The abandoned buildings are not open to the public, but Belvoir Winery offers paranormal investigations at night led by members of the Paranormal Research Investigators. Travel Channel’s Kindred Spirits also explored the property and reported making contact with the spirit of a past hospital resident who took his own life, as well as with child spirits. A paranormal investigator claimed he saw shadow figures during one of his many investigations of the grounds. One member reported being grabbed on the arm by a spirit while exploring the old buildings. The property has been investigated by a TV crew for the Travel Channel’s Ghost Adventures. Employees say they’ve heard footsteps, seen doors open and close and lights turn on and off, and heard kids running through the halls. In other buildings, visitors have reported hearing a piano playing on its own. Stories are told about the orphanage building as a space filled with the spirits of children who wander the halls singing nursery rhymes. A small room in the winery building houses “George,” the skeleton of an Odd Fellows member who died in the 1880s and donated his body to science he was later returned to the IOOF to be used in initiation rituals. There is also a cemetery located on the northern end of the property where the remains of nearly six hundred people are buried. The other buildings-the old folks home, hospital and nursing home/morgue-are abandoned and in various states of decay. The property today consists of the old orphanage, which is now home to Belvoir Winery & Inn. This chapter of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows goes back to the early twentieth century and was built to provide care for its members, widows and orphans on what was then a two hundred and forty-acre farm in Liberty. The Odd Fellows compound in Liberty has a long-running reputation for being haunted.

Parasite in city gallery