THE STORY
Reported Haunting
The former Vina Rae's Grill & Graze in Avard, Oklahoma—housed inside an abandoned, historic high school gymnasium—is legendary in local folklore for intense supernatural activity. Regional lore attributes the hauntings to a gruesome 1956 cold case involving a local woman named Annie Reynolds, whose spirit is believed to have returned to search for her school-coach husband. Over the years, workers and patrons have documented chilling phenomena, including an apparition wearing a green dress that vanishes at the lunch counter, a floating headless entity, and the phantom smell of burning hair.
Vina Rae’s Grill & Graze cafe in the old high school gym is said to be haunted. Orbs turn up in photographs, odors such as burning hair seem to come from nowhere, and the sounds of footsteps, voices, and knocking have been reported. The apparition of a headless woman showed up Memorial Day 2002, believed to be a woman who was murdered here about 50 years ago ago. Some say there may be a portal to another dimension in the hall.