Haunted Oklahoma: The Scariest Spots In Our State

Smells of days passed by. Unexplained awakenings. Visions of people that have been lifeless for many years. The tales of Oklahoma’s haunted places return to earlier than statehood.  

However to search out probably the most haunted we enlisted the assistance of creator Jeff Provine.  

“Which is hard gig there’s so many superior tales to be informed right here in Oklahoma,” mentioned Provine who has written eight books to this point on Haunted Oklahoma places.  

“We will begin at quantity 9: in all probability probably the most historic and well-known tales the spook mild up within the northeast a part of the state,” mentioned Provine. “You exit on this nation street, and also you see a glowing mild, some folks describe it as massive as a seaside ball some says it is just a bit spot: pink and inexperienced and blue all totally different colours.”               

“Quantity 8 one in all my favourite sights Ft. Washita,” continued Provine.  

The previous US navy submit inbuilt 1842 Conflict re-enactors frequent the fort typically getting extra of a historical past lesson than they bargained for. That features two who had been close to this bridge after they noticed an individual holding a lantern.  

“They mentioned the nearer the sunshine received they realized it was a girl and when she received slightly nearer they realized she had no toes or head,” recalled Longtime Web site Supervisor Jim Argo.  

Aunt Jane, a headless ghost, who’s identified to stroll round this a part of the fort is probably the most well-known. However there are many others.  

A safety guard as soon as observed some troopers on horseback.  

“They rode proper by him, he waved at them and so they simply saved driving and so they went proper via the fence and proper to the street,” mentioned Argo.  

A number of re-enactors have noticed an officer on the entrance porch of the barracks watching the solar go down.  

“And when the solar went down the officer disappeared.”  

However the Bohanan cabin is alleged to be probably the most haunted.  

“No matter it’s, it do not like girls,” mentioned Argo. “The re-enactors who stayed in it had their clothes moved, reshuffled, generally torn up.”         

Doorways slam, home windows rattle, a girl is typically seen sitting at this desk.  

“We have had digital recorders left in right here in a single day (file) infants crying.”  

Argo says even those that do not know the haunted historical past of the cabin have felt it.  

“They cannot breathe, they get a closed in feeling they cannot keep in there.”  

The Fort’s ghost tour is a well-liked one. Argo says of us nearly all the time see one thing or catch it on digicam.  

“I’ve seen footage the place mist took the form of slightly woman praying at a grave, I’ve seen mists that seem like troopers in line on the cemetery.”      

However as rapidly as these ghosts disappear so to the tickets. They’re already offered out for 2022. Tickets for subsequent yr open on October 1 however sometimes promote out inside a day or two.  

Quantity seven is Cain’s Ballroom in Tulsa the place the music does not die even when the performers have.  

“My favourite story about it’s the well-known nation musician Bob Wills nonetheless reveals up. He famously performed there on a regular basis in the course of the twentieth century,” mentioned Provine. “He is nonetheless happening tour. And so they acknowledge him it is his hat and his outfit. It is what he wore.”  

Quantity 6 Kendell’s Restaurant in Noble and the lady in black who cooks up mischief within the again room.  

Elected to our quantity 5 place: The Governor’s mansion in Oklahoma Metropolis.  

“Governor Alfalfa Invoice Murray from the 1920’s and 30’s likes to hang around there they are saying,” mentioned Provine.  

Quantity 4 is the forty fifth Infantry Museum. The memorabilia on show right here aren’t the one relics greeting guests. Provine recounts this dialog employees had with a pair visitors:  

‘“The man carrying a WW1 uniform standing on the market within the entrance we tried to speak with him however he simply stared and stared so we went on ‘we have no re-enactors’. So, he went to test and there was nobody there.’  

A failed authorities experiment, members of Oklahoma Metropolis elite nonetheless entertaining many years after their loss of life. Issues get even spookier Thursday night time after we proceed our countdown.  

At quantity three: The parallel forest. A failed authorities experiment within the Wichita mountains.  

“It is alleged to be haunted by these ghostly lights that individuals comply with and get misplaced again and again.        

Our quantity two: an Oklahoma Mansion so grand the previous homeowners simply don’t need appear to wish to go away. Henry Overholser, typically thought of the daddy of Oklahoma Metropolis, his spouse Anna and younger daughter Henry Ione lived within the mansion within the early 1900’s. And lots of say they nonetheless hang-out it right this moment.  

Lisa Escalon, the museum supervisor started working on the museum again in 1993, and now she’s on first title foundation with lots of the ghosts.  

“I’ve heard my title known as many instances. It is a girl and I privy that to Mrs. Overhoser”  

Mrs. Overhoser nonetheless appears to be the primary woman of the home. She may also be typically seen searching the window of the third-floor torrent room and guests generally catch a whiff of her rose fragrance. However a slight odor of tobacco or the sound of whistling is commonly attributed to Mr. Overholser. Even stories of girlish pranks and a small footprint that mysteriously appeared within the mud this previous winter appear to be indicators {that a} younger Henry Ione is right here as effectively.  

However paranormal investigators recommend lots of the household’s visitors could have additionally returned to reside out eternity right here.  

“They’ve picked up dozens and dozens of I’d say sorts of exercise within the residence of babies to full grown adults,” mentioned Preservation Oklahoma Govt Director Chantry Banks.  

Footage taken through the years present orbs and mysterious photographs all through the home. Luckily, visitors, just like the hosts, all appear to be pleasant and useful.  

“I used to be turning off lights on the finish of the night time and was being lazy and throughout the room I mentioned, ‘Ooh it certain can be nice if somebody would flip these lights off for me’ and the lamp the instantly turned off,” recalled Banks.  

“The primary prime haunted sight in Oklahoma I prefer to say just about is all of Guthrie simply the entire city,” mentioned Provine.  

That sounds proper to Stacey Frazier, she’s the founding father of the Guthrie Ghost stroll that now attracts about one thousand folks and numerous ghosts a yr.   

“It is the truth that the story turn into not solely potential however believable that basically appears to attract folks in,” she mentioned.  

Stacey says she has about 62 tales.  

Ivan the barber is a well-liked one. When alive he had a behavior of pinching younger girls.  

“Even right this moment it will likely be the fellows that can be strolling down the steps that often speak of somebody pushing them and it will likely be the women arising the step that really feel like they get pinched,’ smiled Frazier.  

Then there’s The Stone Lion Inn which was once a mortuary. Now a mattress and breakfast. and the positioning of many unexplained phenomena. Together with voices, furnishings transferring, doorways slamming.  

“There’s a cat and it comes trotting down these steps, it turns right here, crosses right here and goes beneath after which it disappears and we do not see it extra,” says proprietor Rebecca Luker.              

The ghost of 7-year-old Irene appears to generate probably the most consideration.  

“Individuals who sleep in that room the Cora Dial suite typically expertise an little little one coming into the room between 2 and 230 and he or she pats them on the cheek to get them to come back awake and after they come awake there is no one there nevertheless it’s occurred time and time once more,” mentioned Luker.  

The Stone Lion Inn, Guthrie Ghost stroll and lots of the different haunts we’ve got talked about in our countdown supply alternatives to rise up shut and private with the ghosts….when you dare.