Abandoned House

Columbus, Ohio

It is said that whoever lives in this house is savagely murdered by something unknown. After two people were found dead in the 1960s, the house stayed empty until the late 1980s when it was occupied by a cult. Two years later, flashing lights were seen coming from the house; police found eight decapitated bodies. It is said that if one goes to the site, there will be eight ghosts that will carry on conversations with one another. It is also said that the shadow of a body may been seen in a tree

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Mooney’s Mansion

Columbus, Ohio

During the 1950s, a couple lived in this mansion until the husband axed his wife to death and buried her in the woods surrounding the house. The statue of the woman that the husband had erected as a wedding gift when the two first married now appears to bleed--due to the ax wounds. The husband's ghost is said to inhabit the upstairs bedroom in which the murder took place.

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The Collinwood School

Cleveland, Ohio

Now a state monument, this school was the site of a huge fire in the early twentieth century. Over one hundred people died because the doors in the school opened inwardly rather than outwardly, preventing escape. Residents that live near the school have reported seeing a light come on in one room, traverse the hall and go back from whence it came. Police investigated and found no one living in the building.

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Helltown

Boston Mills, Ohio

In this town, there are two mysterious roads-both dead ends. The first road gradually becomes a hill. On the hill there is a house that remains completed illuminated at night, though it is said that no one lives there. At the crest of hill, there is a sign that says "Road Closed," yet the road continues; the remainder is said to be haunted. On the second road, there is aid to be a haunted cemetery. Tress have been to known to move. It is also said that a ghosts sits on a bench in the cemetery

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New England Club

Anderson, Ohio

On this property once stood an old farmhouse where a beautiful young woman was to be wed. Her fiancee, however, left her standing along at the altar. So overcome with grief, the woman went to her bedroom and hanged herself--still wearing her wedding dress. She is a friendly ghost and has been seen by many employees of the present club.

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Ruins of Gore Orphanage

Loraine County, Ohio

If you travel down a winding road through the thick of the woods, you will eventually come across a bridge, a field, an overgrown foundation, and a short sandstone pillar. This is what remains of the Gore Orphanage, one of Ohio’s most haunted locations.  Although it was originally known as the Light and Hope Orphanage, the place earned its nickname from the shape of the land and, later, the gruesome story that accompanied it.

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