Fort Sidney Museum & Post Commander's Home

Visitors and staff at the Post Commander's Home report phantom footsteps on the narrow maids' staircase and the sound of a body falling on the vanished staircase. The best-known story is that the wife of a post commander, carrying laundry to the basement in 1885, fell down the steep stairs and broke her neck; her distraught husband is said to have had the stairs boarded up, and although they were opened again in 1975, visitors may not use them. Fort Sidney was a U.S. Army post on the Union Pacific line from 1867 to 1894, and the Post Commander's Home, built in the early 1870s, is now part of the Fort Sidney Museum.