Nebraska

Lincoln

Nebraska Wesleyan University

The ghost of Miss Urania Clara Mills haunted the C.C. White Memorial Building on this campus. The huge brick building, erected between 1903
and 1907, housed the Music Department, where Miss Mills taught from 1912 to 1936. On October 3, 1963, Mrs. Coleen Buterbaugh, a secretary
to Dean Sam Dahl, was in the music building on an errand. When she entered the rooms of Dr. Tom McCourt she was overcome by a strong,
musty odor. Then she saw the apparition of a tall, thin woman reaching for some papers on the top shelf of an old music cabinet in a corner.
Looking out the window, Coleen realized it was summertime and the sun shining and flowers blooming. Suddenly the ghostly scene disappeared
and the outdoor scenery returned to a gray October day. When she told Dean Dahl about her experience, she launched an investigation and
discovered that those rooms belonged to Clara Urania Mills. She had died on October 3, 1936, in the room across from where her ghost was
seen. The case has become a classic in the literature of the paranormal.

Robber's Cave

The Pawnee Indians called this cave Nahurac. It was one of the five spirit caves where they could contact Tirawa, the one god of all things. They
held sacred ceremonies and initiations in the caves, until white soldiers moved the Indians to reservations and burned their villages in 1858. In
the 1860's settlers and runaway slaves lived in the five-hundred-foot-long cave. In 1869 a brewery used the cool area to store kegs. In the 1870's
outlaws such as Jesse James hid out there. A robber's cache of stolen goods and money was found in the cave in 1906, and Robber's Cave has
been a tourist attraction ever since. In one secluded chamber, visitors have reported hearing distant chanting sounds and unintelligible voices.

Maxwell

Plumer Street House

The ghost in this house is of a woman and a baby. There are numerous different occurances in this home. Residents have heard baby cries and
seen an empty rocking chair rock by itself. On one occasion someone saw a woman dressed in white in the rocking chair that has moved by
itself before. Loud thud noises can be heard on the stairs at night. A light bulb that is suspended from the ceiling upstairs bedroom and started
to swing by itself and lights turn on and off. The ghosts are thought to be of a young boy who had fallen down the stairs and broke his neck one
night when he was going to use the outhouse outside. Another story is that an infant child died in a crib upstairs and the mother held the baby
rocking it in the chair. Yet another story is that a young boy hung himself from a light cord in the front upstairs bedroom.

Omaha

Brother Sebastian's

A man by the name of Bill Wolcott, or also known as the regular dined at Brother Sebastian's almost every night. Many people thought that he
was a little peculair because he often wore a formal smoking jacket and sat at the same seat every night. Bill unfortunately was diagnosed with
cancer but even while he was going through treatments for the disease he still dined at Brother Sebastian's. He became so ill he no longer could
swollow solid food so the staff would puree it for him. Bill finally died but he still visits his favorite restaurant. He even was seen sitting at his
favorite seat the night of the restaurant's grand re-opening. One night a woman compained to the staff that a man kept staring at her and was
making her feel uncomfortable, when they questioned who it was she told them it was a face in the wall made up of the stones. Two workers that
were closing up the bar one night saw the bar door start to swing as if someone walked through it. Many people also feel the cool breeze that
goes through the establishment, and strangely enough it cannot come from a window because the restaurant does not have any.

Bibliography: Hauck, Dennis. Haunted Places: Ghost abodes, sacred sites, UFO landings, and other supernatural locations. New York: Penguin
Book, 1994.