Fordland, Missouri Ghost Tales Back in the mid to late 1800's there was a family who lived near Fordland. they were a normal farming family who lived near Hawkins ford. but there was also an old hermit who lived a few hills over in a one room log cabin just big enough to lay down in. he had no money and no personal possessions. he always wore the same clothes and appeared to have never bathed. Many people said he was crazy and all steered clear of him. no one knew his name. and not many people ever saw him. one winter the family started missing live stock such as hogs and chickens. they first thought it was coyotes or wild dogs. so the farmer and his oldest son sat out one night to kill the animals who were attacking their livestock. around two or three a.m. they heard a goat acting up behind the barn the son ran to shoot the coyote or wild dog. he raised his gun and fired. but when he got closer to look at his target he noticed that it was the old hermit man and he nearly blew his whole head off. the father and son took the body somewhere in the woods and buried it.       the father told his son to never tell anyone of what had happened. and they went on with life as if it didn't. a few months later they started finding their goats dead and their heads removed. the family was terrified of noises and other strange events that happened after that and it is thought they moved to Kansas. but ever since then people have   reported seeing a man with the head of a goat wandering through the woods near Hawkins ford. I don't know how this story made it this many years and who told it first the father or the son, but one of them did. a few years back I was hunting around Hawkins and stumbled upon an old foundation of a log cabin that was only about 6 foot by 6 foot. and close by there were many animal bones that could have been deer, dog, calf, hog, or maybe even goat. I don't know if the story is true but I have seen some strange things in those woods. and after seeing that cabin and the bones I think he is real. Submitted by anonymous Submit a ghost sighting for Fordland, Missouri: Your Name: Write or Paste Input here: Upload picture:       Other haunted towns near Fordland, Missouri: Rogersville, Missouri, 6 miles away Oldfield, Missouri, 9 miles away Sparta, Missouri, 9 miles away Strafford, Missouri, 9 miles away Bruner, Missouri, 10 miles away Chadwick, Missouri, 11 miles away Ozark, Missouri, 11 miles away Chestnutridge, Missouri, 15 miles away Fair Grove, Missouri, 15 miles away Garrison, Missouri, 15 miles away        The latest ghost sightings from around the world All haunted towns and cities in Missouri Lies about Fordland