Arkansas

A haunted location: The Poet’s Loft in Hot Springs, Arkansas.

Details: A former worker, and one of the people who helped run the place told this story.

It was on a Wednesday before the regular poetry reading.

A woman was awake on a couch, but she couldn’t get her eyes to open completely.

With her blurred vision, she thought she saw her friend walk into the kitchen.

The woman asked a man sitting in a chair near her if there was anyone else in the room.

The man told her that everyone was in the kitchen.

A haunted location: Old High Middle School in Bentonville, Arkansas.

Details: There was a little girl seen walking down the hall without a hall pass, so this boy went and told the principal.

He went and inspected the hall, and the little girl was skipping down the hall, running her finger against the lockers.

It was found out that this same girl was hung by her friend in the year 1950.

The sighting occurred in 2005.

A haunted location: Arkansas State University in Jonesboro, Arkansas.

Details: Wilson Hall – People say that at night a ghost comes out in this hall.

When it first opened, a girl died from an error in the construction of the stairs.

The stairs collapsed.

It is said that she roams the halls, making sure the building is safe.

A haunted location: Monroe County Courthouse in Clarendon, Arkansas.

Details: Early in 1893, an opera/comedy group led by John Orr and his young wife Ernze Mabel Orr came to Clarendon to perform at the local Opera House.

After performing there, the Orrs decided to make Clarendon their home.

John Orr and his wife lived in a house with several black caretakers in the back.

John Orr abused his wife and one of the hands helped Mabel concoct a “hoodoo” to kill him.

It didn’t work, and the abuse continued.

A haunted location: Westmark Hotel in Fairbanks, Arkansas.

Details: Room 277 – There is a ghost of what is probably a large man.

The ghost was active mostly at night.

He has been known to push lightly on the bed and poke people on the shoulder.

One person had heard something on the floor, like a person running his finger along the carpet.

There were other small noises that could not be explained.

There was no one staying in the next room that could have made any sounds either.

A haunted location: Nettleton High School Gym/ Band Room in Jonesboro, Arkansas.

Details: The band keeps their instruments in a room under the bleachers.

One day, three friends were putting their instruments up.

It was too early in the morning for anyone to be out in the gym.

It was supposed to be locked, and the janitor had finished cleaning.

When they put up the instruments, they heard a blood-curdling scream.

They ran from the band room to the gym.

It was locked.

Nothing could get in, unless it was something hard to explain.

A haunted location: Bono Bridge in Bono, Arkansas.

Details: If you stand on the bridge and look down the railroad tracks underneath it, the train supposedly looks as if it is about to hit you before it goes under the bridge.

Also, there are many rumors of satanic rituals being preformed there, spawning apparitions and unknown noises at night.

A haunted location: North Pulaski High School in Jacksonville, Arkansas.

Details: The Band Room is haunted by two band students that had passed away years ago.

The doors open by themselves and random percussion instruments, especially the wind chimes are heard, although no one is playing them.

A haunted location: North Little Rock High School in North Little Rock, Arkansas.

Details: West Campus/Ole Main – Auditorium – If you stand on the stage in the auditorium and look up into the lighting area used by technical theatre students, you sometimes can see a faint outline of what appears to be a young female, walking very quickly back and forth.