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.

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.

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.