These four made the cut. The Fargo Theatre, the former governors' mansion in Bismarck, the Taube Museum of Art in Minot, and the James Memorial Art Center in Williston are real buildings with a public door. The ghost parts are labeled as what Emily Beck told John Lamb, what a later Lamb piece says about a downtown tour, what Wendy Kimble told Brady Drake, or what Kimble told Jill Schramm. None of this is a claim that a spirit has been proved.
Schedules move. Phone numbers and hours below are what those sites posted when this was researched in October 2026. Check before you go.
Fargo Theatre, Fargo
The theater will sell you a seat on a Sunday in October. Its executive director will also tell you that two ghost-hunter teams left without anything substantial.
The contact page says 314 Broadway N, Fargo, ND 58102. Phone, (701) 239-8385. Email, info@fargotheatre.org. Emily Beck is listed there as executive director, emily@fargotheatre.org. The page does not print a daily lobby clock. The door I can describe is a showtime. Wikipedia, which I opened for the building and not for a ghost, says the address is 314 Broadway and does not print a ZIP. A Wikimedia Commons category for the theater prints 314 Broadway, Fargo, ND 58103. I am not going to pick a ZIP the contact page did not print. The contact page is the one with the phone.
That Wikipedia page says construction began in the fall of 1925, the theater opened March 15, 1926, and it reopened March 20, 1999. It names architects Buechner & Orth and Liebenberg and Kaplan. It says the house is on the National Register, added October 21, 1982. It says the operator is the Fargo Theatre Management Corporation, and that Jade Presents books live events. It says the building has two screens, and a 4-manual, 27-rank Wurlitzer owned by the Red River Theatre Organ Society. The movies page I opened uses Theatre 1 and Theatre 2, which matches the two-screen line. I did not open a Jade calendar, so I am not selling a concert off the encyclopedia.
The movies page, checked October 4, 2026, lists titled shows through the middle of the month and one late show on October 30. Digger: Sunday, October 4, 7 p.m. in Theatre 1 and 1 p.m. in Theatre 2. Tuesday, October 6, 4:45 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. in Theatre 2. Wednesday, October 7, and Thursday, October 8, 4:30 p.m. and 7:15 p.m. in Theatre 1. Madd Frank Presents: The Little Shop of Horrors: Sunday, October 4, 2 p.m. in Theatre 1. Primetime: Sunday, October 4, 4 p.m. and 7:15 p.m. in Theatre 2. Tuesday, October 6, 4:30 p.m. in Theatre 1. Wednesday, October 7, 4:45 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. in Theatre 2. Thursday, October 8, 7:30 p.m. in Theatre 2. Beetlejuice: Saturday, October 10, 2 p.m. in Theatre 1. Bride of Frankenstein: Thursday, October 15, 7:30 p.m. in Theatre 1. Bride of Chucky: Friday, October 16, 7 p.m. in Theatre 1. The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Friday, October 30, 11 p.m. in Theatre 1, marked interactive. The Monday, October 5, column is on the grid. I did not see a time in it for those titled films. One Tuesday, October 6, 7 p.m. line in Theatre 1 reached me without a title on the page text. I am not going to name that film. I also did not open a ticket price.
John Lamb, InForum, April 2, 2024, is the ghost source, and it is a careful one. Emily Beck, executive director, said she has heard rumors of a ghost at the downtown landmark and has never experienced anything firsthand. "We have had two different ghost hunter teams do investigations at the theater and neither of them have found anything substantial," she said. The rest of that piece is Dustin Pari's show, "Ghosts: Do You Believe?", that night at 8 p.m., tickets $29.50 and $59.50 plus fees, at jadepresents.com. That price is for a talk in 2024. It is not an October 2026 movie.
Lamb again, InForum, October 11, 2024, covers a walking tour hosted by William R. Balsley and Aimee Klein. He writes that the Fargo Theatre is another popular haunt, "though the ghost stories there aren't as compelling," and that people on the tour like hearing how the house worked as a vaudeville theater. I am not going to turn a vaudeville aside into a spirit. Beck's sentence is the one with a name, a role, and a result: rumors, and two teams with nothing substantial. The tour piece calls it a haunt and then withholds the story. I am not going to fill that gap from a directory I did not open.
Visit: 314 Broadway N, Fargo, ND 58102, on the contact page. (701) 239-8385. fargotheatre.org/contact. The movies grid, checked in October 2026, is the door. Sunday, October 4, includes Little Shop of Horrors at 2 p.m. and Digger at 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. I did not see a Monday, October 5, time for the titled films. Wikipedia says 314 Broadway, with no ZIP, and a Commons category says 58103. Beck's "nothing substantial" line is Lamb, April 2, 2024. The tour piece is Lamb, October 11, 2024.
Former Governors' Mansion, Bismarck
The State Historical Society will let you into the house after Labor Day if you call ahead. The pages I opened will not tell you a ghost story. A 2022 magazine interview will, in one sentence, and it will call the sentence a probability.
The site page says 320 East Avenue B, Bismarck, North Dakota 58505, and also 320 E. Ave. B. Phone, (701) 328-9528. Email, shsfgm@nd.gov. A second contact block is the society itself: (701) 328-2666, history@nd.gov. I am not going to call the society number and assume I have reached the mansion desk.
Hours on that page, and again on the events page: Tuesday after Labor Day through the Friday before Memorial weekend, open for events, school tours, rentals, and by appointment. Memorial weekend Saturday through Labor Day, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. Site grounds are open year-round. Labor Day 2026 was September 7. October 4, 2026, the day this was checked, is after that Monday, so the daily 9-to-5 line is already over. The grounds are not the house. I am not going to promise a walk-in on a Sunday in October because the summer clock has ended. The door that is still printed is an appointment, an event, a school tour, or a rental.
The rental block says the mansion can be rented for $50.00 per hour during non-public hours, for weddings, receptions, recitals, and other special events. Events that are educational, free, and open to the public are eligible for a fee waiver. The lawn can be rented for $100.00 for a 6-hour block. Those are rental prices. They are not admission. The page does not print a ticket price for a tour.
The same page says the house was built in 1884 as a private residence by Asa Fisher, sold to the state for $5,000 in 1893, and used by 20 chief executives from 1893 to 1960. It says the society was given the house in 1975 and restored it toward a possible 1893 appearance. It says Fisher was at various times a wholesale liquor dealer, register of the Bismarck Land Office, and president of the First National Bank. I did not open a page that puts a death in a hallway. A television piece that is often cited for that story did not open when I tried it in October 2026. I am not going to reconstruct it from a search snippet.
Brady Drake, Fargo Monthly, October 18, 2022, quotes Wendy Kimble of Paranormal Investigators of North Dakota. She says, "The old governor's mansion is probably a nice combination of both energies, intelligent and residual." Earlier in that interview the pair define intelligent as something that interacts, and residual as something that repeats like a recording. "Probably" is her word. Jill Schramm, Minot Daily News, October 31, 2022, quotes Kimble saying the team has contacted a few places, "like the former governor's mansion in Bismarck, Fort Totten." Contacted is not the same sentence as investigated, and it is not Kimble's "probably." The mansion pages I opened do not mention either interview. I am not going to promote a probability into a resident.
Visit: 320 East Avenue B, Bismarck, ND 58505. (701) 328-9528. Society line, (701) 328-2666. history.nd.gov/historicsites/fgm. Hours, checked in October 2026: after Labor Day, events, school tours, rentals, and by appointment. Summer, Memorial weekend through Labor Day, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. Grounds year-round. Rental, $50 an hour for the house, $100 for a 6-hour lawn block. Kimble's "probably" is Drake, October 18, 2022. Schramm, October 31, 2022, is the line that they contacted the mansion. The site pages do not tell a ghost story.
Taube Museum of Art, Minot
The museum will let you into a former bank on a Tuesday afternoon, for no admission charge. A 2022 interview will say a man in a 1950s suit came down the stairs and was not there when someone followed him. The museum pages I opened do not mention him.
The contact page says 2 N Main St, Minot, ND 58703. Phone, (701) 838-4445, labeled office. Email, taube@srt.com. Hours on that page: Tuesday through Friday, 10:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Saturday, 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. The homepage repeats those hours and adds "or by special appointment." It says there is no charge for admission, and that contributions are accepted. Sunday and Monday are not on either hours block. I am not going to invent a Sunday door.
The homepage also prints the address as 2 Main St N, Minot, ND 58703, inside the note for an exhibition. The contact page says 2 N Main St. Same corner, two word orders. Wikipedia, which I opened, says 2 N. Main Street and says the hours are Tuesday through Friday, 10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. It does not date that clock. The museum pages checked in October 2026 end the weekday at 5:00, not 5:30. I am not going to give you the extra half hour because an encyclopedia still has it.
That Wikipedia page says the group formed in 1970 as the Minot Art Gallery, bought the Union National Bank building in 1977, and that the bank building went up in 1923 after a fire, with the bank staying until 1963. The museum pages I opened do not tell that history. It stays with Wikipedia. The homepage calls the place the Taube Museum in the welcome, then "Taube Art Museum" in the exhibition sentence, then "Taube Museum of Art" in the location line. The sign in the photograph says Taube Museum of Art. I am not going to pick a shorter name the sign does not use.
The exhibition on the homepage is "Detritus," by Debbie Kauffman, September 8, 2026, to October 8, 2026. The closing reception is October 8, 2026, "from 5:00 PM to 700 PM." The page prints 700. I am not going to decide that it means 7:00. A separate block announces flashlight tours and ghost stories with Paranormal Investigators of North Dakota on Saturday, October 17, only. Times: 6:30 p.m., 8:15 p.m., and 10:00 p.m. Price, $25 per person, cash only, tickets at the museum. The 10 p.m. tickets, the page says, are for sale only at the museum's booth during Midwest MonsterCon. Age line: 18 and up only. That is one Saturday night. It is not the Tuesday hours. Another block announces House of Horrors, $20 at the door, with a $2 discount for a non-perishable and a $5 discount for an unwrapped toy. That block does not print the dates. I am not going to turn an undated maze into the visit. The door I can describe on an ordinary weekday is the free gallery, closing at 5:00 on the museum's own page.
Wendy Kimble, in Drake's October 18, 2022 interview, says she has taught at the Taube for several years and saw a full-body apparition after anybody should have been in the building. She was watching two girls whose parents were running late. She heard the door chime upstairs, stepped to the door, and saw a man walking down the stairs "as solid as you and I." He looked her way, turned right, and was gone when she cut him off at the next corner. She says the girls asked, "Who's that man?" She describes a hat, a long suit jacket, long dress pants, and dress shoes, "a probably 1950s kind of dress." She says they figured he was possibly the bank manager or president of the bank that used to occupy the building, and that an old safe is in the direction he walked. "Probably" and "possibly" are hers. Schramm, October 31, 2022, quotes Kimble putting the Taube at the top of the team's Minot list, with Original Comics and Collectibles and Urban Winery. Books flying off shelves and footsteps, in that piece, are "commonly reported in downtown buildings," not a sentence that pins them to the Taube alone. The stick-figure story in that same piece is the James Memorial, below, not this museum. I am not going to move it onto Main Street.
Schramm's team list spells a colleague Leilani Coleman. A Dickinson Press piece from October 4, 2023, spells her Leinani Coleman, and its photo caption spells a teammate Huntzing where the body of that piece says Huntzinger. Schramm's last quote in the story I opened spells Wendy Kimball. The byline quotes are Kimble. I am not going to merge the spellings into one official roster.
Visit: 2 N Main St, Minot, ND 58703, on the contact page. The exhibition note says 2 Main St N. (701) 838-4445. taubemuseum.org. Hours, checked in October 2026: Tuesday through Friday 10:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Saturday 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., or by special appointment on the homepage. No admission charge. Wikipedia still prints 5:30. October 17, 2026, flashlight tours are $25 cash, 18 and up, and they are not the weekday door. Kimble's man on the stairs is Drake, October 18, 2022. Schramm, October 31, 2022, is the Minot list.
James Memorial Art Center, Williston
The gallery will let you in on a Sunday afternoon, unless that day is a federal holiday. A 2022 news story will say a stick figure danced on the stage. A 2023 photo caption will describe a different figure, on a different camera. They are not the same sentence.
The center's own page says 621 1st Avenue W, Williston, ND 58801. Mailing address, PO Box 1714, Williston, ND 58802. Phone, (701) 774-3601. Email, JmpsWilliston@gmail.com. Gallery hours: Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday through Sunday, 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. Closed on federal holidays. The page does not list which holidays those are. October 12, 2026, is a Monday, and it is Columbus Day, a federal holiday. I am not going to promise the 9 a.m. door that Monday. October 4, 2026, is a Sunday and is not a federal holiday, so the printed Sunday clock is noon to 5. I did not open a ticket price. The page does not print one for the gallery.
The about text says that in 1993 a concerned group formed the James Memorial Preservation Society. The achievements list on the same page says the society formed in 1992 to save the building from destruction. I am not going to sell both years as one fact. The about text also says eighty women organized the Women's Civic League in 1909, Arthur Curtiss James funded a library as a memorial to his father, D. Willis James, and the library opened February 27, 1911, with a banquet and a grand ball. It says the building was the city's only library until 1983. Wikipedia, which I opened, says the library was built in 1911, architect R.S. Frost, builder W.W. Horton, listed on the National Register in 1979, and that the building is now the James Memorial Art Center. The stone over the door still says library. The website says art center. Both are this building.
Jill Schramm, Minot Daily News, October 31, 2022, is the dancing figure. She quotes Wendy Kimble on a camera system, using a type of video-game technology, at the James Memorial Art Center. A team member was filmed dancing on stage to an Elvis Presley song. Kimble says a tall dancing stick figure showed up to dance along, and at one point knelt onto a knee and snapped his fingers. "So, a very, very, very cool piece of evidence that we caught there," Kimble said. Evidence is her word for what the team caught. It is not a sentence that says a haunting has been proved. The same story spells her Kimball in a later quote. I am using Kimble, which is how the quotes are introduced.
Ashley Koffler, Dickinson Press, October 4, 2023, runs a photo caption that is a different claim. It says Wendy Kimble interacts with a figure that is invisible to the naked eye but picked up by a Structured Light Sensor camera at the James Memorial Arts Center in Williston. Arts, with an s. The Williston site says Art Center, without the s. The caption is not Schramm's Elvis stick figure. One is a dancing outline beside a person. The other is a figure the caption says you could not see. I am not going to glue them. The body of Koffler's piece is about the Billings County Courthouse in Medora, not a second Williston investigation I can quote in detail. Drake's October 18, 2022 interview lists the James among places the team has been and does not tell the Elvis story. The apparition he does tell at length is the Taube, above.
Visit: 621 1st Avenue W, Williston, ND 58801. (701) 774-3601. thejamesmemorial.org. Gallery hours, checked in October 2026: Monday through Thursday 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Friday through Sunday noon to 5 p.m., closed on federal holidays. October 12, 2026, is one of those Mondays. The same page says the society formed in 1992 and also in 1993. The stone says James Memorial Library. Schramm, October 31, 2022, is the Elvis stick figure. Koffler's October 4, 2023 caption is the Structured Light Sensor figure, and it spells Arts Center.
How to use this
Start with the door that matches the week you are actually having. The Fargo Theatre's public door is a showtime, (701) 239-8385, at 314 Broadway N on the contact page, ZIP 58102. Wikipedia omits the ZIP. A Commons category prints 58103. The grid checked October 4, 2026, lists Digger, Little Shop of Horrors at 2 p.m. that Sunday, Primetime, Beetlejuice on October 10, Bride of Frankenstein on October 15, Bride of Chucky on October 16, and Rocky Horror at 11 p.m. on October 30. I did not see a Monday, October 5, time for the titled films, and I did not open a ticket price. Beck told Lamb, on April 2, 2024, that she has heard rumors and that two teams found nothing substantial. Lamb's October 11, 2024 tour piece calls the theater a popular haunt and says the ghost stories are not as compelling. The former governors' mansion is (701) 328-9528, at 320 East Avenue B. The society line on the same page is (701) 328-2666. After Labor Day the house is events, school tours, rentals, and appointments. Summer is 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily, and Labor Day 2026 was September 7, so October is not that clock. The grounds are open year-round and are not the interior. House rental is $50 an hour. The lawn is $100 for six hours. Kimble told Drake, on October 18, 2022, that the house is probably a mix of intelligent and residual energy. Schramm, on October 31, 2022, says the team contacted the mansion. The site does not say either thing. The Taube is (701) 838-4445, at 2 N Main St on the contact page and 2 Main St N on the exhibition note, ZIP 58703. Tuesday through Friday 10:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Saturday 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., no admission charge. Wikipedia still says 5:30. Sunday and Monday are not on the museum's hours. October 8, 2026, is the closing reception for "Detritus," printed as 5:00 p.m. to 700 p.m. October 17 is a cash-only flashlight tour at $25, 18 and up, at 6:30, 8:15, and 10 p.m., and the 10 p.m. tickets are only at a MonsterCon booth. House of Horrors is announced at $20 with no dates in that block. Kimble told Drake she and two students saw a man in 1950s clothes on the stairs, and she said he was possibly a bank manager. Schramm put the Taube at the top of a Minot list and spelled Kimble as Kimball in a later line. The James is (701) 774-3601, at 621 1st Avenue W. Monday through Thursday 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Friday through Sunday noon to 5 p.m., closed on federal holidays. October 12, 2026, is Columbus Day. The page says the society formed in 1992 and in 1993. The pediment says James Memorial Library. Schramm quotes Kimble on a stick figure dancing to Elvis. Koffler's caption, October 4, 2023, says a Structured Light Sensor picked up a figure at the James Memorial Arts Center. Those are two claims. The stone and the website do not agree on library versus art center, and the caption adds an s to Art.
If a guide adds a ghost this research did not find on the venue's site or in the news pieces cited below, enjoy it as a story and leave it there.
These four doors are not in one town. Compact binoculars and a North Dakota road atlas are the practical extras if you are driving between them.
Sources
- Fargo Theatre, 314 Broadway N, ZIP 58102, (701) 239-8385, Emily Beck's email, and the October 2026 movies grid: contact, movies - Fargo Theatre, building facts only. Opening day, 1999 reopening, two screens, the Wurlitzer, the architects, the National Register date, and the 314 Broadway line with no ZIP: wikipedia.org - John Lamb, "'Ghost Hunter' Dustin Pari to bring paranormal show to the Fargo Theatre," InForum, April 2, 2024. Beck on rumors and two teams with nothing substantial: inforum.com - John Lamb, "Haunted Downtown Fargo Tour reveals town's dark history featuring murders, brothels and movie stars," InForum, October 11, 2024. The theater as a tour stop whose ghost stories "aren't as compelling": inforum.com - Former Governors' Mansion, 320 East Avenue B, both phones, appointment hours after Labor Day, summer hours, rental prices, Fisher and the $5,000 sale: history.nd.gov and the events page, which repeats the hours: fgmevents - Brady Drake, "Interview With The Experts: A Q&A with the Paranormal Investigators of North Dakota," Fargo Monthly, October 18, 2022. Kimble on the mansion's "probably," and the man on the Taube stairs: fargomonthly.com - Jill Schramm, "Hunting for haunts: Investigators seek paranormal activity," Minot Daily News, October 31, 2022. The contacted mansion, the Taube at the top of a Minot list, the James stick figure, and the Kimball spelling in a later quote: minotdailynews.com - Taube Museum, 2 N Main St, the 5:00 p.m. close, (701) 838-4445, and the homepage with 2 Main St N, the 700 p.m. line, October 17 tours, and the undated House of Horrors block: contact, home - Taube Museum of Art, Wikipedia. The 1970 founding, the 1977 purchase, the 1923 bank, the 1963 move, the 2 N. Main Street line, and the 5:30 p.m. clock that the museum pages do not use: wikipedia.org - James Memorial Art Center, 621 1st Avenue W, (701) 774-3601, gallery hours, federal holidays, and the 1992 and 1993 lines: thejamesmemorial.org - James Memorial Library, Wikipedia. Built 1911, Frost, Horton, the 1979 listing, and the art-center sentence: wikipedia.org - Ashley Koffler, "Unearth the haunting secrets of Billings County Courthouse Museum," Dickinson Press, October 4, 2023. The photo caption on a Structured Light Sensor figure at the James Memorial Arts Center. The body of the piece is the Medora courthouse, which is not on this list: thedickinsonpress.com
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