The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Honors Program and its students are moving to a new home in the fall of 2019. After being housed in Neihardt Hall for much of its existence, the Honors Program will transition to the Knoll residence hall — a bigger, newer facility.
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Old Captain's Studio
The building at 48th and St. Paul now occupied by a law firm was once the home of a retired sea captain. The captain's ghost is now haunting the rented studio that was his last home on Earth, according to the book "Haunted Places: The National Directory."
"Tenants in the building have reported seeing his form on several occasions since his death," the book says.
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Wesleyan
Nebraska Wesleyan relates the tale: "The legend of the ghost of Clara Mills started in 1963 on a chilly autumn October morning. … Coleen Buterbaugh, a secretary to Dr. Sam Dahl, was searching for a guest lecturer on the building’s first floor. … As she entered the office suite at the north end of the C.C. White Building, she found that all the windows were open and that the room was empty. After taking about four steps into the room, however, Buterbaugh had a strange feeling that she was not alone. She smelled a strong odor of musty, stale air, and noticed that it had grown strangely silent in the hall outside.
"Then she saw it.
“'I looked up and just for what must have been a few seconds, I saw the figure of a woman standing with her back to me at a cabinet in an inner office. She was reaching up into one of the drawers. I felt the presence of a man sitting at the desk to my left, but as I turned around, there was no one there.'
"Gazing out one of the large windows behind the desk, Buterbaugh noted that the scenery seemed to be that of many years ago. There were no streets, Willard Sorority that stands just across the campus was not there. Nothing outside was modern. Buterbaugh was frightened and left the room."
Clara Mills taught music at Nebraska Wesleyan for 28 years, until she was found dead in her office on April 12, 1940. Mills is buried in Wyuka Cemetary.
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Starship 9 site
Debris from the demolition of the Starship 9 theater lines Q Street in January 2007. Before the theater closed and was torn down, an employee told paranormal guy Dale Bacon that when workers are closing up, sometimes you can hear horses in the hallways and metal-on-metal pounding. Bacon researched and found that a stables and a blacksmith's shop were in the area in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The site now is home to the Larson Building.
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State Penitentiary
Ghosts of Lincoln bus tour host Scott Colborn describes apparitions of prisoners trying to escape and a long-ago torn-down guard post that still tends to appear at times, according to a 2014 NewsNetNebraska article.
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Tabitha Health Care Services
"The residents and staff regularly hear children playing, running and giggling," according to a member of the Nebraska Paranormal society. Tabitha was once an orphanage.
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Robber's Cave
Robber's Cave, known as a hideout for outlaws but also a sacred place for the Pawnee, has had witnesses report hearing Native American-style chanting along with the sound of their drums. Others say that they have heard the sound of disembodied screams, crying, laughter and voices, according to hauntedrooms.com.
Mysteriousheartland.com had this to say of Robber's Cave: "In one room, a passage appears to have been bricked over, and many said they could hear the ghosts of Robber’s Cave moaning from wherever lay beyond it."
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Antelope Park
According to hauntedrooms.com, "the field that sits behind the caretaker’s house (at Antelope Park) is a particular hotspot for paranormal activity. Visitors have reported seeing apparitions that walk all the way across the field before disappearing into the woods on the other side."
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Memorial Stadium
“If you were a ghost, where would you like to spend your time?” Ghosts of Lincoln bus tour operator Scott Colburn said in a DN article. He used this logic to identify Memorial Stadium as the most likely place to have paranormal energy in Lincoln.
