• Intro

Mystery Manor

Address:

716 North 18th Street
Omaha, NE
68102
United States

Tickets:

$10 per person (Discounts available for group rates)

Phone:

402-346-2666

Website:

http://www.mystermanoromaha.org

About:

Mystery Manor, Omaha's oldest and most respected haunted attraction, reopens its doors for the 21st season in 2004.

History:

The Real Story... In the Union Pacific Days, late 1800's to early 1900's, Mystery Manor was operating as a bordello. This bordello had four distinct apartments. Mystery Manor has four genuine resident ghosts who tend to taunt our staff on a regular basis. One of the madams named Grace was murdered there along with her son. The 'guardian' ghost seems to be a dark figure who protects all in the Manor. The last ghost is an uncertainty. After the barebelly closed, the Manor was owned by a family who passed it onto each other. They all lived there at one time or another. They sold the building to a gentlemen who let the building become condemned. Thus, Mystery Manor was born (1984). The Legend... Built in 1887, this once magnificent dwelling was the home of William and Greta Hall. The meeting place of the elite of Omaha, it was dubbed Hall Manor by those who frequented its confines. The happy times ended on October 23, 1929 when the stock market crashed. By the end of the day William Hall, his vast fortune gone, was a broken man… and quite insane!! Late that night, in a blinding rage of madness, he took his ax from its place in the shed and attacked his dear Greta, chopping her body into pieces until his frenzy had abated. The next morning, realizing with horror what he had done, he carefully placed his wife’s remains in a shallow grave in the front yard of her beloved Manor. A week later, Greta's brother John Martin avenged his sister's brutal murder by hacking up his former brother-in-law with the same ax. He reunited the couple in that shallow grave. The next night, Halloween, John Martin’s body was found at the grave sight with the ax imbedded in his skull. Some believe the ghost of William Hall killed John Martin. To this day, the murder of John Martin remains a mystery – hence the name "Mystery Manor". It has been widely rumored that the ghost of William Hall still wanders these halls every October waiting for strangers to come so that he might resume his terrible vengeance upon any soul who enters his home. So Enter, If You Dare!