COLD SIGHTINGSGhosts, cryptids & UFOs · place by place 
Ten local legends, counted down from #10 to #1, across the Kansas and Missouri sides of Kansas City.
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Father Henry David Jardine, the church's rector from 1879-1886, was found dead with a crucifix and a chloroform-soaked rag in his hand, and his mysterious spirit is said to haunt the church where his ashes remain.
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Betsy Ward died suddenly in Room 505 and her restless spirit still inhabits the historic hotel, turning on faucets and manipulating water as if trying to redraw her final bath.
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Sylvia Vaile, mortified by her husband's mail fraud accusations, took an overdose of morphine in 1889, and her sorrow-stricken ghost has been seen peering from the mansion's windows.
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Five generations of the Sauer family lived at the castle collecting a tragic history of natural deaths, suicide in 1930, and other losses that left restless spirits behind.
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The Lady in Red, a homeless woman taken in by the nuns who died of a botched abortion, appears throughout the orphanage-turned-museum asking the haunting question: "Where's the house of the priest?"
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Joe Donegan, the passionate theater manager who brought big-name stars to Kansas City from 1902-1922, never left his beloved Folly and appears as a dapper ghost in a bowler hat after the 1970s renovation.
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The Blue Lady, a blonde woman in her early 30s wearing a 1920s-style blue dress and wide-brimmed hat, haunts the hotel searching for her lost lover, possibly an actress from the neighboring Gayety Theater.
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Multiple spirits haunt the resort where two devastating fires, Prohibition-era crime, and mob violence left restless souls: a benevolent 1920s maid, a speakeasy murder victim in the basement pool, and a woman eternally searching for her lost child.
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Nearly 600 people are buried on the Odd Fellows Home grounds, including orphaned children and elderly residents who died during the century-long operation, and their spirits continue to linger in the wine cellar and hallways.
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During the brutal Battle of Westport in 1864, the home served as a field hospital for both Union and Confederate soldiers, and the spirits of wounded and dying soldiers are said to guard the rooms where they fell.
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