Unveiling Wyoming’s Spooky Secrets: A Ghostly Journey Awaits

If you love Halloween and scary places, Wyoming is your jam.

Ghost towns, haunted hotels, spirits roaming through the wilderness, and historic battles are all included with the price of admission to the Cowboy State.

A new survey from Qrfy.com says Wyoming is the second spookiest state in the U.S., after Maine.

Honestly, if you were to ask me, I would put Wyoming at number one and any state where a battle was fought during the Civil War next.

That's just me, though.

I've explored Wyoming quite a bit and have run into some odd and spooky places and other places that borderline: "There ain't no way this place ain't haunted."

There have been a couple of locations where I felt highly uncomfortable and had the hair on the back of my neck stand up multiple times.

One of those places is right here in the building where I work—the Townsquare Media building in Casper. There are stories of this building being haunted. I have first-hand one particular experience that will back up those stories.

It was a sunny Saturday afternoon, and I was working on a project in the studio.

When I was finished, I was walking through the hall. I was just about to walk through a doorway to another hallway when I noticed all the lights were on. Again, it was Saturday, and no one was in the building, so no lights should have been on. I started turning them off, opened the door, and heard a woman say something behind me. Instantly, I got chills, and the hair on my neck stood up.

I wasn't sure I wanted to turn around and see who was standing behind me.

The voice was so loud that when I turned around, I fully expected to see someone standing there, but I didn't see anyone. My next move was to start investigating the rooms I'd just passed.

Again, there wasn't anyone there.

Since this is a radio station, I thought there may be music or audio playing, but there wasn't any sound in any of the rooms.

I had heard from many people that something was happening here, and I'd felt uneasy before, but nothing like this.

I get to the building on weekdays between 2 and 4 a.m. It's dark and a bit creepy, but nothing like this had ever happened before.

When something like this happens, you try to debunk the situation, but there is nothing I can do to recreate the sound of the voice.

Next, I began thinking about what the voice said.

When I first heard the voice, I thought it said, "STOP IT!"

Since I was in the process of turning off the lights that shouldn't have been on, it would've made sense to me why they were on. Maybe the voice was scared of the dark.

Then I thought more about what the voice said and got even more creeped out.

It was bold and whispery, and I thought the voice didn't say "Stop It," but...

"HELP HIM"

One of the stories that is told about this building is that a man took his own life in this building. Could the voice have been someone who was here when it happened or someone tied to this building at that time?

Every time I tell the story or think about it, I get the same chills I got the day it happened.

CREEPY.

I'm sure many Wyomingites have first-hand stories like that, which is why Wyoming is the second most spooky state in the U.S.

Here's how they determined the spookiest states.

For the study, researchers analyzed five factors to determine the ranking.

Factors and their respective weightings are as follows:

• Haunted Locations Documented per 100K (24.39%)
• Haunted Locations Indexed per 100K (17.07%)
• Ghost Sightings per 100K (24.39%)
• Number of Cemeteries per 100K (17.07%)
• Monthly Google searches about hauntings per 100K (17.07%)

Wyoming has the highest number of documented haunted locations, at 17.98 per 100,000 residents, earning a top score of 10. One of the most notable locations in the state is the Historic Occidental Hotel in Buffalo, where guests claim to see a young girl dressed in white who taps people on the shoulder at the bar or moves pieces of furniture around.
Also receiving a score of 10, Wyoming has the highest number of indexed haunted locations, at 19.52 per 100,000 residents. There are currently 105 documented locations and 114 indexed.

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