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BLUFF PARK

Concord Street and Highway 52 Ramp, St. Paul, Minnesota 55107

directions

Take US-52 from downtown St. Paul across the Mississippi River at the Lafayette Bridge. Follow US-52 for about a mile and a half after the bridge until you get to the Concord Street exit. At the end of the exit ramp, turn right onto Cesar Chavez Street. Immediately on your left you will see the entrance to Bluff Park.

history

While at first glance this may appear to be a simple, wooded park in the suburbs of St. Paul, a piece of history about this place changes the park’s entire atmosphere.

The dark history of Bluff Park involves a man who entered the park late one night with a single goal. He was coming to the dark woods of the park to kill himself. He made his way deep into a secluded section of the woods and got out the gun with which he planned to commit the terrible deed. As he stood there in the dark, there was still a part of him that wanted to live. In a last-ditch effort to either cry for help or to psyche himself up enough to commit suicide, he yelled out into the night as loud as he could that he was going to kill himself. Campers who were spending the night in the park heard his cry for help.

Then they heard a gunshot.

ghost story

The ghost at Bluff Park seems to be an eerie replay of that terrible night when the man killed himself. No one really ever reports seeing any apparitions or experiencing anything but an auditory reenactment of that night’s event. The phenomenon is reported most often by people who are camping for the night. The ghostly sounds are always heard at night.

People hear a man screaming through the woods, “I’m going to kill myself.” Often, this exclamation is followed by a gunshot. Those who hear the cry for help and the gunshot often search through the woods for the man. They never find him. Sometimes they even report the incident to the authorities, who never find anything when they search the park for a suicide victim.

visiting

The wooded park is open throughout the night, and people sometimes camp here. There has never been a report of this phenomenon by anyone who was visiting the park during the day, so if you want to find this ghost, you will have to go there at night. If you want a better chance of experiencing this ghost, set up camp and spend the night in the haunted park.