The Capital Building
Many years ago, mentally handicapped woman entered the building, climbed several flights of stairs, and jumped to her death. Today, her moans are still heard.
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Many years ago, mentally handicapped woman entered the building, climbed several flights of stairs, and jumped to her death. Today, her moans are still heard.
hi, i am george and i work there. I do here her scream alot at night!!! she is a scary ***** i tell ya’ i am about to quit my job cuz that ***** keeps on scaring me. Well i hope any of you don’t go there because she is REAL!!! Have A Nice Day!
Comment by George | 11.9.2005 | 12:59 pm
I’ve been to the state capital and i didn’t hear ****.
Comment by manders | 03.9.2006 | 4:48 pm
hi, ive been to the capital building once and exactly what flight of stairs did she jump from,, thank you
annie
Comment by annie | 05.13.2006 | 11:33 am
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Comment by Ghost Tour Topeka | 05.22.2006 | 3:04 pm
Details common DETAILS! you cant just say there was a woman who jumped down stairs ya ya blah blah blah
Comment by back off! | 06.2.2006 | 1:42 pm
thats sounds scaryy…….
Comment by Katie | 06.18.2006 | 11:14 pm
ha ya funny
Comment by LOL | 08.15.2006 | 8:49 pm
You use to be able to climb to the top of the Capitol Building rotunda until a woman jumped to her death in the mid 1970’s.
There is a stairway that is closed to the public that will take you to the very top of the inside of the rotunda. If you go to the 5th floor and lean out over the railing you can see some rickety metal stairs that spiral along the inside of the dome all the way to the top.
The story that I heard was that she drove all the way from Missouri to kill herself in our capitol building. She smoked a cigarette, set her purse aside, and then jumped over the railing. On the way down she clipped the railing on the second floor ripping her arm off at the shoulder. The rest of her body made it all the way down to the first floor where she landed on top of a metal mop bucket while the janitor was mopping the marble floor. I heard that she almost landed on top of the poor guy.
I have been in the Capitol Building hundreds of times and have never experienced anything creepy. From my understanding there has been nine deaths in the Capitol Building, most of them caused by accidents during construction. It is a very old and historic building. It would be very scary to be alone in there in the middle of the night.
Comment by Pat | 10.30.2006 | 5:22 pm
I herd that’s why thay closed the top part off but you can still go up there on tours.
Comment by Brandy | 11.5.2006 | 1:20 am
Yea I have been to the capitol and walked up the stairs, our group got to go up, it was cool, the tourguide told us that story.
Comment by Evan | 11.8.2006 | 11:57 am
if u are mentally ill wouldn’t u think someone would be there with her to take care of her!! duh!!
Comment by I LOVE WWW.ALBINOBLACKSHEEP.COM | 11.13.2006 | 10:18 am
My mother was there when it happened. It happened during lunch hour. It was a real mess.
Comment by lea | 11.16.2006 | 10:32 am
that was a wired story but why did she kill herself did she commit suisisd or was she murderd well you pepole might not know
Comment by sara | 01.8.2007 | 5:28 pm
Spooky. I believe its true. I hear noises in my house 2 :S
Comment by Comment by | 01.22.2007 | 11:48 am
that is creapy a lol lol Not………. !!!!!!!!!!!!! thats stupied lol lol lol
Comment by ashija | 01.26.2007 | 9:21 pm
I moved to Kansas in 2000 and have been to the capitol building once and heard you could no longer go up into the dome, however, I never heard why. Now I know.
Comment by michelle | 02.9.2007 | 8:42 pm
I ve been to the the top of the capital. This was about 1994. So no they didnt shut it down because of that lady. Now Topeka High or the Harrisson church is where the scary **** is
Comment by Solo | 06.17.2007 | 12:55 pm
The last time I was at the capital was in grade school, so it was quite awhile ago. I think the only reason we went was because in my Girl Scout troup, one of the girls’ grandfather was Governor or something at the time. We went as a Girl Scout outing. We went up to the top, but couldn’t go any farther. They opened the closed-off stairwell about two years ago or so but I didn’t go. Wanted to, but didn’t.
Question: Why bash people who say they’ve heard or seen something? Just because YOU aren’t open-minded enough to not see/hear anything doesn’t mean OTHERS are.
Comment by Beth | 06.25.2007 | 3:44 pm
Wow this is really creepy… i was with my class on our seventh grade feild trip about 2 months ago near the end of the school year. my grade got a special tour that none of the other grades before up that had visited the capitol ever got. we got to go up that ricketey staircase. you know how theres the big dome at the top? we went above that and to the top of the building. it was so windy my friends almost fell off– it kind of scares me to think that thats the whole reason no one gets those types of tours anymore. and to think that i was there and could have died too…
Comment by Kirsten | 07.21.2007 | 12:34 am
My son went there with his class, and he took pictures of the staircase looking up to the ceiling. We were wondering why there were orbs in the pictures, and maybe this is why!
Comment by kery5 | 07.27.2007 | 1:40 am
i live in india but once i came here and saw this strange area i was shocked to see many things i didnt wanted sometimes it seemed that someone was roaming on the stairs and sometimes i could heard some strange sounds
Comment by dhruv rai | 08.8.2007 | 11:09 am
I work at the Capitol, and it is my understanding that tours to the top of the dome were not allowed for some time due to the infrastructure of the dome - translation it needed repair. This has been remedied and tours up to the top of the dome are taken daily.
So if you are interested in visiting and doing 295 steps to the top of the dome, come to Topeka.
The security and historical society staff will verify the story of the woman’s suicide - you may even be able to get copies of the newspaper clippings from the time.
I work a lot of late nights in the Capitol building, and I’ve never heard any of the screaming mentioned by George. Once in awhile I get a creepy feeling that someone is there when there isn’t anyone, but I haven’t heard anything unusual.
That doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen, though!
Comment by ltlnog | 09.4.2007 | 9:37 pm
Orbs are dust particles/tricks of light.
Smoke-like images in your picture … it’s smoke. If you smoke a cigarette whilst photographing, you’re going to get weird smoke shapes in your pictures. Ditto for fog.
Comment by Catani | 09.29.2007 | 4:39 pm
whatever that is **** that is so not true iv bin to the capitl and there is nothing there
Comment by ashley | 12.2.2007 | 12:05 am
I had a temporary position working as a tour guide when the capital dome building reopened. We never heard or saw anything, except for the enormous amount of graffiti that has accrued over the years. Some visitors speculated that they could see a dent in the lower railing where some say the woman “hit her head on the way down”, however none of the visitors ever reported hearing “moans”. I hate to say that this is false. A woman did jump to her death, however she does not haunt any portion of the capital from the 3rd floor up to the top. But I will recommend that anyone who is interested go on a Capital tour and then the dome tour and see for yourself.
Comment by J | 12.6.2007 | 8:08 pm
WOW that is so COOL i so think that is so real i’v lived in cupel of hunted house’s i’m a freak like that.
Comment by Melissa | 12.26.2007 | 6:54 pm
DO NOT GO ON THE TOPEKA TOUR IT ISNT WORTH THE MONEY AND THEY ARE NO FUN>>>> THEY SUCK AND ARE VERY STUCK UP.
Comment by ghost hunter | 01.5.2008 | 7:38 pm
How could she climbed up the stairs if she is handicapped she must’ve took the elevator
Comment by Johnny | 01.11.2008 | 4:45 pm
Hi i belive that uk haunted i want to visit uk and experince some stories
Comment by belive haunted | 03.1.2008 | 1:50 am
Orbs are not dust particles or tricks of light. They are the souls of deceased people and if this is a trus store (which I’m sure it is) then kery5 saw the orb of the woman who jumped to her death as well as the other unfortunate people who died in whatever accidents they had. Don’t knock what you don’t know anything about.
Comment by fan of haunts | 03.6.2008 | 5:22 pm
I like Johnny’s comment.Unless she was mentally handicapped
Comment by nick | 03.15.2008 | 7:05 am
Disregard that last commment.Hi mom, i love you
Comment by nick | 03.15.2008 | 7:06 am
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Comment by jeremy | 04.10.2008 | 10:03 pm
I work at the capitol all the time. I move their furniture. There are times we are required to go there after they close to do some work. You will hear things and yes you will hear her humming and screaming and many more crazy sounds!
Comment by Jworkz | 04.10.2008 | 10:05 pm
Well you know that this is fake cause how in the hell is a handicapped person gonna climb up a flight of stairs
Comment by Believe | 04.23.2008 | 10:05 am
Hadn’t heard of this before. I lived in Topkea for 20 years.
I did, however, have a haunting in the house I grew up in. Not only me, but my brother and sisters as well.
We lived in a house in the Oakland area and there was a bedroom that all of us in the family had at one point or another. My parents had it first, then my sisters and then my brother and I. Anyways, there was a big closet in that room in the corner that, at the time, me and my brother would see several figures in what I could only describe as colord lights. They were green, blue and whatnot. The figures were shaped like what the quakers wear, At that time I was young and knew nothing about quakers, they looked like pilgrams, from what I had seenm in my school books. Those shapes were walking out of the closet and climbing out the window. I reemember telling my mom about it and she says it was probably the lights from the cars, but we lived on a one-way street and there was never that much traffic, plus there was a huge house on the corner that would have blocked the dtreet that would be considered slightly busier than the street we lived on and that’s not saying much.
My brother says he doesn’t remember, but he was only like 5 or 6 years old at the time. It wasn’t until about 5 years ago that I overheard my sisters talking about seeing the same thing. That was the first time that I knew they saw anything. I moved away from Topeka 20-plus years ago, but still have family there that I sometimes go back to visit, and I go by that house on occasion and only once, was that house not on the market. Maybe others had some experiences there too, I don’t know.
Sorry for adding this to here, but I wanted this out and i f someone does read this from Topeka or even that house, I would love to know if what we saw was just an illusion or was it real.
Funny thing, now my parents watch all the tv shows that deal with ghosts, like Ghost Hunters, Paranormal State and others. (For the record, my mother recently told me she heard a child describe exactly what I decribed to her, on one of the shows she watched)
Comment by Jeff | 05.4.2008 | 12:12 am
umm i have been to the capital and i havent heard nothin but i do kno tht it is haunted because there was a dude tht jusmped from there to but i havent heard bout a lady but im not very old either so yea idk…
Comment by shelbi | 05.11.2008 | 4:57 pm