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Beyond the places above, the published canon names a tail of sites whose traditions rest on a single list, directory or tour script. They are gathered here at the weight their evidence carries — named, sourced, and not enlarged.
The History Center — the old City Hall of 1893, whose basement holds the old city jail cells — anchors the modern tour telling: the commercial Summit City Ghosts walk sends its customers past it with the line that "jail cells and ancient artifacts draw eerie entities and unexplained activity," and the museum itself plays along each Fright Night with an event called "A Night in the Old City Jail." The Masonic Temple of 1926, ten stories on the tour route, is said in Fort Wayne Magazine's list to harbour a young man who slams doors and switches lights on and off. The old Lutheran Hospital — opened in 1904, its history told in the Hospitals chapter — carries a list-only tradition of a man on the fourth floor and a basement stair that, walked in the dark, never reaches the bottom. The Wells Street Bridge of 1884, the city's beloved iron truss, is credited in the same list with the canon's only animal ghost: a dog, seen and heard barking by night cyclists, with the advice that if you see a dog, don't stop. Bruick Road, on the county's edge, has its unexplained lights that vanish as travellers approach. The Mason Long House, a private home, rests on a directory entry alone: Mason Long — born 1842, orphaned at ten, a Civil War soldier turned stockbroker — died of a stroke in the house in 1902, and the house "is said to be" haunted; nothing further is in print.
Two of the tail's entries arrive with their own corrections attached, and the corrections are the record. Devil's Hollow, a wooded spot just north of the city, carries the canon's darkest tale — a woman believed a witch, her house on the hill burned by neighbours, only the chimney left, her spirit chasing trespassers, and police called out over the years to rituals at the site. It is in print by 27 October 2017 in the Waynedale News and stands in Fort Wayne Magazine's list, but no witness, no name, no date and no documented burning stand behind it in any source reached, and Haunted Rooms' revised 2026 guide excludes it from its verified list. The Jehl Park swing — a girl said to have died on the swings, whose spirit pushes riders off at midnight — was carried for years by the online lists until the directories themselves withdrew it: Haunted Rooms reports the tale "could not be traced to any witness," and moved it to its notes. Two more of the tail are tour-script originals with no older print located: the Summit City walk's "Killer in the Rain" of the 1940s, and its shoeless apparition of Johnny Appleseed himself, said to wander the banks of the St. Joseph near his grave — a ghost for the city's most famous resident that no book or newspaper in this record carries.
Sources: US Ghost Adventures, Summit City Ghosts tour literature; Fort Wayne Magazine, haunted-places list and Fright Night guide (fortwayne.com); HauntedPlaces.org, Indiana listings (Mason Long House); Waynedale News, 27 October 2017 (Devil's Hollow); Haunted Rooms, "Haunted Places in Fort Wayne" (revised November 2026), notes on the Jehl Park swing; the Folklore section of this history.