These are the most recent ghost sightings in Iowa
Estherville, Iowa - In the late 1990s I rented a house in the country about 2.5 miles south of Ft. Defiance Park (the way the crow flies). One Sunday night I went to bed early and was having trouble getting to sleep. Suddenly out of nowhere a very bright ''spiraling sha...
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Des Moines, Iowa - We built our home twenty years ago in West Des Moines. It was built on farmland. My children and I started to notice strange things happening within a couple of years of moving in. Little things that happened were doorknobs turning, doors opening, th...
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Sioux City, Iowa - I live in Sioux City and work nights as a press operator at ''the newspaper.'' When I first started about ten years ago I kept thinking that I was seeing a person (shadow figure) behind the press which was about 70 feet long with a walkway behind it....
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Clarinda, Iowa - I, for a fact, know that the tunnels in the old Clarinda Mental Health facility are haunted. I had to do a six-month treatment program back in 1985 at a place called the Quarter-way Program. While in the program they gave you jobs. I started out in t...
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Murray, Iowa - My husband and I moved to town a year before we got married and rented the house on Lyon Street. From the time we moved in, strange things occurred. The house is near railroad tracks, and I attributed many of the occurrences to effects of the passing...
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Washington, Iowa - We (my wife and our three children) recently started camping at a very primitive spot in Washington County, IA called Sockum Ridge. We were so fed up with overcrowded and over priced campgrounds, so we called the Washington County Conservation Board ...
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Storm Lake, Iowa - I am a 2010 graduate of Buena Vista University. I played football and am not usually so worked up about paranormal experiences until I had my own. My senior year I lived in the basement of Pierce Hall. My room was in the middle of the hallway in the ...
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Keokuk, Iowa - I lived on High Street (a house built in the 1800s by General Samuel Curtis, famous for the battle of Pea Ridge) for close to five years. When we first moved in, the first things we noticed was that the carriage house lights upstairs would turn on du...
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Des Moines, Iowa - I was released from four years of incarceration and paroled to my Grandmother's house just outside of Carlisle, Iowa. To begin with the house was built in the 1880s. Anyway I was so happy to be out. I recently went through a much needed divorce and w...
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Hartford, Iowa - I don't have pictures, but I lived with my family in Hartford, Iowa when I was around four years old. I lived on a corner lot. The house is not there anymore. It was across from the park with the gazebo and caddy corner from the old store on the Main...
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Burlington, Iowa - I cannot necessarily state that I have seen a ghost in my home, but I have sensed his presence since we moved here. Our home was a complete dump about two to three years before we took possession. The previous owners completely overhauled it and rent...
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Davenport, Iowa - From the early age of ten till I was eighteen my family lived in a haunted house here in the Quad Cities. I'm afraid I can't tell you the location out of respect for the current occupants. On numerous occasions you would have a knock at the door, but...
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