Sergeant Floyd River Museum: The Denver Exhibit

The Sergeant Floyd River Museum is located on board the decommissioned M.V. Sergeant Floyd Inspection Boat located on the river front in Sioux City.

The Denver Exhibit:

Previous Articles:
Sergeant Floyd River Museum: Intro.
Sergeant Floyd River Museum: Dug-Out Canoe
Sergeant Floyd River Museum: A Place Born of Water and Ice
Sergeant Floyd River Museum: The Ioway People
Sergeant Floyd River Museum: Chipped Stone Tools
Sergeant Floyd River Museum: Sacred Bison Exhibit
Sergeant Floyd River Museum: Pipestone
Sergeant Floyd River Museum: Bone Tools Exhibit
Sergeant Floyd River Museum: Pottery Exhibit
Sergeant Floyd River Museum: A Shrinking Way of Life Exhibit
Sergeant Floyd River Museum: Treaties and Trouble Exhibit
Sergeant Floyd River Museum: Cessions: The Give and Take of Life On the Plains Exhibit
Sergeant Floyd River Museum: The Battles of the War Exhibit
Sergeant Floyd River Museum: Hydrographical Bason of the Upper Missouri River Exhibit
Sergeant Floyd River Museum: Chuck Raymond Native Artist Exhibit
Sergeant Floyd River Museum: American Indian Mortar Pestle Exhibit
Sergeant Floyd River Museum: The Ioway Tribe Exhibit
Sergeant Floyd River Museum: The Chief White Cloud Exhibit
Sergeant Floyd River Museum: The Otto Tribe Exhibit
Sergeant Floyd River Museum: The Ponca Indians Encamped on the Banks of the Missouri Exhibit
Sergeant Floyd River Museum: Fur Trapping in North America A Timeline from 1600 to 1850 Exhibit
Sergeant Floyd River Museum: Fur and Tools Exhibit
Sergeant Floyd River Museum: Free Trapper Exhibit
Sergeant Floyd River Museum: Methods of Moving Fur
Sergeant Floyd River Museum: Down the Chute Exhibit
Sergeant Floyd River Museum: Manuel Lisa: A Quest for Riches 1811 Exhibit
Sergeant Floyd River Museum: Forming Beaver Hats Exhibit
Sergeant Floyd River Museum: American Fur Companies and Mountain Men Exhibit
Sergeant Floyd River Museum: How Trappers and American Indians Figured Values at Trading Posts and Rendevous Exhibit
Sergeant Floyd River Museum: Lewis and Clark Exhibit
Sergeant Floyd River Museum: Cargo Hold of the Keelboat Exhibit
Sergeant Floyd River Museum: Keelboat Exhibit
Sergeant Floyd River Museum: Lewis and Clark Blackbird Bend to Ponca 1804 Exhibit
Sergeant Floyd River Museum: The Mighty Missouri River Exhibit
Sergeant Floyd River Museum: Boats of the Lewis and Clark Expedition Exhibit
Sergeant Floyd River Museum: The Route Map of Lewis and Clark's Journey West 1804-06 Exhibit
Sergeant Floyd River Museum: Red Pirogue Exhibit
Sergeant Floyd River Museum: Hill of Little Devils Exhibit
Sergeant Floyd River Museum: The Corps of Discovery Personal Effects Exhibit
Sergeant Floyd River Museum: Corps of Discovery Under Sail Exhibit
Sergeant Floyd River Museum: Mississippi River Galley Barge Exhibit
Sergeant Floyd River Museum: Rocky Mountains Exhibit
Sergeant Floyd River Museum: William Clark's of the Missouri River between Vermillion, SD and Onawa, IA in 1804-06 Exhibit
Sergeant Floyd River Museum: What's Up On the River? Exhibit
Sergeant Floyd River Museum: Evolution of the Mountain Steamboat Exhibit
Sergeant Floyd River Museum: The Mouth of the Big Sioux River Exhibit
Sergeant Floyd River Museum: The Boatmen Exhibit
Sergeant Floyd River Museum: Steamboat Engines Exhibit
Sergeant Floyd River Museum: Crosshead, Piston Rod and Piston Head Exhibit
Sergeant Floyd River Museum: Western Engineer Exhibit
Sergeant Floyd River Museum: Royalty on the Boiler Deck: The Maximillian Expedition 1833 Exhibit
Sergeant Floyd River Museum: Yellowstone Exhibit
Sergeant Floyd River Museum: "Wooding" on the River Exhibit
Sergeant Floyd River Museum: Birth of a River Port The Founding of Sioux City Exhibit
Sergeant Floyd River Museum: Sioux City River Front 1857 Exhibit
Sergeant Floyd River Museum: Portrait of the Omaha Exhibit
Sergeant Floyd River Museum: Fort Benton Exhibit
Sergeant Floyd River Museum: Big Money on the Big Muddy Exhibit
Sergeant Floyd River Museum: Steamboat Advertisement Exhibit
Sergeant Floyd River Museum: River Report Exhibit
Sergeant Floyd River Museum: The Boat Builders Exhibit
Sergeant Floyd River Museum: Shipping Document Exhibit
Sergeant Floyd River Museum: Sioux City Steamboat Levee Exhibit
Sergeant Floyd River Museum: Northwest Transportation Company Drydock Exhibit
Sergeant Floyd River Museum: The Boat Yards Exhibit
Sergeant Floyd River Museum: Map of Sioux City River Front Exhibit
Sergeant Floyd River Museum: Far West and Nellie Peck Exhibit
Sergeant Floyd River Museum: "She takes the Horns" Exhibit
Sergeant Floyd River Museum: 1888 Perspective Map of Sioux City Exhibit
Sergeant Floyd River Museum: Wooden Life Floats Exhibit
Sergeant Floyd River Museum: Andrew G. Anderson Exhibit
Sergeant Floyd River Museum: The Fastest on the River Exhibit

Sergeant Floyd River Museum: Steamboat Worries on the Missouri
Sergeant Floyd River Museum: Casualties of a Treacherous River
Sergeant Floyd River Museum: Steamboat Wrecks
Sergeant Floyd River Museum: Riverboat Castallia
Sergeant Floyd River Museum: Key West Exhibit
Sergeant Floyd River Museum: The Indomitable Rosebud 1877 - 1896 Exhibit
Sergeant Floyd River Museum: Steam Whistle Exhibit
Sergeant Floyd River Museum: The Far West Exhibit
Sergeant Floyd River Museum: The General Meade Exhibit
Sergeant Floyd River Museum: The Batchelor Exhibit
Sergeant Floyd River Museum: The Silver Bow Exhibit
Sergeant Floyd River Museum: The Niobrara Exhibit

Sioux City History and Culture by Bicycle Part 85: Sioux City's Haunted History Part 7: Sioux City Airport

The fear of flying is common for a lot of air travelers. We hope the plane we are flying in does not fall out of the sky and crash. Whether we want to admit it or not this is always in the backs of the minds of air travelers. In 1989 passengers aboard United Flight 232 experienced that fear first hand.

On July 19, 1989 United 232 took off from Denver bound for Chicago but never made it. During the flight a serious engine failure took out the main hydraulic system and the back up cable system. The plane tried to land at Sioux City Regional Airport but crashed upon landing killing 121 of the 285 souls on board. The reasons so many lived is because of the 285th Air National Guard Unit, the crash occured during shift change at most of the hospitals in the area so there was double the staff to help with the victims and it happened during daylight hours.

As a result in Sioux City's only major airport disaster the souls who were lost on that tragic day are believed to be haunting the airport and the surrounding area. Strange sounds have been heard coming from areas that are empty of people. Unknown figures have been reported as being seen walking around lost like they are looking for their next flight. These are believed to be the lost souls of United Flight 232 waiting for their next flight. But their next flight to where? Are they expecting their flight to take them to Chicago? Or perhaps into the afterlife?

Living travelers should be aware of these ghostly figures the next time they are standing alone in the baggage claim area waiting for their luggage after landing at Sioux Gateway Airport. Or if they are alone in the video game arcade room and they look over to see another figure standing at the game console next to them, yet it appears the figure is not playing the game for some reason.

I have seen figures in certain areas of the airport that are there and then gone all of a sudden. Maybe some day these ghostly passengers will make it to their final destination, where ever that may be.

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