Iowa Ghost Stories

Every state in the U.S., and I'd venture to say every city in the U.S., has it's share of ghost stories. In Iowa, there are quite a few, and creepy ones at that. 

According to a list compiled by onlyinyourstate.com, Iowa has 12 ghosts that are worth mentioning. I would have to say, there are probably a TON more than these 12, but these ghosts haunt public places that you can visit.

Of the 12, one stuck out at me. It's one that I've heard before.

Helen of Coe College in Cedar Rapids:

HISTORY OF MANIFESTATIONS:

A young student, Helen, was a college student, staying in Voorhees Hall in 1918. Helen was swept up in the flu pandemic of 1918, and died of her illness. Her parents donated a fine grandfather clock in her memory, which started out in her old dorm,Voorhees Hall and has since been used in the other female dorms over the years. The clock wound up at Stuart Hall, which is class space and headquarters for the academic departments listed above.

MANIFESTATIONS:

• The entity of Helen has found a home in the clock itself. She traditionally leaves the clock late at night. When the clock was in a Voorhees Hall, she would float to the lobby/parlor and play the piano.
• She would go up the stairs to her old room.
• She would appear as a full apparition by the beds, slam doors and pull off the covers of sleeping women.
• When they moved the clock to other dorms, similar occurrences happened.
• The grandfather clock was moved to Stuart Hall in the 1970s, where the entity of Helen began her ghostly routine - Probably slamming doors, going up stairs, perhaps appearing to the living.
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