Molly's Hollow - Jackson Park

South 6th Street, Atchison, Kansas

The origins of the haunting known as Molly's Hollow in Jackson Park vary. What is known is that around midnight people have reported hearing a terrible shrieking voice continuously crying out "Molly!". Often the horrible screaming is accompanied by the apparition of a woman hanging in a tree.

The most popular history of Molly's Hollow states that a beautiful young woman known only as 'Molly' got into a fight with her boyfriend in the park on prom night. Her boyfriend drove off and left her in the park. The next day Molly was found hanging in the tree, her clothes torn. It is unkown if her death was a suicide or murder.

Another history of Molly's Hollow states that Molly was an African-American girl that was lynched by a white mob years ago.

Today, Molly's Hollow is popular place for 'parking'. However, some have been driven permanently away from this area after witnessing the horrific haunting.

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Apr 7, 2008 8:54am [ 1 ]

Hi, Im alyssa and im into paranormal stuff. I think its really cool. I would really like to see videos...real videos of people seeing molly or hearing her scream... because the only way i can believe this story is to see it. And i would love to go to Molly's Hollow but i have no friends to go with and i dont want to go by myself just in case if it is scary. All my friends are scared. So is there any thing that you can show me like pictures of molly or videos..

~Alyssa~

Katryna
May 10, 2008 4:07pm [ 2 ]

I'm saving up my money to make the trip down to see Molly soon. I can't wait for a good scare :D

Keaton
Jun 17, 2008 2:00pm [ 3 ]

Hey people i have personally been to molly's hollow and it is true that if you go down there at midnight you can not always but occasionally hear the screams the the late molly and you can see an apparition my moms fiance bill used to live in atchison very close to the park and him and his friends used to sneak down there after dark and he told my mom that on one of the nights they went there they actually went INTO the woods to see if anything would happen and they found themselves hightailing out of there when they heard a blood-curdling scream...

dakota arndt
Oct 11, 2008 11:49am [ 4 ]

i am a clairavoyant and i have been doing this kind of research and i would love to see molly and hear her blood curdling scream that would be amazing to do this atchison kansas seems like a horrifying ghost town which is just what i need to visit to prove this scientific paranormal sightings and hearings aswell as feelings

i have lived with a ghost named tom dule and another named lila malin lila was killed by tom who was her own stepbrother

jordan
Oct 12, 2008 2:18pm [ 5 ]

i think its really scaryand i will never go there

Ivett cabrera
Nov 16, 2008 1:33pm [ 6 ]

hi am ivett i have seen this thing about molly's hollow on travel channel and i think it's real.i even heard her scream on tv.that was so cool :D

Nov 16, 2008 1:45pm [ 7 ]

hi am melany and i have been to molly's hollow for my birthday.there was a group about 10 of us that went there since i was the only kid there it was pretty scary cause after midnight we went walking through the buches and the trees and then we heard a scream and footsteps steping on sticks making the sticks crack,we made a step to the right because we thought she might pop out of the trees.so right now am 13 years old that was when i turned 12 so it was last year.i loved the experience.love u people who read this.:D

Apr 28, 2009 2:50pm [ 8 ]

hey peoplez wat up???? i really wanna go and hear molly scream. itz also heard that molly was an african american girl, got in trouble for having an affair with a whiteman and so was hanged.

Stacie Hecker
May 20, 2009 1:24pm [ 9 ]

I used to live in Atchison and I am so glad I left. There was lots of freaky tales (gargoyle house, Sally the man hater) and 90% of them were for real. I have heard Molly scream but I have not seen the apparition. (btw, the Bloody Mary stories down there are fake. Funnily enough, I knew Bloody Mary's niece and the real Mary lived in NE)

Bob
May 21, 2009 12:24am [ 10 ]

wow i wish california had cool places like this

victoria
Jun 7, 2009 12:54pm [ 11 ]

Hello, anyone who has been there, can you tell me how to get to the tree where she was?

Jun 19, 2009 7:48pm [ 12 ]

HOLY CRAP I WANNA GO THERE NOW!!!!!!!!! Would anyone want to come with me i got 10,000 dollars? just kidding but not about the coming with me part!?!?!?!?!?!

Lacey
Jun 26, 2009 4:33pm [ 13 ]

hopefully i will go to JACKSON PARK in 15 mins. or so!!!!!!!!i luv scary stuff and want to go and hopefully drive by sallie's house 2!!!!!my friend nikki is goin' so hopefully i will see her there 2!!!!!!!!!!!!i think it will be fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!foer!!!!r all that r there at 4;40 or was there hope 2 c u there and on the 26 of june hi if i diint c u!!!!!!!!talk l8er!!!!!!!!

lowell
Jul 13, 2009 7:13pm [ 14 ]

i've been there! there is a big opening and a hill, with concrete slabs, and a huge tree , well actually alot of trees

Trevan
Jul 21, 2009 4:23pm [ 15 ]

when i went down there i was down in the woods from 12:00AM til 3:30am and the only thing we saw was a park and a lot of woods so after we were in the woods for 3 hours we went to the park and played for a long time so i really dont think that it is true.

Sean
Sep 7, 2009 5:42pm [ 16 ]

Molly's Hollow is now the par 5 8th hole of the Jackson Disc Golf course.

Craig
Oct 27, 2009 6:00am [ 17 ]

hey i live in nebraska and would love to stop in and visit this town!! Can't wait to see if it's real for myself!!

terry
Nov 2, 2009 12:17pm [ 18 ]

i used to live in Atchison and when i was there, the area was bare except for the one tree that supposedly Molly hanged herself in. there is a lot of strange things that have occured in Atchison one just a block from where i used to live!! the gargoyle house is still there.

Danielle Mann
Nov 3, 2009 10:58am [ 19 ]

Today is 11-03-09 and this saturday me and my group for a class at school have to make a documentary of Mollys Hollow. I have never been outside at Molly Hollow in the night, just in a car so im very scared beacsue i have lived in atchison for 17 years and never walkd through there. We are taking a bunch of people with us because it would be just me and two other girls, so that we wont be as scared. Wish me luck!

Katie
Nov 8, 2009 11:31am [ 20 ]

I live In Kansas and i want to go hear her scream ivi been to jackson park before but i never knew it was haunted. it sounds really facinating

Kim
Dec 6, 2009 7:39pm [ 21 ]

My hometown is Atchison and I've been to Molly's Hollow, Sallie's House, and the haunted dorms of Benedictine many many times. I have to say that the dorms in Benedictine are much scarier, however five years ago about a month before I moved out of my parent's house for college; my best friend and I went down to Molly's Hollow. (When visiting Molly you are supposed to turn you car off and wait for her to appear, when she does if you try to start your car it's supposed to stall for a couple of minutes so that you are stuck looking at Molly and/or hearing her screams.) Although my friend and I never heard any screams, we did see a small flash of bright white light that only lasted for a second. My friend was driving and she started screaming trying to start her car and it actually stalled! I have been down there many times growing up but that it the only time I ever experienced anything...I guess Molly was giving me a moving away present.

kaci
Apr 24, 2010 5:46pm [ 22 ]

i have been to jackson park down in atchison..i was with some friends when we decided to go to the park and stop at the parking where its said back behind the parking and we stopped and we heard a loud screaming it was very clear when we heardit we got in the car and left

Hi we've heard alot about Molly Hollow and we really got freaked out watching one of the videos.We all believe and we're at Madisons house for a sleepover,we will be thinking about this scary experience and the tree hanging experiment..Thanks Love,Jaycee,Madison,Kaelyn and Brooky

May 15, 2010 10:40pm [ 24 ]

I'm working on our new Facebook page for "Haunted Atchison's Sights and Sounds" - click my name and check out our page. We would love to have you share your stories under our "review tab". We took a trip to Jackson Park today, and got some spooky shots! :o)

W. B. H
Jul 11, 2010 6:37pm [ 25 ]

Hello all!

I have been into the paranormal since I was little (probably starting around the age of six) and I find myself watching ghost/paranormal shows and specials constantly. One day my sister and I were watching Travel Channel and we saw the "Haunted Town" special. We had just moved to Kansas a year prior and we were both immediately drawn to the stories depicted on the show.

Right now, my family and I (me, my sister and her boyfriend, my mom, and my dad) are saving up to take a weekend trip (Saturday and Sunday) to Atchison this August. I plan to take many pictures and videos, along with (possibly) some EVP sessions. This, however, wouldn't be very wise. Either way, I would love to go to Molly's Hollow at midnight and see what I find!

Hopefully, we will also be returning in October around Halloween time~

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