| Ghosts & Haunts In Missouri Haunted Locations In New Madrid Hunter-Dawson Home, located at 312 Dawson Road between 1st and 2nd Street. This mansion is now listed as a State Historic Site. Built in 1859 by William Dawson and Amanda Hunter, successful a dry goods store owners. William died before the house was completed. His wife and her seven children moved into the mansion in 1860. The city of New Madrid purchased mansion in 1966 and donated it to the state.Today guided tours are now given of the mansion. The ghosts of the former owners are said to still roam the house, they have been seen looking out the windows of the mansion. A tunnel is also said to lead from the mansion to an old cemetary just outside town and exit near a moseleum. Voices have also been heard in this cemetery. MAP If you have experienced paranormal activity at any of these haunted sites, please e-mail us with your photos or stories to add to the database. Below are letters from visitors to this site. I have visited the Hunter Dawson House several times and always seem to feel the "presence" of something there. The last time I visited we took several pictures with a digital camera and one showed the shape of what appears to be a black slave woman's head in the reflection of a the oil paintings which hangs over the mantel. The painting is of one of the former owners and is not covered with glass. I have the disk somewhere at home, and will try to fine it and send a photo if your interested. Sincerely, S R The first time I ever visited the Hunter-Dawson home was on a field trip with my Sunday school class when I was 11 years old. Every year they have the house decorated with beautiful old-fashioned Christmas decorations starting at the first of December, and our class went to see the decorations. When we were walking through the house, I kept feeling like someone was walking beside me that was not there. Upon reaching one of the bedrooms, I suddenly began to feel very very ill, and I had to sit down in the floor to keep from passing out. When I closed my eyes, I saw the vision of what I believe was one of the children of the house, and when I told the tour director that I needed to get air because I felt sick, her eyes got wide and she said that one of the children had died in the house of influenza. I left right after that, and didn't go back again until I was nearly 20 years old. Some of my cousins were visiting from California and wanted to go to the house, so we took them for a tour. While we were in the house, I kept hearing people talking in the rooms that I knew no one was in, and when we got outside, I saw someone standing in a window on the second story, looking out at our group with a mad expression on her face as we walked toward the old cemetery. I truly believe the Hunter-Dawson home stories are all true. MF My mother used to work as a tour guide at the Hunter Dawson home and she once told me that one of her fellow tour guides there was doing a night time tour at Christmas time there when she was with her group at the top of the stairs and she was waiting behind the group to go down the stairs when she felt "someone" step on the end of her dress. Thinking that someone from her group was still up there she turned around to say excuse me and when she turned around there was no one there and when she looked into one of the bedrooms there was a rocking chair rocking back and forth. There is also another instance where there would be someone working in a office that used to be towards the very back of the house really late at night getting paperwork done and they would hear the old piano keys being struck. Now it has been many years since I was told these stories so I cannot remember them to the full detail but I will try to get my mother to talk about these events again and I will send a more detailed version of these stories. KW Page Back More letters from visitors to the Hunter Dawson Home. |
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