Haunted things to do in Wichita
Looking for haunted places & dark-history spots in Wichita? These 10 are the genuinely strange ones — Hattie Waller statue & Maple Grove Abbey, Maple Grove Cemetery, Cosmosphere, Hutchinson Fox Theatre and more — each hand-vetted and sourced, not pulled from a top-ten list. Great for an unusual date, a weird afternoon, or showing a visitor the side of Wichita they'd never find on their own.
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Hattie Waller statue & Maple Grove Abbey, Maple Grove Cemetery
Across the street from Highland, Maple Grove hides the haunting marble likeness of three-year-old Hattie Wall…
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Cosmosphere
The Cosmosphere is a fully accredited, Smithsonian-affiliated space museum that improbably anchors a Kansas w…
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Hutchinson Fox Theatre
The Hutchinson Fox Theatre is a genuine 1931 Boller Brothers art deco movie palace — one of the finest betwee…
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Etzanoa - The Great Settlement
Beneath the fields of southern Kansas lies one of the largest pre-contact cities in North America — up to 20,…
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Border Queen Museum & Talking Tombstone Tours
Caldwell's Border Queen Museum preserves the blood-soaked legacy of America's deadliest cowtown — more marsha…
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Chisholm Trail Museum
Housed in the donated 1916 Hatcher Hospital building, this 40-room county museum packs over 20,000 artifacts…
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Kansas Aviation Museum — Public Paranormal Investigations
The Kansas Aviation Museum lives inside Wichita's original 1935 art deco airport terminal — a stunning buildi…
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Theorosa's Bridge (Crybaby Bridge)
A remote bridge over Jester Creek tied to a 19th-century legend of a drowned baby named Theorosa and her grie…
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Wilner Auditorium at Wichita State University
Theater building haunted by George Wilner, WSU's longtime speech and drama director (1923-1960), who is said…
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Old Cowtown Museum Overnight Ghost Hunt
Old Cowtown is a 23-acre living-history museum of 54 relocated and re-created 1800s buildings, and after clos…