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Gore Orphanage / Light of Hope

VERMILION • OHIO

Gore Orphanage is one of northern Ohio's most durable ghost stories: children supposedly died when an orphanage burned, and their voices and apparitions are said to remain along a lonely Lorain County road. Historical research...

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Mansfield Reformatory Haunting Traditions

MANSFIELD • OHIO

The Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield is one of Ohio's most famous paranormal locations. Its reputation includes stories of shadow figures, disembodied voices, footsteps, unexplained touches and apparitions associated with former prisoners, guards and members...

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Moonville Tunnel

MOONVILLE • OHIO

Moonville Tunnel is the surviving landmark of a vanished southeastern Ohio railroad community and one of the state's best-known railroad ghost locations.

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The Great Black Swamp

NORTHWEST OHIO • OHIO

The Great Black Swamp once covered a vast portion of northwestern Ohio and northeastern Indiana: a seasonally flooded landscape of forests, wetlands, standing water and notoriously difficult travel. It shaped Indigenous travel, military campaigns and...

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The Ridges / Athens Lunatic Asylum

ATHENS • OHIO

The hilltop complex now called The Ridges opened in 1874 as the Athens Lunatic Asylum and later operated under several names, including Athens State Hospital. Designed according to nineteenth-century ideas about moral treatment, the institution...

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