This cemetery is located off of the old Middle Brook road and is well-known
by all who live around there, as being very haunted and very eerie. Driving down the gravel road, you’ll feel like your car was being held back a little. A large white horse has been seen running through a fence between the two fields. Glowing objects and voices talking have also been reported. People seen multiple
shadows and something glowing toward the back of the cemetery. Footsteps have been heard in the gravel in front of the cemetery when no one else is there. Around 200-300 years ago, there was a wall around most of this area, built to keep Christians out. That would explain a lot about the land around here.
Has a very morbid history. Captain Leeper, who was a carpet bagger in Civil War times, used to beat, shoot, and hang African-Americans or just people he didn’t like who came in on the new railroad that was being built. When he was on his deathbed, he had to be tied down because he kept yelling that demons were trying to get him. He was buried in his backyard in the family cemetery. He has been seen at night walking up Leeper Hollow. There have been other reports of lights coming on and off, doors being shut, and strange noises coming from his old bedroom.
Established in 1837 it is the oldest cemetery in town. Many of the graves are broken and many more are unmarked. One very solemn spirit protects the back area of the cemetery where many of the unmarked graves are. He does not like visitors in the cemetery. There’s a 5-year-old-girl playing peek-a-boo in the northwest corner of the cemetery, and also a man near the west fence line, very tall, dark, wearing a long overcoat; a Civil War soldier who is wearing his hat; a man named Edward in the northeast part of the cemetery who isn’t hostile, but not particularly friendly, either (he kinda wants to be left alone). There are many spirits here that are restless and do not like being bothered. Potentially one of the most haunted locations in Hannibal.
This is the old women’s jail which was first an asylum, then a prison/workcamp. It flooded out in 1993, and the police use it on weekends for training.
Renz Women’s Penitentiary opened up in 1926, and operated as a prison farm, where inmates would raise chickens and grow produce. It was a medium-sized facility that held around 500-550 female offenders, and was built right in the floodplain of the Missouri River.
In 2012, a self-proclaimed clairvoyant got permission to tour Renz and reported cold spots, closing doors, the ghost of a woman in a gray uniform sitting at a table, a mysterious white mist and several “orbs” in her photographs, all pointing to paranormal activity in and around the prison. Her findings earned Renz the title of “the most haunted place in Jefferson City.”
The Mitchell family was a prominent family in the Crocker area. They had a chapel built near their home which a lot of people attended. The Mitchell’s were found murdered and were buried in the cemetery near the church. Soon after, a fire destroyed both the house and the church leaving only the cemetery. On certain nights, you can hear the sounds of organ music and people laughing. It is said that if you knock on the tombstone of Mary Mitchell and ask a question, you will get an answer.
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