Haunted Houses?

SychoBC · Post by **SychoBC** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 10:32 am

Other than Mystery Manor downtown and The Shadows Edge at Mangelsen's, does anyone know where some other Haunted Houses are located?

Post by **Brad** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 10:37 am

29th and Levenworth on the south side. Its a really scary looking place called Sheri's. Never Been there, I am too scared to go in.

Adam · Post by **Adam** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 10:52 am

Haunted Hallow on 120th and Giles is pretty good. It's in a creepy old farm house. I would say that this is one of the best in the area.

the1wags · Post by **the1wags** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 11:50 am

Good one Brad. Im thinking its probably REAL scary in there.

DTO Luv · Post by **DTO Luv** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 12:40 pm

Me and my brother were talking about that place since he moved in not far from there. He said the girls were so bad that it would take 12 of them to equal 1 dancer at another club.

Adam · Post by **Adam** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 2:05 pm

I recall jogging past there one night a couple years ago and seeing a woman/stripper walk out that weighed about 90lbs and had 2-3 teeth. I'm guessing she was dancing to help supply a drug addiction. Pretty nasty!

Post by **Brad** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 2:08 pm

Is Creighton going to buy Mystery Manor? I seen some people outside there the other day, getting ready for the season.

Big E · Post by **Big E** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 2:17 pm

Adam wrote:I recall jogging past there one night a couple years ago and seeing a woman/stripper walk out that weighed about 90lbs and had 2-3 teeth. I'm guessing she was dancing to help supply a drug addiction. Pretty nasty!

You could ascertain her weight and dental condition while "jogging by"?

I bet.

-Big E

Omababe · Post by **Omababe** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 2:21 pm

Now when I lived in that neighborhood, which was 20-some years ago, that place was known as the Walking Cane, kind of a neighborhood bar with a CW twist. It really wasn't very classy back then either.

GaryFL · Post by **GaryFL** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 9:43 pm

GENTLEMEN PREFER SHERIS DANCERS 12 TO 1

Apparently Sheri's opens at noon, and all the other skin bars open at 1.

the1wags · Post by **the1wags** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 10:10 pm

DTO Luv · Post by **DTO Luv** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 10:57 pm

Wow. For years I thought that guys have actually prefered Sheri's Dancers 12 to 1. It never even occurred to me those were the hours. Apparently my brother is as slow as I am.

Looking at that picture it makes sense though. All you would normally see of that building is the "12 to 1" side from the one way street. You wouldn't see the side where it says noon if you were driving by.

ricko · Post by **ricko** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 2:16 am

Re: Haunted places in Omaha.

There's a house near 90th & Pacific that is haunted---supposedly by the woman who died there years ago, and she evidently is very active. My sister knows the priest who blessed the house (can't divulge the exact location since people still live there).

The ghost of a female hermit named Fay (or Faye) Hogan, who was reputed to have dabbled in black magic about a hundred years ago, haunts an area near where her old shack used to be (supposedly beneath the Omaha side of the Mormon Bridge near the river). The name was adopted by a band in the late 60's and early 70's (the Fay Hogan Experiment---probably the best hippie band at the time in the area).

The Mormon Cemetery is supposed to be real active as well.

Boo!

ricko · Post by **ricko** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 2:21 am

Oops.

I just realized you all were talking about Halloween/Charity fundraiser type haunted houses, not the real thing---sorry.

cdub · Post by **cdub** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 7:20 am

Rod Kush's at 72nd and L has a haunted house.

nebport5 · Post by **nebport5** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 11:07 pm

ricko wrote:Oops.

I just realized you all were talking about Halloween/Charity fundraiser type haunted houses, not the real thing---sorry.

yeah but I think you stumbled upon a more interesting topic.

Haunted Omaha (the coffee table book)

Coyote · Post by **Coyote** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 11:15 pm

Back in the late 70's when I was in High School there was a great Haunted House west of 144th south of Center.
Of course OakView Mall was years in the future so this was like 168th and Giles.
I have never had more fun than scaring the |expletive| out of kids. You have to do this just once in your life.
I still laugh my |expletive| off thinking about those memories.

Big E · Post by **Big E** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 7:50 am

Coyote wrote:I have never had more fun than scaring the |expletive| out of kids. You have to do this just once in your life.
I still laugh my |expletive| off thinking about those memories.

LOL... what a |expletive|.

:thumb:

omahastylee459 · Post by **omahastylee459** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 1:25 pm

I always enjoyed FrightZone/Fear Factory in north downtown, at the time I think those were the best haunted houses around. There is usually a haunted house on 72nd and Blondo, it may have been called the Edge of Darkness, I cant remember for sure though. I would bet that there will be another one there this year. Also there used to be one called Fright Fest on 42nd and Grover, not sure if that one will reopen this year.

ladyred · Post by **ladyred** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 10:26 pm

yeah but I think you stumbled upon a more interesting topic.

Haunted Omaha (the coffee table book)[/quote]

http://eomahaforums.com/phpBB/viewtopic ... ht=haunted

hockeyfan · Post by **hockeyfan** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 3:24 pm

I live right off of 73rd and Parker. The Haunted House on 73rd and Blondo was called "Haunt". Up until 2 weeks ago they still had a sign out front of the building, and then one day it was replaced with a "For Sale" sign. Guess there not having it this year...

Coyote · Post by **Coyote** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 8:49 pm

Alpha School - The building can be empty except for you and the floor will creek and footsteps can be heard. Doors will close for no reason. Strange noises are always heard.

Brother Sebastian's - "The Regular" Bill Wolcott was an older gentleman who, for years, dined at Brother Sebastian's almost every evening. Wolcott had his peculiarities: he often dressed in a formal smoking jacket complete with an ascot tie; he always dined in the lounge, always at the same seat. Unfortunately, Wolcott was stricken with cancer. Although treatments were painful he continued to dine at Brother Sebastian's, even while he was hospitalized. When Wolcott became so ill that he could no longer swallow solid food, the kitchen staff pureed his meals for him. At some point during this time Wolcott began draping a towel over his head while he was in public; but for some reason he was drawn to his favorite dining spot. Wolcott, it appears, felt so comfortable at Brother Sebastian's that he continues to frequent the restaurant even after his death. The last report of Wolcott's ghost occurred on the night of the restaurant’s grand re-opening. A woman seated in one of the back dining rooms complained that someone was staring at her and making her uncomfortable. The "Someone" to whom she referred was the face of an old man that the woman claimed was in the stones that make up the wall of the room. Two of the staff also witnessed, late one night after the restaurant was closed and all the doors were locked. They were the only people inside, they saw a swinging door at the rear of the bar open fully, stopped moving as if someone were walking through the threshold, and closed. Anyone who has been inside the building knows that a random wind breezing through to swing doors open and closed is unlikely: Just like the original building (before the 1995 fire), the new structure has no windows. Sometimes in restaurants an employee closes the establishment one night and opens the business the following morning. More than one server has stated that a candle that they knew was snuffed out the previous night was burning the next morning.

Central High - on the main floor when you walk the hallways by the deans office on weekends or nights, drop temperature even when the heater is on. keep walking down and if you brought someone you will here "I know your here" and if you brought three or more people you will here "I know your all here." then you will see a white blur fly past you down the hallway near the deans office. if you look in the window you might see a shadowy figure wave to you. It is possible this was a former dean or janitor. The ghost sounds like a janitor because you might here broom sweeps in the hallway, but it seems like a dean because it waves in the dean’s office when the door was locked. Be patient, they are sure to show up. Also heard creaking at a distance and wheels moving on wooden floors.

Hummel Park - In Omaha, there is a city park on the northern outskirts named Hummel Park. The background of this park is very macabre to begin with. In the early 1900's, Lynch mobs would ride through town and hang or otherwise mutilate any black people that happened to be in sight. They hung so many black people that the trees still bow over the road leading to Hummel Park. The weird part is that young trees and even the grass lean toward the road outside the park and even inside the park. Apparitions, mists, Indian drums playing at night, wolves howling. Supposed old Indian burial grounds on sight. Also, reports of the morphing stairs. It is a staircase which is roughly 200 stairs long. The word, “roughly” is used because every time you go up and or down it you will count a different number of stairs. There is a staircase at Hummel Park that if you walk up to the top and count the stairs going up, it will be less than the number of stairs going down, it is called the stairway to heck because of this. There have been many reports of animal sacrificings in the park. There is also a cult of albinos that live in the park, supposedly. But be careful of crazy people out there if you decide to go.

Lynch Park - You go there and you can hear footsteps of people running and the crying of a baby. One witness heard a man screaming saying,” It’s so cold, help me," and you could swear that you felt a man grab your leg.

Millard North High - There is a hallway by the south doors where the janitors had a smoking room downstairs. One-day student snuck down there to smoke a cigarette. He smoked his cigarette and was on his way out. There was told to be a puddle of water by the door and he slipped and hit his head. He died instantly. It's shut off to students and personal now but if you walk down that hallway you'll smell stale cigarette smoke and hear a crashing sound underneath you.

Mystery Manor - This commercial haunted house is supposed to be actually haunted by several spirits. Visitors to the Halloween events have reported a 'lady in a blue dress' near the end of the tour who is not a staff member. The owners also mention other phenomena happening during the rest of the year. Their website is - http://www.mysterymanoromaha.org and they discuss these events there.

O'Hanlon house - footsteps and pounding on the front door are the main events here.

Omaha South High School - At Omaha South High School, there is a ghost. The ghost's name is Gus. About 20-25 years ago there was a tornado drill. So everyone had to go to the "Catacombs" as we call them. This was a part of the building that was built when the performing arts part of the building was built. It was the 50's so it was built, to be a nuclear fallout shelter. Well during this tornado drill everyone went down to the catacombs. Gus, a janitor for the Performing Arts part of the building, thought that they would be there for a while. So he went to the "Rat Room" to get some provisions for everyone. He closed the door behind him, went to get a barrel of food, when it fell on him, and crushed his head. He was not found until he had been dead for a while. Now Gus still roams the Performing Arts section of the building, even after it was remolded about 10 years ago. The strange thing is that if you are in a play there and you don't believe in Gus he will mess you up. As in you mess up your lines, cues, entrances, etc. He also likes to be in the Green Room, which is right next to the Catacombs; he leaves lights on and open doors.

The White House Apartments - These apartments used to be an old hospital. It is said that some of the tenents who lived on the main floor has seen a lady in a long white gown walking the hallway.

Post by **Brad** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 9:05 pm

I still want to take a can of spray paint and number the stupid stairs at hummel park...

Coyote · Post by **Coyote** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 9:10 pm

Just get those albinos to do it for you.

Post by **Brad** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 9:12 pm

You mean the ones that sleep on that blanket in the woods that the day camp councilors throw out there.

Coyote · Post by **Coyote** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 9:15 pm

Yep - those guys. I don't know how many here ever went to camp there. I was a kid in the 60's and went to summer camp there.

Post by **Brad** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 9:19 pm

Coyote wrote:Yep - those guys. I don't know how many here ever went to camp there. I was a kid in the 60's and went to summer camp there.

I did one time in the late 80's I didn't care for it.

Coyote · Post by **Coyote** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 9:31 pm

xxtyderxx · Post by **xxtyderxx** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 1:08 am

Scary Acres on 172nd & Giles. I also saw a new one as I was getting on I680 down in some business area from W Dodge I think.

Coyote · Post by **Coyote** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 10:34 pm

This brings back memories :

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ricko · Post by **ricko** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 9:08 pm

Best late-nite sci-fi movie host ever.

Coyote · Post by **Coyote** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 9:14 pm

For a local personality I would have to say that he rates high in Omaha folklore.

Speaking of Haunted places - Does anyone know what or who that Hearse is that parks on 120th and Giles these evenings leading up to Holloween? I pass by it every evening on my way home from work but can't see what is written on the side.

omahastylee459 · Post by **omahastylee459** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 9:26 pm

The City Weekly had a special this week on all the haunted houses opening up. There were a couple new ones along with all the ones they normally have around town. The new one that looked kind of promising is the Carnival of Terror opening up on 108th and Dodge in the old Guitars and Cadillacs building. There was another one on 109th and Harrison I think that I had never heard of.

Coyote · Post by **Coyote** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 2:25 am

Finally figured out what that Hearse is doing on 120th and Giles. As the second post on here suggests it is for Haunted Hollow:
http://www.hauntedhollowomaha.net/ a 100 year old house that has three spirits in it:
http://www.doyouseedeadpeople.org/inv_h ... ollow.html

Coyote · Post by **Coyote** » Sun May 22, 2011 3:12 pm

Bio Channel will present an evening of premieres Saturday, June 18, starting with the only series on TV in which celebrities share their real-life ghost experiences, “Celebrity Ghost Stories,” in the season premiere, Regis Philbin spends the night in a notorious haunted house; actor Harry Hamlin’s proposal is foiled by a ghost; actress Ana Gasteyer sees spirits residing in a theater she performs in; and model and actress Jaime King is attacked by an evil entity in her family’s Omaha, Neb., home.

omaha79 · Post by **omaha79** » Wed Nov 09, 2022 9:07 am

Wayne Sealy, the owner and operator of Mystery Manor passed away this week. That attraction has been a staple for nearly 40 years now.

NEDodger · Post by **NEDodger** » Thu Nov 10, 2022 6:07 pm

omaha79 wrote: Wed Nov 09, 2022 9:07 am Wayne Sealy, the owner and operator of Mystery Manor passed away this week. That attraction has been a staple for nearly 40 years now.

That”s unfortunate. Mystery Manor is great and he always continued to improve it. Hopefully that lives on as a legacy.

skinzfan23 · Post by **skinzfan23** » Thu Aug 31, 2023 4:06 pm

After 38 years, Mystery Manor posted on Facebook that they will be closing permanently.

Sad to see, but I believe the owner recently passed. Also with all the development in the area, they may have been bought out.

djc311 · Post by **djc311** » Thu Aug 31, 2023 4:36 pm

skinzfan23 wrote: Thu Aug 31, 2023 4:06 pm After 38 years, Mystery Manor posted on Facebook that they will be closing permanently.

Sad to see, but I believe the owner recently passed. Also with all the development in the area, they may have been bought out.

Oh man - I feel old, went there when I was in Jr High and High School back in the 90s. I was never really into haunted houses but had some friends that liked to go. I do remember the slide and ending up in the back of a hearse or whatever it was at the end.

And yet another business is disappearing from my childhood. I need to make a model of "old Omaha" that has all of the businesses I enjoyed going to, like Target on Saddle Creek, Children's Palace on Dodge St, Moby Dick Waterslides, WC Frank, Applause Video.

S.O.Boy · Post by **S.O.Boy** » Fri Sep 22, 2023 2:08 pm

skinzfan23 wrote: Thu Aug 31, 2023 4:06 pm After 38 years, Mystery Manor posted on Facebook that they will be closing permanently.

Sad to see, but I believe the owner recently passed. Also with all the development in the area, they may have been bought out.

I think Creighton bought it.