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 areas return to earlier than statehood.  

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

“Which is tough gig there’s so many awesome stories to be told here in Oklahoma,” stated Provine who has written eight books to date on Haunted Oklahoma areas.  

“We’re going to start at number nine: probably one of the most historical and famous stories the spook light up in the northeast part of the state,” stated Provine. “You go out on this country road, and you see a glowing light, some people describe it as big as a beach ball some says it’s just a little spot: red and green and blue all different colors.”               

“Number 8 one of my favorite sights Ft. Washita,” continued Provine.  

The former US army publish in-built 1842 War re-enactors frequent the fort usually getting extra of a historical past lesson than they bargained for. That contains two who had been close to this bridge once they noticed an individual holding a lantern.  

“They said the closer the light got they realized it was a woman and when she got a little closer they realized she had no feet or head,” recalled Longtime Site Manager 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. But there are many others.  

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

“They rode right by him, he waved at them and they just kept riding and they went right through the fence and right to the road,” stated Argo.  

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

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

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

“Whatever it is, it don’t like women,” stated Argo. “The re-enactors who stayed in it had their clothing moved, reshuffled, sometimes torn up.”         

Doors slam, home windows rattle, a lady is usually seen sitting at this desk.  

“We’ve had digital recorders left in here overnight (record) babies crying.”  

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

“They can’t breathe, they get a closed in feeling they can’t stay in there.”  

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

“I’ve seen pictures where mist took the shape of a little girl praying at a grave, I’ve seen mists that look like soldiers in line at the cemetery.”      

But as rapidly as these ghosts disappear so to the tickets. They are already offered out for 2022. Tickets for subsequent 12 months open on October 1 however usually promote out inside a day or two.  

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

“My favorite story about it is the famous country musician Bob Wills still shows up. He famously played there all the time during the 20th century,” stated Provine. “He’s still going on tour. And they recognize him it’s his hat and his outfit. It’s what he wore.”  

Number 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 City.  

“Governor Alfalfa Bill Murray from the 1920’s and 30’s likes to hang out there they say,” stated Provine.  

Number 4 is the forty fifth Infantry Museum. The memorabilia on show right here aren’t the one relics greeting guests. Provine recounts this conversation workers had with a pair friends:  

‘“The guy wearing a WW1 uniform standing out there in the front we tried to chat with him but he just stared and stared so we went on ‘we don’t have any re-enactors’. So, he went to check and there was no one there.’  

A failed government experiment, members of Oklahoma City elite still entertaining decades after their death. Things get even spookier Thursday night when we continue our countdown.  

At number three: The parallel forest. A failed government experiment in the Wichita mountains.  

“It’s supposed to be haunted by these ghostly lights that people follow and get lost over and over again.        

Our number two: an Oklahoma Mansion so grand the former owners just don’t want seem to want to leave. Henry Overholser, often considered the father of Oklahoma City, his wife Anna and young daughter Henry Ione lived in the mansion in the early 1900’s. And many say they still haunt it today.  

Lisa Escalon, the museum manager began working at the museum back in 1993, and now she’s on first name basis with many of the ghosts.  

“I’ve heard my name called many times. It’s a woman and I privy that to Mrs. Overhoser”  

Mrs. Overhoser nonetheless appears to be the primary girl of the home. She will also be usually seen looking the window of the third-floor torrent room and guests generally catch a whiff of her rose fragrance. But a slight scent of tobacco or the sound of whistling is commonly attributed to Mr. Overholser. Even reviews 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 nicely.  

But paranormal investigators recommend lots of the household’s friends might have additionally returned to reside out eternity right here.  

“They have picked up dozens and dozens of I would say types of activity in the home of small children to full grown adults,” stated Preservation Oklahoma Executive Director Chantry Banks.  

Pictures taken through the years present orbs and mysterious photos all through the home. Fortunately, friends, just like the hosts, all appear to be pleasant and useful.  

“I was turning off lights at the end of the night and was being lazy and across the room I said, ‘Ooh it sure would be great if someone would turn these lights off for me’ and the lamp the immediately turned off,” recalled Banks.  

“The number one top haunted sight in Oklahoma I like to say pretty much is all of Guthrie just the whole town,” stated Provine.  

That sounds proper to Stacey Frazier, she’s the founder of the Guthrie Ghost walk that now attracts about one thousand individuals and numerous ghosts a 12 months.   

“It’s the fact that the story become not only possible but plausible that really seems to draw people in,” she stated.  

Stacey says she has about 62 tales.  

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

“Even today it will be the guys that will be walking down the stairs that occasionally talk of someone pushing them and it will be the ladies coming up the step that feel like they get pinched,’ smiled Frazier.  

Then there’s The Stone Lion Inn which used to be a mortuary. Now a bed and breakfast. and the site of many unexplained phenomena. Including voices, furniture moving, doors slamming.  

“There is a cat and it comes trotting down these steps, it turns here, crosses here and goes underneath and then it disappears and we don’t see it more,” says proprietor Rebecca Luker.              

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

“People who sleep in that room the Cora Dial suite often experience an little child coming into the room between 2 and 230 and she pats them on the cheek to get them to come awake and when they come awake there’s no one there but it’s happened time and time again,” stated Luker.  

The Stone Lion Inn, Guthrie Ghost stroll and lots of the different haunts we have now talked about in our countdown supply alternatives to rise up shut and private with the ghosts….for those who dare.