Luke Farrell House: West Mankato |
Haunted Mankato |
Brian and Lorna Dunne |
Legend has it
that the Luke Farrell house in West Mankato is haunted by
the ghost of an old lady. She has been seen on alternate Thursdays in
January walking down the grand staircase. She has also been seen as a
reflection in the hall mirror. During renovations in 1921, a wall was
removed and human bones were found. These bones were said to be of an
old woman who was reported missing by her husband in 1891. Her husband
married the woman's younger sister in 1892. This second wife was later
committed to home for the insane because she said that her older sister had
come back from the dead to haunt her.
Legend has it
that students who work late in Minnesota State University
Memorial Library Room 113
are sometimes visited by a former student asking where her technology
project is. Students who have seen her say that the room also
gets very cold just before she arrives. One
student who was working on a project in the room at 2 AM stated that he
saw her and actually saw her walk though the closed door "Like steam
going back into a kettle."
Legend has it
that a young man who looks like Cory Feldman can be seen
standing on the Main Street bridge on cold summer evenings. Several
people have reported to police that they have seen him jump off of the bridge but
there is never a splash and there is never a ripple in the water below.
A student protester jumped off the bridge during the 1966 Vietnam War
demonstration. He was never seen again. His name was Kory Fieldhand!
Legend has it
that the sprites of the 13 Swedish Americans hanged in
Mankato for starting the Cod Fish Wars of 1877 can be seen sitting and
talking at the river's edge in Sibley park during the evening of
December 24th... the day of the hanging.... at the site of the hanging.
Great Stone House |
Legend has it that voices and singing can be heard along with the smell of a camp fire at the great stone houses in Rasmussin Park on Halloween Eve. On Halloween Eves between 1712 and 1867 eight women were burned as witches on this very spot in Olde Mankatoe. Photographs taken in the early evening of December 12 at the great stone houses are said to reveal the images of Gustave and Madaline Svenring, caretakers of the house murdered in their sleep December 12, 1887! |
Gustave and
Madaline
Svenring (?) |
Legend has it that in the field behind Gage Tower Dorm at Minnesota State there was once an old cemetery and when it gets dark many co-eds have seen a young girl hanging from a tree on the south side of the clearing. Beneath the girl is the shadow of what appears to be her lover. Many say that they have heard him crying softly. They have also seen dark shadows move from headstone to headstone. The headstones are not visible during the day! |
Only known picture of the Gage
Tower Ghost.
Taken in 1921. |