Old Red Horse Armory, Des Moines, Iowa - Discussion

Anonymous · Oct. 31, 2025, 12:35 p.m.

Discussion thread for Old Red Horse Armory, Des Moines, Iowa.

This old cavalry armory is now the housing for city school buses. There have been reports that members of the National Guard, when they occupied the building, heard ghostly sounds from long ago: clopping of horses' hooves and jingling of harnesses. An apparition of an older man in cavalry garb was...

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