Jefferson Barracks Historic Park

Ghost stories at Jefferson Barracks tell of a sentry with a bleeding bullet hole in his head who is said to patrol the Powder Magazine, a Confederate Civil War general said to haunt the commander's post in Building 1, lights that switch on and off in Building 25, footsteps and toilets flushing on their own in Building 29, and a voice shouting "dismissed." A man in a Civil War officer's uniform is said to have appeared at a Halloween party at the hospital and vanished, with the host saying no one had worn such a costume, and a little girl is said to walk among the graves in the national cemetery. The post, established in 1826 south of St. Louis, served as a military training ground, a hospital and a burial site for soldiers, and today it is a county park with museums beside a national cemetery. St. Louis ghost tours include the park.