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!