Omaha Mayor Jean Stothert announced today that she will open all city parks from 5 a. Earlier this month, in an effort to promote social distancing and slowing the spread of COVID, Stothert closed all city parks. But there's one park in particular where people would be trespassing even with the new park hours.
Hummel Park is in a secluded area and you can't see into the park from the road. There is lots of cover here. Jerry Busselman lives just outside of park property. Jerry says people drive into the closed park all the time and at all hours -- sometimes in the early morning.
Well, at least parking, you know. Two, three, four in the morning. Omaha Police have handed out 12 citations in Hummel Park for trespassing. Jerry says there are a lot of people hanging around the scenic view area. The trespassers are making the area not so scenic. Stothert says social distancing and groups of 10 people or less will be enforced. The mayor says anyone in the park after 8 p. Skip to content. Back To School.
First Alert Weather. High School. College World Series. We Are Local. You Can't Stop The Music. Community Calendar. Contact Us. Meet the Team. Advertise on WOWT. Cozi TV. ION Television. There is a lot of misunderstanding about what happens at Hummel Park. A lot of it comes from racism, a lot from ignorance, and the rest of it from active imaginations. More than years ago, a Spanish trader named Manuel Lisa had a fort located near the park.
In , acres of land on the southwest corner of River Drive and Ponca Road were donated to the City of Omaha to become a park. It was named after Joseph B. A mature riparian woodlands covers almost the whole park. The Hummel Park Nature Center, operated by the Omaha Parks and Recreation Department, offers environmental education programs and special nature events.
For more than 60 years, the park has been home to a summer camp for thousands of learners. Today, Hummel Park is a beloved area used by thousands of people every year who enjoy it, enjoy the view, and treasure the park. There are a lot of salacious and un-useful rumors about the park though, and following are actual facts that address these rumors. It may be true that one of the first settlers in the area was a German named Jacob Clatanoff. Apparently, he and his wife Laurinda had a cabin in the hills before a park was located there.
It may be true that one day, Laurinda decided to kill her husband and flee with a lover. However, I cannot find any record in historical papers, and the story is only mentioned in books about the paranormal.
None of them cite any sources. As a remote, secluded place, there has been crime at Hummel Park. Bodies have been buried there. The following are crimes where I could find evidence. I think they would have been a bad influence on my writing, as I tried to deliberately avoid using real tragedies in the stories and only played around with the more outlandish rumors. But some of these are so macabre that I may have been tempted.
I did do a fair amount of research on the park before I started writing, and I have to say there is nothing even close to this out there. Great work! Like Like. Hey Jeremy, thanks for your comment! Did you see that I linked to your book before you commented? It looks good! I'm glad you didn't see this article either, if only because there needs to be someone pushing out the spooky stories and not the macabre ones… That said, maybe you need to write a sequel! Base it on what I've found and shared here — lots of my links go to the actual court cases.
I found a grip of articles about almost every circumstance I mentioned too, annnnnd I actually left out a half-dozen stories I couldn't find citations for.
There's a lot of real and bombastic horror in the world, and plenty of room for all the stories to be told! Thanks again for commenting. Hi Adam, no, I didn't notice the link before I posted. Matter of fact, I still don't see it, I must be losing it! But I found the site through a search of Hummel Park on Facebook to see if anyone was talking about my book. Vain, yes, but I was curious. But it was a lucky break. I had already scoured google and so forth before I wrote the book, so I probably wouldn't have found this site without searching Facebook, as someone on an Old Omaha site posted links to your stories.
Too bad they didn't know about this post, as it would give them all they wanted.
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