13 sourced records. Reports are attributed claims, not proof of supernatural activity.
A Dakota Datebook account, citing the Bismarck Weekly Tribune of August 31, 1883, describes two reported apparitions on Fourth Street. Policemen allegedly saw a white-clad woman disappear; other witnesses described a silent male figure near the old saloon district. These are historical newspaper reports, not contemporary verification of ghosts.
Bonanzaville openly describes unusual experiences reported by visitors, staff, and volunteers and offers organized paranormal investigations. Its museum setting provides a legitimate way to explore these accounts with permission. Equipment readings on such tours do not independently establish a ghost.
Prairie Public identifies the Custer home at Fort Lincoln with reports attributed to Elizabeth Custer. The existence of that regional haunting tradition is documented; the attribution of experiences to her spirit remains an unverified interpretation.
Prairie Public records claims of footsteps on the stairs and doors shutting inside Bismarck’s 1884 former governors’ residence. Believers connect them with Governor Frank Briggs, who died in a bedroom in 1898. The same account notes ordinary explanations: residents complained about drafts, and aging buildings naturally make noises.
Accounts collected by Prairie Public describe alleged apparitions at Fort Abercrombie. The reporting establishes that such stories circulate around the historic site. Claims identifying the figures as people who died there require separate historical evidence.
A 2003 North Dakota State Library newsletter recorded librarian Marlene Ripplinger's account of unusual happenings attributed locally to a ghost called Sofie. That institutional source establishes the story's circulation among staff. The library later appeared in The Halloween Podcast's survey of North Dakota haunting reports.
Prairie Public records a haunting tradition at the Liberty Memorial Building on the state capitol grounds: an alleged presence nicknamed the Stack Monster. This is a documented example of a local story, not evidence of a supernatural resident.
The saloon's own history page reports that employees and guests have described spirits in the building, and that paranormal investigators have stayed overnight on its different levels. Its present role is a restaurant, bar and gathering place, where frontier history and contemporary ghost reports meet.
Prairie Public records a local story about a blue, floating light in Memory Gardens Cemetery east of Valley City. Known as the Blue Boy, the reported phenomenon belongs to the cemetery’s haunting traditions; the source supplies no established supernatural explanation.
This former tuberculosis institution in the Turtle Mountains later served people with developmental disabilities. Deborah Cobb's Ghostlandia article records local claims of children's laughter, shadow figures and a nurse-like apparition in its abandoned buildings. These stories describe the site's later folklore; they do not establish that former patients remained there as spirits.
Prairie Public recounts sightings of a short-haired young woman in university tunnels connecting dining facilities and dormitories. Its account describes three students’ claimed 1988 encounter and the local association with a student’s earlier freezing death. The suggested identity remains part of the haunting story.
A 1944 schoolhouse scare involved apparently moving coal, small fires, and a hooded figure. Prairie Public documents that pupils admitted staging the disturbances. This is a resolved case: a useful example of a haunting claim whose explanation was human mischief.
Prairie Public interviewed a ranch resident about mysterious lights on Ziner's Butte. Local lore linked them to a murdered man's lantern, while the report also considered passing headlights and moonlight. The location is ranch land, not a public ghost-hunting attraction.
