Dark Archive

Bethel Cemetery Civil War Soldier Haunting

COOLVILLE • OHIO

Bethel Cemetery near Coolville is the subject of a compact but persistent Athens County ghost story: Civil War soldiers are said to haunt the burial ground, while visitors have also repeated claims of unusual cold...

DIG UP THIS ENTRY →

Edgewood Cemetery McAdams Family Graves

ASHTABULA • OHIO

In the oldest section of Edgewood Cemetery lies a row of weathered McAdams family graves connected to one of Ashtabula's darkest nineteenth-century mysteries. Between 1848 and 1851, five McAdams children and their mother Rebecca died...

DIG UP THIS ENTRY →

Johnson’s Island Civil War Prison

MARBLEHEAD • OHIO

Johnson’s Island in Sandusky Bay was the site of a purpose-built Union prisoner-of-war depot that operated from April 1862 to September 1865 and was used primarily for captured Confederate officers. More than 9,000 prisoners passed...

DIG UP THIS ENTRY →

McClure Crybaby Hill / Harris-Jones Cemetery

MCCLURE • OHIO

Near McClure in Henry County, Harris-Jones Cemetery is tied to a local 'Crybaby Hill' legend in which motorists are said to hear the cries of an unseen infant or child along a rural road near...

DIG UP THIS ENTRY →

Ohio Medical Body Snatching and Grave Robbing

STATEWIDE • OHIO

For much of the nineteenth century, Ohio medical training had a problem that could not be solved politely: students needed human bodies to learn anatomy, while the law supplied almost none. The result was a...

DIG UP THIS ENTRY →

Simms Cemetery Moving Cemetery Legend

NEW MATAMORAS • OHIO

Simms Cemetery in rural Washington County is associated with an unusual Ohio legend: visitors have claimed that the cemetery seems to move, vanish, change position or become unexpectedly difficult to relocate. The burial ground itself...

DIG UP THIS ENTRY →

St. Jacob Cemetery Kinder Der Nacht

NORTH CANTON • OHIO

St. Jacob Cemetery in Stark County is linked in Ohio paranormal lore to the phrase “Kinder der Nacht,” German for “children of the night.” Modern retellings describe mysterious children, child-sized figures, voices or other unsettling...

DIG UP THIS ENTRY →

Toledo State Hospital

TOLEDO • OHIO

Opened in 1888 as the Toledo Asylum for the Insane, Toledo State Hospital was an ambitious state psychiatric institution built around a detached-cottage plan rather than one enormous asylum block. Its early campus was designed...

DIG UP THIS ENTRY →

Witch’s Grave West Branch State Park

RAVENNA • OHIO

Deep in the folklore surrounding West Branch State Park is an old family burial ground commonly associated with the 'Witch’s Grave.' The legend says a woman accused of witchcraft was killed or later removed from...

DIG UP THIS ENTRY →

X-UMED DARK ARCHIVE

SEARCH THE ARCHIVE

Bethel Cemetery Civil War Soldier Haunting

Edgewood Cemetery McAdams Family Graves

Johnson’s Island Civil War Prison

McClure Crybaby Hill / Harris-Jones Cemetery

Ohio Medical Body Snatching and Grave Robbing

Simms Cemetery Moving Cemetery Legend

St. Jacob Cemetery Kinder Der Nacht

Toledo State Hospital

Witch’s Grave West Branch State Park