Minnesota

A haunted location: The State Capitol in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Details: It has been said that late at night Capitol employees have sited old senators and governors from the 1800s pacing the hallways and walking up and down staircases.

A haunted location: Cottage Grove Historical Cemetery in Cottage Grove, Minnesota.

Details: Many spirits in this cemetery, one seen in the window of the storage shed, and also smells of perfume in certain areas.

A haunted location: St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota.

Details: Thorson Hall – there have been sightings of the “Red Hat Boy” believed to possibly be the ghost of a student who died, not on campus, but while he attended St.

Olaf and lived in that dorm.

What is believed to be the boy’s dog has also been seen with him and roaming around campus by itself.

He also appears in a certain room, one that is assumed was his.

A haunted location: The University Of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Details: Washington Avenue Bridge – The Washington Avenue Bridge connects the east bank from the west bank which house separate portions of campus.

There have been several suicides off of the bridge into the Mississippi river below, most often by students.

Late at night if you walk through the tunnel you can sometimes hear footsteps following you.

If you turn around they will stop, and then continue again when you start to move.

A haunted location: Montgomery Golf Club in Montgomery, Minnesota.

Details: Haunted by at least two ghosts.

One of the ghosts is reported to be the ghost of the farmer that used to live on the current golf club grounds and is actually buried on the first hole.

He will watch the clubhouse from various locations on the course as the employees lock up at night wearing a hat and overalls.

The second ghost is of one of the Golf Club founders.

A haunted location: Chanhassen Dinner Theater in Chanhassen, Minnesota.

Details: This theater was built over the site of a house that burnt down with a woman still inside.

She is said to haunt the new structure.

There is another ghost here of an actor who was hit by a car when she was bicycling home from work.

Her spirit has been spotted backstage.

– March 2008 update: According to Chanhassen Dinner Theatre AND the Carver County Historical Society – there isn’t now and never was a haunting.

A haunted location: St. Cloud State University in St. Cloud, Minnesota.

Details: Shoemaker Hall – In the early 1900’s a student at the St.

Cloud Normal School had an affair with a janitor at Shoemaker Hall, which was the dormitory for the students.

She became pregnant and hung herself in the meat locker of the kitchen(now the basement).

A haunted location: Dead Mans Pond in Cottage Grove, Minnesota.

Details: It is said that a little boy was pulled under the water and drowned.

To this day the ducks will sit at the edge of the water but will not go near the middle.

And if you look closely you can see bubbles rise up from the middle of the pond.

A haunted location: Old Broadway Restaurant in Alexandria, Minnesota.

Details: Old Broadway was once a brothel and a morgue.

It is now a restaurant.

Patrons and staff have reported that they witnessed an old woman walking upstairs during the evenings.

She has also been seen in the mirrors as staff cleaned off the tables.

The old woman is believed to be friendly.

A haunted location: Central Middle School in White Bear Lake, Minnesota.

Details: Students say they have seen a girl ghost walking in and out of the girls bathroom stall.

And when you turn on the girl’s bathroom sinks you here a girl screaming.