The first cemetery in Enid was started in 1897.

The cemetery was created out of necessity as new settlers had to bury their deceased but lacked an official cemetery. After the first person was buried it didn’t take long before another was buried nearby in the area and thus the precedent to use the area as a cemetery was well established. There were more than 200 people buried in the early day cemetery before many, but not all of them, were moved to our present day cemetery.

Years later when the old unofficial cemetery was developed as a housing addition construction workers reported striking old caskets while excavating for foundations for new homes. Many families were unable to afford the cost of moving their relatives to the new cemetery, thus several graves remained in the area even as the large homes were being built.

Where was this early day cemetery? It was located near the corner of South VanBuren and Wabash streets in what is now known as the Kisner Addition! SO, if you live in the area and you think you’ve heard ghosts in the attic . . . you just might be right.

Enid - Knox Building Formerly the Masonic Temple - Elevator repairman walking the halls

The Knox Building was constructed in 1924. Of its six stories, the top two were built as a Masonic Temple, housing a large concert hall, banquet hall, and theatre, as well as ancillaries. At one time it was the largest and most active Masonic Temple in the region. It`s doors were abruplty closed in 1946 for reasons unknown. Between 1946 and 1981, no one was allowed onto the top two floors of the building. For years the owner refused to sell the building. Of the stories “The Lights,” are the best known around the city of Enid. The director of the Enid Symphony had an encounter with George the elevator repairman walking the halls.

Enid - Briggs Auditorium Reports of an apparition of a man seen in the balcony.

Enid – Clay Hall, Old Phillips University
This haunted dormitory was condemned by state in the early 1980`s. Voices have been heard here along with piano playing. Recordings of ghostly women singing have also occurred.

Enid - Clay Hall, Old Phillips University

Enid – Earl Butts Dormitory – Dormitory said to be haunted because of being constructed on an Indian burial ground. Reports of students being visited by spirits at night. Spirits disappear and are never seen by same person more than once.

Enid - Earl Butts Dormitory

Enid – Longfellow Jr high school - in the night you can hear a person yelling. Sometimes during the day you can hear footsteps and lockers shutting and in the 2nd floor science room you can hear an explosion.

Enid - Longfellow Jr high school

Enid – Imo Cemetery (west outside Enid) – there is said to be a glowing head stone in the cemetery but when you walk up to the head stone it will stop glowing and if you go south of the head stone there are claw marks on another head stone and if you go to the back of the cemetery there is an old Indian burial ground they say you can hear voices and people touching you.- April 2004 Addition – the Imo story about the grave has been completely investigated and is in fact tower lights across the street from the cemetery that give a reflection off the marker… the burning effect takes place as soon as it gets dark and goes away as soon as it gets light, when you walk up to it – at any point you can clearly see the lights in the background… from the ground point of view. It does in fact look like it is on fire, esp from the road at night but is in fact only an illusion.

Imo Cemetery

Enid – former home of the Gaslight Theatre (Alton Mercantile Company Building), where the owner hung himself. It is said you can hear his foot steps and other strange noises.

Alton Mercantile Company Building

New Gaslight Theatre in old Chief Theater Building

Enid – Enid High School Auditorium. (right side of photo) This slightly lighter note leads well into the stories of the Enid High School Auditorium, a large fourteen hundred-seat facility built in the 1930s. Reputed to be constructed on the site of an ancient Indian burial ground, and having the curses to match, its history has also given rise to unique stories.

Enid High School Auditorium