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Rogue's Hollow Bridge - Doylestown, Ohio

Rogue’s Hollow Bridge, or Crybaby Bridge, has a couple of legends attached to it that may explain the ghostly crying sound heard here. One says that long ago a woman tossed her unwanted newborn over the bridge, and now the phantom scene replays here along with the sound of a baby crying. A similar story says that the woman became pregnant by a married man, and the townspeople accused her of seducing him by witchcraft and threatened to take her baby from her. To stop this from happening, the woman threw the baby over the side of the bridge.

Address:
Galehouse Road
Doylestown, OH
United States
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The Screaming Bridge of Maud Hughes Road , Ohio

Maud Hughes Road has a haunted bridge known to locals as the Screaming Bridge. Locals say it has been the site of at least 36 deaths through accidents and suicides. Witnesses have reported apparitions, mists, hooded figures, strange lights, and a phantom train on the tracks below. There are many, many legends about the place. One tells of a man and woman whose car stalled on the bridge. The man got out to look at it and when he came back, the girl had been hanged from the bridge. The man then was killed as well, and both their screams are heard here. Another legend says a baby was thrown off the bridge and its mother hanged herself her afterward. Yet another tale is that a school bus driver lost control and all the children on the bus were killed.

Address:
6401 Maud Hughes Road
Middletown, OH
United States
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The Oxford Light - Oxford, Ohio

Milford Road runs straight through a rural area filled with farms and forests just east of Oxford and north of Trenton Road. For years, local residents and students at neighboring Miami University have told a tragic story about two young lovers whose ghosts appear along the road as bright burning balls of light. According to legend, a young woman once lived on Milford Road and was forbidden from seeing her boyfriend. When her father was asleep, she would drive his car down the driveway to the edge of the road, where she would flash her break lights three times. That was the signal for her boyfriend, who was hiding up the street on his motorcycle, to come over. Unfortunately, one evening a boy was peddling down the road on his bicycle and didn’t see the young man. They collided and were both killed. The young woman was so distraught that she hanged herself in the barn. Today, if you travel down this road and flash your headlights three times, bright red lights will materialize. One person describes his encounter: “Sure enough, and much to my disbelief, there it was! A single, bluish-white light seemed to actually make its way down the road. I mistook it for a car and cried out ‘Tony! Car coming! Turn your car back on, we don’t want an accident!’ Well, luckily, he knew better. This light just faded in and out from ontop of a hill, perhaps a yard away from our car, never actually coming down at us.”
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Elmore Rider - Elmore, Ohio

For many years, motorists travelling down Woodville Road about 15 miles southeast of Toledo encountered a strange glowing light near a bridge over the Portage River. There are two stories for the appearance of this light, both equally tragic. According to one tale, a soldier returned from the First World War to discover his fiancé was cheating on him with another man. The two had a heated argument and he took off on his motorcycle. The road was dark and he spun out, dying near the Portage River Bridge. It is the headlight from his motorcycle that pierces the darkness to this day. An alternative tale tells of a young boy who was struck and killed by a drunk driver. The driver stopped and flashed his lights three times to try to determine whether the boy was still alive. Meanwhile, the boy’s father ran onto the road carrying a lantern, but he was too late. To this day, if you stop your car on this stretch of Woodville Road and flash your headlights three times, a bright light will emerge from the woods and chase you.
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The Smith Grave - Kirtland Hills, Ohio

A stone memorial sits along Hart Road near the intersection of Hart and Baldwin roads, northeast of Cleveland in the scattered rural community of Kirtland Hills. Locals whisper that if you face the memorial, turn your back to it, then turn to face it again, it will move closer. This memorial, surrounded by a low stone wall, contains the remains of the Levi Smith family, early settlers of the area who migrated from Derby, Connecticut in 1814. Levi’s wife, Ruth, died in 1818 and Levi died in 1820. Some claim Levi Smith helped bring Mormonism to the area, but Joseph Smith, founder of Mormonism, was only 15 years old when Levi died. He did not publish the Book of Mormon until 1830. Another popular legend is that Levi and Ruth were witches who had been driven out of Connecticut, which was a hotbed of witch persecutions. The problem with this theory is that the last witch trials in Connecticut (and in New England) took place in the late 1690s. These facts have not prevented the legend of the Kirtland witch’s grave from spreading, and each year brings a fresh batch of curiosity seekers to this isolated stretch of road.
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Haunted Athens Asylum for the Insane, Ohio


Athens Asylum

Today, this complex, called the Ridges, is part of Ohio University, but these historic buildings once housed the Athens Lunatic Asylum. Not only are these buildings steeped in history, some are said to still “host” visitors from the past.

The historic hospital got its start in 1867 when the Ohio Legislature appointed a commission to find a site for an asylum in southeastern Ohio. A suitable site was found in Athens and Levi T. Scofield was chosen as the architect. The designs of the buildings and grounds were influenced by Dr. Thomas Story Kirkbride, a 19th-century physician who authored a book on mental hospital design. His designs were often recognizable for their “bat wing” floor plans and lavish Victorian architecture.

The original design included an administration building with two wings, one that would house the males and the other for the females. The building itself was 853 feet long, 60 feet wide and built with red bricks which were fired from clay dug on-site. Built onto the back were a laundry room and boiler house. Seven cottages were also constructed to house even more patients. There was room to house 572 patients in the main building, almost double of what Kirkbride had recommended which would eventually lead to overcrowding and conflicts between the patients.

The administrative section, located between the two resident wings, included an entrance hall, offices, and a reception room on the first floor, the superintendent’s residence on the second floor, and quarters for other officers and physicians on the 3rd and 4th floors. A large high ceiling amusement hall filled the 2nd and 3rd floors, and a chapel was included on the 4th floor. Behind and beneath the public and private spaces of the building were the heating and mechanical systems, kitchens, cellars, storerooms, and workspaces.

The site, which was first comprised of 141 acres, would eventually grow to 1,019 acres which included cultivated, wooded, and pasture land. The grounds were designed by Herman Haerlin of Cincinnati and would incorporate landscaped hills and trees, decorative lakes, a spring, and a creek with a waterfall. Not only would the patients enjoy the beautiful landscape but citizens also enjoyed the extensive grounds. Though the facility would never be fully self-sustaining, over the years the grounds would include livestock, farm fields and gardens, an orchard, greenhouses, a dairy, a receiving hospital, a Tubercular Ward, a physical plant to generate steam heat, and even a carriage shop in the earlier years.

The hospital, first called the Athens Lunatic Asylum, officially began operations on on January 9, 1874. Within two years, it was renamed the Athens Hospital for the Insane. Over the years, its name would be changed many times to the Athens State Hospital, the Southeastern Ohio Mental Health Center, the Athens Mental Health Center, the Athens Mental Health and Mental Retardation Center, and the Athens Mental Health and Developmental Center


Bird’s Eye view of Athens, Ohio Asylum

During its operation, the hospital provided services to a variety of patients including Civil War veterans, children, the elderly, the homeless, rebellious teenagers being taught a lesson by their parents, and violent criminals suffering from various mental and physical disabilities. These patients, with diagnoses ranging from the slightest distress to severely mentally ill, were provided various forms of care, many of which have been discredited today. The asylum was best known for its practice of lobotomy, but also known to have practiced hydrotherapy, electroshock, restraint, and psychotropic drugs, many of which have been found to be harmful today.

More interesting are the causes listed for admission, which included epilepsy, menopause, alcohol addiction and tuberculosis. General “ill health” also accounted for many admissions, which included in the first three years of operation 39 men and 44 women. For the female patients hospitalized during these first three years of the asylum’s operation, the three leading causes of insanity are recorded as “puerperal condition” (relating to childbirth), “change of life”, and “menstrual derangements”. According to an 1876 report, the leading cause of insanity among male patients was masturbation. The second-most common cause of insanity was listed as intemperance (alcohol). Depending upon their condition, a patient’s treatment could range from full care to amazing freedom.

Over the years, numerous buildings were added including a farm office, a new amusement hall, additional wards and residences, laundry building, power plant, garages, stables, mechanics shops, a firehouse, therapy rooms and dozens of others. By the 1950s the hospital was using 78 buildings and was treating 1,800 patients.


Athens Asylum cemetery courtesy Encyclopedia of Forlorn Places

In the 1960s the total square footage of the facility was recorded at 660,888 square feet. It was also at this time that its population peaked at nearly 2,000 patients, over three times its capacity. However, the number of patients would begin to decline for the next several decades as de-institutionalization accelerated. As the numbers of people at the Asylum declined, the buildings and wards were abandoned one by one.

Comprised of three graveyards, burials began soon after the opening of the institution as there were deceased patients who were unclaimed by their families. Until 1943 the burials were headed only by stones with numbers, with the names of the dead known only in recorded ledgers. Only one register is known to exist today, which contains the names of 1,700 of the over 2,000 burials. In 1972 the last patients were buried in the asylum cemetery. Today the cemeteries continue to be maintained by the Ohio Department of Mental Health.

In 1977, Athens Asylum made news when it housed multiple personality rapist Billy Milligan. In the highly publicized court case, Milligan was found to have committed several felonies including armed robbery, kidnapping and three rapes on the campus of the Ohio State University. In the course of preparing his defense, psychologists diagnosed Milligan with multiple personality disorder, from which the doctors said he had suffered from early childhood. He was the first person diagnosed with multiple personality disorder to raise such a defense and the first acquitted of a major crime for this reason. Milligan was then sent to a series of state-run mental hospitals, including Athens. While at these hospitals Milligan reported having ten different personalities. Later 14 more personalities were said to have been discovered. After a decade, Milligan was discharged. He died of cancer at a nursing home in Columbus, Ohio on December 12, 2014, at the age of 59.

The next year, the hospital made the news again when a patient named Margaret Schilling disappeared on December 1, 1978. It wasn’t until January 12, 1979, 42 days later that, her body was discovered by a maintenance worker in a locked long-abandoned ward once used for patients with infectious illnesses. Though tests showed that she died of heart failure, she was found completely naked with her clothing neatly folded next to her body. More interesting is the permanent stain that her body left behind. Clearly, an imprint of her hair and body can still be seen on the floor, even though numerous attempts have been made to remove it.

By 1981 the hospital housed fewer than 300 patients, numerous buildings stood abandoned, and over 300 acres were transferred to Ohio University. In 1988, the facilities and grounds (excluding the cemeteries) were deeded from the Department of Mental Health to Ohio University.

The Athens Center officially closed in 1993 and the remaining patients transferred to another facility. The property stood vacant for several years before restoration began. The name of the property was changed to the “Ridges” and in 2001 renovation work was completed on the main building, which is known as Lin Hall. Today it houses music, geology, biotechnology offices, and storage facilities, as well as the Kennedy Museum of Art. Over the years, other hospital buildings were modeled and put to use by the University, although many others still sit abandoned.

It comes as no surprise that the buildings of this historic asylum are allegedly haunted. One of the most famous ghosts is said to be that of Margaret Shilling who left her body print upon the floor of the hospital. Her spirit is said to have appeared staring down from the window of the room where her body was found, has been seen attempting to escape, and has been known to wander various parts of the building at night. And, according to some, she is not alone. Other former patients are also said to remain in residence, with reports from visitors seeing strange figures standing in the empty wings of the former hospital, hearing disembodied voices and squeaking gurneys, seeing strange lights, and hearing screams echoing through the walls. More frightening, there are rumors of spirits of patients who remain shackled in the basement. These many spirits are thought to be those who died or suffered at the hands of staff in the asylum.

The cemetery is also said to be haunted by shadowy people and strange lights. In one area, the linear shapes of the graves form a circle, which is said to be a witches’ meeting point.
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A Haunted Apartment in Woodstock, Ohio


Old Man Ghost

Several years ago in 2000, my husband and I moved into an old apartment building in Woodstock, Ohio with our four-month-old daughter. After a couple of months, we became aware of cold spots in the doorways and in the corner of the playroom. As our daughter grew a little older, we noticed that she would sit in this corner for hours, playing, talking, and laughing as though someone was there with her. I started asking her who she was talking to and she said, Tabby and Chuck, who lived there.

One night when we were laying in bed, I looked up and was startled to see a little boy and an adult man standing in the doorway. This continued to occur with such frequency that we started sleeping in the front room with the lights on. Often, the lights would suddenly get bright, then do dark, fluttering back and forth.

One night when my daughter woke up crying and screaming, I saw an older man staring at her. Quickly grabbing her, I covered both our heads, then when I looked back he was gone.

About a week later when we were upstairs visiting our neighbors, our daughter fell down the flight of 15 stairs. Running to the bottom, I was amazed to see that she had not a mark on her, not even a scratch. She kept saying that the boy saved her.

After this, the cold spots got worse and lights began to shoot across the rooms. When toxic mold began growing in the apartment, we moved. The people upstairs also had to move about a month later due to the mold. The last night we spent in the apartment was the worst of them all. As we slept on the living room floor, we listened to the sounds of screams throughout the night. When we look at photographs that we took while living in that apartment, they are filled with dark spots.
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Mt. Eaton Road - Arrville,Ohio

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.
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Hells Church - Batavia,Ohio

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.
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East Liverpool / Beaver Creek State Park - Calcutta,Ohio

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.
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Warehouse on the Canal - Canal Fulton,Ohio

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.
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Eden Park - Cincinnati,Ohio

Apparition of a woman wearing a black silk dress has been witnessed standing by the gazebo.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.'
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Spring Grove Cemetery - Cincinnati,Ohio

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.
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Fairfield Middle School - Fairfield,Ohio

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.
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Mudhouse Mansion - Fairfield,Ohio

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.

WARNING
As with many of the haunted places there are dangerous areas and no
trespassing. Please be careful when exploring.
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The Reformatory - Mansfield,Ohio

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.
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Medlar View Elementary - Miamisburg,Ohio

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
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Deserted railroad tunnel - Moonville,Ohio

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)
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Mitchellace / 830 Murray - Portsmouth,Ohio

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.
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Lonesome Road - St. Paris,Ohio

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.
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