In Ohio
Aberdeen - Aberdeen
Baptist Church - There is an uneasy feeling when
you walk or drive past the church late in the evenings. Apparitions of
3 children can be seen; 2 girls and a boy standing outside the church.
They seem to vanish when you look at them. Large black birds have been
seen flying out of the church windows and vanish. Screams can be heard
coming from inside the church at night.
Adams - Blue Creek - Mt.
Unger Cemetery - It is known to be that if you go
there at night you can see a guy that hung himself so that he could be
with his wife, that he killed.
Akron - Archbishop Hoban
High School - The new art rooms, tutoring center
and admissions office and the school was built in the remodeled
building were the old Brothers dormitories had been (The school is run
by the Brothers Of Holy Cross) and it has been reported that on the
feast of St. Joseph (the Brothers patron saint) a line of men in dark
priest robe can be seen walking through out the wing of the school
looking for their old rooms. They have never been seen anywhere else in
the school. The men’s locker rooms are haunted by a boy believed to
have played basketball for the school, but was killed in a car crash in
the late 1980's.
Akron - The Akron Civic
Theatre - Well-known story still told by some of
the theatre's tour guides is the story of Fred the janitor. Fred was a
life-long employee of the Civic, back in the days when it was called
the "Loews Theatre". He died on the premises, but his ghost still tends
to duties, namely keeping vandals at bay in the bathrooms. The Civic
has been the site of many high school proms, and several sightings have
been reported of a figure that "attacks" would-be vandals. Another
ghost reported many times is that of a young woman that weeps by the
canal that still runs under the theatre and through parts of the city
underground. This same canal was the lifeline of the city in the early
1800's, so many think she is a "shade" that remains from the early
canal days.
Akron - Hower House and
TKE House - The Hower House, currently owned by
the University of Akron, has a well-known female ghost purported to be
one of the Howers. She apparently is angry due to husband's infidelity
and likes to scare male workers and guests. There are also reports that
one of the fraternity houses nearby is also haunted, and this ghost has
been seen by students. The ghost is that of a young girl servant who
died in the home when it was still used as a residence and is buried in
a hard to find grave located behind the house. She has been seen both
in the house itself and on the grounds outside.
Akron - Litchfield Middle
School - There is a ghost that haunts
Litchfield, supposedly Mr. Litchfield himself. The janitor that works
there told my teacher (who told me) that at night doors open and shut,
lockers open and shut, and he hears footsteps and laughter. I myself
have had experiences when I was sitting in class, not paying attention,
and the door was swinging back and forth when no one was in front of it
or behind it. My teacher heard footsteps and an old janitor haunts the
school too.
Akron - Norton - Cry Baby
Bridge - There is a bride over in Norton That
has been the talk of Akron for a haunting for years. The story is that
a lady was pregnant and had her baby in the Lodge house next to the
bridge. The woman didn't want her baby so she threw it over the bride
into the creek at midnight. The story is \, if you go to the bridge at
12, then you can here the baby cry and watch the lady throw the baby
into the creek. There is a rumor that some type of animal guards the
creek and it is said to be bigger than a man.
Akron - Rogues Hollow -
Cry Baby Bridge - Same Bridge as above/different
story - There is a little bridge near a vacant
house called Cry Baby Bridge. Legend states that in the early 1900's,
there was a supposed witch that was impregnated by a married man. The
towns' people decided to take the baby away from her, and she would
have none of this. Rather than her child be taken, the woman threw it
off the bridge. People claim that you can sometimes hear the baby
crying in the middle of the night while standing on the bridge.
Akron - Rose Hill Burial
Park - The back of this sprawling cemetery faces
several acres of forest, and many people claim to have seen a "lady in
white" back there. Sometimes a mist will cover the grounds at night,
limiting visibility.
Akron - Summit County
Juvenile Detention Home - a ghost of a matron
that worked and was killed here is seen.
Akron - University of
Akron - Sigma Nu House - The Sigma Nu
House in Akron has been haunted for many years. The house was purchased
by Sigma Nu from a sorority on the campus. Legend has it, one of the
sorority members hung herself in the boiler room at the house. Many of
the Sigma Nu members have had run-ins with her spirit. Still today, no
member of Sigma Nu will go into the boiler room by themselves.
Akron - University of
Akron - Sorority house - Sisters who live
in the sorority house have had plates thrown at them in the kitchen and
break when they hit the wall. Closet doors in the attic fly open and
slam shut when there is no one up there. From the first floor, you can
hear people walking around and moving furniture upstairs when no one
else is home.
Alliance - Glamorgan
castle - William Morgan built the Castle at
Alliance Ohio in 1902 and 1903.Today The Glamorgan Castle is haunted
the ghosts is William H. Morgan have been seen to this day.
Alliance - The Old
Orphanage - There is an old orphanage owned by a
local family that sets right off a side street. Several of my friends
were given a tour of the orphanage by it's past owners. They were told
that many of the orphans that died were buried in the basement. Also,
there were rooms located in the house that were used for shock
treatment sessions. They took a self-guided tour through the house and
reported that they saw sparks coming out of the room where the shock
therapy took place. Also, they saw a baby doll in one room; the doll
was also in the next room that they went to. They went back to the
first room and found that the doll was missing from it. There were cold
spots throughout the house.- November 2003
update - burned down summer of 2002.
Amanda - Amanda Elementary
School - Located near Crystal Tissue Factory the
Children whom have attended Amanda Elementary school always have an
interesting story or two. Right next to the current school is a much
larger but condemned school. Kids report few weird occurrences, such as
looking at the school and seeing a small child run real quick in front
of the window, or hearing a noise come from the building at recess. Or
ever seeing a mist at the treetops of the woods directly behind the
school. Kids have a few stories about the school. Here are a few, one
is that a teacher was to be fire, he flipped out and killed many
students and teachers with a gun. The other is that for a while it was
an insane asylum, and the last is that the kids teased a girl saying
her mother was a witch, so her mother put a curse on the school, and
the school caught fire trapping many people inside, they say it is her
ghost that causes the fog in the woods. - September
2004 update: Has since been torn down.
June 2008 additional info/correction: There was never a fire there
while it was a school, there was never a teacher who shot anyone, nor a
witch that put a curse on anyone. The only incident there was in the
mid 1970s, when someone was shooting a gun in the woods behind the
school. A bullet struck a child who was playing behind the school. The
child lived.
Amelia - formerly
submitted as Columbus - Dead Man's Curve - a car full of teenagers going at 100-150 mph then
stroke a car all teenagers were killed one survived a guy named Rick
the story says that he has no head cars have went by and saw the man
they say he has killed more than 100 people he walks with his thump up.
- April 2007 Additional information/ correction
- formerly submitted as Columbus - This was a dangerous turning
intersection where many people had lost their live. It was once part of
the Ohio Turnpike built in 1831, until the state rebuilt the road into
a straight four-lane road in 1969. In October of that year, five teens
were killed when their 1968 Impala was hit by a 1969 Roadrunner going
more than 100 miles per hour. Only one guy survived. Since that day,
the intersection has been haunted by a faceless hitchhiker, who the
survivor has personally seen at least five times. The ghost is
described as a shadowy figure in three dimensions. Psychics with no
knowledge of the site have described it as very evil. A driverless
Impala and a ghostly green Roadrunner have been seen in the area as
well.
Amherst - Gore Orphanage -
little girl and boy died because they were
homeless and had no food or water for weeks TVs turn on and off of
kid's channels.
Arrville - Mt. Eaton Road
- When you go down mt. Eaton Road, there is a
haunted cemetery hidden down a long driveway. When you go there at
night, there are these huge gravestones that glow bright green. If you
touch them and they turn blue, they are at your house murdering you
family. If it turns pink, they are right behind you and are very
dangerous. If you run they will chase you until you pee your pants.
Literally.
Ashland - Brookside Park -
by the pond there is an old brown bridge that a
girl somewhere around 1990 hung herself, due to her boyfriend cheating
on her, or liking another girl, they say she may have been helped, and
can be seen at night running by the pond.
Ashland - The Haunted
Tunnel -rte 42 going towards Mansfield - The road
directly to the right of Corathers Exterminating, follow that road till
you come to a bridge. Stop just inside the bride and turn your lights
off, then put the car in neutral and your car will be pushed or pulled
through the tunnel even though the ground is totally flat.
Ashtabula - Chestnut Grove
Cemetery - On Dec. 29th, 1876 the Pacific
Express traveled over a bridge, carrying about 159 passengers. Only the
first engine made it to the other side just as the bridge began to
collapse. The remainder of the train broke away and fell to the bottom
of the ravine. About 90 people died; most of them burned alive while
trapped inside the crushed cars. Legend says that the ghosts of the
victims return to the bottom of the bridge on the anniversary of the
disaster.
Athens - Ohio University -
the most haunted building on campus is Wilson
Hall on West Green. County records show that the dorm was built over an
old, Indian burial mound. Most of the Wilson Hall hauntings seem to be
centered around the fourth floor. Students have reported seeing
apparitions, hearing voices, mysterious slamming doors and flying
objects.
Athens - Ohio University -
Washington hall - there was a girls
basketball team staying in the dorms at Washington hall for a
basketball camp, and they were killed on the way home ad since they had
a such a good time the haunt the arch of Washington hall. if you stand
under it long enough you can hear the girls bouncing the balls and
giggling.
Athens - Ohio University -
Wilson Hall - Reports of banging, cold
spots, blood would appear on the walls no mater how many times it was
painted. And other strange phenomena such as the face of a demon
showing up in the wood grain on a dorm room door, where a girl believed
to be possessed killed herself.
Athens - The Ridges - Old
State Mental Hospital - after being closed in
the 1980's rumored to be haunted by the locals.
Athens - Strouds Run - They say that if you go to Strouds Run, at any time of
night, you can see a buffalo drinking from the stream. The buffalo was
the last buffalo of the area and it was made a law not to kill it.
Later locals named the buffalo Stroud. Then one day the British or
French, not sure which army it was, killed the buffalo. Well, the U.S
got really mad and started killing all the soldiers in the camp. One of
the soldiers took the skull of the buffalo and hid all of the army’s
money in it then buried it... and it has never been found.
Aurua - Cedar Fair Inc. - formerly Six Flags Worlds of Adventure - One day a little boy went on the ride "Superman" and
he was too small. While on the ride he flew out of his seat and landed
on his head. He died shortly after. Some say if you sit in seat 2 in
the last row at 5:26 PM you can hear the screaming and the thud of the
little boy's head hitting the pavement. - March
2004 additional info/correction: there has never been a boy who has
died on the superman ride. although the submitter to the correction do
belives the park is haunted. one ride is called the Hay Bayler is
frequently visited by a ghosts and there are other areas of the park
that are haunted. their have only been 2 deaths sence the park changed
the name from geauga lake to six flags. one of the deaths was a girl
who had drown in the wave pool. the other was a girl who worked there.
she was on the batman ride,(she wasnt riding it, but she was working on
something) and she fell. - June 2008 Update:
They have closed down the ride side of the park and is now just a
warterpark.
Austintown - Austin Log
Cabin - January 2004 correction and update: A
local paranormal group Zerotime Paranormal - went to check this
story out and found that there was no accident of this nature. You can
check out the Ohio department of agriculture to look up the incident
report. They investigate all ride accidents and deaths.- The Austin log cabin was built in the late 1700's by
the township's founder, John Austin. The cabin is now a historic
building in the community and is said to be guarded by a headless
solider. The curator of the cabin has said she has seen him numerous
times while working their. Residents have also reported to see a
headless figure in the upstairs windows as they drive past.
Avon Lake - Avon Lake High
School - A figure of a ghost was seen in the
auditorium of the school. Many students have heard loud banging noises
and have seen mysterious lights. An old janitor, by the name of Clark
Danbury died a terrible death in the early 1900's and he comes here to
take care of his place.
Bainbridge - Chagrin
Valley Athletic Club - Library Guests complain of
feeling somebody watching them, hearing a whip hitting someone and a
little girl crying. The library was an old schoolhouse from the
eighteen hundreds and a little girl was hit to death by her teacher.
Batavia - Hells Church - On the entrance ramp to state route 32 leaving Batavia
there is an access road to the left where an old car dealership used to
be follow that road to its end take a left and follow the trail to the
old chimney standing by itself in the field this is where the church
used to be 20 years ago it stood painted red with stained glass windows
it stands no more because of a bolt of lightning burned it to the
ground one night during a blood ritual on all hallows eve this was at
one time a heavy party spot to hang around until strange and unusual
things happened like floating orbs and shrill screams ,vehicles driving
up behind you that aren’t really there. Today all that stands is the
chimney of the old church and grass will not grow on the old areas of
the altar.
Bay Village - High School
- Students hear bangs and see knobs turning in
the light booth of the auditorium and he is unknown. The spirit messes
with the sound switches and makes light flicker at times during
practices. Also students hear foot steps.
Bay Village - Huntington
Playhouse - There are 2 ghosts one is of the
owner of the land Mr. Huntington(but he sold it to the theatre
owners)and the second is an old electrician(not sure of his name)he
will turn the lights on and off while there is a play practice going
on.
Beaver Creek - Carpenter
Road - In the mid 70's a man hung himself from
one of the trees near the bend. On foggy nights you can see a shadow
walking and hear moaning. - June 2008 Update:
they have changed Carpenter Road. It doesn't bend anymore, they have
turned the bend into a 3-way intersection leading into an apartment
complex or condominiums or something. The have also built a giant
middle school in one of the fields near carpenter road, so you may not
actually be able to see hanged man anymore.
Bellefontaine - Camp
Wilson - This is a camp over 100 years old,
there are numerous ghosts that are said to roam the camp at night, the
most haunted area is known as the Y tree. there are hundreds of
sightings every year, the most occurring ghosts are "Abe" a ghost said
to be seen on trails roaming the grounds with a stove pipe hat and
"Timmy" a ghost that is heard giggling and running around by the rail
road tracks.
Berea - Baldwin-Wallace - Kohler
Hall - A current dormitory for
Baldwin-Wallace College, this building was built in the mid 1800s, and
used as a hospital during the civil war. It has been (among other
things), a part of the Underground Railroad, a psychiatric institution,
an orphanage, and a morgue. The basement is where the most people have
died, as it was where the most critical soldiers were taken, slaves
hid, and then bodies were taken to the morgue in later years. The
college has blocked off an old tunnel connecting the basement to the
college chapel, due to 'student complaints', and the door to that
section of the basement has been locked. Noises have been heard by most
residents, along with footsteps. The doors also open occasionally, for
no apparent reason.
Bexley - Capital
University - There is said to be a ghost of one
of the Biology Professors roaming the halls of the science building. He
appears to be in his sixties and walks through the labs wearing a white
lab coat and carrying a beaker and apothecary bottle. He has also been
known to put away glassware and models used in the labs by students
when they are done. Animals in the lab have been mysteriously released
from their locked cages and microscopes have flown across the room,
smashing into walls.
Bexley - Capital
University - Kerns Relgious Life Center - the
basement of the oldest building on campus, Witnesses have felt an
extremely cold feeling and had difficult time breathing. They have also
reported experiencing an instant feeling of dread. It is rumored that
the tower is haunted. When maintance turns of the lights in the tower,
before they even get to the bottom of the staircase the lights are back
on.
Bowling Green - BGSU's Joe
E. Brown Theatre - rumored to be haunted by a
ghost known as "Alice". The Hat Room in the theatre is also known to
have a strange presence and has sent many a student running out for no
explainable reason.
Bowling Green - Bowling
Green State University - Chi Omega sorority house
is haunted by a former pledge from the 1940'or 1950's that got killed
by train on the near by train tracks.
Bowling Green area - Holcomb
Road - the story is that a bunch of kids where
on a Catholic field trip and the driver lost control and every one
disappeared and they say at night if you shut off your car some one
will push it and no one will be there also at night this white thing
goes past and there are red eyes far into the woods and in the day time
you can see people made out of sticks hanging out from the tree and
there is cloths scattered every where and dead cats in the ditches and
writing in the stones
Bowling Green - State
University - There are two ghosts on campus. 1.
Alice, a ghost who is suppose to haunt the Joe E. Brown theater on
campus. 2. Amanda, a ghost who is suppose to haunt the Chi Omega
Sorority house on campus.
Bowling Green Area - Holcomb
Woods - The Holcomb Woods are located on Holcomb
Road, just off of 199 near Bowling Green. As the legend goes, a bus
full of children was traveling down Holcomb Road when the driver grew
incredibly angry and steered the bus into the woods, taking out a bunch
of small trees and coming to rest at a large one. The driver was killed
on impact. It is on this tree that the driver's face is seen. The bus
burst into flames, killing all onboard. If you take Holcomb Road from
199 just past the edge of the woods, you'll need to turn your vehicle
to face 199. Shortly after you turn off your headlights, radio stations
will scramble and cell phones will lose signals. A single headlight
will come straight at you and suddenly disappear when it reaches the
tree.
Bowling Green - Wood
County Historical Museum - Bowling Green, Ohio
Wood County Historical Museum, County Home Road. The museum was one an
infirmary and nursing home. Ghostly noises have been heard in and near
the shed where insanepatients were locked long ago. Also, a padlock on
a door was once seen to spin without being touched.
Bradford - Bradford
Sanitarium - The Bradford Sanitarium was Built
in the late 1920's and was burned down in 1935 Late at night around
where it was built people have said to have seen Orbs floating in the
air.
Brooklyn - Brooklyn High
School - In the high school's auditorium there
is a believed ghost named Clarence. Before concerts & plays someone
must ask the ghost's permission to use the auditorium. If someone does
not ask permission many things go wrong. One year during a musical play
performance all lights went out except the house lights. After the
audience had left it was determined that nothing at all was wrong with
the lights, then they came back on. It is rumored that Clarence was on
the second level in the auditorium and fell off and died.
Brooklyn - Brooklyn High
School - Dark Room - Many students that
have the photography class here at Brooklyn High School say that when
the go in the room to develop film that they hear noises and it feels
like there's someone in the room with them. They report hearing
laughing and giggling. Also they hear a young (child boy or girl)
crying.
Brooklyn - Brooklyn Middle
School - This school is known to be haunted.
Many students believe there is a ghost named Clarence haunting the
halls and a ghost named John haunting the lower floors. John was a
student at Brooklyn Middle School seventy-five years ago. After his
graduation ceremony, John died in a car wreck. He was a rather shy
student that was frequently picked on. People say that he watches out
for students who are bullied. The origin of Clarence is unknown.
Brown County/Fincastle - Old
School House - Located off State rt.62 is what
is left of an old school house that was closed in the1960s even though
the 2nd floor has fell to the 1st, lights can still be seen in the 2nd
floor windows and other rooms as well. Local people years ago used to
enter the school at night with flash lights to watch groups of ghost
children walking in single file up and down the halls. they have also
said that a man with a lantern can be seen walking around the school
with a little girls screams in the background "No daddy no please
stop!"
Brunswick - Brunswick
Haunted Mansion - There is a mansion set off the
road in Brunswick, that is said to be haunted in the bay windows at the
front of the house there have been sightings of figures moving to and
from the window. Any one who dares to go there will in some cases be
chased out by a ghost who legend has it hung himself from the old metal
spiral staircase in the corner of his destroyed house. In areas of the
house at night you can feel icy-cold spots and here glass breaking in
the parts of the house and no one else is there. If you dare to get in
and get out it is a highly patrolled area by police and you will be
arrested. - June 2005 Update: It has since been
torn down
Brunswick - Johnny's Pub
and Grill - Salt shakers will smash against the
wall. The freezer door will open and close for no reason. Food left
unattended will have things added to them upon return.
Cable - crybaby bridge - It has been said that a young woman threw her baby off
the bridge and then jumped to her own death as a train was on the
tracks below in mid November. it is also said that if you go across the
bridge at midnight your car stalls on the bridge and you can hear a
train whistle blow a baby cry and a woman scream after everything
happens your car will start and you can go on your way. - June 2008 Update: torn down in early 2004. It has
since been filled with dirt and turned into a road instead.
Calcutta - East Liverpool
- Beaver Creek Canal systemA reporter once took a
picture and when it was developed there was some figures of Native
Americans in it. And one particular ghost is that of Gretchen, who as a
child died of unknown reasons and you can still hear her cries coming
from the park.
Calcutta - East Liverpool
- Beaver Creek State Park - Esther Hale has
allegedly been haunting the bridge over Beaver Creek for nearly 165
years, since she was stood up at her own wedding in 1837. Four months
after her wedding date, Esther was found dead in her home, her bridle
veil still over her face. Some say she is still dressed in white
looking for her groom, and if you travel over the Beaver Creek bridge
on August 12th each year, you'll see her. Don't let her get too
close-her touch will kill you.
Calcutta - East Liverpool
- Gretchen’s Lock - Gretchen was the daughter of
a wealthy man, who possibly came from England. Gretchen drowned as a
small child in the creek, as many have done over the years. (Swimming
is now prohibited in the creek as is canoeing). Gretchen was buried in
an actual "lock".... one that was previously used in the canal at the
creek in earlier days. Her father moved back to England and was so
broken-hearted over the loss of his daughter that he had her body
exhumed and moved back to England. The lock remains, but the hauntings
do not take place there, but instead, at the place where she drowned,
which is now named "Gretchen's Lock" (another smaller part of the
Beaver Creek park). It is said by many that Gretchen actually helped
others, mostly small children, who found themselves in danger in the
creek when swimming was still allowed, and that she can still be seen
and heard today. She has been seen by so many that the story is easy to
believe. It is also told that you can hear Gretchen crying for all of
the other's that had drowned in the creek. She is a very helpful ghost
and the most popular here in the Tri-State area.
Cambridge - Northwood
Cemetery - A woman in a white formal gown haunts
the cemetery on clear summer nights, she will appear and the dissolve
in a short time. Looks to be in a dress from the 20s.
Cambridge - The Colonel
Taylor Bed & Breakfast Inn - the 9,000 sq ft
Colonel Taylor & his lady haunt Victorian Mansion built in 1878.
Guests have seen them. They are quite friendly and seem to be watching
over us like angels. He walks the stairs and she seams to float down
them. They shake our bed on occasion and you will get a cold chill when
they are present!
Canal Fulton - Lock 4 - Information is hard to find on this place but there is
some out there and I have found it. Back when the canal started
construction in 1857 many men worked on it complex structure. The man
who was head of this operation caught wind of the government shutting
down the Canal Fulton operation. He was angered and while working
burned many of the workers and him self with acid. His hateful spirit
still haunts the building and waterways of lock four along with many of
the poor souls he killed
Canal Fulton - Warehouse
on the Canal - This is a brick building that was
built in 1906 and was the home of Finnefrock Furniture for many years.
There have been reports of apparitions in period clothing, unexplained
footsteps, lights turning on and off, radio stations changing and
unexplained noises. This was also home to a mortuary in the lower
basement from 1916-1936. There have been high EMF readings and temp
drops noted at the same time. Spirit energy has produced orbs in
photographs and also caused someone with physic abilities to feel
"bombarded" on a recent visit. the submitter claims to have dowsed this
building several times and found many spirits present and moving. This
building now houses a antique mall and shops along with a wonderful
teahouse. Canal Fulton is a very historic town located on the Ohio Erie
Canal and was a boom town for miners and canalers back in the mid 19th
century. Not everything is so quaint in this town though after
experiencing this building energies! Haunted Rogues Hollow, Cry Baby
Bridge and Lock 4 are not far away.
Canton - Hercules Engine
Factory - A physical presence has been felt by
many who enter the buildings that date to the 1800's. A hand on the
shoulder or someone pulling at you from behind. Strange smoky
apparitions have been seen in the same buildings. Voices are often
heard when nobody is around. "Cold spots" also move around in the old
factory.
Canton - Stark County -
Hercules Engine Plant - In the old buildings of
the Hercules Engine Plant visitors and workers have been grabbed or
pushed in the stairwell that leads to what used to be an army training
facility in World War I and II. Part of the plant was built in 1845 and
the basement of these buildings has energy orbs and a strange haze that
travels through the rooms.
Carlisle - Carlisle
park apts. - There are woods right across
the street that has trails made by bike riders. There is a tree called
The Demon Tree IT IS A DEAD TREE BUT STILL SEEMS TO GET TALLER AND
STRONGER. Witnesses report to have heard voices, and being chased out
of there by something.
Carlisle - Miamisburg
- Zech road - half erect barn that burnt
down in the 60's and 2 small children were burned alive in it. To this
day you can still hear them laughing and playing in the area around the
barn.
Castalia - Cemetery
- when your driving through the cemetery
at night, your car stalls and you hear a yelling noise from the center
of the cemetery. It’s said if you see smoke from the center of the
cemetery after the yelling/screaming noises, you will see your own
gravestone on the way out.
Cedar Point - Amusement
Park - The carousel in the park is an old
one, with hand carved horses. Legend has it that the man who carved the
horses for the carousel caught his wife cheating on him with a jockey
from the local horse track. He shot and killed them both for their
infidelity. There is a black horse on the carousel with bones carved
into his mane, and the image of a jockey is carved into the saddle of
another horse. Employees have reported hearing the music of the
carousel at night while it spins backwards. They have also reported
leaving it at night and arriving the next morning to find the horses in
different positions.- November 2003
update: The carousel did not originate in Ohio it is actually from
Michigan, near Lake Lansing. The locals there believe that Al Capone
used to torture people on the carousel and then dump their bodies into
the lake, which is where the haunting actual begins.
Centerville - Town
Hall Theatre - the lots that are used for
the stage seem to go on and off a lot. The downstairs and basement area
are very spooky, it's always dark down there, and it's always extremely
cold down there too. in the top bedroom there have been stories told of
Abraham Lincoln's spirit in the window and in the room. People aren't
sure if it's Abe, but a tall man that looks much like him.
Champaign County - Cedar Bog- formerly
listed in Clark County - The road to
Cedar Bog is enclosed on both sides by a very tall chain link fence.
Some say that this is here to protect visitors from a big foot type of
creature that killed a few people many years ago. Others say that it
was put up to prevent deer from wondering into the road. Either way, at
night some have heard screams and reported an eerie feeling, as if
being watched.
Champion - Elementary
School - students claim that there was a
pool under the girls bathroom and 2 kids died in it there spirits still
apparently haunt the school. Also 2 girls have been seen in the girls
bathroom laughing and then disappear.
Chardon - Heather
Hill Hospital - A young boy is seen
constantly by nurses, and nursing assistants on area C of the hospital
(Usually at night). He is always by himself running into rooms. Workers
have followed it into a room and looked all over to find nothing. I
have been in rooms working with patients and heard knocking on the
walls. Only to find no one awake in the rooms beside or below. Other
workers talk of hearing strange knockings too. Some older patients will
begin talking this boy while workers are in the room seeing nothing.
But when asked for a description the patients describe the little boy
dressed in old knickers. Workers at the hospital call him the knicker
boy.
Chardon - Squire's
Castle - Squire's wife that died in the
castle from breaking her neck, walks around the castle at night, always
cold, and you sometimes hear screams.
Chillicothe - Cross
Keys Tavern - The tavern is said to be
haunted by a spirit who was murdered in the ally behind the tavern
years ago. It is said he still likes to stir up a little trouble in the
bar by throwing wine glass's off there rack.
Chillicothe - Crybaby's
Tunnel - A mother and a newborn were
crossing a bridge on a train track. While in the middle of the bridge,
a train came which led the mother to toss the baby into the creek. The
mother died along with the baby. At night you can see the mother's
spirit and hear the baby crying.
Chillicothe - Elizabeth's
grave - Elizabeth is said to have hanged
herself from a tree in the cemetery. Her actual gravesite is at the
very front of the graveyard, but her tombstone is always located at the
rear of the cemetery. It is said that if you move the tombstone to it's
original position it will move itself back to the place where she was
believed to have died.
Chillicothe - Majestic
theater - Reports of hearing screams.
Chillicothe - Schrader
Road Tunnel - It is said that if you
drive through the tunnel with your windows down you can hear the cries
of a baby that was killed there. The story says a mother and her
daughter died there years ago. The fashion in which they were killed
varies on who you ask. There was also a woman that hung herself (or was
murdered, then hung) from the north end of the tunnel.
Cincinnati - Anderson
- Anderson high school - voices are heard
by janitors at night and students belongings are moved to different
classrooms after school hours.
Cincinnati - Buffalo
Ridge - There are many reports of
hauntings on this road. One is of a car that was doing a gang
initiation where you can here a car with stereo blasting, speeding up
and down the hills. After a few times of them going down the hill you
can hear the screams and the crash of the car. There are also reports
of a woman who was killed while trying on her wedding dress, the
reports state that she is seen walking around on Buffalo Ridge and East
Miami River Road on the anniversary of her death searching for her head
that was never found.
Cincinnati - Cincinnati
Job Corps Center - This building at 1409
Western Avenue was constructed in the late 1800s and formerly served as
a convent and later, as an armory. It currently houses this trade
school and dormitories for the students. The hauntings take place
on the second, third and fourth floors, as well as the attic.
There have been sightings of an apparition described as a nun, but more
commonly, students report hearing footsteps in the hallways when no one
is around. They routinely report seeing water faucets turn
themselves on and off. Legend has it that the ghost is that of a
nun who killed herself there many generations ago.
Cincinnati - Cincinnati
Museum of Art - Security guards have
reported seeing a 7-foot-tall specter which has no features and merely
looks like a huge black "blur" that rises up from a mummy sarcophagus
exhibit straight through the ceiling. Another time when the security
guards would sneak and take their "catnaps" in the storage room, there
was a glowing face hovering inches away from them as the woke. They
would proceed to try to evade the spirit but it would block their was
as they would maneuver around the room. It would then just simply
disappear.
Cincinnati - Cincinnati
Zoo - Believed to be haunted by a
lioness, the sound of soft feet following you. You look back and there
is nothing. If you speed up your pace, so do the footsteps a pair of
green eyes at the end of the hallway.
Cincinnati - Cornell
Place Apartments - footsteps and voices
are observed here.
Cincinnati - Country
Hearth Hotel - Strange occurrences noted
in room 331. At night it gets ICY cold even when heat is on full blast.
Curtain opens and closes on its own and a loud pounding noise can be
heard against the wall on the outside of the building near that room
and 431 above it. Also, personal items are moved about the room without
knowledge. Hotel personnel admits there have been some complaints by
guests in the past.
Cincinnati - downtown
- the Cincinnati Subway was built in the
1920's and in 1924 was put on hold due to budget problems. After the
great depression the project was scrapped due due high cost and
shortages of stell. the subway tunnels and platform are said top be
haunted by the many workers that where killed during construction of
the tunnels
Cincinnati - Eden
Park - Apparition of a woman wearing a
black silk dress has been witnessed standing by the gazebo. - June 2008 Update – A Paranormal group got permission
from park board, conduct an investigation there on May 6th, 2008
investigating the claims of seeing woman in black dress, well, they
found newspaper articles, that in 1927, a famous Cincinnati
lawyer/bootlegger named George Remus, ran his wife off the road there
on way to divorce court and she got out to run and he shot and killed
her, her name was Immogene Remus and upon reading all this because
there is a lot about it, she did in fact have on a black dress at time
of shooting, so thought that was interesting, but upon investigating,
they did not catch any video or pictures of anything, however, they say
they did catch a couple evp's, 1 is unclear as to what its saying, but
1 clearly says 'help me.'
Cincinnati - Hamilton
County - Cincinnati Museum Center - In the
early 1990s, the Museum Center was experiencing theft. Apparently,
computers were being stolen, and the only security guard to catch them
was Shirley. Shirley caught them on the 4th floor, but was shot dead on
the spot. Her body was later dumped in Northern Kentucky. She still
roams the halls of Union Terminal. Many house keeping women will not
walk alone after closing. Doors can be heard locking and footsteps are
heard in hallways, when no one is there. One piece of the collection in
the Cincinnati History Museum is an airplane from WWII. A pilot is seen
inside the plane at night. People crying or welcoming back soldiers can
also be heard on the train tracks. (Since Union Terminal was a great
railroad station during WWII)
Cincinnati - King's
Island theme park - A little girl's
spirit is said to haunt King's Island along with several other ghosts.
The girl has blond hair, blue eyes, and wears a pretty blue dress. She
has been seen playing around in Water Works and scares tram drivers by
playing hide-and-seek with them after the park is closed. She is
thought to be buried in the cemetery that is located between the
parking lot and the campgrounds which is on King's Island property.
Another ghost haunted the observation deck of the Eiffel Tower. This
ghost is thought to be the spirit of a young man who in a drunken
stupor tried to climb the tower and fell to his death. It seems though
that he has left. There is the ghost known as "the Beast" which haunts
the roller coaster with the same name. Several guests have seen this
ghost. There is a ghost that supposedly died on the ride "the Octopus".
There are many other spirits that roam this Paramount theme park.
Cincinnati - Lick
Road - A ghost named Amy haunts this road.
Amy was murdered by her boyfriend. If you go down to the dead end of
the road you can hear screams.
Cincinnati - Mother
of Mercy High School -This high school was
built in the 1920's and is home to a ghost named Sister Mary Carlos.
She has been known to haunt the school's auditorium that is named after
her. People have reported the lights flickering and things being
mysteriously moved about in the theater. Most of these strange
occurrences seem to occur during a show. It is now a tradition for the
drama teacher to invite her to every performance. Otherwise, something
will go wrong.
Cincinnati - Mount
Notre Dame High School - A girl attending
the school who killed herself in the early 40's has been known to haunt
the 3rd floor of the school. She opens up all the lockers on the 3rd
floor. Also every light has been seen on in the building at night after
the school has been locked up.
Cincinnati - Music
Hall - Many workers who clean the
building at night have seen and heard many strange things. One
maintenance man was going in the maintenance elevator in the back of
the building when he heard people whispering very angrily at him. As a
historical note I should tell you that Music Hall was built over a
pauper's cemetery and in the 80's when they were renovating they found
many graves. Anyway one worker was in the building at night by himself
and he heard laughter coming from one of the ballrooms, when he
investigated he saw several men and women dressed in 1800's clothing.
This next event took place during the day and several women witnessed
it. Several women were preparing for an event that was to be held there
when they all heard a beautiful female voice. They searched the whole
building but they found nothing. None of them felt threaten because the
voice was so beautiful.
Cincinnati - Oak
Hills High School - A short woman haunts
the auditorium, rumor is it is the woman the auditorium is named after.
She turns off lights, shuts doors, appears up in the crow's nest, the
cat walk above the stage, seated towards the back of the auditorium and
wandering around stage.
Cincinnati - Old
Western Wood Mall - During renovation in
1998-99, a security guard reported to his supervisor that when he
passed through a doorway back to where fitting rooms used to be, the
ambient air temperature dropped about 20 degrees and there was a
definite presence. The supervisor mentioned that she'd noticed this
herself and not to repeat this information to anyone. Being a
practicing witch, the guard returned the next night and attempted to
contact the presence. Using a pendulum, he tracked the "source" to a
sub-basement containing a water heater and meters. SOMETHING had
happened there, but he was unable to a certain exactly what. Nicknaming
the presence "Charlie", he became accustomed to being "escorted" on his
rounds through that section of the building.
Cincinnati - Rapid
Run Middle School - Its haunted by the
guy who died in the auditorium while building it. He had fallen off a
ladder. The lights have gone off, chairs were missing during the
concert.
Cincinnati - Satan's
Hollow - Located in Blue Ash, a suburb of
Cincinnati, Satan's Hollow is and old sewer system that used to house
the infamous "alter room" in a mysteriously dry tunnel. This is where a
group of Satanists made animal sacrifices and opened a door into hell.
Female screams can be heard at night and there have been many sightings
of various apparitions, including floating skulls and the demon YG,
commonly known as the Shadow Man.
Cincinnati - Spring
Grove Cemetery - located on the outskirts
of St. Bernard it has a nice history of weird and unexplained stuff.
One of the most unusual is at lot 100, it is a bronze face about 7 feet
off the ground when its raining the eyes do very weird things rumor has
it contains his real eyes. Witnesses claim that the head will turn and
look at you as you pass by. the Mitchell memorial a huge gothic style
castle in the front of the cemetery on the front lakes if you sit on
the porch high off the ground 2 white dogs will run by sometimes they
stop and look at you they seem to shine. - WARNING
- As with any of the places mentioned here, it is best to see if you
need permission to visit these places, but above all RESPECT these
places. This particular place seems to have a history of persons not
respecting it receiving streaks of bad luck.
Cincinnati - St.
Xavier High School - There is a ghost
here that was once a janitor working for the high school when one
night, unexpectedly, he hung himself with a dishrag in a Men's bathroom
stall. He reportedly haunts the hallways and Men's bathrooms throughout
the school to this day.
Cincinnati - Taft
Museum - This ghost will lock a room
that's filled with art works using a chair under the doorknob,
especially if you re-arrange it the night before.
Cincinnati - Taylor
High School - A while back a janitor was
working in a small room between two science classrooms on a ladder.
Alone. The man suddenly had a heart attack and was found by the
secretary the next morning when she called for him and no reply she
went up and found him....now during class there are doors opening and
closing with no one nearby and at night janitors recall doors all being
opened perfectly at 90 degree angle Also when the schools pool was
first put in, a student wandered down there without even hearing about
it yet talking on the cell phone tripped, and right into the pool
drowning. Now when you go into the boys locker rooms you can hear
toilets flush by themselves and splashing in the pool even when it’s
not filled.
Cincinnati - Texas Roadhouse - People
have said to have seen a man dressed in a cowboy uniform walking around
at night after the restaurant has closed. He is said to be looking for
his lost love and his arm that was lost in a cattle drive.
Cincinnati - Western
Hills High School - There are adjoining
doors to the now-empty swimming pool from the boys and girls locker
rooms. One day, a foreign exchange student decided to skip gym class.
He opened the first door, and the area was very dark. He heard a noise,
and began running, stumbling right into the swimming pool. A janitor
heard screaming, opened the door and turned on the light. The student
was being pushed under water by something invisible. To this day, at
1:24 in the afternoon, you can hear screaming and splashing.
Cincinnati - The
Westwood Town Hall - is said to be haunted
by the ghost of a former security guard who was employed there when
Westwood was an independent town before merging with others. He was
relieved of his position and hanged himself in a room close to the
apartment that he lived in on the premises. He is known as "Willy".
Several people have reported stage sets, costumes and orderly things
found is disarray that were used in performances.
Circleville - Jenkins
Sunoco - located near the west side of
town right b4 u get out is the gas station. the owner of the gas
stations husband died of a brain aneurysm while working in the beer
cooler... at night when your working by yourself it feels as if you’re
being watched and when all the lights are off you can see things moving
in the cooler.
Circleville - The
Roundtown Theater - This theater is home
to several playful poltergeists. There have been numerous reports of
mysterious sights and sounds such as eerie footsteps on the balcony. On
one account, a dog responded in such terror to the ghost that it had to
be removed from the building. The ghost has also been seen peering out
of the mirrors into the eyes of horrified witnesses. The ghost is known
as Charlie.
Clark County - George Rogers Clark Park in - This was the site of a battle between the Piqua tribe
and the Kentuckians. There is an old house in the park where people
claim to have seen a figure appearing in the window. This window can be
viewed from Highway SR4. Some witnesses have even claimed to have seen
ghosts of Indians and soldiers, including George Rogers Clark and
Daniel Boone.
Clark County - Mercy Hospital - an
apparition of a transparent small boy in a jacket and a pair of blue
jeans leaning on the hall way wall looking at patients.
Clayton - Clayton
Fire station 84 - There have been
sightings of a little boy running up and down the main hall of the fire
station. Noises have also been heard in the main bay at Night when only
one person is on duty. Upon investigation of the noises, bolts and
tools are found lying out. Doors have also been reported opening and
closing.
Cleveland - Beachwood
- Highland View Hospital - Reports that
the shades get pulled buy unseen hands, there are strange sounds and
even doors locking and unlocking.
Cleveland - Davron
Cemetery - At night tombstones can be
seen broken when in the day they were not! Bright lights at all times
of the night can be seen. Also strange sounds can be heard such as
water, screaming, and howls. It's a very small cemetery that was closed
in 1886 because of poor maintenance.
Cleveland - Franklin
Castle - A haunted castle located in
downtown Cleveland has said to be haunted by a ghost that roams the
hallways at night. Reporters who toured the house reported cold rooms
and heard a child crying from the carriage house and heard music coming
from the third floor ballroom. The family that lived there reportedly
said that their child's toys were missing and they would find clothing
from the early 1900s.
Cleveland - Hamlin
hall - This place is rumored to be
haunted by a young man who died in the building. People have reported
to have seen a young man around and have him disappear. Also cold spots
round stairwell, where he died.
Cleveland - Middlesbrough
- Poole Hospital - Feelings of being
watched, and anomalies have shown up on film.
Cleveland - Mound
Elementary School - Believed to be built
on an Indian Burial grcund and cursed.
Cleveland - Mt
Sinai Hospital - The old school that is
attached to the hospital is haunted. Footsteps can be heard, lights go
on and off. Figures are seen out of the corner of your eye.
Cleveland - Punderson
hotel - Reports of hauntings on the third
floor blasting music from empty rooms, the second floor loud bangs on
the door , an apparition of an old maid.
Cleveland - Puratis
Hill - In the 1960's, a roller coaster at
Puritas Amusement Park derailed, killing everyone on the ride. At
night, when driving up the hill, the screams of the dead can be heard.
The local apartment complex also complains about strange noises that
sound like a roller coaster.
Cleveland - The
Tree Bridge Hotel - Reports of feelings
of being watched and sightings of the gray lady wandering through the
halls.
Cleveland - Variety
Theater, Loraine Ave - A figure in white
has been seen on the first floor by the old water fountain. A man has
been seen with red eyes in upper balcony. Noises have been heard on
stage like workers. The stage noise is rumored to be a man that fell
off lighting scaffold and died on stage.
Cleves - Bridgetown
Road past Zion Rd in the direction of Cleves - A tall shadow person was reportedly sighted in
low-beam headlights crossing the road at the listed point. Nothing
showed in high beams, and when the car was switched back to low-beams
the apparition had continued its travel across the road and was now on
other side.
Clyde - out
skirts of Clyde - If you take 101 out by
a place named green hills golf coarse. Right after you drive past it
there is railroad tracks. It's said to be haunted be four teenagers. In
the early 60's a group of teenagers had a old Chrysler & you know
how teen's are when the get their very first car. These teen's were
going about 60-65 when they were heading towards the tracks. It is said
that their car staled on the tracks when the tried to get it started.
Then by that time it was to late. The train hit them and demolished the
car. It is said if u head out that way alone at midnight and stop at
the tracks you will see their decapitated heads on the ground along
with the remains of the car. (note)it is said that the heads were never
found.
Coal Grove - Monitor
School - The school closed about 10 years
ago, and to this day, the lights flicker on and off.
Coal grove - Woodland
Cemetery - at this cemetery there are
many weird and unusual things that go on all though out many nights.
There is one walking tomb kind of thing that the picture bleeds on
certain nights because the ballerina that is buried there - got shot 2 times in the head and every time
the picture is replaced the bullet holes and the bleeding come again.
- This part of the story is untrue.a descendent of the ballerina would
like to say that She was killed in a car accident in Illinois. We are
not sure if there is even activity there.
Columbiana County - Little
Beaver Creek - the bridge over Little
Beaver Creek, in Lisbon is haunted. There is said to be strange sounds
and ghosts seen. Not too far from there, On Church Hill Road there is
another bridge, which is said to be haunted.
Columbia Station - Columbia Cemetery - There
are two parts to this cemetery on West River Rd. A new part and an old
part, in the new, pretty much any time after dark, there is a little
girl that will skip to a tombstone and then stop and kneel down at it
and disappear.
Columbia Station - Old cemetery on Myrtle Hill contains a old tomb stone
where witches were buried its a large marble ball that has a warm feel
and gives off a weird mist all year long…
Columbus - Alpha
Omicron Pi House - Legend has it that
years ago, when the house was owned by another sorority, a sister
jumped into Mirror Lake as an Ohio State tradition for Michigan
Weekend. She was intoxicated and broke her neck. Her sisters took her
back to the sorority house and placed her in her bed, afraid they would
get in trouble for being drunk if they took her to the hospital. She
died in the room and is said to open the closet doors and move things
in the room. In other rooms, girls have said that they have heard the
sound of bed springs, but no one will be sitting or laying on the bed.
Her name is believe to be Mary-Ellen.
Columbus - The
Air and Space Museum - Haunted by the
pilots of the old planes. Security guards hear planes start up at night
and some have seen ghosts lurking around the museum during their night
shift.
Columbus - Berlinner
bike path- this bike path is haunted by a
few ghosts the 6 kids that drowned this year 2001 and another one a man
6 ft tall and the other ghosts that haunt this bike path are one's who
got murdered here. at night when you walk along the bike path you can
feel someone behind you and there will not be anyone there. Down by the
water where the kids drowned you can hear a little boy and kids talking
or too men talking but no one is there. Also a strange flash of light
will light up the forest as if someone is taking a picture but the
flash only last for 2 to 3 secs. But most of the hauntings here are the
kids that dead here
Columbus - Briggs
High School - Teachers claim to hear weird
noises coming from the music room in the school. Apparitions walk
through the halls at after school hours. Sometimes classroom desks
moved without any explanation.
Columbus - Camp
Chase Confederate Cemetery - Many of
these soldiers who died were buried in the prison cemetery and it is
here that the "Lady in Gray" still walks and leaves gifts of flowers
behind usually on the grave of a unknown soldier. She is said to be a
young woman who wears a gray suit in the style of the Civil War era.
She walks through the cemetery with her head bowed and appears to be
weeping. She has been seen walking directly through trees and through
the iron cemetery gates. In the summer of 1988, during a Civil War
re-enactment, many of the people present heard the sounds of a woman
crying. There was no woman present but the weeping sounds were
unmistakable. It was believed to have been Lady in Gray, still grieving
over the loss of some forgotten soldier.
Columbus - Children's
Hospital - The hospital is belived to be
built over a grave yard, and if you go to the park at night time, you
can feel things and you might see something.
Columbus - Columbus
State Community College - The ghosts that
haunt it are there because the school was built directly on top of a
Catholic cemetery. It is a few blocks away from Kelton house, mentioned
above.
Columbus - Fort
Hayes Metropolitan High School - The
school is partly built in remaining buildings of a civil war camp. Many
of the old buildings still remain and are used for classes. One
building was a hospital and it is home to many roaming spirits! People
have heard the cries of dying and injured, spirits have been seen
walking the halls dressed in old nurses uniforms and some soldiers roam
it too. Another building is called "The Shot Tower" and it is home to
numerous spirits. It was a tower to make ammunition during the Civil
War. Many people lost their lives in the building, by accident,
suicide, murder. Some students report they can not go to the top floor
out of fear of what they feel is up there. The science building was
once the mess hall and students have said one foggy mornings soldiers
can be seen carrying their chow from the building and fading out of
sight in the field across from the building. In the new buildings of
the school, lockers have been said to open and close while the halls
are empty. Footsteps are often heard in the stairwells at odd times.
Many students say if they are in the halls during classes when the
halls are empty, they feel like they are being followed or watched.
There is more to the buildings and the fields at Ft Hayes.
Columbus - Greenlawn
Cemetery - is a site of multiple
hauntings. The main mausoleum is haunted, as are a lot of the graves in
the main cemetery.
Columbus - Kelton
House - the ghost of Grace Bird Kelton is
seen in this house.
Columbus - Mirror
Lake - There is a ghost of a jogger who
was killed there. If you sit on the east side and face west a cold
breeze comes through and the lake goes perfectly calm and then on the
northwest side you see the apparition of a spirit in a jogging suit who
keeps turning around as though he was followed.
Columbus - Mirror
Lake - Ohio State - There was a student
who drowned in Mirror Lake at Ohio State University back in the
sixties. Every once in a while at night, there are sounds of water
splashing and a guy screaming...but there is no one there.
Columbus - Nationwide
Arena - Site of the Ohio State Pen - built where the old pen used to be when the pen was
there many people sighted & heard things that were not meant to be
seen or heard examples: 1. old cafeteria used to be place where
hangings occurred before it was cafeteria, even though there were
broken windows to let in traffic noise upon entering the building was
dead silent 2. the electro shock therapy room has noises and is
extremely cold now it seems as the nationwide arena area is cursed - 12
yr. old girl hit in head by hockey puck at game dies as well as other
freak accidents resulting in deaths.
Columbus - Old
Governor's Mansion - the ghost of a black
woman dress in old fashion type clothes has been seen here.
Columbus - Ohio
State University - Alpha Delta Pi Sorority - According to some girls in that house, a girl in
another sorority got sick and died in the house years ago. Since then
the ADPi sorority moved into the house and the hauntings began. The
girls claim to see a girl walking down hallways, looking out windows,
and looking back at them in reflections in the mirrors. Visitors to the
house claim to have seen chandeliers mysteriously moving and have heard
strange sounds.
Columbus - St.
Pius X School - The men’s restroom is
very cold in the left stall. The feel of being watched is present.
Columbus - Wallahalla
- It's said that years ago [I've heard
both the 1800's and the 1960's] a man murdered his wife and daughter in
a house on Wallahalla. If you drive down the road at night and go under
the bridge, you can see the reflection of the wife and daughter in the
water [to the right of the road]. After you go under the bridge, the
road very VERY gradually but if you take your foot off of the gas and
break, not only do you not slow down, you don’t even keep even. You
speed up. - November 2003 update:In
addition to what is already posted, he then committed suicide by
hanging himself off the bridge, and supposedly, if you drive under the
bridge at midnight, you'll see the shadow or apparition of his ghost
swinging from the bridge.
Columbus - Walnut
Knolls - There have been stories of a
woman getting decapitated on the 3rd floor, children drowning in the
pool (now filled in), and hearing people walking in the attic (has been
blocked off for years). This apartment was a Mental Hospital back in
the 40's and 50's. Many see lights on, in vacant apartments. And one
specific ghost "George" who likes to throw shampoo bottles at the
residents, stories say that this ghost was an old patient.
Columbus - The
old COSI building on broad street downtown is supposed to be haunted. A
custodian is supposed to roam the halls.
Corning - Beach
Grove Cemetery - Reports of glowing
tombstones and bells in the tower are heard - there are no bells in the
tower.
Corning - Weaver
Cave - A group of KKK members killed many
people in the cave can hear them screaming.
Cortland - 5
Points - 5 roads, all of which have some
kind of mysterious things happen. On one road there is a haunted farm
house. On Another, people were hung and the ropes are still there. On
another, there is an underpass, 2 men got killed because their car had
stalled, they went to push the car up the hill through the underpass,
the car rolled back on them, crushing them. So now its said if you put
your car in Neutral and roll back down the hill, the boys push your car
up the hill. For more information check out http://www.forgottenoh.com/Counties/Trumbull/biroshouse.html
- June 2008 Update - No longer there.
Cortland - Debra
Place - Many different hauntings happen
here. Most notable are people who live here are awakened at night by
feeling a presence in the room. Along with the feeling objects are said
to move across the room in mid-air. The objects seem to follow a long
white tail of a dress.
Cortland - Pauni
Apartments - Doors slamming, objects
moving, a man walking the halls with a very large weird hat, chilly
& uncomfortable feeling in the bedrooms. Has been told the
Apartment Complexes are built on an old Indian Burial ground. You get
the goose bumps and your hair stands up on your body. Several tenants
have complained and described different ghostly activities in their
apartments.
Crawford - New
Washington - Union - there is a
gravestone of a woman's picture on it. she is wearing a necklace and if
you go there late at night and look at it close enough the necklace
will move and the lady's facial expression changes. There is also abig
staure of Mrs. Kline as you come into the cemetary that makes the hair
on the back of your neck stand straight up day or night. New washington
is located in between Clevelend and columbus. 45 minutes away from
mansfield ohio. it is off of rt. 602. The founder of the town george
washington carver is also buried in the cemetary.
Cridersville - Dixie Lee Restaurant - It
is haunted by a ghost the staff calls Hector. He has been known to make
appearances and be very loud.
Crown City (South
of town) - Route 7 "the narrows" - Cold
blasts of air, phantom boulders falling from cliffs, and phantom
headlights show up in the rear view mirrors.
Cuba - it is
said on some nights when it starts to get cold. The spirit of a white
horse can be seen. Sometimes it is running sometimes it is walking,
through the little town of Cuba. But it never makes any sound. And it
leaves no tracks.
Dalton - Dalton
Cemetery - A cemetery that people say is
haunted by two men and a woman. One of the men is supposed to be the
founder of Dalton and the women is his wife. Nobody knows who the other
man is.
Dayton - Air
force base - The P.O.W exhibit and Lady
Be Good and the Hop along are haunted. In the Hop Along there is a
blood stain which the janitors cant remove.
Dayton - Air
Force Museum - Little Vietnamese boy who
walks the museum at night. He was said to have died in one of the
helicopters. Another haunting I have seen is a nazi fighter plane the
pilot who had crashed and died, the plane was restored and the pilot
waves out the window to visitors
Dayton - Dayton
Heart Hospital - formerly listed as St.
Elizabeth Medical Center - Haunted
hospital. Cold spots Self-motivated elevators. Moans and groans. Doors
open and close when locked.
Dayton - Hospice
of Dayton (inpatient unit) - Numerous
sightings of children reported by patients. The staff refers to
them as "The Kids."
Dayton - Oakwood
High School - In the city's south suburbs,
has long been the sight of two hauntings. One is said to be that of a
young man who hung himself in the junior hallway some time in the
sixties or seventies. Fleeting glimpses of a male figure as well as
footsteps are heard throughout the high school. The second haunting,
which I unfortunately do not have background information on, is that of
a young girl. Oakwood high school is very old, Built in the early
Twenties directly over the sight of a house on a previous estate, so
there is really no telling how far back this one goes. Anyway, the girl
is said to be seen pretty specifically in the junior hallway. People
have even reported walking buy a well dressed young girl seated on one
of the benches in the hallway late at night.
Dayton - Patterson
Homestead Historic Museum - Apparently the
Patterson's are still there. Staff report rocking chairs rocking on
their own, items moved about, cold spots in certain rooms, one room
that is always cold (Mrs. Patterson's bedroom, and the aroma of a good
home cooked meal (it isn't really there. But Mrs. Patterson liked to
cook and entertain. We figure she is still cooking.
Dayton - Sinclair
Community College - Blair Hall - The
old Dayton hanging field was right under the cafeteria. They hung
thieves and cattle rustlers there, apparently some are still hanging
around. In Blair Hall you’ll feel people tugging on you, or they’d
smother you, they’d press down on your chest. Staff would hear people
laughing when they knew nobody is around. Elevators would work by
themselves and the doors would open up. You’d hear people talking, and
hear cats meowing in the walls. Sometimes the workers would hear two
dancers dancing across the stage. In building seven on the third floor,
even when no one’s around, doors would open and slam shut, and you’d
hear people talking. Sometimes you can get just a passing glimpse of
the ghosts. More or less people would hear talking, laughing, and
babies crying. Sometimes the big heavy fire doors in the cafeteria
would slam shut.
Dayton - Stivers
Middle School - Stivers Middle School is
said to be haunted by a teacher who had an affair with one of her
students. The teacher mysteriously disappeared one day along with the
student. The following day, the teacher was found floating dead in the
swimming pool. The boy was never seen again. A while later, the pool
was shut down and a new classroom was built over the site. People have
claimed that the television turns on by itself along with doors
shutting and lights cutting off.
Dayton - The
tracks by Keifer Street - Reports of an
apparition that looks like a red headed woman with a construction hat.
Dayton - University
of Dayton - The Theta Phi Alpha House - Is supposedly hunted by a young man. Many of the girls
who have lived in the home report heavy items that are moves around and
lights turning on or off on their own. Often the girls say they can
feel a presence and that often when they go to bed at night it is cold
and when they wake up they have less energy then they did the night
before.
Dayton - The
Victoria Theater - The ghost is a former
actress from the 20's. After one of her many performances, she went up
to her dressing room, locked the door, and was never heard from again.
No one knows exactly what happened to her. Over time, people had
forgotten about her, until the theater was being re-decorated. That is
when the strange occurrences began. When people were there late at
night by themselves, they would see her or they'd hear her. The lights
would go off and on and there were odd sounds. Rose perfume is what she
had been wearing the night she disappeared. That is how you can tell it
is her by the scent of rose perfume.
Dayton - Webster
Elementary School - The newly abandoned
school has many beliefs about its hauntings. In and area around the
bottom level girls bathroom their is a door that has remains of a boy
that was playing around near the boys bathroom on the other side. He
weirdly slipped and hit his head on the wet floor. He died instantly.
Someone but no one is sure who, moved his body to the little strange
door. This may or may not be true.
Dayton - Witches
Tower - It is a tower about 6 stories
high, which was built on top of a burial ground in the time of the
Civil War. The legend is that a woman climbed to the top of it one
night and committed suicide. and actually see her standing up there, in
a long black robe walking around on the top, and looking over the edge.
Dayton - Woodland
Cemetery - There is a tombstone in there
that a young girl sits on. When she is sitting on her grave there is a
glow to it at night. A college student spotted her while doing a
report. He tried to talk to her but no response. She looks normal and
clear like anybody else. She is wearing tennis shoes, a sweatshirt and
jeans.
Delaware - Blue
Limestone Park - The back two quarries
and especially the tunnel leading to them are home to literally dozens
of ghosts/spirits. The place is know for cult activity and violent
deaths, and supposedly during the 20's was the site of a railroad
accident.
Dover - Stone
Quarry - The haunting of the local Stone
Quarry also known as the lights of the Stone Quarry. Legend has it that
when a settler had come to our town over 100 years ago, he had an
affair with an Indian maiden. His wife found out about the affair and
went after the husband and his mistress. As the wife was chasing them,
they came to a cliff. So instead of suffering the wrath of the wife,
the man and the Indian maiden jumped to their deaths. After the bodies
were found, They were refused a Christian burial. But from that day
forward if you look at where the cliff once stood, you can see the
death lights of the two lovers. The Stone Quarry now stands where the
cliff once stood over 100 years ago.
Dublin - Muirfield
Village Golf Club - 1976 - Was the start
of the Memorial Tournament Jack Nicklaus - built the golf course on an
Indian burial or sacred grounds. The legend has it - Chief Leatherlips
makes it rain every year on Tournament. In 24 years it has been
affected by rain 14 times. Twice it has been shortened to 54 holes. One
year they move the tournament a week a head. It still rained.
Dundas - Beard's
cemetery - Witnesses report to see some
glowing grave stones and a dog with glowing red eyes and vicious teeth.
East Cleveland- Collinwood Elementery School - ghosts of 176 children seen there since the school
burned down.
East Liverpool - Beaver Creek State Park - Part
of an 1830s canal system, known as Grethen's Lock, is named for the
ghost of a young Dutch girl. She died of malaria on August 12, 1838,
and on the anniversary of her death he ghost is said to walk the
towpath of this lock. Jack's Lock is haunted by the charred phantom of
a lock keeper who was struck by lighting while patrolling the canal. A
ghastly ghost walks the ruins of Spruceville, a deserted settlement
within the park. Esther Hale was to be married in August, 1837, but her
lover never showed up. Her badly decomposed body was found in her cabin
four months later, still dressed in her wedding gown. Ever since, her
white skeleton, wearing a dirty wedding gown, is seen darting in front
of cars or jumping out to touch the living.
Eastgate - Tealtown
Road - at night you see two people
arguing in the woods and you periodically hear gun shots. This really
happen as two friends went hunting one afternoon and both failed to
return. it was a murder suicide. this is Really freaky
Eastlake - Washington
Elementary School - Late at night when
the janitors are gone, little boys and girls from the school come out
of the cracks like ghosts. They dance around and go to gym.
Eaton - Cry
Baby Bridge - June 2008 Removed. There
have been ZERO occurrences of any fatalities on or near any bridges in
the town of Eaton.
Eaton - Lexington
Road - June 2008 Removed due to
vandalism. There have been additions of barbed wire fences and huge
padlocked gates surrounding the grounds. NO Trespassing in the
cemetery.
Elmore - "Spook
Light" - There is a place just outside of
Elmore, where a man lost his live after wrecking into a small ravine on
his motorcycle. A light will appear behind you and chase you down the
road, when you reach the end of the road, you hit the brakes and the
light disappears!
Elmore - There
are reports of a headless motorcycle rider. As the story goes, there's
an old bridge in the country that is haunted by the spirit of a jilted
lover. A soldier during WWI returned to surprise his fiancée
only to find her with another man. He was furious. He jumped on his
motorcycle and peeled out. There is a bridge at the end of the driveway
and he lost control and flew off the bridge. They never found his head
or the spotlight from the bike. Since then, his ghost returns when a
single car parks on the far side of the bridge from the farmhouse.
Elyria - Cascade
- They say at night if you go up in the
rocks you can see fire and people around it. You can hear howling and
screaming by the falls. They have reported a shadow figure on the
swings.
Elyria - Elyria
high school - It is said that the tunnels
under the school have ghosts. There is also activity in the Washington
building. The really big hot spot is the auditorium.
Elyria - Westwood
Jr. High School - Night shift custodians
have claimed to see a tall figure of a well dressed black man wandering
the halls in the building. They have also heard locker doors slamming
shut, voices of children, chairs being pushed off the tables, weird
knocking sounds and the feeling of being watched. Strangely enough on
rare occasions money was found in places after they were cleaned. The
highest places of activities are in the learning center(library),
locker rooms and the auditorium.
Evansport - Buck
Cemetery -This cemetery is located 500
yards off a dirt road and no one has been buried there since 1955. The
entrance is shrouded with a dense tunnel of overhanging trees. People
have claimed that while walking this tree lined path, a strange light
has appeared at the end. It disappears however after getting to the
actual entrance. Witnesses have also reported seeing an eerie
apparition hovering above them upon first arrival in the cemetery. This
ghost is believed to be the spirit of a former guard named Mr. Buck.
Fairfield - Fairfield
Middle School - at the middle school it is
said to be that there is a little boy that was about 12 had gotten into
trouble with the principle and was scared of his parents. So right
after school in the 200 wing by the Spanish room he had broken the
mirror that is in the bathrooms and had killed himself. The next day
they had found him in one of the stalls cut up but they don't if he
really did it to himself or someone else did because he was cut up in
like 5 pieces. Some teachers had said after school when there is only 5
or 6 teachers in the building they can here sounds as in screaming
coming from the boys bathroom. Now if you go in there you can see
bloodstains in the last bathroom stall. And sometimes if your in there
alone maybe you should get out because he's still looking for the
principle that made this horrible thing that had happened. And this is
true.
Fairfield - Haunted
Creek - Behind Fairfield Bowling Lanes – The
creek is haunted by a mother and her child. The woman looks as if she
is in her mid- twenties and the child is around three or four. She
wears a long, white dress probably from around the early 1800's or late
1700's. The little boy wears brown pants, a white shirt and a cap. It
is believed that a woman and child were most brutally killed, in a mass
murder spree.
Fairfield - Hammacher
Schlemmer - The 2nd floor, which is the
Call Center. Typing can be heard, but if the desk at which it types is
brought into view, it stops abruptly. Numerous people have heard it for
years in this building. It usually occurs when one half of the Call
Center is dark. Although the sound is sometimes rather faint/slow
typing. Others times it's fast and very noticeable. As a note to anyone
interested in hearing it for themselves:: The Call Center is NOT open
to the public, only to employees.
Fairfield - Mudhouse
Mansion - Abandoned haunted mansion where
doors creaked and outside there are old buildings which slaves are said
to have been kept in, it's said that the slaves dug out from under one
of the buildings with their fingernails and then killed the owners of
the house, it's easy to find, If you do go keep in mind that it is
private property and you have to park a good distance away, and the
owners have been known to fire guns into the air to scare people away.
There are also ground wells in the yard somewhere be careful and also
lots of pretty deep holes. For more information, check out
http://www.forgottenoh.com/mudhouse.html - WARNING:
As with many of the haunted places there are dangerous areas and no
trespassing. Please be careful when exploring.
Fairfield - YMCA - the YMCA is known to be haunted because there was this
little six year old girl that had drowned in the pool when a life guard
wasn't watching.
Fairport - Fairport
Light House - the Fairport light house is
known for being haunted by a gray cat rubbing against anyone who goes
in the lighthouse. One day investigators found a dead gray cat in the
wall. Also other people say that 2 girls were riding on a tram and it
broke. The 2 girls drown and are now found running around in the
lighthouse.
Findlay - Old
Hancock County Retirement Home - currently
Known as the R.O.C. (Rehabilitation and Opportunity Center) a work
release branch of the Hancock County Jail. Maintenance workers,
Security officers, Secretaries and residents (prisoners) have
reported seeing and unknown old Man in coveralls in different parts of
the building or on the grounds outside. Also a young girl has
been spotted in the basement near what was once the morgue. Smoking is
not permitted in the building but usually after spotting the old man
the smell of cigar or pipe smoke is noticed. A private security
firm patrols this building 24 hours a day. Sometimes after a weekend
where their office doors are locked secretaries will return to
find old pennies laying in plain sight on their desks or inside of
locked desk drawers or on the seats of their chairs. But mostly lights
in will come on at night in offices that are locked and extremely
cold drafts are felt on the warmest of nights.
Fort Recovery - Homestead- a restaurant
- Reports of an apparition of a woman & hear the lady's room door
to open and close by itself.
Franklin - Morningstar
Road - Large scary road, has several J
turns and if you look out into the field you can see orbs, and before
you hit Chamberlain Road you will see a tall shadowy figure that walks
slowly, and disappears as you pass it
Gahanna - Gahanna
- Jefferson High School - Following
basketball games where the local team loses (a not unusual occurrence)
when the lights are turn out a basketball can be heard dribbling and
occasionally the backboard on the West end of the gym vibrates as if a
score had been made
Gallia - Chimney
Rock - You can hear a woman scream as she
jumps off of the rock. She kill her self by jumping off of the rock
Gallipolis - The
Our House Museum - An old tavern/inn.
This spot was named the Our House by an 1800's owner who invited people
from the many boats docking at the Ohio River city of Gallipolis with
the words "come on over to our house". There are many sightings and
sounds in this beautiful old inn. This author attended a re-enactment
of an opera with an actress playing the famed Ginny Lind only to watch
a candle-opera sway far and wide with the music. The swaying so hard it
should have fallen.
Garfield Heights - Garfield Park Bridge -
On this bridge is the ghost of a man who fishes off the bridge. People
have reported him whispering in their ears while fishing.
Geauga - Kings
Island - International Restaurant, above
the main entrance to the park is haunted by the ghost of a former chef
who killed himself with a knife while working by himself late one night
at the restaurant. International Restaurant has not been opened for
years, apparently for financial reasons. However, despite its
inactivity, lights are still seen in the back of the restaurant late at
nights after close, witnesses have seen silhouettes of some human
moving about in the faint light. The silhouette is unusually tall and
carries something in his hand, which we are attributing to a chef's hat
and the knife he killed himself with.
Geneva - The
Step Above Bar - This bar is located on
the second floor of a restaurant. At nine the restaurant is closed for
business but the bar remains open until late at night. Many patrons
have seen shadows of people in the restaurant part of the building late
at night, when no one should have been down there, even though all
entrances to the restaurant are locked after closing.
Germantown - steal
bridge - A little girl died on this
bridge when her brother threw her off. No people go under the bridge to
hear her singing the same song she did the day she died. Another story
is a long time ago a truck driver went off the road into the creek and
died. Sometimes at night you can see his lights.
Gibsonburg - Gibsonburg
High School - Lights in the upper room
come on and off for no reason. Janitors report locking doors with
chains and having the chains unlocked. Strange footsteps heard through
small gym, like someone walking on old floorboards. It is told by many
students that there has been a haunting in the janitors closet. Some
students got locked in for days. No food or no water. In 1949 3 well
fed students were locked in after cleaning off paintbrushes in the
closet. They were found by the janitor 5 days later all very thin
almost looking anorexic, 2 were dead. Many say they still haunt the
school to this day and want revenge by whoever decided to lock them in.
- December 2006 Update: Gibsonburg has
torn down the old school and a new one has been built.
Glenville - 736
Lakeview Ave - It used to be an old
nursing home but had been vacant for 10 years before the school moved
in. The school is the Virtual Schoolhouse. Staff hears loud screaming
and footsteps before school. The basement doors close for no reason and
voices can be heard when no one is around.
Granville - Buxton
Inn - The innkeepers from the 1800's
haunt the place.
Granville - Denison
University - On the 7th tier of the
Denison University library, students who have fallen asleep reported
being woken up by a shadowy woman in old dress. This woman evidently
has a serious problem with male students, and will wake them by hitting
them on the back of the head with some type of rod.
Gratis - Brubaker
Bridge - on Brubaker Rd. A lady and her
baby died on this covered bridge many years ago. At night you can
sometimes hear a lady’s screams and a baby crying.
Gratis - Fudge
Road - April 2008 Correction: Formerly
listed in Germantown - Late at night if
you travel through the road your car will suddenly die and will not
start for a period of time. its bin said that you can see what looks
like floating lamps in the distance off to the side of the road.
Green Springs - GS elementary - AT the
only school in Green Springs, Ohio there is herd to be ghosts at the
school. In the late 1800's the school burnt down and supposedly there
was some high schoolers in it that never got out. In 1939 they rebuilt
the school and it's still there today. When your in some classrooms on
the 2nd floor like the rooms 6c or 6g in 6c when the door is open &
when it's real quiet the door will close for no reason at all. when in
6g once or twice a week everyone will be doing their work when you have
a feeling that someone is behind you. your almost positive until you
turn around and look but the teacher is not behind you
Greenfield - Edward
McClain High School - The high school was
built in the late 1800's. Mr. McClain wanted the Marble Senior
Staircase. Mrs. McClain wanted to add a chandelier. He never put a
chandelier there. So after her death, the image of a big, beautiful,
chandelier can be seen at nighttime through the window of the second
floor. There is no chandelier in this room, but it can be seen. It is
above the front entrance on the Sixth Street side of the school.
Greenfield - out
in the country - right outside of
Greenfield is a bridge called crybaby bridge. the old story is that a
mother believed to be a witch was being chased by the town's people.
She was carrying her baby and was running in a hurry. as soon as she
reached this bridge she hit the side to try to stop and dropped her
baby in the water. she was killed by the people and he baby drowned. at
night if you go there. you're car will stop on the bridge and you can
hear people running and screaming "stop". then you can hear the mother
screaming "help". and you also could hear the baby cry.
Greenville - McMecham
road - it is said to be old burial
grounds now newly built on it is said that many houses have hauntings
as well as dark black figures will follow you down the road when
walking late at night when you start to run from the figure behind you
one will come from the front and they will try to chase you off there
grounds
Greenville - Memorial
Hall - This place for plays and musicals
is haunted by an old man who once fell to his death changing one of the
high light bulbs hanging from the ceiling.
Hamilton - Butler
County Fairgrounds - It is known that
there was a man who has shot himself in the head at a local bathroom at
the fairgrounds who walks around with blood dripping from his head as
people have said and comes around only at night.
Hamilton - Fort
Hamilton hospital - it was been said that
Mr. Hughs the man the hospital is named after walks the floor of the
hospital. Nurses report seeing a image of the man in the monitors of
the hospital. Also reported that one night a man was looking in the icu
doors and a nurse stated hi to the man the man then turned away and
when the nurse looked back he was gone. Also in the icu linen rooms it
was stated that when a cna entered the room she heard a man moaning
very loud, came out noticing that there was no man in the unit or on
staff that night it frightened her. she went back into room to
hear it again and left the hospital never to return back to work there.
Harrison - Big
Green Castle - There is a big green house
in Harrison which sits in the middle of a subdivision called the
"Meadows." It is said to be haunted such as: lights coming on when no
one lived there, shadows and silhouettes being seen through the blinds
when no one lived there. The house is now occupied but it stood empty
for a very long time. It was built by the richest man of the town at
the time, maybe even the founder of Harrison. The house is huge and
castle like. It has a carriage house which is said to be haunted also.
Hilliard - Cemetery
Road - Pizza hut - At this location a
store manager died of a heart attack in the walk in freezer, employees
sometimes see a ghostly man walking around in the back after closing.
Items in the store are often thrown around.
Hilliard - The
Odd Lots Department Store - This
department store used to be a Big Bear Food Store. A man supposedly
killed himself in the store room. It has since been turned into Odd
Lots. Employees have claimed that at night when closing, the door will
come open when it is locked and strange footsteps can be heard in the
store room. There have been reports of cold chills and the ghost
actually running through people. Toys have even been known to be off
the shelves when opening in the morning.
Hillsboro - Cry
Baby Bridge - off 138 - turn on black
rabbit road stop on cry baby bridge in your car and you hear a baby
crying because a woman threw her baby off the bridge.
Hinckley - Hinckley
Library - a young woman in a old fashion
dress has been seen on the stairs.
Huron County - Bluebridge - Near the
village of Monroeville Lamereaux road crosses the Huron river on a
blue-painted bridge that is nestled in a tiny valley. Not far from the
bridge, Seymour Creek empties into the river. The creek is named for an
Ohio militia scout who was killed on one of the bluffs above the creek
by Indians during the War of 1812. Another scout who was with Seymour
was captured and ransomed at Detroit at the war's end. People have
reported seeing strange lights, shadowy forms, and crawling mists
around the creek. A few people have reported actually seeing the
apparitions of Indians moving in the valley.
Indian Lake - O'Conners
Hotel - An old hotel that was burned down
and now the ghost of the attendants that stayed there haunt it.
Indian Lake - Shawnee
Island - When you go on Shawnee Island
there is a church on the first road to the left. If you go there
Halloween night at midnight you will see an old lady in the first row
she will look at you then the room will fill up with smoke from candles
and when it clears seconds later she is gone.
Ironton - Cement
Factory - In the 1970's the wall of the
basement of the cement factory broke and flooding killing several
people. Ever since then the place has been closed for business. Several
people have clamed to hear and see the ghost of these people, many of
who's bodies were never recovered. This is only about a quarter of a
mile from Woodland Cemetery.
Ironton - Lake
Vesuvius - Many people have said that 3
ghosts haunt this place. A man who wears a cowboy hat and is seen
walking along the road, a woman that looks like she has been beaten to
death that has been seen down by the boat docks, and a strange white
figure that floats in the trees.
Ironton - - Woodland
Cemetery - Ironton is the home of
Woodland Cemetery, where several hauntings take place. A statue of a
woman has a handprint on its face, as the woman died of being slapped
and falling down the stairs. The statue is sandblasted, but the
handprint once again resurfaces days later. Another story is that of
Dr. Lowry, who haunts the cemetery and the town library, where his
house formerly was. Several older houses in the town are haunted,
including the John Campbell building. More stories surface each day in
this fascinating town on the southern tip of Ohio.
Ironton - River
Valley Health System - The third and
fourth floors of the old county hospital, which is now closed, is
haunted by the ghost of a doctor. Many eyewitnesses can account for
that. Patients, in the past, had reported seeing a figure at the foot
of their beds, staring at them. There have been many unusual
occurrences there, when it was open, and most certainly now that "they"
have the place to themselves.
Johnstown - Union
Lake - The lake was re-named by locals in
the 1960's to Hell Lake because of the numerous sighting of a the
apparition of a young boy that appears just before sunset floating from
one end of the lake to the other.
Kelly 92s Island - 4-H Camp - Things move
around the cabin when no one was around, voices are hear by the deaf,
and people sometimes see dark figures walking on the beach only to
disappear in a heartbeat.
Kent - Kent
University - Stuart Hall - This
Vacant dorm located on Kent State's campus, not far from the student
center has several rumors of hauntings. There are broken windows and
bars against the doors urging you not to even try and trespass. Vines
have grown all along the walls as well. Noises are heard and every now
and then you can see a light from the window, even though "no one" has
been in there for several years. - October
2007 Update: Stuart Hall is no longer abandoned.
Kent - Masonic
Temple - Marvin Kent home- Masonic Temple
former mansion of Marvin Kent. Bessie Kent was burned alive while
working with fire in one of the rooms. (Either a kerosene lamp, candle,
or lighting a stove) Anyway, this is a well known ghost in Kent. The
Kent Free Library also has the ghost of Nellie Dingley, the first
librarian to work there. She died as a nurse in WWI.
Kent - University
Plaza Theatre - The older part of the
University Plaza Theatre off the campus of Kent State University, is
home to haunting. After hours, the manager has seen what appears to be
the back of a patron's head in the seats. Mysterious things have
occurred in the projection room and footsteps can often be heard but
there is no one there.
Kenton -
Rebel Bridge - In Hardin County on CR
125, a cemetery located next to Rebel Bridge, holds the remains of 16
unknown soldiers. At night on occasions, you can drive by and see
white glowing figures in the yard. Located about 100 yards south
of the cemetery, is Rebel Bridge, where it is said you can still see to
this day an image of a Rebel flag flying above the bridge.
Kettering - Boggy
Creek - there’s a huge open field there
but if you go across the field and up the hill at the end of the field
there’s a creek and supposedly sometime in the 50's some kids slept
over by the creek and never were seen again and when the parents went
to go get them they found no campsite except for a still going fire,
and the legend is that the "boggy creek monster" ate them and that
boggy creek which by the way has no end or start and that it comes from
the creek and takes you back down in the creek with you before it eats
you so that you suffer. Reports of noises like something big and fast
moving through the brush as if chasing something or someone.
Kettering - Candelwood
Park - It is said that in one of the
restrooms a boy hung himself in the late '80 and haunts the area at
night. There was also a brutal murder of three small kids. The murderer
haunts the area and sound of kids screaming can be heard. This last
part doesn't happen as often as the first. Some say that a person needs
to sit on the concrete behind the restrooms, draw a circle around them
with chalk in order to draw the murdering spirit out.
Kettering - Normandy
Church - This particular building was an
old mansion back in about the 1920's or so, and was later turned into a
church. They put some additions onto the house, like the chapel and the
music room to make it into the church. But the original owner of the
house/church is thought to still live there on the main floor.
Janitor's that are working late at night have reported smelling her
perfume as they clean the church.
Kettering - Swango
Drive - A man committed suicide by
hanging himself from a tree in the early 90's.On foggy nights you can
hear him moan.
Kirtland - East
Branch Of The Chagrin River. - Noises
heard, logs falling, chills, red orbs seen.
LaGrande - Hot
Lake Hotel - There has been many hauntings
reported by many......a lot of people died in this place a long time
ago.
Lake - Mentor
- James A. Garfield House - Witnesses
report having uneasy feeling about the upstairs.
Lakewood - Abandoned
fire station used by Great Lakes Theater Company. Supposedly this
station is haunted by a firefighter who died in the line of duty.
Lakewood - Bozak
Bridge - A young female girl with light
hair is said to patrol the bridge at night, jeering and throwing things
at passing pedestrians. If you anger this spirit which locals have come
to call Jessica she will cut you in the night.
Lancaster - Mudhouse
Mansion - There are two tales to the
story. One tale is that back in the civil war times that there was a
general there that had kept slaves in the outhouse at night and one
night they had dug there way out and went in the house and slaughtered
the family. And the second tale is that it is the original home of
Bloody Mary. Where you look in the mirror and say her name five times
and she is supposed to appear behind you.
Leavittsburg - the New Labrae High School - On the opening day of the new complex, a library
helper was electrocuted while copying papers. And her ghost has been
seen in the library reading. And in the girls restroom humming a
melody.3 janitors have quit because of it.
Lebanon - Golden
Lamb - Workers hear a young girl bouncing
a ball, she was supposedly left there by her parents. There are many
ghosts in the lamb.
Lebanon - Mary
Haven's boys group home - The home was
once an orphanage, which is now said to be haunted by some of the kids
and faculty, that once lived there. On the third floor and in the
attic, small children have been seen in recent years looking out into
the yard and driveway from windows. As well as children and adults are
seen in the recreation room, on the stairways and in some of the
bedrooms.
Lima - Cry
Baby Bridge - The Cry Baby Bridge out
side of Lima about a couple miles back in the back roads. The story of
it is a mom and her baby died in a car wreck on Halloween night mid
night. And if you go to the same bridge on Halloween night at mid night
you can hear the baby crying and it's rattle.
Lima - Irving
Elementary - Reports of a ghost child
that plays with a basketball. - February
2004 Update: This school has been torn down.
Lima - Lima
Tuberculosis Hospital - Strange voices
have been heard. - June 2008 Correction -
Formerly listed as Lima Correctional Institution. For information and
pictures check out - http://www.forgottenoh.com/LimaTB/limatb.html
Lorain - G Street
Park - A railroad spike was removed from
a hole and ever since strangely odd things have been occurring. A
figure of a ghostly woman has been seen around midnight near the spot
of the hole. Screams and yells have been heard since the removal of the
spike and extremely severe storms have since swept the area.
Lorain - Oberlin
- New Union Center for the Arts - strange
voices when building is empty, ghost appear from thin air, objects
moving from one room to another. There are all just some of the things
that happen in this old building.
Lordstown - Lordstown
Elementary - Inside of the school
auditorium there seems to be a shadowy figure of a three or four year
old girl. Witnesses report hearing a little girl cry and sometimes
scream.
Loudonville - Mohican
State Park - Haunted by Indian looking to
kill his next victim. An asylum was here in the 1800's and a mysterious
light has appeared over 20 years.
Loveland - The
Loveland Castle - aka Chateau LaRoche never completed - (which is 30 min from downtown
Cincinnati) - Loveland Castle was built
by Sir Harry Delos Andrews. It is haunted by many different ghosts.
They actually have a picture of a young page on a king’s lap. They
obtained it by using a camera that detects heat. The reason they took
the picture was that they imported a throne from Europe and noticed it
would start rocking back and forth. There have been other strange
events that have occurred; the castle has a dungeon that people claim
has cold spots. The man who built the castle was named Harry he died
due to natural causes. It is said that he too Haunts the Castle. Also
reported, reports of hearing strange things, electrical malfunctions
(battery operated) and get the feeling of not being alone. More info on Loveland Castle
Lucas - Toledo -
West Toledo Branch Library - Odd noises
and bumps are heard in the area near a fireplace on the west wall. The
ghost of a man wearing clothing from the late 1930s or early 40s has
been seen there.
Lucasville - Edge
Wood Nursing Home - One night we were
sitting in the hallway a lady and gentleman came down the hall. We got
up to ask who they were and the just floated into the wall we were told
that they were former owners.
Lucasville - Southern
Ohio Correctional Facility - Since the
riot many correction officers has seen strange things such as shadows
passing by them and hearing doors slamming shut in the blocks where the
riot occurred. One correction officer had even seen a inmate walking
the ranges and then disappear, after midnight after all inmates were
locked up for the night
Madison County - State Route 29 - Near
the intersection of Route 29 and Route 38 is a small plot of land
between two cornfields. The area to the plot is lined with trees that
lead back to a circle of trees that used to encompass a house. The
house burnt down many years ago, killing the family as they slept.
Supposedly at midnight on a full moon, you are able to see the outline
of the old house standing in the circle of trees.
Manchester - Presbyterian
Church - The Church bell of the
Presbyterian Church in the steeple used to be rung every Sunday
morning, 30 minutes before church began to let the townspeople know
they needed to clean up their breakfast and head on over to church.
There was only one man who ever rang the bell in the entire 100-year
plus history of the church. The bell is no longer used. The man that
rang the bell has long been gone, but passersby can look up into the
lit steeple glass late at night, and see the shadow of the man's ghost
walking around the bell as if fixing it.
Mansfield - Ceely
Rose House - In 1896 Ceely Rose murdered
her whole family with rat poison for her true love who really was not.
She has been seen in the house and haunts it. From 30 west take route
603 to Malabar Farm Inn.
Mansfield - crybaby
bridge- Crybaby Bridge is commonly heard
of in the small town of Mansfield. This is where Mary Jane or (Bloody
Mary) her infant son was killed. Rumor is if you go there the night of
the murder which is Halloween night you will hear the cries of a baby.
Mansfield - Lucas
Cemetery - It is haunted by Mary Jane.
Everyone calls her "Bloody Mary". She was burnt at the stake in the
1800's because she was claimed a witch. The tree she was buried under
still stands with her name carved in it. If you go there on the night
she was buried then the tree will bleed. If you go back where her house
once stood you will notice a sudden drop in temperature about 20
Degrees). I highly advise you not to say her name in the mirror five
times if you ever visit the town of Mansfield. -
Mansfield - Lucas
Cemetery - It is haunted by Mary Jane.
Everyone calls her "Bloody Mary". She was burnt at the stake in the
1800's because she was claimed a witch. The tree she was buried under
still stands with her name carved in it. If you go there on the night
she was buried then the tree will bleed. If you go back where her house
once stood you will notice a sudden drop in temperature about 20
Degrees). I highly advise you not to say her name in the mirror five
times if you ever visit the town of Mansfield. - June 2008 Correction - No Trespassing -
No one calls her Bloody Mary, just Mary Jane. The story is published in
"Haunted Ohio". She was not burned at the stake; she lived to a ripe
old age. She was a Native American medicine woman and as time went on
younger generations saw her as a witch and as such she was harassed.
But there are a lot of similarities between the two. She lived on land
that a young farmer took care of and he looked out for her, as she was
his father’s friend. She died at an old age and did put a "curse," of
sorts, on the farmland and the land around. There is a marker where she
is supposedly buried but she is not there. There are several hills that
surround the property and she is buried on one of those, no one knows
which, because she wanted to always be able to see the sun set. The
farmer would always chase kids off trying to ghost hunt and even shoot
at them.
Mansfield - Mansfield
Prison - The warden's wife was supposedly
killed in front of his office. Reports of feeling light headed and not
being alone.
Mansfield - Pleasant
Valley Cemetery - Many orbs and spirit
strings appeared in photographs. This is the cemetery where Ceely
Rose's parents and her brother are buried. (Rebecca, David and Walter
Rose). She murdered them in 1896 by poisoning them with rat poison.
Mansfield - The
Reformatory - Once an old prison, the
Reformatory has been turned into a ghost hunting site and tourist
attraction. Movies, such as the Shawshank Redemption have been filmed
there. Anyway, during Halloween, the Reformatory is opened as a Haunted
House and it is indeed haunted. Many, many ghosts still reside within
its walls. Inside, at night, you can sometimes see the formations of
the spirits. At anytime, day or night, if you go through certain parts
of it, you can feel a definite chill. There is a lingering feeling of
sadness and if you walk into some of the cells, you can definitely feel
the spirits in there with you. There are some very dangerous vortexes
you have to watch for in there. After all of the years of negative
energy, they have built up into these vortexes that are capable of
doing rather nasty things to you. You can hear the voices of the
spirits in the hallways near the mess hall. Heed a psychic's warning-
if you ever go to this place, prepare yourself and DO NOT INVOKE THESE
SPIRITS!!! They are very dangerous if you don't know what you're doing.
Mantua - Streeter
Rd. Forest - The Woods Of Streeter Rd are
haunted or something’s in them. You can hear screams inside all through
the night, many different times. And the sounds of things squealing.
Witnesses report being chased out by something they could not see, and
it was a low pitch and high pitch screaming. They have seen red eyes in
the woods, then they vanish.
Marblehead - "Old
Stone House Bed and Breakfast"- Toilets
have been heard flushing upstairs on the third floor. A TV that is
located on the third floor repeatedly is being turned down after the
volume is turned up. Room 11 is suppose to be haunted by a little girl
who fell out of the window and fell three floors to her death. The
fireplace on the first floor has known to burn embers after a period of
time when no one was home. In the basement you can feel some kind of
strange feeling of like people behind you.
Marblehead - Johnson's
Island Cemetery - This is a site where
many soldiers died and were buried. It has been rumored that you can
hear the gunshots followed by the screams of agony from the soldiers.
Every other year, the memorial day parade is held on the island, and it
has been said that the soldiers join us in our march around the island.
Marietta - The
Castle - Currently a Historic House
Museum. This Victorian mansion has been the setting for numerous ghost
stories. It has changed hands several times and many of its owners have
died in the house (at least 3). A true ghost story accompanies every
single room in the house, ranging from odd sounds, a haunted clock,
temperature changes, to sightings of ghosts. In October, the museum
hosts ghost tours where the stories are told.
Marietta - Comfort
Inn - doors open, TV's turn on all by
themselves curtains close. And some times your shoulders get touched!!!
Marietta - The
Levee House Café - This building
was once a whorehouse. In the mid 19th century a wealthy man was having
an affair with one of the women in the house. His eldest son was so
upset with the way people were talking about his family and with the
way his mother was being treated that he followed his father to the
Levee House one night. He killed both his father and his father's
lover. To this day very early in the morning on certain days the man
can be seen entering the back door to the building.
Marietta - Marietta
College - The Alpha Xi Delta house - is a historic house located on Fifth St. William P.
Skinner, successful early merchant, second sheriff, bank board member
and civic leader, built this house in 1855. His daughter, Sarah,
married Nahum Ward. In 1908 it was purchased by George White, an oilman
and banker who was elected Governor of Ohio in 1930. He is the third
Marietta native to achieve this honor. Since 1955 it has served as the
Alpha Xi Delta sorority house. The house is currently haunted by the
spirit of "George". He has been known to knock things off the walls,
open doors, turn on faucets, and turn on and off appliances. He also
protects the girls of the house. It is rumored that if a girl brings a
guy up stairs he will trip them going up the front stairs if his
intentions are not true.
Marietta - M.O.V.P.
Theatre - Things in the prop room move
all by themselves, when you walk down to the basement, you feel an icy
breeze rush past your head or an icy hand grabs your shoulder. A grown
man will not go down there alone. They say its owner haunts it. There
isn't any proof that there are tunnels under the theatre, but it's said
the pipes are big enough for a grown man to crawl through. The owner
also owned its' sister, The Colony Theatre, across the street. It's
said that at night he travels through the pipes in between the theatres
to see how they're being held up. After the young thespians and the
audience leaves you can see a phantom like figure in the ticket booth.
Marion - East
Lawn Manor Nursing Home - At night at
midnight shift footsteps from a mentally unstable lady that had died
before are seen coming down the hall and the familiar scuffling of her
slippers can be heard. Then she goes to the door that is across the
room where she was at and slams the door as she always did when she
heard the lady screaming in the room. The people in the room are unable
to get up and do so. The nurse aides would go to the room and the
patient in the room would be staring wide eyed at the door. - March 2007 Update: recently torn down
Marion - Harding
Home - The people working the shift on
the same date and time as President Harding died, the antique clock
will stop and for a while and re-start, also, in his "office" on top of
a tall wooden chest with glass doors sets a model ship....the sails
move back and forward. - June 2008
Correction: The clock has been known to stop only three times on the
date Workers have to re-start it. In reference to the story that the
sails blow on the ship is completely false.
Marion - Marion
Cemetery - Mysterious Revolving Ball -
For more than 100 years, a 5,200 pound ball of polished black granite
has been slowly rotating on a pedestal in the Marion Cemetery. This
mystery was featured in "Ripley's Believe It or Not' in 1929.
Marion - Marion
Country Club - A young girl worked there
in the 70's or 60's. A cook also working there had grown fond of her
and later obsessed. One night, while she was walking to her car, he
attacked her, raped her, and murdered her and left he out on the golf
course. He was just recently caught and put in jail for his crime, but
she still wonders the country club.
Marysville - The
Castle, Bed and Breakfast - reports of
seeing a black shadowy figure, & eerie feelings.
Mason - Mason
Montgomery and US 42 - a woman was killed
in the building on the corner 100 years ago and has been seen walking
around on the upper floors.
Mason - Peter's
Cartridge Factory - formerly listed as
Old Powder Factory - It is an old factory
on the way to kings Island, they use to have haunted houses in there
for Halloween attractions, but they quit having it there because its an
old abandon warehouse. It is said that many cultic things happen there,
and people have said that they hear people whispering and they get
"cold chills" and they see a man in all black.
Mason - Rose
Hill Cemetery - When you drive by the
cemetery, you can sometimes see her hitch-hiking for a ride. If you
pick her up, She will not be there when you stop to let her out. Some
people say that she is still trying to get to the prom to see her
boyfriend!
Massillion - Massillion
State Mental Institution - It is an old
abandoned mental institution. Witness have heard a door slam open and
have seen a shadow of a tall man came walking out.
Maumee - Maumee
Children's Home, River Road - The old
orphanage has 18 buildings, 16 of which are connected by catacombs.
Legend has it that children were abused and beaten and sent down to the
boiler room for punishment. The orphanage has been closed down for some
time now. Some explorers found a door leading to a basement of one of
the buildings that was left ajar and entered. they found the tunnel
that led to the boiler room with another tunnel leading out of it.
Other very small rooms were attached to the tunnels, possibly for
solitary confinement. It was creepy and cold spots and cool breezes
were felt every once in a while. Up in one of the rooms must have been
a girl's dorm, dolls and lunch boxes, books, etc. scattered over the
floor, they all had very weird sensations that they were being watched.
The attic of the main building is said to be the most haunted. Also
reports of seeing children watching you from the windows. The whole
place was vacant and abandoned at that time.- October 2004 update: this area is being renovated into
housing development.
- End of March 2005 - construction crews found a shallow grave
containing human bones ...after several weeks of investigating...they
found 50 unmarked graves. County officials researched with the help of
Bowling Green University to find records of cemetery belonging to the
children's home. no cemetery existed!! They even went back through the
Lucas County Coroners records - could not find anything about the
deaths. The City of Maumee, Lucas County Commissioners and The
Developer each donated $16,000 to have the bodies laid to rest at the
Riverside Cemetery in Maumee.
Mendon - Palmer
Cemetery - Old cemetery has a large
monument that has a green glow to it. Can only be seen from a certain
point of the road.
Medina - The
Medina Steakhouse & Saloon - There
have been a number of people who have seen 2 women and a man walking
around through the restaurant.
Medina - County
Jail - Often a ghost or a figure of a
small person has been seen, and felt to be the presence of a very calm,
sad, lonely, non-hostile woman, possibly a native. As a lot of Cherokee
Indians Reside there.
Medina - Light
& Hope Orphanage - Formerly listed as
Gore Orphanage - ghosts of orphan
children seen there since the old orphanage burned down.- This is an urban myth. While the orphanage did burn
down soon after 1916, it happened long after the place was abandoned.
Please see the following submission of "Swift Mansion. For more
information, please visit http://www.deadohio.com/Swift'sHollow.htm
Medina - Swift's
Hallow - Swift Mansion - A.K.A. Known as
, "The Old Swift Place." Burned down in 1926 - There have been many deaths here (most of which were
children due to illness). there is accually a whole book about it.
Miamisburg - Arby's
- Employees that go into the basement
feel like they are being watched. Several employees have heard children
laughing after hours, have seen shadows, backed up in to something
large but nothing is there, and had their hair pulled in the basement.
A bald man has been seen upstairs in the kitchen staring at the oven
when only employees were in the store and plants have been seen
swinging in the dining room when there is no air circulating.
Miamisburg - Hill
Grove Cemetery - The Cemetery is very old
and has grave stones going back to the late 1800s/early 1900's and is
very haunted But one of many is there is a family grave site where many
people have said to have witnessed a young girl sitting over a grave
crying(believed to be her mother) . Many people have tried to give
their assistance to the girl but she only looks at them and disappears
. Another site is of a 19 year old girls grave from the late 1800s ,
she is said to have been a preachers daughter but betrayed him in not
believing the religion he taught, so her family disowned her and she
killed herself . The bible on top of her grave is said to be broken in
half sometimes and sometimes appears perfectly normal.
Miamisburg - Medlar
View Elementary - The girls bathroom by
the 4th grade hall are haunted by a young girl who was murdered by one
of the workers that had helped build the school, she was supposed to be
a 4th grader now, two girls see her every time they go into the
bathroom. If you look into the mirror for 5 seconds without blinking
you will see blood running down the mirror, and you will see a girl
with blond hair. WARNING: DON'T TRY TO TALK TO HER
Middletown - Jefferson
Elementary - People say that a young
girl haunts Jefferson. Jefferson has been known to be built on an old
ancient burial ground. Janitors and the gym teachers have reported
hearing balls bouncing in the gym and little children laughing and
playing about on the gym stage. - June
2005 Update: The school was torn down in the Summer of 2003.
Middletown - Sorg
Mansion and Opera House - Some that have
stayed there say every night you can see and hear the old residents
still walking through the tunnel and about the mansion, an actress that
use to work there supposedly disappeared one night never to be seen
again but she left her red dress. Some janitors have reported hearing a
woman singing back where the dressing rooms are and when they go back
there is a lady wearing a red dress putting on makeup but when she sees
them staring she looks frightened and disappears just like in real
life.
Middletown - Stephen
Vail middle school - At Vail in the 60's
or 70's a gay gym teacher killed her self in the girls locker room to
get away from the taunting other female gym teachers she broke a mirror
and slit her wrists in the 4 locker stall they say that if you go down
there during gym or after school hours you can hear locker doors
slamming shut and here basketballs bouncing and there have also been
sightings of her running on the track on top of the gym.
Middletown - Woodside
Cemetery - The story goes that back in
the mid 1800s 5 men were hung for a robbery of a bank in another state.
If you go there late at night you will see the glimmers of 5 men
hanging from a tree that no longer stands. The tree was removed when
the cemetery was being put in because people claimed they seen these
ghosts and thought removing the tree might stop.
Milan - Milan
cemetery - is rumored to be the stomping
grounds of many an restless specter. Lights have been reported to float
around the grounds and most bizarre of all is a crucifix - shaped
tombstone which seems to "glow" occasionally at night.
Milan - Milan
Cemetery & Edison Park-The cemetery is
semi-active with various orbs and specters on the grounds. Abbot's Tomb
is considered to be one of the centers of activity here. One point of
interest is that the "glowing cross" cannot actually be seen very well
from the cemetery. It is in a ditch passed a drop off at the edge of
the graveyard. To see it you must go to Edison park, which can be
reached from S. Edison, and you will be able to find a place that you
can see it from there (near the pavilion).
Milan - Thomas
Edison Birthplace Museum - People have
heard strange noises and mysterious music. They have also seen angel
like figures. One little boy said, "Who's that pretty lady?" When there
was no one there.
Millfield - Old
Millfield Inn - Built in 1811, this
abandoned inn is haunted by two ghosts. One is the ghost of a slave
named Luther who died while the house was part of the Underground
Railroad. After he died of an infected wound, his spirit was seen
wandering the ground and dragging his damaged leg. The other ghost is
the spirit of a bootlegger named Sam who was killed while in a drunken
stupor when his illegal still exploded. Witnesses still hear his
drunken laughter in the house.
Millfield - Old
Millfield Mine - Earlier in this century,
the Millfield mine in Southeast Ohio was the scene of a series of
explosions. The cemetery opened the week before in Chauncey was filled
in one day's time from this. On the disaster's anniversary, if you know
where to stand, you can feel the ground shiver underfoot, followed by
the muffled sound of hoof beats. Legend has it that the mine ponies are
fleeing, terrified, from the boiling hell coming up behind them. Listen
closely and you will hear them scream as the explosion and fire catches
up with them, then ... silence ...
Milford - Historic
covered bridge - If you go to this
bridge, turn off your car and flash your lights three times, and look
out a window on the bridge you will see a man hanging in a tree, until
you see this your car is not supposed to start up again. Also a Satanic
church is near by. If you are caught hanging down there a black truck
will chase you away and try to run you off the road.
Millville - Millville
Cemetery 127 - Those that live around
Millville have seen many apparitions in the cemetery. One of an elderly
gentleman walking around the cemetery. Another of a young girl, she is
just standing there by a tree looking off into the field. Witnesses
have also have seen a ball of light and ran into several cold spots in
the cemetery.
Monroe - Lake
Monroe - People claim when you go to the
lake at night, you can see the reflection of light on the water and
hear children screaming for help. The origin of this occurrence is
unknown.
Montgomery -
Gratis - Fudge Road - Scary Old Road
Located Just Outside Of Gratis... On The Road There Is The Site Of A
Huge Drug Bust Where 2 Men Died.. They Still Haunt The Road... There is
The Dwarf Home.. An old house with everything undersized rooms doors
windows etc. The Fudge Best- White Human like beast that's been sighted
on road... the drug house has been fenced off u cant get in... The
bridge haunted by ghost of baby that was thrown off side by mother
& truck driver that has driven off side.
Moonville - Civil
War Graveyard - If you are driving down
Lawrence Road as you get into Moonville, you will see a path in the
woods to your right that leads to a Civil War graveyard. If you walk
through the graveyard at night, you can hear screams, drums playing,
loud breathing, and other strange noises.
Moonville - deserted
railroad tunnel - was once a life for
people living in the sparsely populated area of southeastern Ohio;
legend has it that a railway worker was having an affair with the
engineer's wife, he found out about it and ran the railroad worker
over, decapitating him; you can see a headless figure walking where the
tracks used to be, at night carrying a lantern, looking for his head
(also be careful not to go out there by yourself, the locals do not
want you around and may be aggressive in protecting their area)
Morristown - Lady
Binn Hill - A long time ago way back in
the early 1800's, a young woman (Lady Binn) was supposed to get married
in the nearby town called Morristown, but her husband had to leave and
she went racing down the hill in her carriage after him, but her veil
managed to somehow get caught in the spokes of the wheel, which caused
the carriage to wreck, and therefore decapitated her head but the story
goes that if the conditions are right, if you go down there at night,
you can see her ghost looking for her head!
Morristown - Old
Salem Cemetery - Supposedly People were
hung from the old oak in the Cemetery. The old oak still stands, and
supposedly holds the souls of those hung there.
Mt. Blanchard - New cemetery by CR 4, farming
equipment is in front of cemetery. Statue of a lady who looks like
Mary. If touched and then walked away you will hear footsteps behind
you, but don't be alarmed its a nice ghost and wont hurt you. In the
night the eyes glow red.
Muamee - The
Link Inn - There are 2 ghost that walk
all around that restaurant one is the lilac lady she smells real strong
of lilacs and the other smells like B.O.
Munroe Falls - the one lane bridge on river road - it is supposedly haunted by a man that likes to jump
out in front of cars on certain nights and when you stop to talk to him
he vanishes in to the trees.
Napoleon - Bernickes
Grocery on Woodlawn - When ever it's
quiet in the store you can hear the beer cooler doors in the front by
the registers open and close but the door never actually moves, or at
least has never been seen moving. You can be standing right next to it
and hear it, but not see a thing.
Napoleon - The
Scott House - Built in the mid 1800's by
Gen Robert Scott, the house has many incidents of paranormal. Gen Scott
can be seen walking down the steps in his suit and top hat, levitation
of people sleeping on the 3rd floor bedrooms, sounds of people walking
through the hallways, cold spots, and infants waking in the middle of
the night, then giggling at a misty figure above their crib. Supposedly
haunted by the General and at least one female servant of his.
Nelsonville - Airplane
Hollow - In the 50s or 60s a small plane
with a man, his wife and child crashed in a hollow North of
Nelsonville. The plane was not found for a couple of weeks. The man and
his wife died on impact. The baby lived, only to starve to death. You
can go some nights and park near the woods where they crashed and still
hear a baby crying.
Nelsonville - Old
Mount St. Mary's Hospital - It was staffed
for years by a group of nuns. One of them, beloved by all who met her,
loved her roses; she grew the loveliest rose gardens about the
hospital, and when she died in the fullness of her years, her room was
filled with roses, gifts from a grieving community. To this day if you
step into that administration office that used to be her quarters, you
will catch a whiff of roses. The nuns used to march at night, every
evening; all patient rooms had to have their doors shut before this
ritual was performed. It is said that the nuns march again before a
patient dies.
Nelsonville - Zaleski
State Forest - On a remote backpacking
loop in the Zaleski State Forest, hikers have reported seeing what
appears to be a swinging lantern at night along an abandoned stretch of
train tracks, in an area formerly known as Moonville. Legend has
it that the lantern is carried by the ghost of a man who got hit by a
train there. The lantern has also been spotted in an adjacent
train tunnel.
New Carlisle - Blacks Cemetery - It is
a cemetery about 4 miles outside of the town it is called Blacks
Cemetery. At night you can hear voices and see what looks like people
walking around.
New Carlisle - Staley's Road - There is
a road in New Carlisle that runs past an old mill to the right and an
old mansion to the left. Rumor has it Old Staley went crazy and
murdered his family and servants, killing himself. Now, whenever you
drive down the road at night, your car stalls and your vehicle goes
crazy, lights flashing, horn honking, wheels braking all on their own.
Every now and then you can see Old Staley pacing around in the mansion.
New Middletown - State Route 170 - A
young man wrecked his car on the bend on this road. He supposedly still
walks the road and can be seen wearing a flannel shirt and is around
6ft tall. His figure appears to cross the road, is transparent and if
you look close enough he is floating and not really walking!
New Middletown (Youngstown) - Locust Grove - Old summer picnic area/swimming hole. Children kept
drowning so it was shut down in the late 70's. Swimmers can feel hands
pulling at their legs while swimming.
New Philadelphia - Stone Quarry - At night
in three ghostly lights can be seen two of them red, and one white. In
the late 1700's a Mingo Indian chief had a white wife, and another
Indian whom he loved. The Indian pushed the chief and his white wife
over the cliff, but fell in with them. They were refused a Christian
burial, and now, you can see the three lights struggle on the top and
fall, disappearing near the Tuscarawas River.
New Waterford - Hisey Road - A little
boy is said to have committed suicide in the 1990's by hanging himself
in what is now a burned down house on Hisey Road. His ghost has bee
seen at the house. The house burned down a few years after the suicide.
Newark - Cedar
Hill Cemetery - There is an asylum that
when you put your ear up to the door you can hear screams and knocking.
There is also a stone with a baby on it and when you look at it, then
turn and look back, it faces a new direction.
Newark - Newark
Earthworks - orbs are seen and
photographed, this is an ancient Native American holy site built by the
Adena Indians.
Newark - Newark
high school - B Building - There
was this janitor accidentally hung himself and on the night he was
known to die you can hear footsteps and him whistling his favorite
tune.
Newbury - Punderson
Manor House - Children heard running in
hallways, spirits of children seen, one room got so violent that
management had to close off room with a fake wall covering the door,
man seen hanging by a rope in the lounge area, and much more.
Newlebenin - Forney
Rd - Forney road is hunted by want
some say a ghost that killed his family some even think he slowly
killed them. There have been reports of a man walking around this road
along with screams of children. Some even think his youngest daughter
had escaped from him. He was executed in what is now the cafeteria of
Saint Clair Community Collage. Some say he hunts that to looking for
his daughter.
Newton Falls - Sam's Pizza Place - In
the upstairs part of the pizza place or the attic employees say they
hear voices and unexplained sounds when no one else is working. Also
telephone constantly ringing and no one talks. It is said that it is
haunted by the ghost of a 13 year old boy who past away on the premises
before it was a pizza shop.
North Olmsted - Candlewood Suites Hotel - Lights
turn on and off by themselves. Cool breezes can be felt in the hallways
when there are no windows or doors open. People have reported seeing a
shadowy figure out of the corner of their eye but when they turn to
look nothing is there. One employee reports feeling what seemed like
icy cold fingers brush against the back of her neck but when she turned
around no one was there. Supposedly when they were clearing the woods
to build the hotel the body of a woman who committed suicide was found.
She had shot herself in the head. They say she now haunts the building
and grounds.
North Ridgeville - St. Peters Church - when
it's quiet enough or not too many people you can hear footsteps walking
up and down the isles.
North Royalton - North Royalton High School - At 4:25 every Friday in the hallway near the old gym,
you can hear the sounds of a boy coming down the hall dribbling a
basketball. Shortly following you can hear the screams of the boy and
banging on the lockers as if being attacked. Legend has it that in the
1970's a 9th grader was killed there before a big football game against
rival Brecksville as a prank by 2 seniors.
Northfield Village - City Hall - The Council
Chambers has been haunted for many years. Officers finishing paperwork
late at night, have heard loud footsteps and banging above their heads
usually very late at night when the building is deserted. On one
occasion, an officer heard something say, "pssst!" from the
hallway. On turning around, there was nothing there.
Fleeting apparitions have also been
seen.
Norwich - Siesta
Motel - In 1994, a man who lived about ten
miles away got in a heated argument with his mother. The man was known
to be very ignitable and he stormed out of their house and booked a
room at the Siesta Motel. Later that night his mother found out where
he was and called him, making him even angrier. A short while after the
man went to sleep, he was awaken by the sound of someone in his room.
Assuming it was his mother stepping out of bounds, and enraged, he
attacked the figure in the dark. When a struggle broke out, the robber
accidentally killed the man. The ghost roams over the entire building,
slamming doors, turning lights off, whispering vulgarities, a few
reports of crying and laughter combined, taking things and putting them
in odd places, and people have reported being hit by the dark haired
man.
Oak Hill - Central
School Building - Believed to be haunted
by a little girl, witnesses report hearing her laugh, seeing her as a
whit misty figure, & feeling of being followed.
Oak Hill - A
wraith haunts an old, isolated cemetery, knocking over tombstones and
appearing in front of people at night.
Oberlin - Green
Acres Childrens Home - Where to begin...
No one knows exactly what the cause of nature of the haunting is. A
former resident claims while they stayed there during their parents
divorce and custody battles alot of strange happenings took place. Keep
in mind this is a childrens home. The windows are bolted shut to
prevent run aways. There was a spirt of a little boy no more then 5 or
6 years old that would be seen sitting on the edge of various beds as
well as running from room to room slamming doors as he left a room. The
basement of the place was inhabited by another spirit one that was much
darker. A young girl was on laundry detail one night and she was making
her way into the basement to go and change the clothes from the washer
to the dryers. But before she could make it to the laundry room she was
attacked by the spirit. She was thrown from wall to wall. You could see
her head being pushed into the wall and the whole time she was
screaming for help. *she survived the incident with a few bumps and
bruises.
Ohio Summit - peninsula
- Old Boston township - Reports of
hearing a battle that starts at the road and work its way up the hill
screaming yelling and shooting until thy reached the clearing about one
hundred yards from the house then all would stop.
Olmsted Falls - Witches' Hill - There is
a cemetery in Olmsted Falls that is said to be haunted every Halloween
by people who were accused of being witches and put to death.
supposedly they come out after dark.
Ostrander -
Ostrander road - The old school house on
this road is haunted by a little girl who was pushed down the stairs.
She can be heard playing the piano, bouncing basketballs in the gym,
and typing on the old typewriter in the gym office. At night you can
also see a lady dressed in a white dress dancing on the front lawn.
Overton - Leroy's
bridge - is haunted by a man that was
killed by falling of the side.
Oxford - Hopewell
cemetery - the light- Near oxford their
is a place called hueston woods, go through it until you find the
Hopewell cemetery. It is one of the best ghost hunting sites in
southern Ohio. And I saw the light in oxford also mentioned on here, if
you want to be safe don't go to it. It has caused me very bad luck
every time I go near it. But up the street from it their is a barn you
can't miss it, go their and search around, when you get back to your
car their will be a little surprise. I went once and haven't ever been
back the surprise caused us to wreck the car we were in trying to get
away.
Oxford - Heuston
Woods - The Adina Indian Mound - This is
very easy to get to all you need is a flash light because it does
require a bit of walking. This Medina Indian mound is dated back to
sometime in the BC’s there is a little plaque before you get to it that
tells you the dates so you can find that out if you go check it. you
might feel this strong sensation of being held back. Witnesses claim to
have taken pictures from the top and had strange glowing figures, and
ectomist. Go to the Heuston woods campground. You don't have to pay
just go straight thru. its at the end of row b just park on the road.
you have to walk through a big field but if you just go straight you'll
run smack into it. The Adena Indians were "Mound Builders" of
prehistoric time date estimating from approximately 1000 B.C.-700 A.D.
along with the Hopewell Indians whose appearance is estimated at
approximately 400 B.C. The name came from Adena, the Chillicothe, Ohio
estate of Thomas Worthington, governor of Ohio from 1814-1818. (The
Mound Builders by Robert Silverberg, Ohio University Press, Athens)
Oxford - Miami
University - Peabody Hall - This
hall has been known to have many sightings along with the sighting of a
Ms. Helen Peabody. There have been sightings mainly in just individual
rooms in the dorm. There has been documentation of a girl hanging
herself in room 210, and then another person hanging themselves in that
same room years later. In other rooms, there have been times where the
window shades of only a couple of rooms would flap frantically, but
there's now evidence of any wind and no person standing by the windows.
Oxford - Miami
University - Reid Hall - is
haunted due to a murder that occurred many years ago. There was
shooting spree after a boy thought his girlfriend was cheating on him
and the bloody handprints on the door in the second floor will not go
away. - June 2008 Update: Reid Hall was
torn down in the summer of 2006 to make room for the new business
school, but the door with the bloody handprint is currently housed in
the University Archives.
Oxford - Miami
University - Wilson Hall - Doors
unlock by themselves. Alarm clocks go off at wrong times. Chairs move
around by themselves and other paranormal experiences.There is a tunnel
that is caved in. Students say that they can still feel a presence, and
many have seen an apparition roaming the halls. The tunnel entry is
still in the basement, and you can see where it has caved in.
Oxford - Miami
University, Oxford College - Reports of a
girl dressed in a long black dress by the dish line. The girl looked
really sad and was dressed like someone from the early 1900's. Others
had sightings of different things but the girl seems to be the main
one. One of the Residence Hall Advisors saw the girl my mother
described. An electrician quit when he was working upstairs at Oxford
College. He wouldn't say what he saw just that he had seen something
and that he wasn't ever going to risk going back into that building.
Oxford - Milford
Road - The way to get there is to keep
going out Oxford road which takes you past Wehr road (but that is
another story) and keep driving till you get closer to the campus off
to the right is Oxford Milford road. Drive all the way down the road
until the end take the curve and pull into the first yard on the right,
turn around and pull back onto the main road. Flash your bright lights
3 times, first you should see small flashing red lights, then see the
motorcycle headlight coming down the road. The story is there was a guy
and a girl whose love was forbidden so they would sneak out to see each
other, the girl would take her fathers car and pull out to the end of
the road and flash her lights 3 times to signal to her boyfriend to
come see her, well one night she signaled him and he began down the
road to see her, supposedly a young boy was riding! his bicycle in the
road, the guy on the motorcycle didn’t see him until it was too late
wrecked into him and they both died, (the red lights are the reflectors
off the bicycle) when the girl saw this she hung herself from the barn
in her yard (which is the same yard you turn around in) the barn is
still there but only remains.
Oxford - Oxford
state road - If you are parked at the top
of the hill and flash your lights three times you will see a motorcycle
come toward you. Legend has it a guy and a girl were not allowed to see
each other so the girl would sneak out at night and flash a light three
times. To the her boyfriend waiting at the top of the road. But one
night she flashed the lights and he started toward her house, but
wrecked on the way and died. So now when you flash you lights he thinks
that it is his girlfriend and he starts to come down the road.
Oxford - Wal-Mart
Store - reports from Wal-Mart employees
that their keys disappear to reappear again later in the same spot.
Electric doors stick and won't shut. Computer's have weird drawings on
the screen in the morning like a child has been drawing. - January 2007 Update: The store is now all closed up,
due to a brand new Wal-Mart super center being built down the road.
Oxford - (Miami
University) - on an old country road just
outside of the university the lights of a ghost can be summoned by
flashing your car lights 3 times. Forbidden lovers once used this sign
when they would meet at night. But one night the guy coming on his
motorcycle died. You can see red lights, a concentrated white light
(like the light of a motorcycle), and then many lights (like an
ambulance.
Painesville - Lake
Erie College - College Hall - There's
a ghost named Stephanie who haunts mostly the 4th floor, which is
closed off now, but they say she can get downstairs through a mirror in
the social parlor. She roams everywhere and many people have seen her.
She is said to be a student from the 1800's when it used to be an all
girl college and later she killed herself in the belfry. She is very
nice though. Non- threatening.
Painesville - Lake
Erie College - Fine Art Center - Green Room - where the girls have encounters while in the room
alone. Cold spots, a figure appearing in the mirror, the door opening
and closing when everyone else was on stage. And papers move on their
own with no breeze.
Painesville - Lake
Erie College - Morley Music Hall - It
is said that Mrs. Morley and maybe even Mr. Morley still visit.
Sometimes even Stephanie. Mostly Mrs. Morley. One time she yelled at
the security guard to get out really loud. Others have heard footsteps
and even a piano playing downstairs, but when they go investigate no
one is there. Others have felt hot or chilling drafts or spots.
Painesville - Painesville
fairgrounds - on occasion you can
see the old school children that got caught in the fire dancing and
playing. once in a while playing tricks on those who go in there.
Painesville - Riders
Inn - The story about Riders Inn is that
there is a ghost from the civil war. People have said that they have
seen him, standing by the windows waving. - July 2004 update/additional info: The owners report a
former Innkeepers wife, Suzanne, haunts the inn. That once they went
out to a ball game all day and late into the night and totally forgot
that they had a honeymooning couple coming that night! They didnt
remember until the couple showed up for Breakfast! The couple said that
they arrived the night before and found the inn locked and dark. They
banged on the door and a woman in a nightgown came to the door and
opened it, putting her finger to her lips as in "SShhhh" and only
pointed upstairs! They knew which room they had reserved and went to
bed kind of ticked!! There was no one in the inn that night when the
couple arrived! The currant innkeeper is very nice and will be happy to
give tours andthey even have a ghost cam on a local news site!
Painesville - Rite
Aid Pharmacy - An old theater used to
occupy this site and was torn down so they could build an office
building with the pharmacy on the ground floor.
Parma - Normandy
High School - The cheerleaders were
hazing the new recruits in the 80's when a tile from the gym ceiling
fell and struck one of the girls in the head killing her. The
cheerleaders didn't want to get in trouble so they threw her body in
the woods behind the baseball diamonds. It is said that if you walk in
the woods late and night, you can still hear her practicing her cheers.
Parma - Pleasant
Lake Nursing Home - Reported by residents
and staff of a little girl in rooms and the hallways. Apparently in the
lake behind the building a 7-year-old girl drowned.
Paulding - Coffin
Road - The story is very similar to the
Gore Orphanage legend. A man is said to have killed a lot of children
here and then hung himself from a nearby tree. Numerous people have
seen various things out there.
Paulding - County
Jail - While working on the third floor
an electrician notice someone watching him. When the electrician made
eye contact the individual turned and walked out the door. When the
electrician described the individual to the deputies on duty he was
told that his description fit the old Sheriff, John Keeler, who had
been dead for at least ten years.
Paulding - Paulding
Carnage Library - Its said that the
library is suppose to be haunted but know one knows who the ghost that
haunt the library really are. One day a couple of workers were working
late and they saw someone that wasn’t suppose to be there standing and
looking at the workers so the workers ran across the street to the
police station and the police searched the library and nobody was
there. All that is known is that a man and a little girl haunts the
building
Peebles - Wickerhamm
Inn - In the 1800's a man stayed in the
Inn and in the morning he didn't show up for breakfast and the person
who owned the Inn went to find him and when she got in his room there
were bloodstains on the floor (which are still there) but they didn't
find the body. Years later they were remodeling and pulled up a floor
board in that room and found a skeleton with out a skull. It was the
man's, the man that died haunts the house looking for his head. (
Things that were reported are sounds of footsteps going up the stairs
and piano playing bye itself )
Peninsula - Old
Boston Township - This place is often
called Mutane Town. The entire area is haunted. It's said if you look
in the window of the old slaughterhouse you can see faces. The cemetery
is haunted. The church is haunted. There is a crybaby bridge there and
it's said that if you bring an extra set of keys, park on the bridge,
turn your car off, lock the doors and walk away with the keys just
sitting inside when you come back the car will be covered in dust with
little footprints all over it and the car will be running, but still
locked.
Pickaway - Circleville
- Pickaway Manor - It is said that a
woman that once worked there as an aide still does her duty when a
resident is near death.
Piqua - Old
Fort Piqua Hotel - Downtown Piqua,
haunted hotel.
Plattsburg - old
school house w/ of rt. 54 - supposed to
be haunted by a little girl hung there.
Point Place/Toledo - Haunted Rocky Shore - A
haunted rocky shore line. A young female ghost appears almost every
night at sundown. She walks across the rocky shoreline barefooted in a
bright white evening dress. Legend has it that her love sailed out to
the lake at dusk, and she went out to look for him. He never came home.
- June 2008 Update: It's a remote section
of Reno Beach. To get to it, you have to park in the last lot and walk
over a short bridge and go through a path in the wooded areas. On the
left side of the path you'll see the refinery, and on the right is a
section of rocky ledges that lead down to a flat area about 7X8ft. At
times you can see the woman in white, but we've also observed a young
boy (about 6 or 7 years old) who tends to follow you on the water
though the woods and over the bridge. He seems friendly, and smiles so
it's almost like he's trying to play with you. He stops at the waters
edge by the bridge though, looking forlorn like he can't pass there.
Prospect - North
Street House of Terror - Feelings of
being watched from the street. A witness reports seeing a face pressed
against the second story window of the house. Although the face seemed
somewhat darkened and hard to make out, the eyes appeared to be
bleeding and the blood was running down the inside of the window.
Locals say that a boy named Christopher was attacked by an unknown
perpetrator and murdered. Christopher's eyes were said to have been
found ripped out of the sockets.
Portage - Suffield
- Stairway to Heaven Cemetery - The
cemetery off Waterloo rd is said to be haunted. If you walk up the long
old stairway Right at the top something will surprise you. when you
reach the top close your eyes and turn around and then see what
followed you up.
Portage County - Kent - Kent State University - One the first floor of Allyn hall, a small girl named
Sarah walks the halls. She likes to tug on bed sheets and ask people to
play with her.
Portsmouth - Hallmark
Care Center - Residents on the second
floor complain of being kept up at night by the "little black children
sitting on my bed". Water faucets turn off and on by themselves, doors
open and close on their own, children laughing and playing in the attic
can be heard almost anytime.
Portsmouth - Mitchellace
- 830 Murray - It is said that two
brothers owned this building, formerly a shoe company. They went
bankrupt and the one brother jumped to his death from a window on the
fifth floor. Also rumors say it could have been the elevator shaft he
jumped down. His brother was so devastated having lost his brother that
he, in turn, killed himself. The 2 stories circulating are he threw
himself off the roof, or jumped on the tracks in front of a train,
which runs right next to the building. It is rumored that you can hear
screams on the 5th floor and a breeze blowing, sometimes you might even
see or feel the presence of a ghost. They don't have anyone work
directly on the fifth floor anymore because people will not stay. One
woman working there refuses to go past the third floor. It's definitely
a scary place.
Republic - The
Train Bridge - Right below the bridge is
the small town cemetery. There at night people have reported seeing a
light and the train going by from nowhere and then disappearing.
Richmond Heights - Richmond Heights High School - Every home football game, shimmers of mysterious light
can be seen by the concession stand. You can also hear a young girl
crying when passing by the bathrooms.
Rocky River - Tunnel
of death - There is a tunnel in Rocky
River that begins behind the Giant Eagle on Center Ridge, this tunnel
goes under ground under Center Ridge and under the city into Fairview,
it is about 3 1/2 miles long. People have reported seeing large growing
eyes, like some from a person looking at them then turn around and run
the opposite direction, hearing the things splash its feet in the
water. Also people have reported walking by extreme cold spots in the
tunnel.
Rogers - Lusk's
Lock - Lusks lock is part of the beaver
creek canal system that was the lifeline of the area in the 1800 &
1900's. Lusk's lock is said to be haunted by a worker of the lock who
died there. You can see him walking along the lock in his work clothes.
Roseville - Roseville
Prison - The old abandoned Prison in
Roseville, just south of Zanesville and East of Columbus is rumored to
be haunted. On some nights it is said that the ghost of a woman dressed
in white can be seen falling from the roof of the building in a
re-enactment of her suicide. Also, ghostly shadowy images are said to
be seen peering out of the guard tower.
Rossford - Helen
Dr - A lady in white appears in the right
back corner in the back bedroom. Rumors have it when they were adding
an addition to the house a worker fell from the roof and died...during
thunderstorms she appears in the doorway and watches the child who
sleeps in the bedroom kind of watching over them.
Rudolph - Libert
High School - Cold spots felt. You can
hear people walking when no one is there. Bathroom stall doors have
been seen swinging when no one is in there.
Salem - Egypt
Road- Crybaby Bridge - There is a story
of a mother who lost her baby while the mother and father were
fighting, the baby was found at the bottom of the driveway where a
bridge was, as the mother was running to save her baby, the baby fell
over the bridge, to this day you can hear the scream of the baby and
it's mother coming to save it.
Samantha - Black
Rabbit Road - You travel down the twisted
lane until you reach a small bridge. It is said that once you arrive
you are to pull onto the bridge, shut off your car engine and roll down
your windows. It is then that you will hear the cries of a baby that
was hung there by her mother. Some have even said that they got out and
looked over the bridge and saw the rope with a noose that was actually
used to hang the baby. Strange animals also appear as you go down the
road.
Sandusky - Cedar
Point - a young woman walking past CJ's
Provisions in the Frontier Trail. Anyone working in that stand has
reportedly felt someone there or has apparently seen someone walking by
the doors when they are closed before the season begins. Legend has it
that a young woman walks up and down frontier trail looking for her
boyfriend / husband in that area. Strange things have happened in CJ's.
If you leave a sponge on the sink in the fudge area and leave to go and
do something, like take your break or go outside to get something and
you come back and your sponge is gone. No one else has taken it or even
seen where it went to. Then when you go back, sometimes the sponge
reappears in the same place that you last left and there are only 2 of
you in the stand. (I have first hand experience with this since I've
worked there this past 2003 season).
Sandusky - "Hotel
Breakers - To get the story straight on
Hotel Breakers (it was probably a seasonal employee making something up
about Fridays) There are two known reoccurring instances of hauntings
in Hotel Breakers. Hotel Breakers has now four sections all of which
were built at different places in time, the oldest and still central
being of the hotel is "The Rotunda" which is named so for its circular
five floored circular structure of which live it's majority of rooms.
"The Lobby" is a two story structure in which contain offices and old
meeting rooms on the first floor of such, second floor has rooms that
were once guest rooms, now employee dwellings. this is that which we
are most interested in for in one of the two second floor hallways is
room #169. The very room in which during the early 1900's when the park
was still just a beach resort, a guest by the name of Mary hung herself
in dismay (supposed to that of a lover), hung herself in her room.
Since then, Employee and guest alike have had odd occurrences,
disturbances, violent unseen actions, noises, problems with electronics
occur. The third oldest portion of the hotel "Breakers East" Which in
itself wasn't built until the mid 90's and is portioned into three and
four floors. The occurrences in this section were sightings of
"Faceless apparitions" in a small combination of number. All other
sightings and instances are not known as re-occurring and random. The
whole park is rumored to be haunted, and also rumored to have been
built on a native burial ground.
Sandusky - River
Well House - In the 1800's, the McGreen
was given money as a gift. they argued among each other what they
should do with it. They left the money in their wagon until the morning
so they would have time to decide. When the family awoke, the money was
gone. Mr. McGreen was so mad that he killed everyone and hung himself
in the well. Strange things happened in the house for almost 200 years
later. Doors would open by themselves. Pets refused to go into the
dining room nor would plants ever live in it. Small fires would start
in the fireplace on their own. Door handles would be witnessed as
wiggled when no one was on the other side to do so. Shadows are seen
and images are seen outside a huge picture window that looks over a
river. the well is still there and nothing will grow with in a 10 feet
radius of it. In 1979, the house mysteriously burned down without any
indication of a cause.
Sandusky - Sleep
Inn - When employees walk the halls of
the third floor at night, there is an uncanny feeling that they are not
alone. The television in 317 will turn on and flip channels all by
itself. A laundry attendant was trapped in 315 (the locks are on the
inside, and the door opens to the inside, but the door would not open
from the inside.) Housekeepers cleaning room 324 have seen the curtains
in 312 fluttering/opening, but when the room was checked, the AC unit
was off and the room was vacant. Doors slamming and footsteps can be
heard when employees are up there alone, but when they call out or go
to see who's there, the halls are empty.
Scioto - Portsmouth - Dry Run pond Creek Road - A
small child with brown hair in a pony tail has been seen, pacing up and
down the pond creek hill, and running into the woodsy area when a car
comes by. Legend has it she died in the house by the hill many years
ago due to a fire. You can hear her laughing and playing at night.
Scioto - Portsmouth - Shawnee State University - Advance
Technology Center - The Automatic Doors and
Elevators open and shut by themselves, as well as cold spots, and the
feeling of being watched.
Scioto - Portsmouth - Shawnee State University - Massie Hall
- the main building on campus. Cold spots,
shadows, and strange noises, usually at night, and mainly in the
basement, 2nd, and 3rd floors. On, the second floor, reports of seeing
shadows on the wall, as if a student set down at a desk, complete with
sounds of the books hitting the desk. On the third floor, you will hear
footsteps and occasional whispers when no one else is on the floor.
Scioto - Portsmouth - Shawnee State University - University
Library - Built on the site where many of
Portsmouth's older homes once stood on 2nd and 3rd streets. Said
to carry the hauntings from the older houses. Info for this one is on -
forgottenohio.com
Scioto - Portsmouth - Shawnee State University - Vern Riffe
Center for the Arts - The Art building sits
along 3rd street where many more old homes once stood, and the
hauntings are said to originate from there. The halls between the
main lobby and the main hallways for the classrooms (a.k.a. The
Connector Hall) seems to be where the most occurrences are. Shadows,
footsteps, sounds, shadows all are seen or heard. Some, have,
apparently, even seem the spirit of a young girl roam the hallways, as
well as the sounds of child like or girl like laughing coming from the
connector hallway, and performance hall when no one is that area late
at night.
Scottown - Lawrence
Chapel Graveyard - Rumors of a strange
"shadow" that follows people upon entering the graveyard at night. Dead
bodies of men and slaughtered animals have been found there and a long
belief in witchcraft rituals being held at the ruins of the church. The
shadow is described as "a black looking thing that follows you from a
distance at night."
Shadyside - Shadyside
High School - Several students setting up
for a haunted house sponsored by the band were, making a spoof of the
Blair Witch project around 1am right before Halloween. On the film
there were blue orbs and you could hear lockers shutting and people
talking. None of these things were happening at the time. There was
also a new night janitor who was changing a fuse on the 3rd floor. She
guessed as to which one it was, when she went to pull out the fuse a
hand touched her on the shoulder and told her that it is the one next
to her. She told the man thank you, turned around to ask him a question
and the man was gone. It turned out that there was only one other
person on duty that night, and he was on the other side of the
building.
Sheffield Lake - Sheffield Middle School - January
2007 Removal of false entry.
Shelby - Crying
Bridge - At night if you stand quietly on
the bridge you will hear a baby cry. A family of Omish were said to be
killed here. The bridge has since been remodeled but still the baby
cries on.
Shelby - Green
Eyes Cemetery - Green eyes is known as
green eyes because back in the 1940's there was a hospital. Not just
any hospital, it is known as St. Pauls Psychiatric Reformed Cemetery.
The hospital was burned down by a group of vandals. If you go near the
cemetery, a huge dog will chase your car, and green eyes will appear in
the gravesite, except when you get closer the dog stops and the eyes
stop and you can hear people screaming for there lives.
Shelby - The
Sugar Shack - known as the sugar shack,
they tapped trees for maple syrup, one day 3 people went out there into
the woods in the middle of the night looking for mischief, and never
returned, if you travel down shelby ganges, and pass the stop sign, you
will find the s curve surrounded by woods, if you st`p your car on the
side of the road, follow the screams and you will find the sugar shack,
as it was in the early 1800's, but if you go in the day, the only thing
standing is the foundation, which once was the site of a bloody
massacre.
Shunk - Turkeyfoot
Creek Bridge - It is said that if you
cross the bridge coming from Malinta at night, a ghostly Indian warrior
can be seen riding a white stallion along the creek to the right of the
bridge. He protects $40,000 in gold that is supposedly buried along the
south bank of the creek. Those who look for the treasure have reported
being trampled by the specter horse.
Sidney - Bridgeview
Middle School - It is said a custodian
was sent down to the basement to check the furnace. He never came back.
Students have reported hearing jingling of keys.3 students went down to
the basement to explore. They reported tunnels leading all through out
the school. They reported to hear key jingling and saw a shadowy
figure. - July 2005 Update: Recently torn
down.
Sidney - Tri-County
Community Action Commission - 230 E. Court St - A former worker reports While working there in
2000-2006 they encountered many things. It is said that a man had died
in the building while repairing things. It had been a grocery store and
then turned into a business office. One day a big toy metal fire truck
flew across the waiting room and hit the wall with such force that it
damaged the drywall. Files out of the filing cabinet would come up
missing and then they would find them in our hall closet with the
sweeper. Every now and then they would come in to find the calculators
turned on and all 0000000's on them. One time a worker had calculations
on hers. Strange sounds would happen also. Defiantly haunted and scary
place to work.
Smith Township - Mahoning County - Located
between Alliance and Sebring, is Lexington Rd. It is more commonly
known as "Jewish Cemetery Road". An elderly caretaker was hit by a car
and killed while walking to the cemetery with his dog, to lock up the
Cemetery for the night. A short time later, the dog was also hit and
killed, supposedly walking the road looking for "Zeke" his master. The
ghost of the dog is still seen around dusk close to the cemetery.
Somerset - Otterbein
Cemetery - A mysterious bloody horseshoe
type mark showed up on the back of one of the gravestones. There's a
long story to it, but on some nights you can hear horses coming down
the road towards the cemetery.
Spencerville - West Of Lima - Bloody Bridge - A residual episode of a scuffle between men, the woman
screaming and falling into the water.
Springboro - Salem
Cemetery - numerous ghosts sightings and
even more strange presence's heard and felt there.
Springfield - Gunn
Road - Young boy hit late at night years
ago. It was a hit and run and his spirit still haunts the spot. Legend
says that if you pull over the spot, which is marked on the road with a
leave sign, turn off your car wait for 5 seconds and try to start your
car. The car isn't supposed to start. You must get out and push your
car off the spot and then it will start.
Springfield - Myes
Hall, Wittenberg - Myers Hall was a Civil
War hospital. A soldier was dying and demanded to see his horse. The
horse was brought in but refused to go down the stairs to leave so he
was shot. The horse's spirit still roams the halls.
Springied - North
High School - The Stage in the auditorium
is haunted by the ghosts of two children, a boy, and a girl. Before the
school was built there, it was a graveyard to the children's home
across the field. All of the graves were moved to not to far away, to
accommodate the school, but somehow, two tombstones were lost, maybe
even the graves themselves. These graves were located where the stage
is now, that is all that is known. Legend says, and it is commonly
believed that the graves were left there, but this is not 100% known.
Today, there has been sightings, (even by me) of a boy playing on the
catwalk, and you can here little footsteps and laughs like children
playing there; a boy and a girl.
St. Paris - Lonesome
Road - This road used to be a trail
through this farm, the guy who owned the land had hung himself. The
government had made it a road. The guy never liked people on his
property, so when you go down this road the guy will appear and hit the
hood of your car or be standing in the middle of the road. At night his
eyes are red but during the day they look like black holes. TX
Willis - Lynn
Lucas Middle School - During a play, a
kid fell of the catwalk over the auditorium. Now, during school you can
hear him moaning for help but only in the auditorium.
St. Paris - trestle
bridge - there was the lady who walked
theses train tracks and while she was walking over the bridge a train
was coming, so she had two choices either to jump and kill herself or
get hit by the train and die. Well she got hit by the train and died.
If you go to the bridge day or night it doesn’t matter, you can hear
footsteps coming from the top from the bridge and you can even hear her
scream. Cold spots and fog have been reported on the bridge, but when
you get off the bridge there is nothing but the bridge.
Stark county - Alliance - Fairmount Children's Home - On Route 183 heading towards Minerva, behind the
Fairmount Greenhouse is an old beat down Orphanage. 3 stories off the
ground and with a humongous basement that has tunnels leading all over.
Going inside the house you will frequently hear voices, footsteps, see
people outside while you are inside, feelings of being watched, and see
shadows on walls. You just get an overall creepy feeling just by
looking at the place.
Stark County - Massillon - Regency Inn - people
would go to the elevator they would get off the elevator and the ghost
of Jody who was stabbed to death while on duties as desk clerk appears
right in front of there eye's and disappears in front of there eye's
and there is the ghost of Larry who died in the civil war where the
Regency Inn is today.- January 2005
Update: Has been torn down to make room for a Target and Giant Eagle
Grocery Store.
Stark County - Massillon - YMCA - The
Third and Fourth floors of the YMCA used to be a homeless shelter,
there were multiple suicides and murders on these floors, Maids working
at the YMCA have reported keys being moved from one room to another, a
feeling of not being alone, screams, knocks, creeks. Rooms that were
clean become dirty with trash. Bloodstains can still be seen on the old
wooden floors of some of the rooms. Screams and yells can be heard from
the second floor basketball court coming from the above floors when
nobody is on these floors. More than half of the staff of the YMCA
refuses to go to these floors because of paranormal activities.
Stark County - Massillon - Perry Twp. - Calvary Cemetery - Lincoln
Way East - Voices caught on EVP tape. The
man said "This is Kirk". There was a gravestone with the name "Kirk"
one gravestone over.
Sterling - RU
tower - Two trains collided head of on
Jan. 17, 1969. Five men were kill, as a B&O Extra past and absolute
stop signal and headed directed into the path of an on coming Erie
freight killing the engineer, firemen, and headed brakemen of the Erie,
and engineer and firemen of the B&O. Haunting occurs cold clear
nights when air is still. You can hear two different trains but nothing
comes, and crossing gates at Kauffman Ave. go up and down for no
reason.
Steubenville - Harding Middle School - There
is said to be A teacher of music who got killed back in 1983 by one of
his students he walks around in the school at around midnight some
students claim to see his face appear in the windows through out the
building, some people also claim to hear unexplained music that's seems
to be coming from room 200,Which was renovated 5 years after the
incident.- April 2005 Update: The school
has been torn down.
Sugar Grove - Hansley
Rd. - There is a long story of the blue
flame ghost a girl who decapitated her fiancé then slit her own
throat, but supposedly if you go to the bridge at night and call out
her name, Anna, the figure of a person holding a lantern will appear.
Summit - Norton
- Loyal Oak Tavern - Tavern is an
old Inn. A bartender hanged himself in the bar. He is buried in the
church cemetery next door. A new bar was built.( the old one is
downstairs an is now a wine cellar) His spirit manifests itself in the
restaurant to employees and patrons later at night. Temperature drops,
Putting his hands on you or moving objects. Throwing pans etc. Not
supposedly malicious. Well known throughout the area.
Sylvan - Gibbs
bridge - Reports of noises like cars
slamming there brakes or even worse
Thackery - a
small cemetery - It is in a small
cemetary just north of town on creek road. In the 70's a young girl was
brutally raped and murdered there in the back right side of the
cemetary. One day last summer me and a 2 friends took a bike ride up to
the cemetary and were walking around to see if anything wierd was going
on there. when we got to the back my friend had to use the restroom so
he walked over to the fence and said a small girl was at the bottom of
the hill hovering toward him.
Tiffin - Heidelberg
- There are a number of ghosts that haunt
Heidelberg's campus. The first ghost resides in France Hall. Ellen is
the specter here. She roams the halls, locking residence out of their
rooms. Noises can be heard coming from the attic and there is even a
cold spot in the basement, as well as various cold spots throughout the
building. Things have been known to mysteriously move around,
especially in the kitchen. A dark headed female has been seen in the
attic believed to be Ellen. In the summer, the smoke detectors go off
for no reason. The second ghost resides in Willard Hall. Reports of a
ghostly apparition have been sighted in the basement. The last haunt
known on Heidelburg's campus occurs in the catacombs of Founder's Hall.
The catacombs are now used as a storage area for the theater. People
working down there alone have reported their radios turning off for no
reason. Shadows have been seen along with various noises.
Toledo - The
Collingwood Arts Center - on Collingwood
Ave. has several ghosts inhabiting its rooms, stairways, attic, and
auditorium. It used to be a dormitory for nuns and has several nuns
that don't seem to want to leave; including one in the auditorium that
walks down the aisle way from the balcony to a certain seat in the
theater, sits down and is visible for a few seconds and the vanishes.
She has a very negative, angry vibe about her and is not pleasant to
witness. There is also a much nicer spirit in the attic who seems to be
sewing when seen, who is a nun also. The west hall way in the apartment
building has the spirit of a bride who was left at the alter and later
killed herself. there is a male entity in one of the rooms and another
in the basement.
Toledo - Commodore
Perry Building - On the floors above the
new apartment living areas, there is and old dance room and also an old
restaurant. A young girl's ghost appears on the steps of the room where
a piano still sits from years ago.
Toledo - Jefferson
Jr. High school (Whitmer High School) -
In the middle of the night there are sounds of the bell on the high
tower of the building from beginning of classes in the 1960's but the
bell is gone now but there are still the sounds of it in the middle of
the night.
Toledo - Libbey
Glass - V.C WareHouse - Many Years Ago A
man hung himself in the Exterior of the warehouse, There have been
events such as Stuff being moved around, Objects thrown, Very Cold
Spots Within the building's Vicinity, And Apparitions.
Toledo - Lucas
County Public Library - Female ghost has
been heard walking on third floor in a non public area, especially
after hours. Footsteps sounding like high heels on linoleum have been
heard.
Toledo - McCord
- Haunted Condo - There are many haunting
stories. You will turn lights off and they come on the next time you
enter the room. Happens with most electronics in the house. Doors will
open and close. Tons of footsteps when no one is around. Feel a
dramatic presence. Toilets will flush. As well as faucets turning on
right before you. There have even been cases of apparitions. Recently
there was a sitting held and the ghost appears to be a 17 year old
female named Emily who supposedly committed suicide.
Toledo - Perrysburg
- Columbian House - There are various
supposed ghosts in the Columbian House in Waterville in Perrysburg.
There are also many cold spots in the house and on the grounds. One
supposed ghost is heard fiddling in the ballroom. An article on the
Columbian House is in one of the "Haunted Ohio" series books.
Toledo - Perrysburg
- Ft. Meigs State Memorial - This is an
old fort and has many supposed ghosts including blue lights, lights
coming on, cold spots, figures and others.
Toledo - The
Riverview Inn - A woman committed suicide
in the summit bar and grill many years ago. When the bar and grill is
closed up at night she moves things around. The camera in the pool area
often picked up ripples in the water when no one was up there. She
knocks on the penthouse doors in the middle of the night and her image
is often picked up in pictures. Reports of feeling "hands on one's
back. Knocks on the penthouse doors in the middle of the night and a
woman's image is often picked up in pictures. My father showed me some
promotional pamphlets of the hotel and in every single one you can see
a woman's facial outline and features in the pictures. Even more eerie
is the window she had jumped from.
Toledo - Sherwood
- The house is a three story house, and
is filled with friendly spirits. It was also built on ancient burial
grounds of the Indians. One of the spirits is a woman, who hung herself
in a closet in one of the bedrooms on the second floor. Another spirit
is a small boy, who one time got stuck in the garage while it was on
fire. The doors always keep opening and closing by themselves.
Toledo - The
State Hospital - The state hospital is
known to have shadows of people that aren't really there - cell doors
open on their own. Moans are heard from a room on the second floor. And
who knows what goes on in the room on the sixth floor where lobotomies
and electric shock therapy once took place years ago...
Toledo - Sylvan
- Gibbs Bridge - Reports of hearing
squealing brakes to a car, high pitched, giggling, & a dark figure
walking towards the witnesses.
Toledo - Sylvania
- Gibbs Bridge - Revving of motorcycle;
yelling. Apparently, in the seventies, a male high school student drove
his motorcycle home from school after football practice. A couple
bullies were hiding on each side of the bridge with a fish line going
across. The bullies had secured the line to trees. As the motorcycle
student rode over the bridge he was decapitated. To this day, if one
parks there car on the bridge at midnight, put the car keys on the roof
of the car, and flash the headlights three times you'll hear a
motorcycle and yelling.(The yelling is garbled.) The legend has been
known as "Xanadu."
Toledo - University
of Toledo - Carter West Dorm - Spirits
occupy the 1st floor bathrooms. Water turns on and off in the sinks and
showers with no one else around. the sink started running and the sound
of washing hands filled the room. Then out of nowhere the water turned
off and it was silent again.
Toledo - University
of Toledo - Triangle Fraternity House - The house is around 130 years old and it used to be a
funeral home before it was a fraternity house. In the house, doors will
randomly open and close, sometimes lights will go out, and some of the
brothers have seen people walking around the upstairs hallway and then
run through the attic door and then disappear.
Toledo - Whitmer
High School - Many years ago, the janitor
of Whitmer High School was doing his job, when a Freak Accident
occurred, and he died. Legend has it that this certain janitor loved
the Performances that Whitmer puts on every year. During every Whitmer
Performance, You can find his seat, which is ALWAYS down during their
performances.(If you are facing the audience, it is the very last seat
in the top, last row to the right...)Nobody, not even the bravest of
persons, will sit there during a Whitmer Performance.
Tontogany - Tontogany
Cemetery - Strange blinking lights have
been seen and a blue light in the grave keeper’s shed as well. The
night we went, there was no breeze and we kept seeing the door to
opening and closing, as if someone was going in and out of the shed.
Trenton - Wehr
Road. - There is an old cemetery on Wehr
Road that is said to be haunted. Many people have driven down it at
night, as it is very popular to younger kids. Once you approach the
cemetery, a man, dressed in old dirty clothes will chase you away. He
is said to be the old caretaker of the cemetery who was killed by a
maniac with a hatchet. He now carries the hatchet and, on some nights,
if you drive by you can hear the hatchet hitting a metal door on the
side of the mausoleum. There are several hatchet marks on this door.
Troy - Crybaby
Bridge - To the east of Troy, where
LeFevre Road crosses Lost Creek, before you get to North Children’s
Home Road, is Crybaby Bridge. Late at night, a baby can be heard crying
beneath the bridge. Legend has it that in the 1930's a couple were
crossing the bridge and had an automobile accident. Their baby was
ejected from the car and never found. It cries for it's parents.
Troy - Grove
Cemetery - The entrance to the cemetery
is surrounded by nothing but woods and the entrance is barely wide
enough for a car. After you drive or walk up two smaller hills, the
cemetery is on the left. The latest burial in here is from the 1800's.
There is one lonely tree in the middle. At night, you can hear
footsteps all around you in the woods, footsteps, which sound like
walking on concrete, in the top of the tree and what appears to be the
shrieking of a woman who is often heard after an Owl. On some nights
you can hear moaning from the far back left corner of the cemetery.
Rumor is, a woman in the 1870's was raped and murdered here while
visiting her grandfather’s grave.
Troy - Polecat
Rd. - This old country road is the sight
where a motorcycle accident occurred years ago. A man not wearing a
helmet was killed when he veered off the road and hit a tree. On the
same road about mile down there is an old roped off trail where KKK
members supposedly had meetings and sometimes hangings. Driving the
road at night you can sometimes see a small green glowing orb off to
the side of the road in the trees.
Twinsburg - Taco
Bell - Several employees have spotted
figures standing in the hallways and in the back area, but when
investigated no one ever could find anyone. - Septembers 2004 additional information: 2 workers, 1
working there for the past 8 months, and the other for over a year now.
Every night, after they close there is a little girl, about 7 years old
in a white night gown sitting in the corner of the dining room nearest
the drive through towards the front of the building. Also, about a year
ago, 2 employees saw a mountaineer type looking guy standing in the
drive through window, the first employee mentioned saw him about a
month ago. They also report they saw a boy about 18 years old in a real
old uniform was cleaning the dining room. They where the only ones
there that night.
Urbana - Stoney
Creek Road - Reports of seeing 2 people
flying towards cars at a high rate of speed, also screaming and talking
have been heard
Urbana - Urbana
Jr / Sr high school - they say that there
is a girl that roams the schools hallways and only a few girls have
seen her but they say that she just smiles at you.
Urbana - Urbana
University - Brown Hall - haunted
by ghost of a woman. The upper floors are said to be haunted. Strange
lights, noises, and objects being moved.
Urbana - Urbana
University - North Hall - train tracks - Haunted by a woman named rose for the smell that
accompanies her., and on the train tracks there have been reports of a
spectral train.
Urbana/West Liberty - Hell House - Supposedly,
there was a man who was building a house for his wife and children,
while it was being built the wife and children died in a horrible
accident, (a train hit them) and though grief stricken, the husband
completed the house. the husband was so distraught, that he set fire to
the house then hung himself from the giant oak in front of the house.
(it is said that sometimes there is a noose still hanging there)Though
the entire house was set ablaze, only the back wall fell completely
burnt, the rest of the house is intact, and many strange occurrences
are said to happen there. the mystery of this haunting is that, no one
is allowed to approach it at all. If you are seen going anywhere near
it, you will be arrested. the old tree is still there, off of Clark
road, dead, but still standing with the limb he hung himself on jutting
out into the road. Be careful if you dare to go here. - January 2007 Update: Has been torn down
Valley City - Myrtle
Hill Cemetery - In Mytrle Hill Cemetery
there is a giant granite ball that is a gravestone. No matter how cold
it is outside the ball is warm to the touch. The story as it goes is
that a witch is buried under the gravestone. And if you go there late
at night and touch the ball and its warm the witch is in her grave and
if its cold she is out searching for souls. There are supposedly 5 of
these across the state of Ohio that when they are connected they form a
pentagram.
Valley View - Hidden
cemetery - On tinkers creek road there is
a hidden cemetery located up a long hill that leads to a lake and
fields. Its impossible to see from the road, unless someone takes you
there you would never have know it existed. Feelings of being watched
and hearing things like children laughing and branches breaking.
Van Wert - Van
Rue Building (Former Van Wert County Hospital) - Hauntings that have occurred here are voices, lights
turning on by themselves, doors slamming shut after being open, and
objects moving. This is the former hospital for Van Wert County.
Several people have found various records of deaths in the building. A
psychic has visited the hospital and reported feeling several entities
on the different floors. Among these are an old man in the furnace
room, and a little girl roaming the building, not realizing she has
passed. Voices, of what seems to be nursery rhymes, have been heard
following with a "cold spot" in parts of the building. Several visitors
to this building, including children, have had an uneasy feeling as if
something is near, watching them.
Vermilion - Deans
Hollow Bridge - near gore orphanage road
there is another road named Morse road. If you take this road down it
will split into two different roads. Go to the road on the right and go
all the way down. There is a Bridge with rafters. Supposedly a man hung
himself on this bridge and was not found for months and when found his
body was removed from the rope but the rope was left behind. The bridge
was torn down as it got older with the rope still attached and a new
one was built. Story has it if you drive across this bridge on certain
nights and times you will see the rope hanging from the rafters. If you
see this rope it is believed that you will die soon after.
Vermilion - Devil's
Heart Beat - There is this old bridge in
Vermilion. It's abandoned and dangerous to use. But, at night, if you
drive your car across it, your car will stall, then you'll see a
blinding blue light. Then, you here a booming sound, like a heartbeat.
After about 5 minutes, it disappears and then your car will start up
like nothing happen.
Vermilion - Gore
Orphanage road - An orphanage burned down
in the early part of the century and as the story goes, all the
children died. If you drive down this road "if the conditions are
right" you can hear the children crying. Many have claimed to hear the
children crying. People have also claimed that there have been banging
on their cars and after fleeing quickly causing them to flee in a panic
from the area. Once home, if their cars were not clean at the time of
the visit, they would find small hand prints on the dust of their cars.
Vermilion - Maple
Grove Cemetery - There's an angel above a
grave, that is haunted. Legend goes...mother killed her daughter, and
then died a few years later, after the family had put angel by
daughter's grave. It is said that angry spirit of mother resides in
angel. Sometime after mother died, local livestock began to show up
mysteriously slaughtered in cruel, sadistic manner. Blood was found on
hands and mouth of angel, prompting locals to suspect the mother had
possessed the angel, and was doing the vile deeds. Local officials took
matters into their own hands, clipping the wings of the angels and
cutting off the hands. After this, the angel was forced to remain
within the cemetery, flightless and without ability to kill. Soon
after, rusty streak marks developed under the angel's eyes, as though
she was crying for her sins.
Vigo - Church
St. - late one night there were to be
said a guy killing a little boy and hid him in the church. At mid-night
you can see where He hid the kid in the front of the church at the very
top there is a window and if climb to the top of the church and look in
the window you can see the child’s body.
Wakefield - Bigrun
road - There was a school having A
basketball game a fire broke out in the boiler room, several people
died. To this day people still visit the burnt school building. They
claim to see a cheerleader with her back turned, as she turns around
the front of her is burned. Is this a wise tail or is this true.
Wapakoneta - Kohler
Rd. - In 1966 there was supposedly a
family that farmed and lived in a 5 room farmhouse. Times were getting
tough and the family was tight pressed for money, rumor has it that the
family kept getting poorer and poorer and they all got sick and died
except the father. After his family left he grew depressed and
eventually committed suicide. It is said that his soul got trapped in
the "in-between" world and stays at his old house. People claim that
sometimes they see a light on upstairs in the house that had been
abandoned 30 years ago. If you dare drive by and look for his light.
Warren - City
Hall - It has been reported several
times in the local newspaper that Warren's City Hall building is
haunted. A cleaning lady with in the last two years ran from the
building after seeing a figure walking inside while she was cleaning.
There have been several reports with in the past few years of sightings
with this figure.
Warren - Kent
State University - Trumbull County Campus - A man who worked there as a custodian. At night they
would hear all kind of knocks and tapping noises. After checking
everything in the building several times to make sure nothing
mechanically was responsible for the noise, they were baffled. We were
told that a medium was called in, who in turn told them that the campus
had been built on what was formerly the grounds of an old folks home.
The campus is haunted by people who passed away there. The noises heard
are tapping of canes and walkers.
Warren - Kent
State University - Trumbull County Campus - Theater - A witness reports seeing an apparition of a woman in
blue sitting outside the theater lobby. Feeling not alone and hearing
footsteps.
Warren - Mahoning
River – grave yard behind Red Cross Central Office - is not but half a mile and on the same street down
travel from the tunnel is the now standing central office for the Red
Cross of Warren, of which even behind contains it's own graveyard along
the edge of the river. The graveyard is dated and worn with only few
tombstones behind it with only but thirty at most stones contained. The
supposed story follows that a weary and distraught wife of a civil war
officer (of himself had been killed in battle) threw herself to the
river of what once drew deeper than it's current form. She is seen also
annually during winter months thou in flowing white gown or white
soaked in blood and haggard and drenched either matter crying can be
heard sometimes.
Warren - Mahoning
River - The Underground Railroad" - All
too many homes in the area that still stand from that time all have
secret passages, hidden doors and any trick the Railroaders could think
to build. One in specific of these devices was a tunnel that led right
beneath the Mahoning River itself not but two hundred yards from the
Courthouse, of which is still standing in it's own eloquence. this
tunnel was of about the length of a football field and is not visible
form but five feet from either entrance, and now has been fortified off
for danger of collapse. Apparently that is what brought about such as
is a haunting. during time of escaping slaves, the tunnel had once
collapsed. the river only being one third as wide as the tunnel was
long still waved threat. a collapse toward an end trapped a group of
slaves who moans and screams could be heard for days. The screams can
still be heard on cool autumn days.
Warren - Warren
Judicial Courthouse - Little known but to
some employees, and those who have seen or heard the experience is the
Courthouse's dark history. the courthouse is in itself old enough that
at one time had it's own cells to jail those who awaited trial. the
stone basement walls are sometimes heard to echo with the footsteps of
prisoners or others who met ill fate.
Waterville - (South
of Toledo) - The Columbian House
Restaurant - It is haunted by the ghost of murdered woman. She was
reportedly murdered in one of the second story rooms, which served as
bedchambers. The house was a carriage inn in the last century. There is
also a ghost who moves furniture in the upstairs attic and pinches
people.
Waterville - Nazareth
Hall - Noises and shadows are seen. also
at night a figure in shape of a nun floats down the halls moaning. The
bathrooms are haunted.
Waynesville - Hamelhouse
- Reports of apparitions, bottles, keys
and other items such as forks plates fly across the room.
WELLINGTON - OLD
HOSPITAL - There is a very small hospital
on the east side of town that is now office buildings. I worked
for a chiropractor who used to have his office in the building.
He and the mass therapist said that many times they would see a woman
walking down the hall and up and down the stairs.
Wellston - Salem
- several reports of seeing apparitions
in the dark, noises and moved headstones were reported.
Gratis - formerly
listed in West Alexandria - Fudge Road - June 2008 – Hoax/Rumor - not haunted and you will be
charged for trespassing - The road is
long and scary it's suppose to have a bridge that a lady back in the
1800's threw her baby over the bridge and you hear the baby cry in the
middle of the night and if you drive down the road the only house has
one light on is next to the bridge and you will get chased by a car in
the middle of the night the trees even start to move.
West Chester - Liberty township - Screaming Bridge - The
Screaming Bridge is located on Maud-Hughes Road in Liberty Twp. The
Bridge is about 25ft above the Railroad tracks and was part of the old
line C.C.C. and St. Louis back in the late 1800's and at the turn of
the century it became New York Central Freight around 1900. On Sunday
morning Oct 24th 1909 an Freight Train was traveling northbound from
Union Twp "which is to the south" when 2 engineers where scalded to
death when the steam train boiler blew. They say to this day reports of
the dead trainmen in black walk the tracks between the Screaming Bridge
to Gano. The bridge is a common place for car accidents as well as
suicides over the years. To this day at least 36 reported people have
lost their lives on or near the bridge. Ghostly figures are commonly
seen on film with 110 400 speed or 35mm b/w or color 400 speed film.
Other ghostly lights and spirit energy are commonly reported on film
too. The rarely seen Invisible Bridge and train may be also captured on
film too. Other things not as commonly are ghostly fogs appearing on
the tracks below "even that you seen no fog on the tracks as you took
the pic" Black hooded figures are also seen. Another story is that a
bus driver lost control of the bus and all the children in it died. If
you are coming up the road, there is a sign that says "school bus stop
ahead." And if you drive across the bridge, it sounds like children are
screaming. Another is there was a murder near that bridge also. And if
you park on the bridge, turn your car off, roll your windows down and
flash your lights three times, you will see a man with an axe walking
toward your car. And yet another is of a woman threw her baby off the
bridge and hung herself afterwards. People go there in the middle of
the night and say they hear screams.
West Milton - Horseshoe
Bend Road - On night there were a few
children playing hide and go seek out in the woods located by the river
of this road. When the others were searching for this boy they found
him hung. As the legend believes, if you are out on this road at night,
stop your car on the bridge and get out peering over the side, you will
see the figure of this boy coming out of the water and will come
towards you.
Westlake - St.
John Westshore Hospital - Rumors of
hauntings on the second floor. Things moving unexplainably... seeing a
ghostly, white, man in a hospital gown in patients with heart-related
injuries. Little girl seen in patients [mostly newborns] eyes and in
the mirrors in their bathrooms.
Westerville - Otterbein
Cemetery - It is known for figures to pop
up and vanish. And their is a house across the street from the cemetery
that is haunted by the spirit of their loved grandmother, but it is a
friendly ghost.
Williamsburg - The old Williamsburg High School - The county's last hanging tree was where the library
is, three students jumped out of the third floor window, a janitor hung
himself in the closet on the third floor, and a teacher also shot
herself on the third floor. People have seen lights going from room to
room at night.
Willoughby Hills - Squire's Castle - In
early 1800's, Mr. Squire was to build a castle for his wife in the
country. When the gatehouse was finished, he took his wife to stay the
night so she could see how life in the country was. She awoke in the
middle of the night to sounds of wild animals and wandered the house,
terrified. She tripped down the basement stairs and was hung on a rope
from the raptors. The basement was sealed up and construction was
ended. Apparently Mr. Squires was so upset over the shock of his wife's
death that he never removed her body from the basement. When at the
castle at night, you can hear Mrs. Squires screaming and roaming from
room to room. You can also see her dimly in the room the basement used
to lead off from.
Wilmington - Haw
Chapel Cemetery - Outside of Wilmington,
Ohio on Haw Chapel Road a small cemetery has a tombstone that glows
from the road. Standing underneath a grove of trees and looking back at
the cemetery a distinct light emanates from one of the tombstones close
to the road.
Wilmington - The
Old Mill - The old mill was built before
the civil war. A man that fought during the war brought back illegal
slave children about 9 of them. The man would beat the children
constantly for doing little things like laughing or having a good time.
The man locked the children away from everything they once loved to do.
One night while the man was sleeping the children entered his bedroom
and slaughter the old man. you can see little kids at night running
around, or even here screams coming for the cries of the children.
Sometimes when you enter their cabin you can actually see all the
little children getting there revenge on the old man. And you can
sometimes see a man and two children standing in front of the cabin he
will be holding one child’s hand and with the other he will be holding
his hat a crossed his heart staring at you
Woodville - The
Haunted tombstone - Story of a Man that
murdered his wife and a terrible face keeps appearing on the stone. It
has been attempted several times to remove it, only for it to reappear
soon after.
Winchester - Winchester
cemetery - tears flow from a statue.
Arrows on the back of graves that has nothing to do with the children
they point to, the children are buried in a circle with one grave of a
baby in the center. Voices calling your name as you near the statue
that cries.
Wooster - Beall
Ave. School - Gault Learning Center - Witnesses
report to hear their names being called at night and there is nobody
there doors slam. It is an old building it was built in 1901
Wooster - College
of Wooster - Freedlander Theatre - People
dressed in clothes from the early 20th century have been seen sitting
in several rows of the theatre seemingly waiting for a show begin. They
could not be heard, but looked as if they were laughing and talking.
Wooster - Court
House - On a trial day, a couple were
getting a divorce. The man was sitting behind her in the court, and
grabbed her head, then slit her throat, killing her in the courtroom.
It happened in 1982. Later, workers were working on the place. Some
refused to go back and work because they kept seeing a lady in a red
dress. At night she walks around, and has been seen several times.
Wooster - The
Olde Jaol Restaurant - The fine dining
area of the restaurant, in this former Wayne County Jail in Wooster,
used to actually be the cell block. The area is located in the basement
of the building. The restaurant is said to be haunted by a man who was
the first, and only, person to be hung in Wayne County. He was locked
up in a cell on the basement floor, but was hung on the third floor.
His actions are noticed most late in the evening and early morning
hours. Several restaurant managers have made comments about calls being
made to the tavern (a separate building that was once used as the jail
garage - now used as "The Olde Jaol Tavern") from the fine dining phone
when there is no-one in the fine dining area. Also, flickering lights
and banging of steel bars are common occurrences.
Wooster - Taco
Bell - you will here loud music that only
a few people can hear. It will either be a comical kind of music or sad
music. it depends what mood the ghost is in. some times she will come
up and grab you because you look sad and she is lonely.
Xenia - Ohio
Veterans Children 92s Home - Reports of
little children laughing and playing in some of the buildings.
Xenia - Spring
Hill Elementary - It is said that the
ghost of a teacher brutally murdered over 100 years ago on that
property roams the school searching for their murder.
Yellow Springs - Antioch - It is said
that the last room on the left of Dodd Hall is haunted by a little boy
that will pounce on students in the middle of the night. Sometimes
people feel as though they are being pushed down in the beds. The
little boy longs for a friend and may try to reach for someone’s hand.
Many other places on campus our haunted as well.
Yellow springs - Glen Helen - There have
been reports of many sightings there from Indians to a woman named
Helen whom her father named after the park when she died.
Youngstown - Youngstown
State University, Kilcawley House - Strange
growling and whisperings have been heard in the back stairwell by
Resident Assistants during the summer. Occupants in three person rooms
at the end of the hall report hearing scratching on the ceiling and
strange occurrences. The apparition of a janitor was seen on the 6th
floor.
Zaleski - Moonville
Tunnel - Near the Zaleski CCC Camp is an
old railway tunnel named Moonville Tunnel. The tunnel is still there
and many local kids swim there in the creek. In the 1800's during a
thunderstorm the trestle or train bridge was washed out. With no other
way to stop the train the signalman stood this side of the creek where
the trestle had stood. On the opposite bank was just about 20 feet then
the tunnel itself. On the other side of the tunnel was a turn in the
track. It was near midnight so the story goes when the signalman was
waving the lantern to warn of danger. He knew it was of little use
because of the layout of the track and tunnel before the trestle. The
train probably didn't even see his light before crashing into the
ravine below. A lot of people died that night in the crash. People who
live down in the area swear that they've been to the tunnel on the
anniversary of the tragic disaster. They swear that you can clearly see
the signalman lamp swinging it's warning and you can see the light of
the oncoming train.
Zanesville - Moxahala
Ave. - On Moxahala Ave. there are ghosts
from the civil war, escaped slaves who came to Ohio to stay while
trying to get their freedom. Also on Putnam Ave. too.
Zanesville - Zanesville
Community Theater - During rehearsals,
music and people talking can be heard coming from backstage. When
someone goes to look, nobody can be found.
Zoar - Zoar
Historical Village - Several ghosts have
been reported in this historic village, our hunt turned up a portal
type haunting in an old Nursing Home where the elderly were abused by
the matrons hired to look after them.
Zanesville - Coopermill
Manor - Used to be a Military base, Now
Low income housing is haunted, If your outside late at night you can
see a solider now and then.
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