Historic haunted places in Council Bluffs, IA. Each page gives the ghost story, whether visitors can go, and a link to the site the story came from. The stories are folklore, not documented fact.
Fairview is home to the Black Angel, the 1918 Ruth Anne Dodge Memorial sculpted by Daniel Chester French, which is wrapped in curse legends. Visitors say the angel's eyes follow th…
Union general and railroad engineer Grenville M. Dodge built this Second Empire mansion in 1869. Folklore includes the sound of a rocking chair in the upstairs study, a man in peri…
Open to the public (museum tours; after-hours paranormal investigations).
This is the only three-story rotary jail ever built, and it is now a National Historic Landmark. Visitors and investigators report footsteps, doors opening and closing, voices, and…
The free railroad museum occupies the city's 1905 Beaux-Arts Carnegie Library. Reports there include objects found moved, shadow figures, and a sense of someone present.