If you’re a fan of a team that’s struggling, it’s easy to feel like your home stadium or arena is haunted, and a new survey just crowned the most haunted sports venue in North America.
Arlington, Texas’ AT&T Stadium takes the top spot, which makes sense because on more than one occasion we’ve seen expressions on the faces of Dallas Cowboys players as if they had just seen a ghost.
This info comes to us from The Sports Geek, which employed a more scientific approach to this than I’ve ever seen in an episode of “Ghost Hunters.”
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They scored 47 venues across the US and Canada based on their haunted lore, age, proximity to burial sites, and, finally, an “other” category for the rest of each one’s ghoulish attributes.
In a shocker, Jerry’s World — which opened in only 2009 — out-ghosted Dodger Stadium and 112-year-old Wrigley Field for the top spot.
Man, this really puts my long-running argument of there being no new ghosts to shame…
Former stadium employee Selena Sixtos wrote an article in 2018 for Dallas Sports Fanatics in which she cites several odd occurrences. These included some poltergeist-like activity in a kitchen, a chill around a room named after legendary coach Tom Landry, and an incident in which she heard someone in a bathroom stall, only for it to be unoccupied.
Which, in fairness, is actually way down the list of scary things to find in a stadium restroom, but creepy nonetheless.
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The stadium is also built next to a graveyard, per The Dallas Observer, and a worker was killed in an accident during its construction. That helps account for why it was able to overcome its comparatively young age.
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The most shocking thing of all is that the stadium might be the first to top a “most haunted” list with no sightings of Civil War soldiers or early or 20th-century widows.
I like that. Nice to see ghosts switching it up a little.