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Explore X-UMED’s growing collection of dark history, hauntings, folklore, cryptids, strange places, disasters, mysteries, and unexplained stories from across Ohio.

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Stage’s Pond Horse-and-Buggy Legend

ASHVILLE • OHIO

Stage's Pond State Nature Preserve in Pickaway County is associated with a ghost story involving the sound or apparition of an old horse-drawn buggy. The natural area is historically real and publicly protected; the phantom...

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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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