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irisheyes · Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 2:38 pm Post subject: Haunted Montana

Brantley Mansion, Helena, Montana

Brantley Mansion can be found in Helena, west-central Montana, built on Holter Street, sitting on top of a hill, which gives the mansion a full view of the city. It's said the judge haunts his former home.

-Unnamed Costume Shop, Virginia City.
Location unknown.

The ghost of a little girl has been seen sitting on the steps of this building.

-Bonanza Inn, Virginia City.

The ghost of a nun has appeared in rooms in this inn and in the building next door, known as the Bonanza House. The two buildings are said to be the most haunted in the city. The Bonanza Inn was the first county courthouse in Virginia City, but when a new courthouse was built in 1876 it became a Catholic hospital. The Bonanza House was used as a convent. But the ghosts seen in these buildings are far from benign. One of the rooms at the inn had to be sealed because of all the frightening poltergeist manifestations, and the apparition of a lecherous man has appeared in one of the upstairs rooms at the Bonanza House. Disembodied footsteps, eerie feelings of discomfort, and bone-chilling cold spots plague both buildings to this day.

Virginia City is in Madison County in southwestern Montana. From Butte, take I-90 east to U.S. Highway 287 south and exit at State Highway 287 west. Bonanza Inn, Virginia City, MT 59755

-Little Bighorn National Monument
See website for information.
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It's said that here, at the Little Bighorn National Monument, sometimes the spirits of Native American woman can be spotted still searching for their lost loved ones.

-Bannack, Bannack.

Bannack, once home to a few thousand rowdy residents, is now a ghost town. Along with the old mining towns of Nevada City, Virginia City, Garnet and Coolidge, it is a reminder of Montana's wild past. At the Meade Hotel in Bannack, sounds of baby crying and the spirit of a woman have been reported.

-Colstrip Power Plant, Colstrip.
No location listed.

Occasional reports of moving items and voices reported on grounds.

-Carroll College, Helena.
See website for information.
*Website.

In 1909, Bishop John Patrick Carroll and President William Howard Taft laid the cornerstone of the original Mount St. Charles College, which is St. Charles Hall. This turn of the century, four-story structure was designed by the same architect that designed St. Helena's Cathedral. Campus legend says a priest once committed suicide in the 4th floor bathroom by jumping from the window. Also, a varsity basketball player is rumored to have died in the same bathroom after slipping and hitting his head on the floor. The bathroom, they say, is closed to this day.

-Doane College, Crete.
See website for information.
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Located in the southern section of the Communication Center on the Crete Campus, Perkins Library was dedicated on May 23, 1971. It's said to be haunted by woman in a white dress who appears in front of one of the windows. She is also said to roam the basement.

-Great Falls

Between Great Falls and Fort Benton lies a highway that is rumored to be haunted by the spirit of an Indian. One woman, while driving late at night, heard a thump and stopped her car, thinking she had hit something. When nothing was found, she drove away, only to look in her rearview to find him walking down the road again.

-Old Mine Shafts, Lyon.
No location found.

Strange voices can be heard from various shaft entrances. It is said that spirits of men who died in a mining accident here still haunt the grounds.

-Stevensville High School, Stevensville.
Location unknown.

One of the floors of this three floor high school is said to be abandoned and haunted by the weeping spirit of a girl who committed suicide in one of the classrooms.

-Devil's Dancing Ground, Forsyth.
No location found.

Haunted by the dancing spirits of Native Americans.

-Malmstrom AFB
See website for information.
*Website

In the Base Chapel there is said to be a piano that plays "All the Ends of the Earth" on its own. Also, a young man in a long beard and fur trader's attire has been seen in the seventh pew dropping his bible.

-University of Montana, Brantley Hall, Missoula.
See website for information.
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Thanks to Otter for submitting the following: "Now used as office space, Brantley Hall was an all-girls dormitory. There was a room on the second floor that was haunted. Rumour had it that in the 1920's, a local girl, depressed over the loss of her father's ranch, due to the stock market crash, hung herself in her dorm room. The dorm room was used as an ironing room, and various students commented on strange clicking noises behind them while they ironed their clothes. The clicking noises were from high heels walking across the floor."

-CROW INDIAN RESERVATION

Fort Abraham Lincoln

In May 1876, General George Custer's six-hundred troops marched from this fort to join other troops in an assault on Sioux Indians. As residents waved good-bye and watched the Seventh Cavalry Regiment ride off to the southeast, they were astonished to see almost half the troops ride off into the sky and vanish from sight, while the remaining troops were in plain view. Many interpreted the strange vision as an omen of impending doom. On June 25, at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, Custer and 264 of his troops, about half those who marched out of Fort Lincoln, were killed by the united tribes of the Sioux Indian Nation.

The Crow Indian Reservation is southeast of Billings in southeastern Montana. The reservation extends to the Wyoming border

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White Knight · Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2007 11:57 am Post subject: Great Falls

Also, is the Charlie Russel Manor. It is said to be haunted by a spirit who once stayed there in the 1800's and died. It is a bed and breakfast now, and people can hear this ghost walking up and down the stairs. I am not sure all the details, but thought I would add this one in.

Nice work on the places here in Montana IrishEyes.
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Regan · Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2007 4:39 pm Post subject:

My sister lives in Westby Montana, small little nothing town. Literally from her back porch she sees the town bar and across from that is the elementry school.

She said that whole town is claimed to be haunted.
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irisheyes · Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 1:19 pm Post subject:

LOL

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