The Death Ship of the Platte River,Nebraska

The Death Ship of the Platte River is a legendary ghost ship that is said to haunt the Platte River in Nebraska. The story goes that the ship was a ferry that was transporting a group of people when it was struck by a storm and sank. All of the passengers on the ferry were killed, and their spirits are said to haunt the ship ever since.

The legend of the Death Ship of the Platte River is said to have originated in the early 1800s. At the time, the Platte River was a major transportation route for people traveling between the East and the West. Many people died while traveling on the river, and their bodies were often never found.

One day, a ferry was transporting a group of people when it was struck by a storm. The ferry sank, and all of the passengers were killed. Their bodies were never found, and their spirits are said to haunt the ship ever since.

People who have claimed to see the Death Ship of the Platte River say that it appears as a small, dark ship that sails silently down the river. The ship is said to be crewed by the spirits of the people who died on it, and it is said to be a harbinger of death.

The Death Ship of the Platte River is a popular legend in the area, and there are many different stories about it. Some people believe that the ship is just a figment of people's imagination, while others believe that it is a real ghost ship.

Whether or not the Death Ship of the Platte River is real, it is a fascinating part of the local folklore. The story is a reminder of the dangers of the river, and it is a reminder of the people who died while traveling on it.

Here are some of the other details about the legend of the Death Ship of the Platte River:

The ship is said to be a small, dark ship.

The ship is said to be crewed by the spirits of the people who died on it.

The ship is said to be a harbinger of death.

The ship is said to be seen most often at night.

If you ever happen to be in the area around the Platte River, be sure to keep an eye out for the Death Ship. You never know when you might see it.

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Oregon Trail Ghost, Nebraska

The Oregon Trail Ghost is a legendary figure that is said to haunt the area near Sylvan Grove, Nebraska. The ghost is said to be the spirit of a woman who was killed along the Oregon Trail.

The story goes that the woman was traveling with her family on the Oregon Trail when they were attacked by bandits. The woman was killed in the attack, and her body was left along the trail.

Sometime later, a group of travelers were camped near the spot where the woman was killed. They were awakened in the middle of the night by the sound of a woman's screams. The travelers went to investigate, but they found nothing.

The next night, the same thing happened. The travelers were awakened by the sound of screams, but they again found nothing. This happened several nights in a row, and the travelers became convinced that the ghost of the woman was haunting the area.

The ghost is said to appear as a young woman wearing a white dress. She is often seen walking along the trail, or sitting by the campfire. Some people have reported hearing her screams, or seeing her apparition in the trees.

The Oregon Trail Ghost is a popular legend in the area, and there are many different stories about her. Some people believe that she is the spirit of a real woman who was killed along the trail, while others believe that she is a figment of people's imagination.

Whether or not the Oregon Trail Ghost is real, she is a fascinating part of the local folklore. Her story is a reminder of the dangers that early pioneers faced on the Oregon Trail, and it is a reminder of the sacrifices that they made to build a new life in the West.

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Haunted Seven Sisters Road, Nebraska

Located in southeast Nebraska in Otoe County is an old path known locally as Seven Sisters Road. According to local legend, seven women were murdered here in the 1900s.

This grisly urban legend, which has been circulating for more than a century, says that there was once a young man who lived along the meandering road in an area known to have had seven hills. Residing on a farm southeast of Nebraska City, he lived with his parents and seven sisters. According to the tale, after having argued with his family, he was very angry. That night, he hid in the woods as his parents left the house one evening, and then, one by one, he either enticed or forced each one of sisters outside with him. The young man then led them to the top of each hill and hanged each one of them from a tree until they were dead.

Afterward, no one knows what happened to the bodies or to the brother. Furthermore, no official reports have been found to substantiate the hangings, but the legend persists.

Seven Sisters Road was built through the hills years after the rumored murders and the hanging trees were chopped down. The hills themselves have also been altered over the years and only four of the hills remain prominent today.

Since that fateful evening so long ago, the area is said to be haunted by the women’s restless spirits. Many tales have been told over the years including the sound of terrified women screaming for help. Others have heard bells ringing that seem to come from a nearby private cemetery.

Many who have driven through the area report having problems with their cars stalling, headlights mysteriously dimming, speedometers freezing, and windows that roll up and down seemingly on their own.


Seven Women Ghosts

Others report having seen shadowy figures in the darkness, red eyes that appear to be watching them, hear voices and muffled whispers, and experience sudden wind changes.

Both paranormal groups and individuals continue to explore this creepy road, lined by looping hills and twisted trees, and continue to report strange activity.

Seven Sisters Road, called L Street today, is just about five miles southeast of Nebraska City, Nebraska.

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Aurora Witch’s Grave - Aurora, Nebraska

Aurora Cemetery is a square, garden-like cemetery at the southwest corner of Route 14 and West 14 Road, north of Aurora in central Nebraska. The grave of Susan A. Gavan sits in the northwest corner of the cemetery, surrounded by iron posts that formerly held up heavy chains. Historically, Susan died in 1882 at the age of 40 and was buried with her 7-month-old daughter, May. Oddly, her husband and she were married on Halloween in 1861. Every Halloween, on their wedding anniversary, local teens venture out to her grave and dare each other to step on it. Susan, they say, was a witch who put a curse on the town before she was executed. Anyone who steps on her grave will either die within nine years, or by the age of 21. In reality, however, Susan was a respected woman. Her obituary read, “the community realizes that from our midst in life has gone an estimable lady, and extends heartfelt sympathy to the bereaved family.” That has not stopped generations of local children from making nighttime journeys to the infamous Nebraska “witch’s grave.”

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The Legend of Blackbird Hill, Nebraska

Blackbird Hill, Nebraska

Eight miles north of Decatur, Nebraska, on the Omaha Indian Reservation, is a hill overlooking the Missouri River. At its summit is a mound of dirt nearly 45 feet high marking the burial place of the great Omaha Indian Chief Blackbird. The honored Indian Chief was buried here sitting upright on his favorite horse. Back in 1804, Lewis and Clark visited this gravesite, leaving behind decorations to commemorate him.

Blackbird Hill is said to be haunted and every year dozens of people gather at the site, on October 17th. However, it is not the ghost of Chief Blackbird who lingers here, but rather, that of a young woman who was murdered upon this hill more than a century and a half ago.

The story begins with a young couple back east who had fallen in love in the early 1840s. When the boy finished his schooling, his plans were to travel abroad for a time and then return to marry the young girl.

However, the boy never returned from his trip abroad. The devastated young girl waited for several years, but she finally gave him up for dead and married another man. Soon, the newlyweds headed west, eventually settling in northeast Nebraska, atop Blackbird Hill.

On October 17, 1849, the young girl was astounded when she saw her old fiancé walking up the winding path from the Missouri River to her small cabin. He too was surprised, having no idea that she lived there.

Overjoyed to see him, she confessed that she had never stopped loving him and only married the other man because she thought he was dead. He then began to convey the tale of his previous years. When traveling abroad, he was shipwrecked but managed to survive. However, it took him almost five years to get back to America. When he arrived home he was saddened to find that his mother had died and his fiancée had married another man and moved west. Setting out to find her, he joined a wagon train and headed for California, searching everywhere along the way for his long lost love.

By the time he reached the west coast he had failed to find her and heartbroken, he began the long journey home traveling along the Missouri River. Landing one day at the foot of Blackbird Hill, he saw the winding path up the slope and decided to follow it. That’s when fate intervened and brought the long-lost pair back together.

The girl told him that when her husband returned home, she would tell him that she wished to be released from her marriage vows so they could leave together the next morning. Giving the couple time to discuss the situation the young man hid in the nearby woods. When the woman’s husband returned home, she explained the situation but he did not want her to leave and at first, begged her to stay. When she refused, he began to get angry and soon ended up attacking her with his hunting knife. Screaming, she fell to the floor. The husband then dropped the knife and gathered up his bleeding wife. With her in his arms, he ran to the cliff at the top of the hill and jumped with her into the river far below.

Giving chase, the young man arrived at the hill just in time to see the man leap from the summit and to hear the woman’s final scream of agony. Collapsing with grief, the young man began to wander the hills aimlessly until he was finally found ragged and half-starved by a group of Omaha Indians. Delirious and unable to speak, the Indians carried the man back to their village, where he stayed until he could recover enough to travel.

Today, the path from the cabin to the cliff edge is barren. Even more than 150 years later, no plant life will grow on the path that led to the woman’s death. And, according to the legend, each year on October 17th, the woman’s chilling screams can be heard at the top of the hill. Over the years, dozens of people have reportedly heard her cries of terror.

The Omaha Indian Reservation is located in northeastern Nebraska, just west of Highway 75. Blackbird Hill is eight miles north of Decatur along the Missouri River. The hill itself is inside the Omaha reservation and not open to the public, but you can climb a nearby scenic overlook to view the river below.

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The Alliance Theater - Alliance,Nebraska

Believed
to be haunted by a female ghost some call "Mary". Mary was an excellent
actress, she performed every act with skill. But for one show it was
curtain time for the last time. Mary was playing in a love story, she
played as the bride. It was near a happy ending for the performance, or
so they thought. She walked up to the stage when tragedy struck. One of
the light fixtures fell on top of Mary. The angel of death has claimed
a victim. She died of the immense weight and electric shock. To this
day, after hours, her spirit roams the stage waiting for the applause of
her fans. But sadly no one is there.

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Old Coap - Cedar Bluffs,Nebraska

Late at night you can hear people talking and you will
think that a chain saw is running after you. you will look back
and see that nothing is there. at the corner every thing will stop if
you do not believe go see for your self.

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Old Shockey/Penfield House - Columbus,Nebraska

In the upstairs of the
house, door will open when they were shut and locked, lights dim and
flicker. Strange sounds--Is said to be "haunted" by the late Keith
Penfield, who died there unexpectedly one morning. The basement also
gives off unusual sounds, and you feel like someone's watching you
while you sleep, also if you walk around the house when it's dark,
you'll see mysterious shadows around the house.

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Darr Bridge - Darr,Nebraska

If you pass over this bridge at midnight on a foggy
winter's night and look in your rearview mirror you will see a pioneer
woman who was killed on this bridge. Some say that she is in a covered
wagon and some say that she is walking and looking for her son that
died. Not all that go will see her, so be patient.

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7 Sisters Road - Nebraska City,Nebraska

Legend
is a man hung each one of his sisters on each of the 7 hills. Only
about 3 or 4 good hills remain, but there are a lot of strange
happenings at night. Cars will stall, headlights will shut off, and
screaming can be heard. Also many OLD ghost buildings still exist. The
Camp Creek Cemetery is also well know for being haunted. Located in
same area, about 3 miles South of Nebraska City.

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Dodge Hill Road & Cemetery - North Platte,Nebraska

Many of the locals frequent this spot in the winter for its choice sledding, but after dark, only the brave visit this area. The road takes a few twists and turns and has a sheer drop on either side at some points. Several people have skidded through the guard rails and plunged to their death. Further along is the infamous cemetery. It is said that if you go there at night and point your headlights at the statue of Jesus, he will eventually move. Sometimes people can be seen walking through the tombstones one moment and vanish

the next.

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Central High - Omaha / Downtown,Nebraska

On the
main floor when you walk the hallways by the deans office on weekends
or nights, drop temperature even when the heater is on. keep walking
down and if you brought someone you will here "I know your here" and if
you brought three or more people you will here "I know your all here."
then you will see a white blur  fly past you down the hallway near
the deans office. if you look in the window you might see a shadowy
figure wave to you. It is possible this was a former dean or janitor.
The ghost sounds like a janitor because you might hear broom sweeps in
the hallway, but it seems like a dean because it waves in the dean’s
office when the door was locked. Be patient, they are sure to show up.
Also heard creaking at a distance and wheels moving on wooden floors.

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Hummel Park - Omaha,Nebraska

In Omaha, there is a city park on the northern outskirts named Hummel Park. The background of this park is very macabre to begin with. In the early 1900's, Lynch mobs would ride through town and hang or otherwise mutilate any black people that happened to be in sight. They hung so many black people that the trees still bow over the road leading to Hummel Park. The weird part is that young trees and even the grass lean toward the road outside the park and even inside the park. Apparitions, mists, Indian drums playing at night, wolves howling. Supposed old Indian burial grounds on sight. Also, reports of the morphing stairs. It is a staircase which is roughly 200 stairs long. The word, "roughly" is used because every time you go up and or down it you will count a different number of stairs. There is a staircase at Hummel Park that if you walk up to the top and count the stairs going up, it will be less than the number of stairs
going down, it is called the stairway to hell because of this. There
have been many reports of animal sacrificing in the park. There is also
a cult of albinos that live in the park, supposedly. But be careful of
crazy people out there if you decide to go.

Parts of the steps are missing and falling apart so your count will always be different. Be careful.

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Lynch Park - Omaha,Nebraska

If You go there and you can hear
footsteps of people running and the crying of a baby. One witness heard
a man screaming saying, It;s so cold, help me," and you could swear
that you felt a man grab your leg.

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Mystery Manor - Omaha,Nebraska

This commercial haunted house is
supposed to be actually haunted by several spirits. Visitors to the
Halloween events have reported a 'lady in a blue dress' near the end of
the tour who is not a staff member. The owners also mention other
phenomena happening during the rest of the year.

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Scottsbluff National monument - Scottsbuff,Nebraska

There is
a female spirit clad in white that walks along the base of the opposite
bluff, around the end of July and beginning of august around midnight
or one in the morning. Sometimes you'll see her, sometimes you won't.but you got to look closely, and be
patient.

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Old Fort Sidney Commanders Home - Sidney,Nebraska

The Old
Fort Sidney Commanders Home is haunted by the spirit of a woman. She
was the wife of a commander back in the earlier 1900's. One day while
in a hurry, she took the steep maids staircase. She tripped and fell to
her death. Some say she can still be seen roaming through the house. An
actual picture of the ghost can be seen in a Nebraska published
magazine called the Scriviner.

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Valley High School - Valley,Nebraska

Once in what is now the old
gym there was a stage that is now the wrestling room and it is said
that in 1955 a boy fell from the lighting bridge during the winter
concert when he fell one of the Christmas tree props went right through
his back and out his chest. They say now when you go up there that
blood will appear on the floor and you can hear a crowd screaming. At
night you can see a boy fall on a tree and then disappear.

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Witch's Bridge - Weeping Water,Nebraska

It is said that many years ago this witch hung herself from the bridge known as Witch's bridge. It is said that if you go out there on an odd night at an odd hour with an odd number of people and hang your head and top half of your body over the edge of the bridge you will see yourself hanging or she will pull you under the bridge.

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Wilber-Clatonia High School - Wilber,Nebraska

It's said that a student
once fell and died while working on a latter in the auditorium.. People
have seen things move and fall on there own in the 'storage room'
(located next to the auditorium). And the auditorium itself is the
coldest place in the building with feelings of someone watching you.
Music can be heard coming from the band room and choir room and voices
can be heard also when in the school after dark.

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