Hamburg, Iowa Ghost Tales The bluff road north of Hamburg is the known haunt of a betrayed cival war payroll platoon.During the cival war the 11th Calvary regiment of Missouri skirted north to the Hamburg area with a military payrole to avoid capture by Union forces. The reportedly hid in a barn owned by Otis Borcher. During this time the seven soldiers were given quarter and comfort by local confererate sympathizers but eventually greed gave way to all other emotions and several masked individuals set the barn on fire while the soldiers lay seqestered in the hayloft. Because the soldiers were armed the assailents felt that a sneek attack was needed to obtain the gold. Their reasoning was that they could collect the gold after th fire was out and eleminate all evidence of the conferate soldiers. Little did the towns people know but the gold had been hidden prior to the attack my the platoon leader Capt. Adolphus McNutt at a property owned by his family North of Hamburg on the Bluff Road on a ridge above the family homestead known as Tin Pan Hollow.The gold still remains       buried there in an unknown location but the location is rumored to be known to desendants of the family.At certain times of the year the ghost of Captain McNutt can be seen walking from the site of the burned barn on Willow Street to check on the hiding spot of the gold.It is said that the location is marked by a cival war calvalry sword drivin into   the ground up to its hilt on a point on the bluff with the treasure underneath.A cival war sword was found recently by a family decendant who by use of a code written in the family bible was able to acertain the location.The ghost of the soldiers now hunt frantically for the sword....and possibly the treasure also. Submitted by Avon Gardner McNutt       Categories: civil_war, home Submit a ghost sighting for Hamburg, Iowa: Your Name: Write or Paste Input here: Upload picture:       Other haunted towns near Hamburg, Iowa: Sidney, Iowa, 6 miles away Riverton, Iowa, 6 miles away Thurman, Iowa, 12 miles away Percival, Iowa, 12 miles away Farragut, Iowa, 13 miles away Randolph, Iowa, 14 miles away Tabor, Iowa, 14 miles away Malvern, Iowa, 20 miles away Imogene, Iowa, 20 miles away Shenandoah, Iowa, 21 miles away        The latest ghost sightings from around the world All haunted towns and cities in Iowa Lies about Hamburg