for my town:
Poplar Bluff - Overby's Furniture Store - It is said a ghost haunts the fourth floor of the old Overby's Furniture store (now a music store) at the corner of Vine and Broadway. According to accounts after the tornado of 1927 the Butler County Courthouse was destroyed and a temporary courtroom was established on the fourth floor of the building. It is rumored a woman in the jail cells in back of the same floor hanged herself and still walks that floor.
This one I don't know about I've never seen or heard anything about it.
Poplar Bluff - Railroad Tracks - Eye witness reports of an apparition of a beautiful girl with long brown flowing hair was walking toward them wearing a long white sleeveless wedding dress and carrying a water bucket, she is said to have looked part Indian. When she passed him she bumped him and spilt water down his leg. He turned around to ask her what she was doing out late at night but she was gone. He knew it was a ghost and hurried home to show his wife that his clothes were wet and told her not to repeat the story. It issaid it was the Spirit of Charity takeing a drink of water to the thirsty, that others had seen her with a bible.
This one I've not seen but I know several people that have!
Poplar Bluff - Wilcox Rd. Railroad Tracks - Once you turn on Wilcox road, after about 1/4 of a mile the road will fork and you need to go left at the fork. The road is curvy and paved, but after a few miles it turns into gravel. Once the road turns to gravel go forward for about another mile till you come to a railroad crossing. Most people do this at midnight, but people have reported seeing spirits as early as 10 pm. The story goes that in the early 1900's a train de-railed killing most of it's passengers. But many odd things turned up once they began to investigate the wreck. A few things were that a woman had been pregnant when she was killed in the wreck and once they found her, the baby was missing out of her womb. Another man had become decapitated during the wreck and the police could never find his head. So once you get to the railroad track you pull onto the tracks and shut off your car. Your windows start to fog up very quickly and you can hear a train whistle in the background, it gets louder...then stops. You will often also see a light when you look down the train tracks. While sitting in the car you will hear something tap on your window and if your brave enough to look outside a woman will be standing there asking you where her baby is. And for the extremely brave, if you decide to get out of you car you will see a decapitated man in the ditch searching for his head, many people have saw this (including myself).
This one I know! The light is definitely there! Me and friends of mine, Kristi included I believe, have gone out there and watched the light. My sister when she was a teen, a bunch of her friends and her walked all the way through the field and never came upon the light. Rational people claim that it is just a light at the train station but so far no one has proved that. The foged up windows and the whistle, that has happened to me too! The woman I haven't seen but my dad and a couple of his friends did one night when they were out there setting up a haunted house type thing. The guy looking for his head, I'm not sure about. Me and some friends saw what looked like a guy walking down the track holding an old lantern but he was kind of far away. Also, if you sit on the tracks with your window down you will start to hear what sounds like people chanting something over and over. I can't remember now what it is, maybe Kristi will remember.
Poplar Bluff - Woodlawn Cemetery - A mans voice yelling about midnight in the summertime. "What do you want, Who are you looking for?" It's so loud it sounds like a loud speaker, then lots of voices can be heard whispering at the same time, it sounds like a crowded room full of people.
Ok this one is bogus. I grew up living next to the cemetary. If you hear anyone out there it is normally kids playing around. We used to go in the cemetary at night and play hide and seek and I know my nephews and nieces still do it today. Plus there are several families that will go there late at night and listen to the radio and kind of party at their loved ones grave. The part about sounding like a crowd of people is bs. I sit out on my parents back porch sometimes late at night which is right at the cemetary and you don't hear anything unless there are kids playing around.
www.theshadowlands.net/places/
Here are the ones that are listed for my town:
Poplar Bluff - Overby's Furniture Store - It is said a ghost haunts the fourth floor of the old Overby's Furniture store (now a music store) at the corner of Vine and Broadway. According to accounts after the tornado of 1927 the Butler County Courthouse was destroyed and a temporary courtroom was established on the fourth floor of the building. It is rumored a woman in the jail cells in back of the same floor hanged herself and still walks that floor.
This one I don't know about I've never seen or heard anything about it.
Poplar Bluff - Railroad Tracks - Eye witness reports of an apparition of a beautiful girl with long brown flowing hair was walking toward them wearing a long white sleeveless wedding dress and carrying a water bucket, she is said to have looked part Indian. When she passed him she bumped him and spilt water down his leg. He turned around to ask her what she was doing out late at night but she was gone. He knew it was a ghost and hurried home to show his wife that his clothes were wet and told her not to repeat the story. It issaid it was the Spirit of Charity takeing a drink of water to the thirsty, that others had seen her with a bible.
This one I've not seen but I know several people that have!
Poplar Bluff - Wilcox Rd. Railroad Tracks - Once you turn on Wilcox road, after about 1/4 of a mile the road will fork and you need to go left at the fork. The road is curvy and paved, but after a few miles it turns into gravel. Once the road turns to gravel go forward for about another mile till you come to a railroad crossing. Most people do this at midnight, but people have reported seeing spirits as early as 10 pm. The story goes that in the early 1900's a train de-railed killing most of it's passengers. But many odd things turned up once they began to investigate the wreck. A few things were that a woman had been pregnant when she was killed in the wreck and once they found her, the baby was missing out of her womb. Another man had become decapitated during the wreck and the police could never find his head. So once you get to the railroad track you pull onto the tracks and shut off your car. Your windows start to fog up very quickly and you can hear a train whistle in the background, it gets louder...then stops. You will often also see a light when you look down the train tracks. While sitting in the car you will hear something tap on your window and if your brave enough to look outside a woman will be standing there asking you where her baby is. And for the extremely brave, if you decide to get out of you car you will see a decapitated man in the ditch searching for his head, many people have saw this (including myself).
This one I know! The light is definitely there! Me and friends of mine, Kristi included I believe, have gone out there and watched the light. My sister when she was a teen, a bunch of her friends and her walked all the way through the field and never came upon the light. Rational people claim that it is just a light at the train station but so far no one has proved that. The foged up windows and the whistle, that has happened to me too! The woman I haven't seen but my dad and a couple of his friends did one night when they were out there setting up a haunted house type thing. The guy looking for his head, I'm not sure about. Me and some friends saw what looked like a guy walking down the track holding an old lantern but he was kind of far away. Also, if you sit on the tracks with your window down you will start to hear what sounds like people chanting something over and over. I can't remember now what it is, maybe Kristi will remember.
Poplar Bluff - Woodlawn Cemetery - A mans voice yelling about midnight in the summertime. "What do you want, Who are you looking for?" It's so loud it sounds like a loud speaker, then lots of voices can be heard whispering at the same time, it sounds like a crowded room full of people.
Ok this one is bogus. I grew up living next to the cemetary. If you hear anyone out there it is normally kids playing around. We used to go in the cemetary at night and play hide and seek and I know my nephews and nieces still do it today. Plus there are several families that will go there late at night and listen to the radio and kind of party at their loved ones grave. The part about sounding like a crowd of people is bs. I sit out on my parents back porch sometimes late at night which is right at the cemetary and you don't hear anything unless there are kids playing around.
