Everyone loves a good story. That’s what makes authors like Stephen King, Bentley Little and Robert R. McCammon so popular. Arkansas has more than a few stories of its ghost stories. At the same time rural and urban, and once on the frontier of America and the site of the Civil Wars, Arkansas has a rich History that the state It makes the source of the action fugitive.
We continue our “Haunted States of America” tour in Arkansas. The state Natural Home Remedies to 2,673,400 people, and some restless spirits. If you’re in Arkansas, here are 10 haunted places to visit.
1. ARKADELPHIA: Henderson State University
While at this Methodist college, as a young man he fell in love with a girl from Ouachita Baptist University. The two schools are just across the street from each other. The boy’s friends convinced him that the relationship was useless because of different schools and religions, so he stopped seeing her. When the girl found out that she was taking someone else to her homecoming dance she realized her death. Now, every year he returns for a week, his shadowy form returns to the women’s dorms in Henderson City, looking for the girl who won his only love. The students here call her “The Black Lady.”
2. EUREKA SPRING: Crescent Hotel
A room in this haunted hotel is haunted by the shadow of Michael, an Irish stonemason who worked at the hotel when it was being built in 1885, a man fell from the roof and in the second floor, which was made in room 218. Now he plays with lamps and TV, or large pounds from inside the thick walls in the room. There are also other spirits here. The ghost of a nurse in dressed in white was reported on the third floor. A man in Victorian dress walks down the hall. He was spotted at the bottom of the stairs and sitting at the lobby bar. Other apparitions were seen in Rooms 202 and 424. Built in the early 1880s, the hotel was used as a boarding school in the 1920s and became a somewhat controversial hospital/sanitary in the late 1930s. The confused ghost of Dr. Baker, a charlatan who ran the hospital in the 1930s, has been seen in the old recovery room and under the floor of the first level.
3. HARRISON: Crooked Creek
This estuary is overshadowed by the ghost of a woman who appeared here on November 21, 1912. The body of Ella Barham was found cut into seven pieces in the doorway of an old shaft. A man named Odus Davidson was hanged for murder, but that did not seem to appease Ella’s restless spirit. estuary eighteen miles from Harrison near Killebrew Ford on Pleasant Ridge.
4. HOLLYGROVE: Governor of the House of Mulls
This house was originally St. St. Petersburg, Florida, but was moved to Hollygrove by sea captain. He lived there with a Native girl whom he loved very much. When she died, he had her body stored and sealed in a glass case, which he kept in the house. After her death in 1935, the girl was buried in the local cemetery. Sometimes the sounds of a Native American woman playing the harp can be heard coming from the abandoned house and many local residents. believe the place with a troubled mind. Governor Mulls House is currently a private residence, so permission must be obtained from the current owners before entering the premises.
5. ROCK: Route 365
Several versions of the “Vanishing Hitchhiker” urban legends arise on the streets between Little Rock and the surrounding communities. Someone picks girls hitchhiking, usually on a rainy night, and takes the driver home where he wants the girls to go out and disappears. A stunned driver knocks on the door of the residence only to be told that the ghost of the owner’s daughter has returned on the anniversary of her death. The girl died in a car wreck at the spot where the driver picked her up. US Highway 64 north of Arrow City is at the intersection of another Ghost Road, but this one has the same name. Laura Starr Latta died a month before her twentieth birthday in an accident on the old road in 1899. The area along Highway 365 is shaded from Saxo to Woodsen, and from Redfield to Pine Bluff. Area on US Route 64 runs from Conway to Morrilton.
6. STONE: Old City House
Here the violent passions of the years created a lasting spirit. The apparition of a man dressed in a short coat on the second floor of the Central Hall down the aisles. John Wilson is considered the first speaker of the household. In 1837, after many discussions with Representative Anthony, Wilson fixed his death on the floor of the august chamber in the hot gym. Wilson was acquitted of “excusable murder” even though his political cause intervened. There was also a coup here in 1872, when Elisha Baxter, newly elected governor, was physically removed from office. A cannon was placed in the clipper to deter Baxter’s return, but the second officer placed the office in the storm in the street. President Grant had to enter the capital to restore the legitimacy of Arkansas.
7. MONTICELLO: The Old Allen House
This Victorian Gothic house was built in 1900 by Joe Lee Allen, a prosperous Delta farmer. The ghost of one of the daughters, LaDell Allen, is called haunted houses. In the 1940s he took his own life by drinking cyanide. The huge house was converted to apartments in the 1950s, and many of the tenants reported thin manifestations. One of the couple is caught by the ghost in the room and tries to close the door in the giggling ghost. The doctor living in one of the rooms took a photo of the dead girl in the mirror. Literary scholars believe that author Carolyn Wilson based her book Lilac Scent on her experiences living here. The police were called to the apartment several times to investigate reports of progress on the upper floor, but no one was ever found alive. The Ancient Allen House is a private residence today, so permission must be obtained from the current owners before entering the premises.
8. ONIA: Uncle Bud Moore House
Built in the 1890s, this home was unusual for many years. Previous residents report unusual noises, and doors opening and closing slowly. The people in the country saw the apparition of a man, never identified, who first appears to be lying on his back, then slowly rises and bids them follow. The house burned down in the 1960s, but the ruins are still thought to be haunted.
9. SEARCY: Harding College
Shadow Girl can be heard singing in the music building here. That music was in studies in college in the early 1930s when she was young, with whom she met which fell in love. A boy is killed in a car accident and spends hours of grief playing the piano on the third floor of a building. She died of unknown causes before the end of the semester. Soon people reported hearing piano sounds coming from the third floor late night. Years later, when the old music building was demolished and replaced by a newer structure, people on the second floor still listen to the piano music upstairs arose, although there was no third floor in the new building.
10. WARREN: Mark’s Mill
In April 1864, two civil battles took place here, and more than a thousand soldiers lost their lives. The first battle began with the Union ambushing a train loaded with Confederate gold. A blinded Confederate soldier drew up a cannon shell to bring fire to the car. He died later in the hospital, not knowing whether the treasure was safe from Yankee hands. His ghost is said to roam the area looking for lost gold. After another battle near here, the Yankee soldiers hastily covered their losses by throwing the bodies of the fallen count at Mark’s Mill well. Sometimes the moaning of the soldiers can be heard, begging for a proper burial. Milia Mark is situated on the river Salino.
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