This did not take place in Colorado, but in Ohio.

Yeah this is in OHIO.
MY MOM GREW UP THERE!

Thanks for the correction! If anyone has any more information about this orphanage, post it here!

After doing some research, I got directions on how to find the ruins. There are only a few stone posts remaining and it is on private property, so beware! The woods surrounding the area are erie and we tried to communicate with the spirits there but all we heard were the trees creaking. After a little more research, I found out that there was a mansion there at one time, and it was eventually used to house some “wayward” children, but there was no fire, and it wasn’t an orphenage. This is just one of those urban myths.

If you find out any more info can u give some more if possible i want to here some really cool stuff even if its not real…

http://www.cleveland.com/haunted/index.ssf?/halloween/more/ghosts/gore.html

Here is a link from Cleveland.com telling about the story. I’m from Cleveland’s west-side which is where this story takes place and have heard about it all my life. My mom grew up in this area and I have relatives who currently live there. My crew and I will hopefully be investigating it soon.

THE NAME THE ROAD IS GORE-ORPHANAGE, YOU CAN FIND IT AND WHATS LEFT OF THE FOUNDATION IS STILL THERE.

I’ve been there where the gates are but no ones allwoed there, but we still go and there was a fire many kids died and there is another thing that happens when you drive by on some night at midnight your lights will dim and flash or ect. i’ve seen it done but, i guess no will actually really find out what happened.

I live maybe 20 minutes from Gore Orphanage and, of course have been there many times as all of my siblings have been too.I can say that while I have not ever heard nor seen any strange things at the site every time me or any of my siblings have gone and mind you I am from a family of 9 something has happened to us.We have had car accidents, flat tires,run ins with the police,chased by dogs on many seperate occasions,and as strange as this sounds a black cat kept jumping into our car when we were stopped.I can not say for certain if this is a haunted site but it is quite strange how everytime someone in my family goes to the site unexplainable things happen.

I HAVE LIVED NEARBY VERMILION FOR 12 YEARS AND THERE IS A GORE ORPHANAGE BUT IT DID NOT BURN DOWN WITH CHILDREN IN IT, AND IT’S NOT WHERE MOST PEOPLE THINK IT IS

Last weekend me and my fellow spirt hunters made the trip to gore from Medina. As we drove down the street a Black CAT ran right out in front of us. I honestly had a erie feeling about dark road and woods. We walked around in the wood but never found the site. We got back to the car and the battery was dead.Mind you nothing had been left on.

ive been there on multiple occasions… no joke, no humor at all. if you stay very quiet in the middle of the open field you can see orbs and hear creaking doors. they sound as if you are in a vacant building as the creaking echos. i thought my mind was playing tricks on me when i watched an almost transparent child run and dive towards the woods, but the three people i was with saw the same thing and we decided to bail as quick as possible. some rednecks gave us **** for being there because its private property, but it hasnt stopped us yet. i dont know if the stories are true, but i know that area is haunted.

mr. burger i to have been there many times and I HAVE HEARD THE CREAKING DOOR SLAMMING. and i have seen the well and lil pieces during the day but at nigh ti will not get ou tof the car we have had a few things after us including that cat!

GORE ORPHANAGE IS REAL, LIKE WHEN ME MY MOM, BY DAD, AND 2 BROS WENT THERE FOR FUN, AND I HAVE SEEN THAT BLACK CAT, I ACTUALLY TRIED THROWING ROCKS AT IT. BUT IT JUST RAN BACK INTO THE WOODS.

is there like a sign or anything left there? i’ve never been there.

is there a sign or something?

Wat do u mean a sighn

O ya another freaky place that is in boston mills ohio is hell town freaky as hell there is houses just left there churchs and lots of stuff

Just reading not enough. Need the address so my family and I can see for ourselves

i have went to gore orphanage several times and had things follow me,weird noises,my car not start for several minutes and other unexplainable things. I touched one of the pillers of the foundation and it was like 30 degrees out but the piller was warm.

WHERE IS IT?

Gore orphanage is actully blocked off on both the north and south side. I hear there is another road in lorain leading into the site but we havent tried it yet.

Last year i went to gore orpanage with a few friends not knowing what to expect. We went at about 11:00 at night and as we went over the bridge to get there we saw white lights in front of us untill we reached the piller. None of us thought to bring flashlights due to the fact we thought it was a myth…all we had were the cell phone lights. As we got out of the car, a black cat was coming out of the woods and we didnt think much of it till i now look at this site! We never actually found the foundation of the ruins because of the lack of light but we did hear and see interesting things, things that make you believe that something unusual was going on there. We stuck together as a group and heard laughing of what seemed to be children then we would lightly hear steps of someone else as we would stand still. As we left the site and headed back to the car, we heard light crys and screams as if they were suffering severly…the worst when we went back to the car it was parked on the otherside of the road!!
Ive never been back to gore since last year, even though i didnt see the actual thing i get a pretty good idea of the eerie feeling and happenings going on around there!
Becareful

I live probably 10-15 minutes roughly from the Gore Orphanage. In fact, my school news has done documentaries on it. People tend to really screw the story up, so here’s what everyone in Lorain Country actually hears:

Gore Orphanage started out as an actual mansion years and years ago. And when I say that, I mean very early 1900’s or late 1800’s. It housed the Wayward’s, and they had actually had two children that mysteriously died without any reasoning. Along with Mr. Wayward’s wife who later died some few years after, mysteriously. I believe somewhere between that time they were able to have one child who lived long enough to have a family of his own. And some many years later it is said an orphanage was built, and then you get the story that was just discussed here.

Gore Orphanage actually ISN’T where most people think it is. Most people actually go to the cemetery down the road from it thinking it’s Gore. But it’s not. The actual Gore Orphanage resides over the bridge, and there’s not much left but a few stone pillars, and pieces of the floor. Whether it was actually an Orphanage or not is still strongly debated. But it was, indeed, a mansion at one time. It IS documented that the Wayward’s lived there, and their children & and his wife did die with no evident cause. So whether you want to believe there’s something strange going on with the ‘Orphanage’, or not, there’s no doubt unexplainable events occur there.

dude thats not the story of this place i got. that story goes that there was an old man that was the care taker of the orphenage and he ddnt like children so he set fire to the place one night. and he also died an haunts it.

the story of the family living on gor eorphanage is true and thee got sickly ill and died the only thing ppl don’t tell you is that somewhere in the woods where this sits is a vampire cult in the wooods that likes to scare ppl away or capture them and do only god knows what

Can,t anyone get the story right. Go to the library
this is a way to find haunting out.
..Or call Ghost Hunter ..they will find the truth..
Mary

thats a goood idea mary ,hey everybody call taps to come a investagait.

Can someone E-Mail me with the address and location of this house? I live in Galloway, Ohio and would LOVE to see it. Please contact me at http://www.PurpleRain52384@aol.com

Can someone please send me email me the exact location of Gore Orphanage?? I’ve heard about it for years and am dying to visit. I would be heading west on rt 10 from north ridgeville. Thanks so much!!

Hey has anyone been there recently? I was there several times when I was younger but haven’t been there in a while. My husband and some friends want to go but I heard that it wasn’t there anymore. So if anyone has been there recently please write me back at Daremim3@yahoo.com. Oh and also they want to go on Friday the 13th of October so write me back a.s.a.p. Thanks

I was there last night at 1a.m. there was 12 of us we all heard some girl screaming when we were walking down the trail to the foundation. We have a music box sound on a tape recorder and some low screaming. We set the tape recorder on the pillar and walked away then it would turn off and on by itself..no joke all this really happened!9 of us ditched out and waited in the car…when we got back to the house there was a little kids hand print on the back window!you must go and see for yourself!!!!

Iv been to gore many many times and when you get there there is pillers and all that stuff but if you walk up the road till u get to the top where the road is trashed and if u look down at the vally you can see spirits Or “Ghost” Playing and u can see the guys house who burnt down gore. while we were leaving are car wouldnt start for several mins and when we got it to start on the bridge it shut off again. then while we were going up the hill right befor were about to leave it shuts off again and the breaks stop working and the e-break stops work so we all had to jump out of the car and stop it.

I live in the next town over from gore, these are the facts:the location of the orphanage has no remains and when it burnt nobody died, the remains in the woods are from the swift house where the swift families 4 children ages 2-11 died in a seven day span.,those are the cries you hear.

Okay everyone. I went to the Lorain County Library and here’s what I found….http://www.lorain.lib.oh.us/local/history/gore1.asp Follow the link and it will lead you to a newspaper clipping regarding the “legend/true” story of the location. I hope this helps.

Ok people me and 2 of my friends went today and we were on gore orphange road but could not find the site could someone PLEASE e-mail me with directions on how to find the site once on the road!!!! We spent like two hours driving up and down the road looking for a path or ne thing that led to the woods and could not find ne thing!!!!!! star_light_beauty2006@yahoo.com

Gore Orphanage is a very interesting place in a really rural area of Ohio. I plan to go their sometime soon.

I was at the site back in the fall of 2005. Nothing strange happened. However, it is NOT on private property. In fact, it is now owned by the Metroparks, so you won’t be trespassing if you go there during daylight hours. You’ll see a sign for the park along side the road, and a small dirt trail heads to the foundation. The foundation is not that of the orphanage. The orphanage itself was on the other side of the road. The foundation that is there is of the Swift Mansion. Look it up on http://www.forgottenoh.com

That is so not what happend the place was set fire by one off the workers and and alot mostly all of the childern died the work was a man and the kids were mix boys and girls lied there not just boy i all this because my grandfother’s brother was one of the childern who got out alive and later he was addopted my who is now grat grandmother and grandfother but they are both dead they use to tell him storys all the time about the man and how he was so wicked to the childern and all that. there was a childs home there and they were not deformed or anything like that just alone

I was at Gore Orphange last weekend and got some
pretty good findings on our cameras and audio recordings
check it out on my latest Myspace blog entry
http://www.myspace.com/sendittomehere03

–Happy hunting and good luck!

I went there in the late 70’s at night! It was kind of spooky, but nothing was heard or seen. Pretty cool though.

How sad

Actually, i have drove down the road the orphanage was once on, not only if you stand in the ruins, will you hear the screams, but, you will possibly see a women and a young girl walking around behind all the tree’s. And if you drive up that road really slow at night, you will actually feel your car being PUSHED, as you will speed up without even having your foot on the pedle.

actually the story posted up there is completely wrong. go to http://www.forgottenoh.com for the real story. but what is true is that myself and three other friends ventured out there one night to have a memorable experience. we didnt see anything but we all heard definate, clear as day, screams. after exiting our car we proceded into the woods and to the foundation, and again we did not see anything but heard the same scream only louder. while entering the valley and the area that gore is in, you constantly feel watched. the foundation is one of the scariest places i have ever been in my life.

I just took my 4 children driving by the orphanage last night. It was spooky. We had minivan problems as we passed by the sight. The strangest thing was that a car came from nowhere and passed us up. It then turned around in an unknown driveway and came right at us. As it passed us it disappeared all of the sudden.
Some locals say that if you have children with you that you are less likely to be haunted. The lost souls of the children that cry in the night like when children visit.
My children are still a little scared about the whole thing. So am I.

ok…you guyz r a bunch of bullshitten *******,,,come ON!!! i have alwayz gone there,,,and notten happens!!! if there r spirtz y dont u fuckers just leave them alone?!?!?!? get a life and stop wasting u exstence on trying to talk to dead ppl,,,have u no friends to talk to?/ damn!

supposivly when your leaving, over the bride your car will get pounded by tiny hands of the children that died.

That didnt happen to us. Theres some stones… graffiti, beer cans… a fire pit and crazy rednecks that will chase you and make scary fun noises to make you feel important. My house is haunted, not those woods.

I am from Grafton, OH which is very near the ruins of Gore Orphanage. I have heard this story my whole life and have always been curious about it, but I wanted to do some research on it before i actually went there in the middle of the night. So I looked up old newspaper articles on the Gore Orphanage fire, and it turns out that no children died in the fire, so basically this story is completely untrue and just folklore.

Oh and by the way it’s Lorain County not Loraine County. Thanks for being accurate though.

The house that now lies in ruins was a former mansion built between 1840 and 1842 by Johnathan Swift, a wealthy Massachusetts farmer. It was an upper-tier house, quite exquisite for its time and location. However, Swift invested his earnings and life savings into worthless railroad stock, and was forced to sell the house to New Yorker Nicholas Wilber, the leader of a group of Spiritualists. Oral history is quite unanimous about his hosting elaborate seances at the mansion. Soon after occupying the house, four of the Wilber children died over the course of seven days at the height of a local diphtheria epidemic, and the seances were usually incantations which featured the spirit-tapping of young children.

This is where legend begins to diverge from fact. While many local citizens insist that the children were buried in Swift Mansion, supposedly explaining its supernatural activity, they were actually buried in a local graveyard. Further, exaggerations grew that all four children “died in their mother’s arms” and that she subsequently “went insane, setting the tables in the places for the dead children and beckoning them to go to bed.”

Nicholas Wilber died in 1901 and the house sat vacant. Soon after, people from around the area began sneaking into the house to examine it, vandalize it, and render it an urban legend. Later, “children would be challenged to sleep in the house without being haunted by ‘the children’.” The house began to slip into disrepair soon after the public fascination and abuse began, and was slowly torn apart. It wasn’t until 1923, when efforts to restore the manor were beginning, that the house was vandalized and set ablaze. The culprit was never found. Since then, it has been continually vandalized and remains a popular hang-out for teenagers.

The name Gore comes from the name of the geographical shape of the area, a valley called a gore.

*On a side note, it would be really nice if when insisting a story is true, you would take the few hours to research the story. By research I do not mean going to some internet spook hunter web site full of crazy people that tell untruths and show pictures of dust calling them “orbs” and proclaiming truth of the “haunt” I mean go to the library, look up actual history. Then come here and tell the story about the man with bad investment choices the family that took over the home and their 4 children whom died during the diptheria epidemic.

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how do u get 2 the oprhanage?
a friend and i drove out there but we could not find it…
is there anyway some1 can give me a clue or maybe something that stands out that we will notice?

Thanks

-Shannon

I went there about 3 years ago and it wasn’t all that scary. Yes, it was on Private property and do take caution, but honestly, there was no strange feeling about it. (I am one of those people who freak out even watching a scary movie, so if I can go there in the dark and not feel scared, it is not that scary!)

So 6 of my friends and I drove out to gore orphange. We took a road that had no outlet off of gore rd. It led us over a bridge and around the the woods thatwas on our left and on the right it was an open field. We reached a point infront of us that was blocked off and a dirt rd. on the right. we turned around and parked. My sister and i stayed in the car incase something bad happened. Everyone came running back 10 mins later. only four got back in the car and a truck came from inside the woods and ran us of the road. The man got out with a flash light and tried scarying us. he soon left and my friends caught up w/ us and we got the heck out of there. They said nothing scary happened while in the woods. So we might have been in the wrong place but the guy was crazy.

Okay so I have never actually been there before until tody but I have tried finding it on many occasions. But I sort of stumbled upon it today in a weird way. Gore orphanage is located on ‘Speary” road, im not sure if thats how you spell it. But it’s right of of Mason if you take route two/90. But anyways I know that this might sound weird but I swear it really happened this way. The night before I had a dream that I was trying to chase something. When I first woke up I thought it was ghosts but now I cant remember if they were just lights. But anways in my dream there was this huge house that had a gravel driveway and whatever I was chasing would always run there but when I would try to walk on the drive way something would throw me backwards. Now later today me and my mom got in a fight and my and my boyfriend went for a drive. I live in Elyria so its not far but my grandpa used to live on wakeman road so we went right passed the road to get to gore orphanage. My boyfriend is an electrician and he worked on a huge mansion at the end of speary road and he wanted me to look at it so we went down there. Thats when I saw the road off to the right and I noticed it was wooded and winding so I decided to drive down it. At the bottom of the hill right before you go back up again you’ll notice a road that runs alongside the hill and signs that say its a park. So I thought okay lets drive it, try and find the park since I never knew it was there. We came to the bridge and kept going. We actually passed the orphanage and kept going until we saw the road dead ended but I noticed a gate to the right and a gravel drive way so I turned on it. But before we got there, there was a few signs that said things like no drugs permitted on park but the last sign we saw said no trespassing and I didnt think anything of it so I kept going. As I was driving really slow on the gravel, because I was worried we really might get in trouble, 2 huge husky mixed dogs ran out from no where. Now there is a small house like thing back there which I later found belongs to a ‘park ranger’. But when I saw the dogs I stopped and then they stopped. They were seriousy like 30 or 40 feet away. I know not that close. but I freaked out because I know redneck hill billys and that they wont hesitate to shoot at you for trespassings so I threw my car in reverse and tried to back down the driveway, which as a small sharp turn snd with a car my size you have to run off the road to back up and turn around. And I did this very fast I didnt hesitate at all and I saw my boyfriend roll his window up and he told me to roll mine up to. finally when I stopped and changed gears I looked to my left and only saw one dog which was now about 10 ft from my car and right about the height to walk over and stick his face all in my car. I didnt see the other dog though but i rolled up my window and floored it. But then I saw the other dog standing about 15 ft from my car. I got really scared as I have had a bad accident with a dog when I was about 12. So I inched towards it hoping it would move. But instead it walked right towards me and put its two front paws on the hood of my car and started snarling and barking at us. Then the other dog was walking along the drivers side of my car but further in the woods. I started honking my horn and then the dogs ran away. I drove a little and the pulled to the side of the road, this was before we crossed back over the bridge. Me and my boyfriend were looking in the woods to see if the dogs were still out there. Now I remind I didnt know that gore orphanage was right there I was just freaked out because I have seen the movie house of 1000 corpses and I didnt not want some cray **** like that to happen to me. As we were sitting there my boyfriend saw some sort of a flashing light. Sort of like the way the sun hits the face of a watch and shines right in your face. I looked at him and I saw the light on his nose so I looked over but I didnt see it. Now he is really fricken curious and wanted to get out of the car and check it out. I followed but I stayed a bit back. Thats when we stumbled on to gore orphanage. It was really wierd seeing as how my dad grew up in birmingham and Ive heard every version of the stories, I just never thought it was really there. There is a pillar that is standing up and one that is knocked down. But theres some wierd writing on it thats not english. I didnt hear any wierd noises or screams. Just typical stuff. But I did notice, there are no birds. you wont see em and you wont hear em, just crickets. it was weird. So when I got home I asked my dad about everything and this is what he told me. There was an orphanage, and it did burn down, but many years after it had been abanoned. The place is called ‘ Swifts Hollow’ after a rich man built his huge mansion back there and everyone thought it was soo cool. But after years swifts daughter and son died. He didnt say if they died in the mansion or not but he said they are all four buried in a cemetary up the road, by four I mean mr and mrs swift and the two children. But he eventualy sold the house to Nicholas Wilbur who was said to have held seances at the house and to be a very ’spiritual person’.After several years the wilburs lost four grand children to diphtheria. They all died within 6 days of eachother and they all died in the house, soon after as did the mrs and mr. So right now I have 4 dead children for sure and 2 dead adults. Anyways as he goes on, in 1903 the Sprungers, from Indiana, a reverand and his wife bought most of swifts hollow to make an orphanage, they lost there only children back in indiana and was said to have had an orphanage in indiana that did burn down killing 6 girls, but that wasnt here. The children never stayed in the mansion, it remained abandoned due to the fact that everyone died in it at young ages, such as 11,9,2,9,24,2,37,and 35. Instead they lived in farm houses from the land he bought surrounding the mansion. It was actually called ‘light and hope orphanage’ but it was shut down in 1916. My dad says that everyone says because of fincialy problems but he said his mom told him it was because the kids that lived there were beaten with whips, they were poorly fed, they would eat the heads from animals from the slaughter shops. They would work on farms nearby. There was trial were children who left or ran away came infront of a judge and told them of the abuse. I mean you should hear some of the stories of what happened to these kids. But after being abandoned the orphanage homes burnt down and shortly after the swift mansion. My dad said he is sure that other kids must have died there due to abuse, neglect, and mal nourishment and my grandmother said you really do hear children down there asking for your help. But none were burnt alive, but many did die there. You can find ruins from the orphanage and the mansion. Dorms and such can be seen in areas before, and after the bridge along with the ruins of Swift mansion. Also a well. May I remind you that the road was once called gore road due to the shape of the hem of a ladys skirt and because some parts of the area seemed to fit the idea. many years later the orphanage was added to the end. My grandma also said she heard that since the wilburs moved in to the mansion an evil presence was felt and there were many gatherings. But heres the tricky thing. She said that the grave stones for the children dont have bodies underneath them. Parts of the house was pulled up and they were buried in unmarked spots beneath the home. But after my dad and my grandma told me all of this I was sitting in my room on the floor telling my boyfriend when my tv turned on and skipped through about four channels. but my remote control was sitting ontop of my desk right behind. When I picked it up, the power button wouldnt work so I turned it off from the front!!! but were going back tomorrow night, ill let you know if anything happens.

Yes it is a true story.. The one person was right about the few remains that are there and There is still a mantion deep back in the woods..There also was a place called Gore orphanage ..I grew up here on Jackson Street..We would go up there as kids and sleep in the woods and im telling anyone that does…Know that you will never be the same as you were before you stayed there..And yes its true you hear the children..It is also true that you see others as well…Such as old men with lanterns out in the fields out here..You look back and they are gone..You hear people talking in your ear..Right in your ear.. from right behind you..(See after the fire.. people ..well.. cults would do there thing down there and kill animals and dig up graves..So its bad ground now)I will never go back to that place and if I could have found my own way out of the woods that night ..I wouldnt have stayed there at all that night..It starts right away..It dont even have to be all the way dark…All this and more..I have stories to last a lifetime..Email me whatever sarah3377@yahoo.com.. let me say one more thing..Sometimes you take things home with you..Lets just say..My house has been blessed now 6 times..And Ghost hunters is going to do a show on my house now..They all say the same thing..They followed me from somewhere..Well I never felt them or knew they were here til.After that night.and even as I write this..I have to admit I get scared because I can tell when its a bad feeling ..When I tell on them or try to have the pastor come..Any of that..The ones im stuck with..Are bad..Go to the grave yards on Gore orphanage rd… you’ll see the graves.. get the names then look them up..All your answers are there. And dont miss the story on the Big angle in the middle of the grave yard with the baby cut out of her arms..

The mansion thing is true and there was a Gore Orphanage that burned down, but go to your local library and look up the fire. There were NO casualties, so you people are idiots who are just scaring yourselves.

I live about a half hour away from this place alot of people go there that I know and something always weird happens like everybody says you’ll see little spots go thru the dark and sometimes your car will turn off by the bridge or the radio will come on but I really dont belive it but I really didnt go close to the bridge but when we were driving by the place something hit the car we stop nothing was there we got back in the car got hme and this big dent was on the car we thought it was a deer or something but there was nothing on the ground but n-e wayz your not supposed to go back there its privite property and you can be prosecuted but thats not going to stop me because everybody does it and dont get caught so I might as well do it.

i went there the other day and it was me my mom dad and sister.. we got there pulled over from where the orphanage was all we would have to do is go through the woods it wsa after the indians game at like 2 in the morning and we got out…….=[my mom and sister heard a kid scream and they were out of there and then me and my dad had a flashlight and he was clearing a path for us to walk thorugh thennn we heard all these footsteps comming closer and closer then surrounsding us and i took some pics and saw floating orbs and then i was gone i ran back and soon after my dad was at the car out of breath and we asked what happened and all he said was GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE NOW!!!!! so we took off down the road then we asked again and he said something pounded on my shoulder really harde and he took off …… then in the morning we went back and we saw nothing and heard nothing so now we all want to go back and stay as long as we can handel it…

i live about 15- 20 minutes from this place, as some of this stuff is true, it is on private property, an ex-sherrif does live there, a few times i have been chased a few times not, and yes one time shot at, no lie, i have seen videos from people going and same thing happening, go to you tube and look…..my family grew up in the lorain/cuyohaga area…and yea, **** happened somewhat, this place is hard 2 find, and there is a backway that is harder to find than the regular way msot people go that ***** about being so long, but yea w/e been there like 6 or 7 times….sometimes **** happens sometimes it dont…

I live in Ohio and i have never been to Clevland and I really want to go to the site and see what I hear.

I have been there a few times. I live about 25 minutes away. My son and three of his friends went there about 3 years ago, my son and I were the only ones that would get out of the car. We went deep into the woods with no kind of light. As we were walkiking we would hear faint whispering so we would stop and it would turn to giggling in the tree tops, there was no wind. We did see the piller and did touch it, it was very warm on a very cold night.
We were speaking to the energy there telling them we were not there to disrespect but there to see for ourselves what the situation was. The whispering continued as did the laughter in the tree tops. We left slowly and carfully. I think some people are able to pick up on things that are of the other side, as my son and I are. We finally got back to our car where two of the 17 year old boys were in tears, they didn’t want to talk about it. The night before one of them was at the site and decided not to be respectful and while driving away his car stopped on the bridge and he was stuck for about 15 minutes. What ever happened was due to his big mouth. Anyways, the truth is the truth and this is what happened to us. We will be going again, perhapes this week.

I’m from Mansfield OH its about an hour and a half south of Gore Orphanage. Last fall about 7 or 8 of us were looking for places to go ghost hunting. We stumbled upon Gore Orphanage online and decided to check it out you can find it on map quest fairly easy. When we got there it was really creepy I don’t know if it was because its haunted or just because it was a blustery fall night. Anyway we took flash lights and digital cameras and started exploring we walked around for abuot an hour before we actually found any ruins which we stumbled upon as we were leaving. When we looked at our cameras there were lots of orbs but no shapes or anything else out of the ordinary other than that my friend said she heard children crying but I didn’t hear anything. It was definitely a fun night and a good scare for anyone who dares…..

I love how it says to use correct grammar, capitalization, and punctuation and no one does. Anyways, I am going to Gore Orphanage in a few weeks and really looking forward to it. I have been once before, but found nothing. Thanks to this site I have found out some things I didn’t know before. Thank you! I’ll post anything new I find.

I live by the Gore and have been there a hundred times by myself and with my kids. At night and day. There is nothing there. We have walked all around it. There’s a big hole in the ground with some big bricks around it. The bridge is more haunted then the site. Becare tho, there is a park ranger that lives down there and after dark he will call the police on you

I live in Lorain county and i’ve heard countless stories about the Gore Orphanage.

and by the way. you can’t get the exact adress for the place, just look harder it really isn’t that hard to find.

http://www.forgottenoh.com/gore.html
go to this website, its got alot of info that might help out.

Oh and the ruins you see aren’t the orphanage.
Those are the ruins of the Swift House.

If anyone wants to know the “address” just look up Gore Orphanage Road in Vermillion Ohio.

Not all that hard.

I grew up right near it.

There are remains of the old orphanage. It was ran by a loving couple. The ruins are on park property, not on private. I run a ghost hunting team and we have investigated there, and we are going in October for a night tour. Children did die, but not how people think they did. All children died young back in that time, so did adults. Please, if you go out there, DO NOT desicrate the ruins anymore than what they have been! Teens and legend trippers leave their broken beer bottles and trash all over the ruins. Also, if you don’t know exactly where to look, you will never find where the ruins are.

We never found any ‘haunting’ evidence. We live to debunk. The ‘fire’ and ‘doors shutting’ are twigs being broke by wildlife and other people walking in the woods, and the screams and cries are from birds native to the area.

My husband and I have been there so many times, and like 1 person said that is the old Swift Mansion. Swifts children died there from disiase, they are not buried on the property. Also, Swift went bankrupt or something like that and then it was bought by Rev. and Mrs. Sprunger, they opened it as an orphanage and when the Rev. died it was closed down and in like 1903 or so(I dont remember exact date) burned to the ground with no one inside. Another thing if u take 113W to Gore Orphanage Rd you cannot get to the ruins from there because the road is blocked and driving wise doesnt connect to the other side of the road. You should have to take Sperry Rd to Gore Orphanage Rd and take a sharp right. U can also take Deans RD to get to Sperry. If anyone knows more about it and why the road does not go all the way thru like it used to. I wonder if the park Ranger is protecting the actual ruins and if u think about the big whole in the ground, look at the huge tree that is “sitting in the foundation” of the house.

i live about thirty minutes from “gore orphanage” and when i was about fourteen, three friends and i decided one night to go out there just for kicks. (it is private property and there is a park ranger living near by) we did the whole bridge thing but nothing happened so we walked to the ruins of the mansion, it was very creepy but nothing happened there either. so we walked back to the car and drove to where the road is blocked off, got out and started to walk down the road. as we were walking a white light started coming towards us. we thought it was just another person with a flashlight until the light came closer. there was nothing causing this white light so we turned and started running. the boys ran faster than us girls, so my friend and i were pretty far behind. i looked over to my friend just in time to see the light hit my friend in the back and disappear. she had the wind completely knocked out of her and had trouble breathing for at least 30 minutes. we left that place and i haven’t gone back since.

I have lived in Vermilion most of my life(now in Elyria).I have been to Gore Orphanage Rd. too many times too count.In my teen years we would go there to party.Lots of drinking and such going on.The story told by brooke at this site is the most acurate.there was a Swift family that started the mansion. It was sold to another family when swift went broke. There was Acouple by the name of Springer that started an orphanage. Ahouse burnt down(no children died from this fire). While it is a very creepy place down Gore Orphage Rd. I dont know about being haunted. I believe very srongly in spirits and hauntings but i think most of what happens there is the imagination.Power of suggestion is an amazing thing. I am amazed at all the different versions of the stories of Gore Orpanage Rd.

ok weve been there and honestly alot of those stories people here and go there and here strange noises and automatically think there ghosts like one story said that on a digital they here what sounds like u can here the place bein burnt down and honestly ur walkin in woods where theres alot of leafs and wind blowing which could make a simular sound to a fire if ur walkin through it and at night they say u can here what sounds like crying in the woods but if u actually pay attention to it it sounds like animals in the woodsthat if ur thinkin of the stories ur mind will think thats crying ive been there and nothin out of the ordinary happens so if u go there keep the stories in the back of ur mind and dont let any noise fool

Thats ****! I live right by it and I know the real story.A man and laddie lived there and they turned their house in to a orphanage. One day there house caught on fire.They ll got out 3 wer in the hospital though.THEY ALL LIVED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!But its creepy cause u can hear scream SOMETIMES but its progaly the wind or little kids playing. P.S. I belive in ghosrs

I live in Elyria now

My buddies and I found the place back in 1996. According to where we thought it was by reading up at the library we had to stop the car on a road b/c it was closed and half the road some ways down was totally gone and it fell down the hillside going to the Vermillion river. Anways we were down in the woods and the one thing ALL 6 of us heard was the sound of metal ‘pinging’ ONE DISTINCT TIME. We ALL did get a cold chill in one spot and heard something running towards us but we suspect it as a wild animal but we all had 6 flashlights on it to no avail as we could still not see it. So cold chills AND the sound of metal ‘pinging’ was felt by ALL 6 of us there. Never went back.
Email me at acres1972@aol.com if you want to talk about my trip or yours.

We stopped by the sight about two years ago. We got a map off the internet, drove a few miles away from it, and then mountain biked to it, as to not arouse any attention by the people and the park ranger that lives near it. The area is all overgrown and there is a guard rail blocking the path and a few “no trespassing signs here and there. Supposedly it’s owned by the parks. We biked and hiked for awhile and almost passed it up when one of us spotted a few foundation bricks with graffiti on it. We explored a bit more and found what could have been a well at one time. We tried to communicate with any spirit that may have been there but heard nothing. It started to get dark and we headed back when these crows started cawing and it freaked us out. We double-timed it out of there when we saw an old lady who began to yell at us. We just laughed and kept going when she turned us into newts! We got better though!

I was raised not more than 20 mnutes from Gore Orph. There never was an orphanage but there was a mansion ; that took in orphaned children. If you research you will find out that the mansion did have a horrible fire where people did die.

Light of Hope Orphanage was the orphanage on the road, it opened in 1902 and children were not caught in a fire. I think this story gets confused with the Collinwood fire of 1908 where 175 people (172 children, and three adults) died in the fire.
To get the truth about Gore Orphanage Go to this Web-site http://www.forgottenoh.com/gore.html
A man named Bill Ellis wrote an article called “What Really Happened at Gore Orphanage”, who was a professor at Penn State. You can check all of this out on the web-site above.

There was an orphanage there. The building that did burn down was not in use. The story used for the legend is actually about an girls orphanage on the other side of Cleveland. That actually happened. The place is called Collingwood, Ohio, but you won’t find it on a map.

My friend said that when she was going to a competition (cheerleading) her car broke down right by the ruins. They got out of the car to see if they had service on their phones. They didn’t and when they looked at their car, there were kid hand prints glowing on their car! I don’t know if she was telling the truth but it creeped me out!

Just was there today been going there for 20 some odd years since I waa 16 years old . . . back then it was our partying spot we use to take a keg out there to see how many of could get drunk & get lost but did any of us venture to the the actual site . . . NO! As I grew older and more into the freakier side was I part of the october scarefest and rituals wellll I watched . . . it brought people from everywhere people claiming they had all sorts of powers who knows what kind of things could happen you know all forces are there you have earth water sky and fire it does have the most perfect clearing and moon can be very deceiving out there at night. Every time I go out there the mansion is set up in a new formation a new pentagram of some sort new graffiti on the original entry way (and yes I did engrave my name once ~ along time ago, but you can still see clear as day) All I can say it does have a strange feeling to it. . . and it does drive you back . . . has anything really stranged ever happened to me once really did lose someone out there until morning . . . and the last few times I always run into somebody going out there but when I leave there not there anymore they’re just gone . . . I don’t question it . . like today some man was chopping wood on the other side of the bridge my grandmother and great aunt were baptisted in that river right there in that river in that spot where that bridge was built, my daughter was with my today and we did our usual walk to the sight looked how people have set up the monument now took pictures went back to the car went to drive out and the man was gone chopped wood was there his truck was there no man strange he was even cutting wood considering it does belong to the county now and they do make random checks down there but once again I don’t question it anymore. It’s just gore and it’s our strange lil place and always has been and always will be . . . has been for generations and generations to come . . . .