Custom Search Hamburg, Iowa Ghost Sightings Hamburg PAGE 1   2     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   (continued on the next page...) More Hamburg Area Ghost Sightings On The Next Page >> 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 Psychic Predictions Ghost Videos Lies about Hamburg