Jerome
Community Center Locals call their community center "Spook Hall," because of the phantom of a prostitute seen there. The ghost from the front of the building to a few feet from the Little Daisy Hotel, where she disappears. The area used to be the site of the "cribs," small shacks used by prostitutes to entertain their clients. One of the women, who was accidentally stabbed during an argument between two miners, stills walks the street. There are so many ghosts here that a monthly newspaper called the "Jerome Ghost Post" was published for a time. But the town still offers such interesting diversions as the "Spirit Room Bar" and the "Haunted Hamburger" restaurant.
Jerome is on Hwy 89A, on the side of Mingus Mountain overlooking Verde Valley, at an elevation of 5,000 feet. Follow Hwy 89A from either Prescott or Sedona for about 25 miles to the town. For information, contact the Jerome Chamber of Commerce, Box K, Jerome, AZ 86331. Phone: 520-634-2900. Ajo - Crater Range - In the 1950's a couple was married in Ajo and was driving to Lake Tahoe for their honeymoon. When they entered into crater range, which was lined with hills and huge rocks on both sides, around midnight their car crashed into a rock and they were both killed. It is said that if you drive through crater range after midnight you can see their car and the couple off to the side of the road trying to flag down help. Bisbee - Bisbee Bed & Breakfast - Reported a presence in both the Blue Room and in Room 13, as well as in several other locations throughout the house. The Grandma Room. In this room, various guests have reported what appeared to be an older woman watching over them during the night. Although the sightings reportedly made guests nervous, it was thought to be a benevolent spirit offering its presence as a protection. Bisbee - The Copper Queen Hotel - Haunted by a dark figureless apparition She has been seen wandering the halls of the 3rd floor. Bisbee - Oliver House - This bed and Breakfast as the site of a mass murder when a husband found his wife with a man who resided here. He killed his wife, her lover and then walked to the day room and killed who ever he came across. He left drove to the edge of town then killed himself. There was also another murder but the culprit was never found. The building is pleasant and very nostalgic. When we stayed there we heard what we thought was firecrackers exploding in the hall. Later it was the opening and slamming of doors with heavy footsteps going down the hall. We found out in the morning that no one else had heard any of the sounds we did, but that previous guests had reported similar events. The owner was quite helpful and knowledgeable as to who may be haunting his bed and breakfast. Caldwell - off of hwy 1 - Residents of this house have reported several strange things happening. During all hours of day and night you can hear strange sounds, shadows moving, and cold chills. The outside door to the kitchen has been jammed shut for many years, but the doorknob will rattle. If you say come in the door will open then close by itself but you can't open it afterwards. You will also find objects moved from their original locations to the floor or else where in the house. The push button light switches would turn on and off by themselves. It is said that a man built the house for his wife and she wouldn't live there. So he lived and died there. And he is the cause of the haunting. Casa Grande - Cafe de Manuels - Restaurant has interesting history. Originally a house, turn to a 7-11 convenience store, too Manuel's. Ghost of the original house owner, and old woman, and a murdered clerk from the 7-11 haunt. Casa Grande - Casa Grande Mountain - While driving on the desert roads at the base of the mountain late at night, or walking around, a black mist will appear. If you are walking in the desert it will follow you. Casa Grande - "The Domes" - At night you can hear footsteps and eerie whispering in the very back dome. You see a shadowy figure run from dome to dome and you can sometimes see "it" walking in the surrounding desert. There have been reports of tapping noises on cars when your parked there. There is always a very weird vibration there and you always seem to feel uneasy like something bad is going to happen. It is said that the domes are used in black magic and that many people have been raped and killed there. Chandler - Chandler High School- Chandler High is one of the oldest Schools in the State of Arizona, going back before Arizona became a state. The oldest building still standing is "Old Main" A few of the custodians and teachers who have been at the school for many years or have long since retired, tell of sightings and voices on the second floor of Old mains north wing. In fact one custodian after experiencing a particularly frightful event, refused to clean that area of the building. Chandler - San Marcos Hotel - Receiving strange calls from extensions that don't exist. A female apparition has been sighted. The moaning of a male. Chinle - Canyon De Chelly - The death of the Navajo's. - Screams, gun fire and horses running have all been heard in Massacre Cave. Cochise - Cochise Stronghold State Park - Man playing flute appears on boulders that tower over campsites. It is said that Cochise himself walks in the hills, guarding his pilfered gold from the white man. Dardanelle - Hovis's Grave - It is said that on certain nights, you can see Mr. Hovis sitting on top of his wife's grave, holding the shotgun that he murdered her with. Also, the wooden bridge that you cross to get there his haunted by to young girls that were killed there. Douglas - The Gadsden Hotel - Prankster Indian boy plays on the Mezzanine, headless Pancho Villa walks the tunnels in the basement, and Sara the elderly guests frequents the 4th floor. The basement of the hotel has been identified as the most haunted section of the building (naturally). The luminous form of a man glide across the wall. Elfrida - Vision Quest Lodge - Used to be a dude ranch. Stable boy went insane and killed owners and guests. Woman in white gown haunts old guest quarters...house where owners were killed has several weird events - woman walks halls, re-occurring bloodstain on bathroom wall. Old Stable also sight of two year old child being killed by a horse kicking her, now child's crying and apparition of child standing in doorway are common. Also, apparition of white glowing man on white glowing horse has been seen in mountains that border the camp. Flagstaff - Days Inn, 3601 E. Lockett Rd - Reports of a tall ghost of a man standing next to the bed. Flagstaff - Monte Vista Hotel - ghosts of a phantom bellboy and a female ghost. Flagstaff - Museum Club - Voice of a woman thought to be the wife of a former owner talks to people after hours. She asked this musician "are you done with that beer?� from behind me on the stage. He turned around to see no one there. There were only four other people in the bar. They were sitting at the bar at least 30-40 feet away. Flagstaff - NACOG Head Start Administration Building - Ghost of a woman has been seen in the halls. Faucets turn on and off by themselves. Doors locked and the keys don't work in them anymore. Telephones ring to front office from locked offices upstairs, even after they have been unplugged. Disembodied voices, apparitions, objects would be moved from one location to another have also been reported. Flagstaff - Northern Arizona University - North Morton Hall - One of the most notorious haunts in Flagstaff. A girl killed herself in the dormitory many years ago before Christmas break and seems she never left. Lights going on and off, odors, and even sightings. Also she likes to pull blankets off of people that stay on the floor she lived on, and she likes to trap girls in the girls bathroom to where the door is locked, but there isn't a lock. Flagstaff - Orpheum Theatre - Has recently been purchased by a new owner - Between 1995 and 1999 Many of the staff had experienced odd occurrences. A janitor who was cleaning late at night when the theatre was closed for the evening saw a dark figure sort of float back and forth through the aisles of the balcony. Another time while the final movie was playing for the evening, three staff members watched as a roll of paper towels hanging on the wall in the concession stand rapidly started to unravel onto the floor. One employee put his hand out to stop it and it did, until he removed his hand it started up again. In the men�s room employees and patrons reported they would walk in and there would just be a sense there was something there. It was like the weird electrical vibration feeling you feel when you accidentally shock yourself plugging in something, only mild and it just seemed to flood the room from ceiling to floor. One evening after closing their was a report of toilets flushing and sinks turned on full blast. In the projection room at the very top of the balcony, there was a crawlspace with a ladder that lead to a lower level of the roof right above the marquee. Rumor has it, that somebody hung themselves in there. But no newspapers support this. Flagstaff - Riordan House State Park - haunted by Carolina and Anna Riodan. Flagstaff - USGS Offices - Building 1 - has sounds of hands clapping, doors that open and close spontaneously, lights that flicker. Florence - ASP Cellblock 3 - In 1973 officers Buckely and Morey where killed in the cellblock by inmates during a riot both officers where beaten and stabbed to death. on a number of occasions when the guards would lock all of the doors in the cellblock, they would find doors open, etc. between inmate counts. A number of the officers also noticed cold spots and the sounds of doors opening and closing several officers noticed misty forms at the end of the cellblock on a number of occasions. The cellblock is located in the same prison as the Arizona Death House, which is also haunted. Florence - Arizona State Prison Complex Death House - It is said that the ghosts of condemned prisoners haunt the death house at the state prison in Florence. Several guards have reported hearing screams and other strange sounds. Fort Hauchuca - Carleton House - One downstairs room was the morgue for the hospital. Things stacked and placed in this room are unaccountably scattered all over the place shortly afterwards. Things hanging on the walls fall crashing to the floor because the nails holding them are pulled out of the wall by an invisible force. Doorbells ring so persistently for no observable reason that occupants of the house disconnect them. Many residents and neighbors have seen the whitish apparition of a woman moving through the house and standing at the front door. One corner of a room which was a ward in the original hospital stays markedly colder than all other parts of the house, regardless of the weather, and contains a chandelier that seems to refuse to operate at night but functions just fine in the daylight. Fort Hauchuca - Smith Middle School - The middle school here in Fort Hauchuca is said to be haunted by a girl named Linda Landy. Linda was walking home from softball practice one day and she was hit by a car and killed. She attended Smith Middle School in the late 70's. If you look in the tinted windows of the library some times you be able to see her walking around. Fountain Hills - Ashbrook Wash - Occurrences are strange noises, screaming, random cold spots, strange light, and humming. In the summer of 1998 someone was shot in the middle of the night down in the wash. The screams are most likely from the young girl who was shot with a shotgun. There have been many other sightings and strange noises. Fountain Hills - Saguaro Boulevard - in the early 1980's there was said to be a young girl who was kidnapped and murdered and her body parts were hidden throughout a house on Saguaro blvd. Sometimes you can hear a strange scream, crying, and see a strange figure by the house on Saguaro. Some say she looks scared and as if she was running from something. The second they blink trying to take a better look she disappears. French port - Nes Cemetery - In this cemetery are a few graves that arouse paranormal activities. One is King Edwards. It is shaped like a bed. If you lie on it and close your eyes, crossing your arms and legs you feel like you are floating. But, if you stay on too long your back will begin to burn. Another is that of a witch named Pricilla. Light a lighter, and if the flame is mostly blue, she is present. One story of her is two guys desecrated her grave and as the drove down the dirt road at 25 mph a white flash went in front of them. The driver slammed the brakes and the truck flipped end over end six times. But stay too long and the gate will lock behind you. Glendale - Deer Valley High School - Random Romeo haunting that has lasted 20 years. Auditorium patrons and players have experienced many occurrences of the supernatural. Kids crying in the back hall, a longing wail of affection for a lost lover, and the untimely shorting out of lighting and sound equipment. Glendale - Pizza Hut - 13105 W Glendale - Sounds of babies crying, little children talking, faucets turn off and on by themselves. Globe - Globe High School - Creaking Floor boards, voices, there used to be a haunted bathroom that the toilet would violently shake when was on. And everyone knows that the top floor is haunted as well. Globe - Hardware Store - is haunted by the night watch man. He rearranges products at night, knocks over things and makes the upstairs floorboards creak at night. He used to live in the upstairs room, and is still doing his job. Globe - Noftsger Hill Bed and Breakfast- used to be Noftsger Hill Elementary - A lantern light could be seen at night, children were hearing voices and objects such as books were moved. After the school was closed, the property was bought and re-opened as a bed and breakfast. Gold Canyon - Superstition Mountains - In the mountains it is said that Native Americans would jump off a ledge of the mountain into their death on spiked rocks were they wish for many things. Another thing that happened was the Dutch Mans Gold mine. He was a selfish man and killed all of the workers and sold the gold for himself. He disappeared one day and no one knows what happened to him. And even today People search for the gold mine and kill other people to get the gold for themselves. But no one has even found the gold mine. Grand Canyon National Park - El Tovar Hotel - In the middle of the U shaped parking lot in front of the El Tovar Hotel, there is a marked grave hiding in a patch of land next to the stop sign. The grave is that of a former Harvey Girl that worked for Fred Harvey Company. The ghost of a black caped figure has been seen walking along the pathway leading up from the steps just to the right of the El Tovar Hotel all along the path, passing the grave and disappearing behind the Hopi House. Although most visitors are unaware, the El Tovar, built in the very early 1900's, is home to more then a few spirits. They say that Fred Harvey appears on the third floor during the holidays and invites people to the annual Christmas gathering held in the hotel. The third floor and the kitchen are the haunted hot spots at the El Tovar Hotel. Grand Canyon National Park - Maricopa Point - A man in the civilian conservation corps (c.c.c) fell over the edge of the canyon while putting railings up in the 30's. Usually. At sun down you can see a black misty figure near the railings, it looks like its shoveling some thing with a fairly loud scraping sound. Hot Springs - Park Hotel - Reports of being touched or poked when no one is around. Huachuca Military Reservation - Fort Huachuca - Carleton House - One downstairs room was the morgue for the hospital. Things put away in this room get scattered all over the place shortly afterwards. Things hanging on the walls fall crashing to the floor because the nails holding them are pulled out of the wall. Doorbells ring so persistently for no observable reason that occupants of the house disconnect them, witnesses have seen a whitish apparition of a woman moving through the house and at the front door, and cold spots. Huachuca Military Reservation - Fort Huachuca -Smith Middle School - The middle school here in Fort Huachuca is said to be haunted by a girl named Linda Landy. She attended Smith Middle School in the late 70's. If you look in the tinted windows of the library some times you be able to see her walking around. Jacksonville - Pick Thorne Lake - Apparition of a man with a lantern walking the tracks. Jerome - Community Center - a phantom prostitute walks in front of the building. Jerome - Jerome Grand Hotel - A woman in white roams the halls, a nurse with a clipboard in one man's room, a child who run through the bar area looking for his mother late at night, there is screaming and apparitions on a regular basis. Jerome - The Grand Motel - This motel was once a hospital/insane asylum it has had many different occurrences from the lights turning on with no electricity to the presence of hounds that are as tall as a man shoulders. Jerome - Ghost City Inn - A woman spirit has shown herself to visitors in the Cleopatra Room. the innkeepers have had this happened before. Built in 1890, this building was used as many things, including use as a funeral home. Kingman - Launa's Canyon - About two or three miles Southeast of Downtown Kingman there is a place known as Launa�s Canyon. this is how the story starts out: During the era of the 1800s a soon to be family of four(husband, wife, husbands 2 daughters) traveled out to (Old town) Kingman to search for nothing else but, of course gold. The family came across a deep, narrow canyon. In time, the family soon built a quite large house. The mans daughters despised the young; soon to be mother and wife for the way she had treated the two. She wanted their father all for herself. The night before Launa�s wedding, in order for Launa to get their father was to murder the two young girls. She hid the murdered children in the house. When she regain sanity the same night she came back screaming through the canyon, moaning even, for forgiveness of the sickening killings. To this day, it is said, you can still hear Launa�s moaning throughout the canyons brutal past during the hours of 12:00 - 3 am. Magnolia - Cameo Trio Theatre - Ghosts have been sighted in Theatre Three and employees have had run ins with ghosts messing with the movie projectors. Maricopa County - East Mesa - Nesbits (campground) - Nesbits campground is located on Mckelups Rd. and Power Rd. just past Power road on the north side of the road, it is said that it used to be a satanic camp and people were murdered there, Reports of demonic laughter coming from everywhere, dark figures, strange noises and cold spots. Mesa - Alta Mesa - Every night between 11:30 and midnight doors and cabinets open and close by themselves. Black shadows run around everywhere. You see the black things out of the corner of your eye. Also reports of being woken up in the middle of the night to see an apparition of a girl. Mesa - Desert Ridge High - little boy walking down the hallways hitting doors with a book Mesa - Jefferson Park - There is thought to be a woman that walks from tree to tree. So the story goes, she was raped and murdered at the park on Broadway and Power rd(Jefferson St. two blocks west of Power) her spirit has not been set free. She has been seen roaming the park between 11:15 until about Midnight. Mesa - Williams Air Force Base - During the Second World War, the military used the base to train pilots and the building (which is now the VA hospital) on the far west side of the base was a hospital. Many people have reported a male ghost who haunts only what used to be the new baby viewing area and the old operating room area. People also report voices in what used to be the old Officers Club. Nogales - St. Andrew's Episcopal Church - Apparitions and other phenomena have reportedly been experienced by a number of parishioners and at least two pastors. Nogales - Gymy's Workout Center- At close time around 10:00 p.m. people have witnessed loud noises in the bathrooms of children laughing and making many noises. You can also hear loud car noises. They have also heard footsteps on the roof and also one of the doors of the gym, at night it's closed and in the morning the door is opened. Oatman - Oatman Hotel - Room 15 - Many guests and staff testify that it is not uncommon to hear whispering and laughter coming from the empty room. There is also a Theatre Room Museum on the second floor, where dust on the beds reveals the outlines of sleeping guests, leaving adjacent areas intact and undisturbed. A former chambermaid's ghost has also been sighted. Oracle - Arcadia Ranch - This used to be a hospital for TB patients, several died. One of the ghosts is a nurse who contracted the disease and died. She is still trying to take care of people. There is another there that dislikes things hung on the north wall of the main room. There was artwork hung on the wall. In the evening went he caretaker left it would be on the wall, and in the morning it would be set on the floor. Patagonia - The Patagonia Market or General Store - The only store in this small town is haunted. Something or someone frequently makes noises and moves items in the back room or stock room of the store. One late evening a shelf had moved approximately thirty feet as 1 witness had stepped away into the stores other section, which today is a separate business. The shelf had crashed on the ground in the back stock room, but had come from the front of the store. No other people were present to have moved it. On other occasions, dog chew toys hanging plastic bags would squeak at night. It is unknown whom or what is haunting the store. The town started up in 1890s because of mining and in it's heyday had a few thousand people in it, but today the town has less than a 1000 people. The store sets on a major intersection in the town, suggesting that a major structure has been there during most of the town's history. Peoria - Old Charter Hospital - The old adolescents ward used to have adults. A lawyer checked himself into the hospital, and then hung himself at night with his shoestrings. Sometimes he appears in his old room or in the hall. Also, very sad negative energy could be felt in the room that used to be his, and it would get very cold. The hospital is now closed. Phoenix - 5th Ave - between Roosevelt and Fillmore - A 9 year old girl was killed tragically on August 6,1995,by a hit and run driver, who was never located, and brought to justice. It is felt that this little girl made herself known to some people for some time after her death, and even now, it is believed that people can still feel a presence in certain areas of Phoenix. One such area is where she was killed. Another area is in the neighborhood of 17th Ave. and Grant. At the time of her death, a man who was sleeping in the bedroom and whom no one else was in there during this time had a box fall on him, awakening him. And his wife, who was in the kitchen preparing the evening meal. She had a vision of the little girl smiling at her, and saying how much she loved them both. Another sighting of this little girl happened near 19th Ave. and Camelback. A mother was walking a little girl, unknown to the older sister and her friend who was following behind them, and the little girl kept turning to look at the two behind her, smiling and waving. This little girl's facial features appeared to be exactly the same as the deceased little girl, and so did her hair and hair color! At the time of the girl's death, when the ambulance, fire truck, and police cars were there at the scene, the girl's body was placed in the ambulance. As the ambulance was pulling away, it was reported later that others seen her up against the windows on the back of the ambulance, face and hands pressed against the window, as the paramedics were trying to save her. All of this was reported to the mother ranging from a couple of days to 6 months later, and the mother would often awaken believing she had just been talking to the girl, after having seen her in the mother's dreams! Phoenix - 51st in Indian School - Strange sightings of a woman walking in the road and getting hit by a car people claim to here screams near 61st Ave. an Indian School some say that she goes in peoples houses and knocks there stuff to the ground and at night they see her on there couch. Phoenix - 55th Ave and Northern - In the grave yard near 55th avenue and northern, there has been report of people seeing the spirits of those who have died running around the grave yard aimlessly, also it is said that there are spirits of teenagers running around, back about 10 years ago some teenagers were playing hide and seek in the graveyard, some of the teens heard a scream and thought nothing of it, the next day one of the teenagers was missing and later found near the grave of his great uncle, word has it that you can still see the teenagers playing hide and seek and that the one that got killed will come up to you and bother you until you leave. Phoenix - Billington House - The youngest daughter has reported almost all the sightings. She has heard foot steps and people talking while she has been home alone. She has seen a glowing figure of a person with one arm standing in the second-floor window of her playhouse. She said that it stood motionless, and that she only saw it at night. She saw it three nights in a row. She told her dad one night, and he looked out the window by her bed to the tree house directly where she said it was standing and did not see a thing. On the fourth night there was no such person in the tree house, as if it had never been there at all. The same child has awoken in the night and looked out her window to see a man in a long black coat and a hat standing on her patio. She closed her eyes for no more than a second and when she opened them the man was gone. She has also seen a woman looking at her and smiling at her from her closet. Phoenix - Deer Valley High School - auditorium - Ask any Deer Valley drama student where Dwex is, and they'll probably answer, "up on the catwalk". Dwex is Deer Valley's resident ghost. Although he has only been seen in the auditorium, his presence is known school wide. Stories of how Dwex died range from a love story gone wrong to a construction worker who fell of the scaffolding while the school was being built. People who have been in the auditorium have experienced cold spots, equipment malfunctions, heard voices and crying near the auditorium bathrooms, and some people have even seen him. He peers down from the catwalk or from the equipment rooms. My friends and I have seen him on the catwalk and have even been 'pushed' by him during an after-hours, pitch-black auditorium visit. Phoenix - Jo Jo's Alley - When traveling down that alley, and would be chased out with strange lights and if driving down, would hear noises as if being hit by pounding hands on the tops of their cars. Phoenix - Pioneer - The house of the first governor of Arizona can be found here. The house is haunted by his young daughter who died of Namonia long ago. People who have been there at night have experienced sudden coldness, the sight of things moving by themselves, and whispering voices. Phoenix - San Carlos Hotel - haunted by suicide victim Leone Jensen who killed herself there. It's bad enough when you stay at a hotel and irresponsible parents allow their children to run (literally) up and down the halls, day and night. What can you do when the running children are ghosts? That's the long and the short of it at this hotel, which was built in the 1920s. It seems the hotel now occupies the site of the first elementary school in Phoenix. Phoenix - Pioneer - The house of the first governor of Arizona can be found here. The house is haunted by his young daughter who died of Namonia long ago. People who have been there at night have experienced sudden coldness, the sight of things moving by themselves, and whispering voices. Phoenix - The Vistas - It is a home in this neighborhood "The Vista". However, every one that moves in asks if anyone knows if anyone dying there. People see shadows, hear sounds, and go to sleep with dirty dishes. However, when they wake...the dishes are clean. It was told an abusive husband lived there, and wouldn't allow his wife to go to sleep without having the complete house clean first. Phoenix - Southwest Supermarket - 35th Ave. & McDowell - - Update: burned down March 14, 2001, when firefighter Bret Tarver was killed in the line of duty. - Reports of strange lights, and object moving. Picacho - A man has been seen by many people riding on his horse from mountain to mountain, apparently he is suppose to be looking for his hidden gold, before he was shot to death. Prescott - Angeline's Grave - For years many people have seen the ghost of Angeline, a small girl, that rumor has it died in the 1800's from a plague, while traveling in a wagon train headed west. Several sightings of Angeline and experiences such as tiny handprints on the outside windows of cars, bad mishaps for those that try to steal her headstone, she has even been sighted near the area a few miles from her grave in search of her mother. Her grave is the only grave in the direct location area; it is fenced, has a headstone and a single tree and is located near Lynx Lake and Diamond Valley right outside of Prescott. Prescott - Hassyampa Inn - Believed to be haunted by a woman and child, a bouncing ball is often heard. Prescott - Head Hotel - Woman was killed in the bottom floor and you can hear her and she turns lights of and on. Also a very tall cowboy paces the hallways up and down the stairs shutting doors behind him. Lot of negative spirits are felt as well. Prescott - Hotel Vendome - In 1921, the owner of Hotel Vendome, Abby Byr, ill with "The Consumption" was deserted by her husband when he went to get medicine and never returned. Refusing to eat or drink, Abby and her cat Noble passed away in room 16. Today, Abby continues to wait for her husband to return. Haunting the halls and rooms of the Vendome, guests have been recording their experiences at the hotel ever since. Those who stay in room 16 have seen her, felt her and report a wide variety of friendly encounters. Prescott - Lynx Creek Farm Bed & Breakfast - Sharlot Hall - Visitors report cold spots, and feeling of not being alone. A definite presence in this room. The portrait in this room does not help that the eyes follow you where ever you go. San Manuel - San Manuel High School - A girl was shot by another student messing with a gun in the 70's. Lockers slam, showers turn on, and toilets flush in the girl's locker room. People have reported on seeing a girl walk through the school at night. Scottsdale - On Saguaro High School Grounds - A 16 year old girl was accused of witchcraft. She was found guilty and hung near what is now one of the girl�s bathrooms in the year 1786 by twenty of the town�s people. It is said that the she still haunts that place because it is where she played hide and seek with her three siblings. People think that they made a mistake in hanging her since she only practiced white magic with her family. The rest of her family fled in panic after her death and were never heard of again. Sierra Vista - Daisy Mae's Stronghold - This restaurant is haunted by a ghost named Charlie. This place was built in the 1880's it was a stage stop, post office, and a brothel. Sierra Vista - Bus Barn - When you go there at night between 7pm-12am rocks and sand will mysteriously be thrown at you, you will also hear footsteps, screams, and see shadows. South Phoenix - Superstition mountains- A group of mountains where several people have gone up and where never heard from again. It is said that the spirits of the Native Americans haunt this place along with minors. The disappearances are still not explained. St. David - Downtown St. David - Screams, cries, and voices can be heard. Apparitions, and strange feelings of being watched. Tempe - Arizona State University - On the sixth floor of Palo Verde East at Arizona State University there was a girl who committed suicide in room 605. She is now seen wondering the halls on the sixth floor in a white dress while she hums to herself. Tempe - KC Moore's Bar and Grill - Woman haunts the upstairs banquet room and an unknown man or woman has been seen in downstairs bar area, very old building in old town Tempe use to be a house built in the 30's or 40's Tempe - Marcos De Niza High School - There is a saying that you should never go in the auditorium after 9:00 pm. Because of a worker who fell through the stage and died. This was when the school was starting to open. Some people say they have seen a man who appears to be finishing the job he had started. You can even hear a voice that sometimes SAYS SOMETHING, That is hard to understand. Some students have even said they have felt someone touch them. Tempe - Tappatio Cliffs - The Point Hiton - The main ballroom is haunted by a drunken man who, when at a wedding reception some 20 years ago reportedly walked up to the cliffs right behind the ballroom, and fell head first. As told by a couple of security guards there, he haunts the boiler room, and no one is allowed down there after midnight. Tempe - Trails Store on Mill Ave - The building used to be a Mountain Bell phone company building. Early in the 1900's a young woman, who worked for the company, committed suicide on the second floor of the building near the bathroom. The lower level is occupied by a part of the Trails retail store chain, but the second floor stood empty for YEARS. There were footsteps reported coming from upstairs, when the second floor was gutted and empty. There have been reports of the young woman wandering the stairwell, and standing in front of the locked door to the first floor, which has since been boarded over and covered up. The photo booth that used to be in the Trails store had to be removed due to the machine taking pictures when no one was in the booth. The developed pictures often-showed nothing but a bright white ball of light, whether someone was in the booth or not. The doors to the offices and bathrooms on the first floor are often heard opening and closing, when no one is near them. Many employees and customers over the years have reported a strange feeling when in the store, and some have gone as far as to refuse to be left alone in the store after dark. (Take it from someone who worked in the building for years, and experienced the entire phenomenon first-hand.) Tombstone - Big Nose Kate's - numerous cowboy ghosts have been seen and photographed Tombstone - Bird Cage Theater - Female singing and crowd voices/noises, unidentified individual (s) manifestations, object relocation's. Tombstone - Buford House - This Bed and Breakfast is the home to a Young man who committed suicide after the young lady he intended to marry jilted him. She happened to live across the street. He has been seen around the house and walking in front of the Buford House. The door bell rings in the middle of the night but no one is there. When we stayed there in April 2002, we experienced knocking on the walls and the faucet in the bathroom down the hall turning itself of and on. Strange lights are said to be seen and cold spots that move around. They were featured in Haunted History Tombstone. Tombstone - Nellie Cashman's Restaurant - Custamers here have reported countless instances of playful pranks since frontier days. Expect the usual crashing sounds and objects that move on their own volition. Tombstone - OK Corral and surrounding places - it is believed and even witnessed that the ghost of the Earps and the ghosts of the Clanton brothers are seen around the OK Corral and the old western buildings around there Tombstone - Tombstone Graveyard - Reports of strange lights and ghost sightings in and around the cemetery. Many famous outlaws and citizens are buried there. Tombstone - Nellie Cashman's Restaurant - Customers here have reported countless instances of playful pranks since frontier days. Expect the usual crashing sounds and objects that move on their own volition. Tucson - Bloom Elementary - the principle pasted away in the school and ever since then they have had many weird experiences, like a brick falling out of a wall in the bathroom, door unlocking them self's, and some people have even seen her in the halls. Tucson - Centennial Hall - Two spirits are known to haunt this theater. One is a woman wearing a long white dress from an earlier time. The man is a more recent specter, thought to be a patron who died of a heart attack within the last 50 years. The woman has been seen to frequent the upper balcony seats in an area that was once a balcony but is now sealed off, as well as the green room. She is very protective over her space and has been known to push employees down the halls and stairs. The man seems to be the counter balance and helps anyone who has been injured by the woman. Tucson - Colossal Cave - Reports of feeling a hot breath on your neck & your batteries get drained, the figure of a man, that charges at you with a pick ax, singing/moaning by the miner's shaft. Tucson - Davis Bilingual School - A female figure has appeared repeatedly in a classroom. She has appeared at dawn only. Various adults have reported feeling someone touching them on their shoulder. Doors that were checked to make sure they were locked have opened and closed on their own Student reported hearing weird and eerie music. The most recent one, students saw a water faucet turn on slowly then full blast. Next they saw the actual water faucet handle turn itself off. Tucson - Desert View High School - A young boy was killed by an unknown thing is now haunting all over the school. Tucson - Evergreen Cemetery - Voices of young children when no one is around. Negative presences also at certain times. Tucson - Fox Theater - A strange man dressed up from the 1920's has been seen around this theater. He will ask for money to feed his family that is suffering from The Great Depression. Tucson - Fred G. Acosta Job Corps Center - Students report seeing a girl playing with a ball in the female side second floor dormitory: the 2nd floor 2nd bathroom has also reports that around 12:00 at night showers turn on and off by themselves, rumors have it a girl who used to go there slit her wrists and drowned herself in the tub in the 2nd floor, people sometimes have dreams about this particular girl. Tucson - Fred G. Acosta Job Corps Center - 1st Floor female dormitory - at around 5 am the toilets sometimes flash by itself. Tucson - Fred G. Acosta Job Corps Center - room 509 - at a strange light seems to come in but all of a sudden it disappears. Tucson - Holaway Elementary - Sightings have been reported to have seen, Mr. Holaway him self, checking rooms, sightings were reported to have been around 11 or 12 at night by janitor! Its said that the janitor waking the school corridor, on his way to clean a room, and he saw a figure of a man trying to unlock a door, so he called out to him, but there was no answer, so he attempted to walk towards him, but as he reached the door the man disappeared! Tucson - Hooters Restaurant, Gotham and The New West nightclub (now closed) - Strange presences and energies felt.(Gotham and the New West are both closed down now due to a gang-related shooting last summer that led to someone's death.)Reports of cold chills and the strong presence of a spirit who would follow you throughout the back part of the club. A former worker at the club for a long time, says he was working the closing shift. He and a few other employees were finishing up for the night. It was around three or four in the morning. He had his back facing the front door when all of a sudden he felt the sensation of a human being coming right toward him! He turned around and immediately swung out his fist instinctively. He says that nobody was there and that "something" went right through him. Tucson - Hotel Congress - One of the rooms in the hotel is haunted by a man who had a heart attack and died. He has been seen looking out of the window. Tucson - an old Jail - People have seen ghost in jail uniforms. In 1800s a woman named Mary-Sue was arrested for a murder that she didn't do. She hung her self by a rope in the jail. Later in 1830s they found out she was not the killer after a man named john was found killing another person and the finger prints match the same killing. Tucson - Pioneer Hotel - Rebuilt after a fire killed trapped occupants on the top floor. It is said top be haunted by the spirits of those who died in the fire. Tucson - Radisson Hotel - Believed to be haunted by a woman that was murdered by her boyfriend when he found out she was seeing another man in the hotel. Witnesses report seeing and hearing a ghost of a girl in the kitchen and around the ballroom area. She seems to be crying or moaning for help. Tucson - Sabino Canyon - Reports of at night there is a ghost of an angry mountain lion or 'wildcat' that will follow you until you reach the main paved road. It is a very heavy, negative presence, often angry. Tucson - Sam Levitz Furniture Store on 36th St. - A long time ago a man was up on one of the racks and tragically fell off of the rack. He fell so may feet below and did not survive the fall. Witnesses have seen the man. He wears a black shirt and a black hat and still thinks he is working. They've also have had a psychic come into the building and try to make him go away but the man will not leave. His appearance usually happens between 4 a.m. & 5 a.m. Tucson - San Manuel - Magma copper mine - Several mine workers have reported seeing lights and workers not having been assigned to their level. One worker reported having another mine worker come into his line and help him work for over 30 minutes only to find out later that there wasn't another worker on that level all day. A mineworker died in a cave in when this mine was first being built and it is said that the body could not be recovered due to the size of the cave in. Tucson - San Xavier Mission - It is said that on the outside of the mission in the artwork on either side of the main doors there is a snake and on the other side a mouse. If the snake catches the mouse the end of time is near. Several people in the area have heard whispers of his story come from a shadowy figure of a man outside the church. He has been seen pointing to each sector as the story is told. Also there has been sighting of an old Padre wondering throughout the church, usually dusk or dawn, the time when candles needed to be lit, or extinguished. Also a specter of a nun is seen leading five children to the chapel from an out building that was once used a schoolhouse. The schoolhouse burnt to the ground killing all inside. It is believed the nun was trying to get the children to safety. Tucson - Tucson High Magnet School - One of the many classrooms in the vocational building has been condemned because of rumors of a student killing himself there. The student now haunts the room. Students and teachers have reported hearing loud taps on the door, cold spots, and eerie footsteps when no one is around. Tucson - Tucson Medical Center - A former worker at Tucson Medical Center for a year experienced strange and unsettling occurrences. This old hospital that dates back to the 1940's holds many secrets. They saw an apparition of an older woman dressed all in black roaming the hall near unit 450. She would walk through the walls and doors of that hall. Also in the same hallway a child would also run through the doors and walls. Also seen a black cat running through the wall of are dept. at various work shifts. There were also many COLD spots in various locations of the hospital. The female co-workers experienced hair and whisper in their ear strange sounds. The office chair with wheels would roll by itself. Tucson - University of Arizona - English Building - Where the building stands now used to be a running track years ago. The body of a woman raped and murdered was found in a well at the edge of the track. The apparition of a woman is often seen through the windows of the locked building late at night, running and panicked, perhaps still trying to escape her attacker. Tucson - Vail High School - There has been rumors of spirit visions in the male restrooms of Vail High School. Sinks turn off and on while toilets tend to flush constantly when no one else is within the room. Teachers have reported an adult male in the restroom, and disappearing without a word in a split second. Whiteriver - Medicine Forest - Screams and cries can be heard in these forest. Also reports of a demon like creature with red eyes can be seen by the river Williams - Old graveyard by Best Western - Weird things show in photos, such as glares at nighttime and threes a high presence of spirits . Winkleman - Hayden-Winkleman Unified School District - It was said that a high school grad from Hayden High School in 1988-1989 was going to be a cheerleader for the Phoenix Cardinals. But she had got caught with marijuana thought she was going to lose her spot as a cheerleader. So she got a gun and committed suicide. The sighting that is known for sure was in about 1998 or 1999 Hayden's softball team had a tournament and one of the teams stayed in the Jr. high gym. They said at about 12:00 am they saw a young girl dressed in a cheer uniform was doing a routine. And as soon she was done she disappeared. There is also another story of a man who lost his life on the Hayden High School football field. He was running the ball and as he was running he got tackled and broke his neck and died instantly. It is said on some nights you will see a football player running the ball and fall and disappear in the football field. Yuma - Mary Elizabeth Post Elementary School - Students often hear and see visions of Mary Post, as she haunts the school. There is also a picture of Mary above the exit doors, and sometimes when you walk out, her eyes will follow. Yuma - Yuma County - Hotel Lee - At least 3 spirits have been seen by guests and employees of the Hotel Lee one of a young teenage girl usually seen late in the evening carrying towels down the back hall. The other is believed to be the original owner of the Hotel she is seen walking the halls late at night and has been known to knock on or rattle the doors of the rooms. The 3rd spirit is that of an Indian woman believed to pre date the hotel. She has been seen hovering above the guests beds and is known to take small screwdrivers and awls later to return them in odd places. Yuma - Yuma Territorial Prison State Historic Park - There are two predominate places within the prison that the spirits were active: the dark cell and the visitors' museum. The dark cell hosts a ghost that likes to pinch; attracted to children and the color red. There are supposedly two spirits in the visitors' museum; a woman who sings quite early in the morning and a poltergeist who likes to play with the money; he's attracted to dimes.