Green Country Ghosts: urban legends across Tulsa

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TULSA, Okla. — Tulsa is affluent successful past with haunted halls passim the metropolis giving the champion paranormal acquisition for those consenting to look for them.

From Cain's Ballroom to Gilcrease Museum, things spell bump successful the nighttime for a batch of unexpected places passim town. Just arsenic determination are galore haunted places, determination are besides municipality legends, places rumored to person ghosts successful their spaces, crossed Tulsa.

Teri French of Tulsa Spirit Tours knows a happening oregon 2 astir the eventual paranormal acquisition and she talked to 2 News Oklahoma astir these municipality legends and however they came to be.

Philbrook Museum

The Philbrook Museum of Art is simply a taste and humanities spot successful Tulsa since 1927.

Many visitors to the depository accidental not lone does the depository look to person an ominous atmosphere, but the statues' eyes travel radical astir the rooms. Some adjacent assertion they've seen the heads connected the statues determination to look astatine them.

However, French said Philbrook’s hauntings oregon different are, astatine best, conscionable an municipality legend.

“Anybody tin look astatine a coating and consciousness the eyes are pursuing you,” explained French. “That’s beauteous natural. Actually, past clip I went I had unit archer maine they privation they were haunted due to the fact that they would’ve loved for maine to bring tours there.”

Philbrook whitethorn service arsenic the cleanable backdrop to a haunted story, but each it is conscionable unfastened to mentation – conscionable similar its art.

Spotlight Theater

It's an iconic performing arts abstraction dating backmost to the 1950s successful Tulsa.

As of 2021, the Spotlight Theater hosts America's longest continuous tally of its theatrical productions. The Drunkard and Olio started moving each Saturday successful 1953 and continues to this day.

Due to that agelong history, it's nary astonishment determination are claims it is haunted. What gets truly absorbing astir these rumors is that they assertion the spirits aren’t welcoming.

It's believed idiosyncratic entering the basement volition perceive footsteps coming to them with scratching noises to follow. Witnesses adjacent said determination are scratch marks connected the basement walls to beryllium thing lurks down there.

However, this is different 1 French said is conscionable rumors.

“We’ve ne'er been called retired there. When I was penning my book, I’d heard stories too,” French said. “I called and talked to them. One of the guys I talked to told maine that helium had been moving determination 60 immoderate unusual years and the spot was not haunted.”

French isn’t amazed the rumors beryllium though with radical coming successful and out, determination are bound to beryllium stories.

Will Rogers High School

This Tulsa Public Schools gathering is seemingly haunted by the tone of a antheral who wears a achromatic tuxedo. Witnesses accidental helium is often seen successful the auditorium wherever helium volition beryllium connected signifier oregon hanging astir backstage.

According to legend, the antheral successful the achromatic tuxedo is the tone of Dr. Carl Barnett. He was a set manager who supposedly died of a bosom onslaught during a set performance successful the auditorium successful 1974.

Despite the sightings of the antheral successful white, French can’t corroborate 1 mode oregon different if the schoolhouse is haunted.

“I’ve heard a batch of stories astir it being haunted. In fact, a batch of schools are haunted,” explained French. “There’s a batch of vigor going successful schools truthful it’s not astonishing it tin beryllium felt there.”

French and her squad haven’t been called retired there, but it’s communal for places similar schools, but besides hospitals to beryllium filled with spirits. She believes the magnitude of vigor and emotions is what attracts spirits to places similar those the most.

In fact, she said schools are premier places for poltergeists to travel retired and play.

No 1 knows what lies determination – but the schoolhouse gathering itself is important to Tulsa. It’s connected the National Register of Historic Places for its creation deco benignant and architecture.

French is acquainted with each these places, haunted oregon conscionable municipality legend-wise. But determination are different places she’s itching to probe including the American Legion gathering and the VFW, which are immoderate of the oldest buildings successful the city.

She’s besides kept an oculus retired for the Tulsa Firehouse that’s adjacent to Oaklawn Cemetery. French says some places are filled with claims of activity, particularly since wide graves investigations person gone connected nearby. Since Oaklawn was Tulsa’s archetypal cemetery, it’s filled with galore secrets she would emotion to uncover.

These caller discoveries and tips are wherefore she changes up the Tulsa Spirit Tours to see caller oregon aged locations to support Tulsans invested successful their section history.

“I don’t cognize wherever I’m going to beryllium successful five, 10 years, but arsenic agelong arsenic radical privation them, I’ll support doing them.”

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