Here Are The 9 Most Haunted Schools In Iowa... Visit If You Dare

There’s always something fascinating and kind of creepy about abandoned buildings. They invite you to wonder why they were abandoned and what they must have been like when they were fully functioning. Abandoned schools elicit a sort of melancholy feeling, and you can just imagine the lingering memories of classrooms once full of learning and playgrounds full of children playing.

Iowa has its share of abandoned schools, and here are 9 of them that will definitely haunt your imagination.

Flickr/Jo Naylor

Flickr/Jo Naylor

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The remains from this abandoned high school are both beautiful and haunting.

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Flickr/WindRanch

Flickr/WindRanch

Flickr/WindRanch

This former middle school has well documented paranormal activity. People have reported the ghost of a small boy in the stairwell and sitting on the edge of the auditorium stage. People have also heard and recorded the disembodied voices of children talking and laughing.

Flickr/Phil Roeder

Flickr/Phil Roeder

All that’s left of this school is a Quonset hut that served as the gymnasium and a crumbling chimney.

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Once a historic and stately rural school, Viola is now dilapidated and haunted with the memories of all of the people who worked and studied here.

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These old-fashioned one-room country schoolhouses are remnants of simpler days gone by. Their haunting and crumbled exteriors communicate that they were abandoned to the elements many years ago.

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Flickr/Matthew Ephraim

Flickr/Matthew Ephraim

Elkport is an Iowa ghost town, and all that’s left of this abandoned school building is chipped paint and rubble littered hallways.

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Another country school, this building is haunting in its crumbled beauty.

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This lonely schoolhouse and rusted swing set have long been left to the elements.

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Another one-room schoolhouse that’s been left to the echoes of the past.

Are there any other abandoned schools that you know of? Have you seen any of these? What were your impressions? If you’re curious about more of Iowa’s creepy and abandoned buildings, check out these 12 Creepy Houses In Iowa That Could Be Haunted.