Arnold - Arnold Cemetery - Little history can be found on this cemetery. Out of 128 original acres, only two remain due to subdivisions built around it. The cemetery sits upon the crest of a hill and there are burials within the overgrown wooded slopes of it. Paranormal activity include shadowy figures and cold spots.

Barnhart - Haunted Burgess Cemetery - Located on Highway M off of I-55 near Barnhart behind a church. Orbs and ectoplasm have been photographed at this haunted graveyard.

Barnhart - Haunted Town of Barnhart - Located south of St. Louis. From where Hwy 270 meets I-55, take I-55 south for 12 miles and exit onto CR M (it's also the exit for the town of Antonia.) Turn left or east on CR M road and go down it .7 miles, it will dead end onto US 61 (also known as US67 on some maps). Turn right or south on US 61 and go down it for .4 miles and exit to your right or north onto Willing Street. Take it for .2 miles and turn left onto the local road that runs to downtown Barnhart. Barnhart is almost a ghost town nowdays, the story here is that the ghosts of children's voices are heard in this haunted town.

Desoto - Haunted Vineland Elementary - At night it is said that a ghost roams the hallways at night and the staff has seen weird things at night! A Grandmother tells the story of many years ago as a girl, she had snuck out of her house to see her boyfriend in the middle of the night and walking past the school she saw a ghostly arm coming out of one of the windows. Desoto - Haunted House Off Vineland Road - If you travel down that road day or night there is said to be a haunted house that used to be owned by a man that owned slaves. They say you can hear voices and see lights and if you walk in the house be very careful because it is very old and not in good condition. They say if you pull up to the columns entering the driveway not to go between them or past them or you will not get out.

Desoto - Abandoned House On McKissock Street- The old two-story house on this street sat vacant for many years. Nobody remembers how many years it had been deserted, but it was a long, long time ago. The windows had been broken out by vandals and the house was crumbling with decay. No human being could possibly live in the house in that condition and none did. Yet time and time again, passerbys witnessed the image of a woman carrying a coal lantern down the stairs. She would go into the former kitchen of the home and then return back up the stairs and disappear. The house was eventually torn down to make room for progress. No one knows what became of the restless ghost. Desoto - Administrations Building - This building is reported to be haunted by a girl who committed suicide on the third floor. Desoto - Lady In Black - A mysterious lady in black often appeared on the street corners at night. No one seemed to know anything about this strange woman. She wore a long, black hat with a dark veil covering her face. She often appeared and disappeared from the vicinity of Boyd Street, anywhere from Main to fifth for a period of six years or more. So who was this intriguing lady in black? Some amateur sleuths believe it was simply a woman in disguise spying on her unfaithful husband. She supposedly was never seen again after 1921. Whatever happened to her remains a mystery. Theres also some conflicting reports of a woman who dressed in black that haunts East Kelley near the old depot. Some believe the woman's name was Shrum. She is often seen at the old depot or walking near the old bridge on East Kelley.

Picture of real ghost (apparition) captured sitting in a graveyard.

Desoto - Steve Pepitone House - Located on 5th and Pratt. Mr. Pepitone has seen the spirit of a woman in a mirror. She is said to be a former owner of the house.

Desoto - Vineland Elementary - It is said that ghost roams the hallways at night! The staff has seen weird things at night! A Grandmother tells the story of many years ago as a girl, she had snuck out of her house to see her boy friend in the middle of the night and walking past the school she saw a ghostly arm coming out of one of the windows.

Desoto - Haunted Arlington Bed & Breakfast Inn. - Located at 207 East Main Street between East Clement and Rankin Street. It was first known as The Desoto House when it was built in 1860. Orb photos have been taken in the basement of this haunted Bed & Breakfast.

Festus - Festus Middle School - A little boy was hung in the gym while doing Peter Pan. Students have gone down there when it is dark and they have been contacted by the ghost of this little boy.

Festus - Haunted Rail Road Crossing - Located on old Hwy A, also called Hillsboro Road. From I-55 take Old Hwy A west for 1.9 miles to the rail road crossing marked on the map as Silica. This location is reported to be haunted after a fatal traffic accident occurred when an automobile was struck by a passing train. A ghostly couple haunt the railroad tracks. They are sometimes seen holding hands. More details can be found here and here.

Herculaneum - This one is located at a small bridge on McNutt School Rd. in Herculaneum, just west of I-55. Take the west service road past the car dealerships, turn right onto McNutt School Rd. about a mile or less past the state emissions station. The story is that an old farmer was looking for his cattle late at night during a storm, was caught up in flood waters and never seen again. If you sit on the bridge late at night and look to the north through the woods, you can sometimes see his lantern coming up the creek. I ...might....have seen it twice in the early seventies, both times it scared the h*ll out of me, many people who grew up during that time are familiar with the ghost bridge. -- Larry Linhorst

High Ridge - There is a cemetery in High Ridge off Rock Creek Rd.. It's the old St. John Cemetery dated back before the Civil War. I have seen shadows and an old lady walking around an old tomb stone dated back before 1860. The cemetery is about 2.5 miles back on Rock Creek Rd.. From highway 30 there is the old St. John Church on the left and just as you go around the curve the old cemetery is on your left. -- Martin Lucas

Hillsboro - Goldman Road - Three foggy looking, elliptical forms about 8 foot in height have been seen in the middle of Goldman Road. As this person was driving the objects rose over their car and back into the roadway. As the car passed under them it became very cold, even with the heater on. There are also stories of a woman and small child being killed on this road and during rainy nights they can sometimes be seen on the side of the road walking. If one goes back they will have disappeared.

Hillsboro - Schubel House - On the second floor, people would be working and strange things would happen. This house is located on Maple Street, next to the police station.

Kimmswick - Haunted Cemetery, located on the north side of Kimmswick on Montebello Camp Road. Theodore Kimm, founder of Kimmswick, is buried here as is his wife and child. Cold chills and uneasy feelings have been reported here. A glowing fog has been seen rising from the oldest grave.

Kimmswick - Kimmswick Bridge - Rumored to be haunted. Pics of orbs taken here.

Pevely - Haunted Girl Scout Camp - As you first enter the gate to the camp, the first set of tents you come to is to the left. Many years ago it was storming very bad one night one of the girls needed to a shower. So she walked to the shower house about 6 or 7 yards from the tents. In girl scouts you have to use the buddy system and she didn?t. She was told to wait till morning and chose not to. She was struck by lightning in the shower house. She was found the next morning burned so badly it was hard to identify her. They don't use the old shower house any more. Late at night if you sit outside you tent you can see a girl wrapped in a towel walking back from the shower house.

Pevely - Haunted Jarvis Road - Hi my names is Shelby Ketchum. I have my own story about something that I saw when I was about 9 or 10. My mom and I where coming home one night down Jarvis from Z highway. About midway up the hill, just past Meadow Road, is when things started getting wierd. A fog appeared at the top hill, slowly moving from the right side of the road to the left. My mom stopped right there in the middle of the road so we could see the top of the hill but nothing beyond that. As soon as the fog rolled out is when we saw the boy. He was on a bike just going around in circles as if we weren't there. The thing that sticks out in my mind was that he was gray and so was the bike, just gray .... completely gray. I don't know how long we watched him, but after going around a few times he cut off going towards the part of the road that we couldn't see. As in all good ghost story's, when we stopped at the top of the hill to look for him he was gone. I never really told anyone about or really thought of it much until a friend told me the story of the ghost of a little boy on a bike who died on Jarvis.

Pevely - Haunted Christina House - Located just northeast of town at the end of Abbey Monastery Road where it dead ends at the railroad tracks overlooking the river. It's not located in the vision of peace, but rather the other road (gravel/dirt) on the left. Keep your eyes open, since the road has trees and left over things from the house in the way. Founded by Sister Miriam in 1974 as a house of prayer, ministry and hermitage. The building was later named named Christina House after a little girl who had recently died. -- False Reported Location

Derek Watson in a May 2009 email submitted the best proof yet of the former Christina House. He can be reached at dwatson90@live.com. He had stated "The Christina house in Pevely is off of Koch Valley Road. I have been back there and as I was walking out when I heard voices, scared voices, and as I took off in a run to get out of there I dropped off of a underground structure nearly 4 feet, bending my one leg backwards while the other one was straight, and tearing ligaments in my knee and hip. All the while the voices around me persisted, not angry or playful, terrified voices. There's a couple ways to get back there but any trail you find on the left side of the road over the first bridge will lead you there. Find Bushburg on google maps in Pevely, go until it splits into Old Sulphur Springs and Koch Valley, there are two Koch Valley Roads if you switch it to topographic, there will be a creek on the SOUTHERN Koch Valley rd, switch back to satellite go down a little bit and you will find a black square (pool) and a grayish-brown area, the actual ruins. (see map) The one falsely reported on your site IS AN ACTUAL MONESTARY THAT STILL EXISTS! MONKS STILL INHABIT THIS MONESTARY! That is property of a monestary. The Christina House has a pool, this area doesn't." ( Pic 1 / Pic 2 / Pic 3 / Pic 4 / Pic 5 / Pic 6 / Pic 7 / Pic 8 )

Amanda Lore, from Pevely, MO, stated in a February 2007 email "what really happened was 8 year old christina was posessed and killed her mother and father. Then after that, she hung herself. I went recently with a friend and a blue flaoting light came after them. It was odd, because no footsteps could be heard. The house is torn down but a pool and the basement is all that is left. The pool is very huanted. You can disregard the no trespassing sign, since the cops really don't care anymore due to the fact that they can't keep all of the visitors away." Legends of paranormal activity from this site remain undocumented.

Pevely - Haunted Rock House - It is said that slaves were taken through an underground tunnel to that house. The house sits on top of a hill, and it is rumored that the slaves were buried at the bottom of the hill. Now homes sit at the bottom of the hill, and weird noises and ghoslty incidents occur in some of those homes.

Rush Tower - Haunted Graveyard - I know of a graveyard in Jefferson County that is close to our horse barn (the grave yard is on the nieghbors property) and everytime I take pictures of the horses up in the barn there are orbs in the pictures. Not just sometimes but all the time. I first thought something was wrong with my camera but as it turn out it is not the camera. There is no road to the graveyard, it is on private property but some of the headstones date back into the 1800's. It is in southern Jefferson County off of Hwy 61 onto Hwy AA. If you turn left onto Hwy AA from Hwy 61 south you go past Big Hollow Rd and it is up on the hill to the east. Or if you go down Big Hollow Rd and go around the curve it is back to the left through the trees. Another "happening" that took place one morning last year (2008) in the late fall early winter. It was early and it was still dark but just starting to break dawn when I went to the barn to feed the horses that are in the barn. The horses that are out in the field can come up to the pen by the barn and sometimes they do. Now keep in mind that I have paint horses, so they have white on there body. This particular morning as I was walking to the barn I had seen a big "white patch" moving along the fence toward the field behind the barn. I didn't think anything about it or pay a hole lot of attention, just thought it was one of the horses walking. I went in and flipped on the light and fed the horses in the barn. A few minutes later I walked out to dump out a water bucket and it has lightened up enough now to see better and I noticed that the other horses were not up by the barn. You can hear them when they come up the hill to the barn or are going back down they make alot of noise with the leaves and rocks. I was more than a little surprized becuase I thought I had seen one of them walking earlier. It is then that I realized that it couldn't have been and I wished I had paid more attention. Was it a ghost? I think so............... Lydia Stegall.

Valles Mines - Haunted Railroad Tunnel - The ghost of a man named Bill is said to haunt this tunnel. Located 2.5 miles south of Valles Mines. From just west of town where Valles Mines Road (also called Cole Rd) meets Sunrise School Road drive south for 1 mile on Valles Mines Rd, you will pass a cemetery on your left. Exit Valles Mines Road by turning left or south (road not shown on this map) but its where Valles Mines Road turns sharply west and continue south for another 1.5 miles along this local road until it dead ends. The tunnel will be on your right.

Valles Mines - Lost History Museum - located at 14115 Valles Mines School Road 63087. At this location, there are reports of a ghost that has been seen at the windows of this historic home which dates back to 1749. It was the home of Francois Vallee, and during the Civil War a shoot out between Union and Confederate troops took place here. The ghost is said to pull people's hair and paranormal photos have been taken.

Your JeffCo Place - Do you know of any haunted places in Jefferson County, MO not on this list? If so, then send me the details and your creepy destination may just get added to this list. Webmaster@MissouriScenicRivers.com!

Special Mention - Though not in Jefferson County, I feel compelled to mention a site in St. Louis County called Zombie Road (map). This location is riddled with shadow people (see video here). Most are children who died for one reason or another in this area. If you want to watch the entire video, you can get the DVD (highly recommended!) here.

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