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This civil war type haunted spot, located at the intersection of Hwy. 8 and Hwy. 97 near Warren Arkansas, is rumored to be the playground of departed civil war soldiers. A civil war battlefield is nearby, and so is a state park, and that probably doesn’t hurt the story any. The legend is an old one, and any real details have been lost to time. Might be worth the look, though… but only if you are already in the neighborhood.

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Highway 365 is one of those famous haunted highway cases. Apparently, every now and then, a motorist will stop and pick up a hitchhiker on this highway. The girl will ask for a ride home. When they arrive, the driver turns and the girl is gone. If the driver actualy knocks on the door of the house, the girl’s mother answers, and says that her daughter was killed a while back in a car accident, and that this has been happening ever since.

(I don’t know if this story was the inspiration for Rick Springfield’s song “Misty Water Woman”, or maybe the song inspired the legend, but the story is almost identical to the lyrics of that song.)

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Josie Arlington was a notorious New Orleans madam, though other than her rather unsavory occupation, it isn’t clear that she was involved in anything else illegal. Her date of birth has been lost to time, presumably because, in her profession, you just didn’t tell. She died in 1914 and was buried in Metairie Cemetary in New Orleans (I have no idea how this particular cemetary fared when Katrina hit… ).Soon after her death, locals became convinced that her crypt was haunted. The statue of the woman in front of the crypt was said to take on a life of it’s own and wander the graveyard at night. It was discovered upon investigation that a nearby streetlamp, coupled with the wind, was casting an eerie glow on the statue, presumably causing the rumors. She was at some point moved to an undisclosed location in the same cemetary, and the rumors stopped.

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Located in the approximate center of the Arkansas State University campus, Wilson Hall is one of the older buildings. It is said that when the building was new, a flight of poorly built stairs collapsed, killing a young female student. She is said to wander the halls at night, checking to make sure the stairs are safe for use. Also, lights are said to move from one room to another at night, when no one is inside the locked building.

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Judge Parker, better known as THE HANGING JUDGE, was responsible for the hanging deaths of more thn 80 convicts in the Fort Smith area. The old court house where he passed his judgements, and where the hangings were carried out, is now a museum. Among other things, you can hear the pounding of Judge Parker’s gavel in the old court room, and the hangman exhibit, which is supposedly i the same location as the old gallows, has nooses that sway on their own when there is no wind. Parker is said to walk the halls, as are the eighty plus men he sentenced to hang.

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I have been to this one personally, in the dead of night, and I can confirm that THIS ghost story, at least, is an optical illusion. Rumors about the Bono Bridge have been floating around for years, with different reasons for the supposed hauntings. But the main story involves a dead railroad man (the bridge is an old one lane wooden bridge over railroad tracks, not water) and his wish to take anyone on the bridge into the afterlife with him. Supposedly, if you are there at night standing on the bridge when the train passes under it, if you are there on the WRONG night, the train will rise from the tracks and you will, essentially, become a bug on the windshield. Prayer is supposed to keep you from dying by making the train sink back to the tracks.

This ghost story relies on the “there are no atheists in foxholes” idea, because it is a self fullfilling prophect. The tracks approaching the bridge go over a small rise, then down into acutout area to go under the bridge. Because of the rise and the fast dip, at night it DOES look like the train is rising up to kill you. Then, presumably as you pray, it sinks down and goes through the dip under the bridge, which rattles your teeth loose but leaves you otherwise intact.

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Since I am FROM Arkansas, I decided to start my reporting with ghostly occurrences in my home state, and Batesville is great for that. I live less than sixty miles from that town, and grew up hearing the stories. Lyon College has a long history, and plenty of ghosts to choose from.

The college wasn’t always a college. It began as an orphanage, and the orphanage burned down sometime near the turn of the last century.  They say that, late at night, you can hear a rocking chair slowly creaking back and forth in the empty chaple. And, of you are foolish enough to be in te auditorium late at night, the walls will appear to be burning down around you. There are even those who swear that you can feel the heat of the fire when this happens. Also at night, in and near the chapel, children’s voices can be heard, first laughing, and then screaming in terror.

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