Search Results for "Portage, Ohio"
Searching near: Portage County, Ohio, United States of America within 50 miles
Found 116 haunted location(s)
Kent University
Stuart Hall - This Vacant dorm located on Kent State's campus, not far from the student center has several rumors of hauntings. There are broken windows and bars against the doors urging you not...
University Plaza Theatre
The older part of the University Plaza Theatre off the campus of Kent State University, is home to haunting. After hours, the manager has seen what appears to be the back of a patron's head in the...
Kent
Kent State University - One the first floor of Allyn hall, a small girl named Sarah walks the halls. She likes to tug on bed sheets and ask people to play with her.
Masonic Temple
Marvin Kent home- Masonic Temple former mansion of Marvin Kent. Bessie Kent was burned alive while working with fire in one of the rooms. (Either a kerosene lamp, candle, or lighting a stove)...
Sam's Pizza Place
In the upstairs part of the pizza place or the attic employees say they hear voices and unexplained sounds when no one else is working. Also telephone constantly ringing and no one talks. It is...
Suffield
Stairway to Heaven Cemetery - The cemetery off Waterloo rd is said to be haunted. If you walk up the long old stairway Right at the top something will surprise you. when you reach the top close...
Norton
Cry Baby Bridge - There is a bride over in Norton That has been the talk of Akron for a haunting for years. The story is that a lady was pregnant and had her baby in the Lodge house next to the...
Summit County Juvenile Detention Home
a ghost of a matron that worked and was killed here is seen.
Archbishop Hoban High School
The new art rooms, tutoring center and admissions office and the school was built in the remodeled building were the old Brothers dormitories had been (The school is run by the Brothers Of Holy...
Hower House and TKE House
The Hower House, currently owned by the University of Akron, has a well-known female ghost purported to be one of the Howers. She apparently is angry due to husband's infidelity and likes to scare...
Mahoning County
Located between Alliance and Sebring, is Lexington Rd. It is more commonly known as "Jewish Cemetery Road". An elderly caretaker was hit by a car and killed while walking to the cemetery with his...
Taco Bell
Several employees have spotted figures standing in the hallways and in the back area, but when investigated no one ever could find anyone. - Septembers 2004 additional information: 2 workers, 1...
University of Akron
Sigma Nu House - The Sigma Nu House in Akron has been haunted for many years. The house was purchased by Sigma Nu from a sorority on the campus. Legend has it, one of the sorority members hung...
The Akron Civic Theatre
Well-known story still told by some of the theatre's tour guides is the story of Fred the janitor. Fred was a life-long employee of the Civic, back in the days when it was called the "Loews...
Alliance
Fairmount Children's Home - On Route 183 heading towards Minerva, behind the Fairmount Greenhouse is an old beat down Orphanage. 3 stories off the ground and with a humongous basement that has...
Glamorgan castle
William Morgan built the Castle at Alliance Ohio in 1902 and 1903.Today The Glamorgan Castle is haunted the ghosts is William H. Morgan have been seen to this day.
Chagrin Valley Athletic Club
Library Guests complain of feeling somebody watching them, hearing a whip hitting someone and a little girl crying. The library was an old schoolhouse from the eighteen hundreds and a little girl...
Lordstown Elementary
Inside of the school auditorium there seems to be a shadowy figure of a three or four year old girl. Witnesses report hearing a little girl cry and sometimes scream.
Litchfield Middle School
There is a ghost that haunts Litchfield, supposedly Mr. Litchfield himself. The janitor that works there told my teacher (who told me) that at night doors open and shut, lockers open and shut, and...
the New Labrae High School
On the opening day of the new complex, a library helper was electrocuted while copying papers. And her ghost has been seen in the library reading. And in the girls restroom humming a melody.3...
peninsula
Old Boston township - Reports of hearing a battle that starts at the road and work its way up the hill screaming yelling and shooting until thy reached the clearing about one hundred yards from...
Old Boston Township
This place is often called Mutane Town. The entire area is haunted. It's said if you look in the window of the old slaughterhouse you can see faces. The cemetery is haunted. The church is haunted....
The Old Orphanage
There is an old orphanage owned by a local family that sets right off a side street. Several of my friends were given a tour of the orphanage by it's past owners. They were told that many of the...
Punderson hotel
Reports of hauntings on the third floor blasting music from empty rooms, the second floor loud bangs on the door , an apparition of an old maid.
Punderson Manor House
Children heard running in hallways, spirits of children seen, one room got so violent that management had to close off room with a fake wall covering the door, man seen hanging by a rope in the...
Mahoning River
The Underground Railroad" - All too many homes in the area that still stand from that time all have secret passages, hidden doors and any trick the Railroaders could think to build. One in...
City Hall
It has been reported several times in the local newspaper that Warren's City Hall building is haunted. A cleaning lady with in the last two years ran from the building after seeing a figure...
Kent State University
Trumbull County Campus - A man who worked there as a custodian. At night they would hear all kind of knocks and tapping noises. After checking everything in the building several times to make sure...
Warren Judicial Courthouse
Little known but to some employees, and those who have seen or heard the experience is the Courthouse's dark history. the courthouse is in itself old enough that at one time had it's own cells to...
City Hall
The Council Chambers has been haunted for many years. Officers finishing paperwork late at night, have heard loud footsteps and banging above their heads usually very late at night when the...
Elementary School
students claim that there was a pool under the girls bathroom and 2 kids died in it there spirits still apparently haunt the school. Also 2 girls have been seen in the girls bathroom laughing and...
Rose Hill Burial Park
The back of this sprawling cemetery faces several acres of forest, and many people claim to have seen a "lady in white" back there. Sometimes a mist will cover the grounds at night, limiting visibility.
Norton
Loyal Oak Tavern - Tavern is an old Inn. A bartender hanged himself in the bar. He is buried in the church cemetery next door. A new bar was built.( the old one is downstairs an is now a wine...
Austin Log Cabin
January 2004 correction and update: A local paranormal group Zerotime Paranormal - went to check this story out and found that there was no accident of this nature. You can check out the Ohio...
Stark County
Hercules Engine Plant - In the old buildings of the Hercules Engine Plant visitors and workers have been grabbed or pushed in the stairwell that leads to what used to be an army training facility...
Hercules Engine Factory
A physical presence has been felt by many who enter the buildings that date to the 1800's. A hand on the shoulder or someone pulling at you from behind. Strange smoky apparitions have been seen in...
Heather Hill Hospital
A young boy is seen constantly by nurses, and nursing assistants on area C of the hospital (Usually at night). He is always by himself running into rooms. Workers have followed it into a room and...
Lock 4
Information is hard to find on this place but there is some out there and I have found it. Back when the canal started construction in 1857 many men worked on it complex structure. The man who was...
Warehouse on the Canal
This is a brick building that was built in 1906 and was the home of Finnefrock Furniture for many years. There have been reports of apparitions in period clothing, unexplained footsteps, lights...
5 Points
5 roads, all of which have some kind of mysterious things happen. On one road there is a haunted farm house. On Another, people were hung and the ropes are still there. On another, there is an...
Debra Place
Many different hauntings happen here. Most notable are people who live here are awakened at night by feeling a presence in the room. Along with the feeling objects are said to move across the room...
Hinckley Library
a young woman in a old fashion dress has been seen on the stairs.
Rogues Hollow
Cry Baby Bridge - Same Bridge as above/different story - There is a little bridge near a vacant house called Cry Baby Bridge. Legend states that in the early 1900's, there was a supposed witch...
Pauni Apartments
Doors slamming, objects moving, a man walking the halls with a very large weird hat, chilly & uncomfortable feeling in the bedrooms. Has been told the Apartment Complexes are built on an old...
Mahoning River – grave yard behind Red Cross Central Office
is not but half a mile and on the same street down travel from the tunnel is the now standing central office for the Red Cross of Warren, of which even behind contains it's own graveyard along the...
Beachwood
Highland View Hospital - Reports that the shades get pulled buy unseen hands, there are strange sounds and even doors locking and unlocking.
Garfield Park Bridge
On this bridge is the ghost of a man who fishes off the bridge. People have reported him whispering in their ears while fishing.
Hamlin hall
This place is rumored to be haunted by a young man who died in the building. People have reported to have seen a young man around and have him disappear. Also cold spots round stairwell, where he died.
Massillon
Regency Inn - people would go to the elevator they would get off the elevator and the ghost of Jody who was stabbed to death while on duties as desk clerk appears right in front of there eye's and...
Youngstown State University, Kilcawley House
Strange growling and whisperings have been heard in the back stairwell by Resident Assistants during the summer. Occupants in three person rooms at the end of the hall report hearing scratching on...
North Royalton High School
At 4:25 every Friday in the hallway near the old gym, you can hear the sounds of a boy coming down the hall dribbling a basketball. Shortly following you can hear the screams of the boy and...
Normandy High School
The cheerleaders were hazing the new recruits in the 80's when a tile from the gym ceiling fell and struck one of the girls in the head killing her. The cheerleaders didn't want to get in trouble...
Massillion State Mental Institution
It is an old abandoned mental institution. Witness have heard a door slam open and have seen a shadow of a tall man came walking out.
Mound Elementary School
Believed to be built on an Indian Burial grcund and cursed.
Pleasant Lake Nursing Home
Reported by residents and staff of a little girl in rooms and the hallways. Apparently in the lake behind the building a 7-year-old girl drowned.
Squire's Castle
Squire's wife that died in the castle from breaking her neck, walks around the castle at night, always cold, and you sometimes hear screams.
Richmond Heights High School
Every home football game, shimmers of mysterious light can be seen by the concession stand. You can also hear a young girl crying when passing by the bathrooms.
Squire's Castle
In early 1800's, Mr. Squire was to build a castle for his wife in the country. When the gatehouse was finished, he took his wife to stay the night so she could see how life in the country was. She...
The Tree Bridge Hotel
Reports of feelings of being watched and sightings of the gray lady wandering through the halls.
Mt Sinai Hospital
The old school that is attached to the hospital is haunted. Footsteps can be heard, lights go on and off. Figures are seen out of the corner of your eye.
Davron Cemetery
At night tombstones can be seen broken when in the day they were not! Bright lights at all times of the night can be seen. Also strange sounds can be heard such as water, screaming, and howls....
Mt. Eaton Road
When you go down mt. Eaton Road, there is a haunted cemetery hidden down a long driveway. When you go there at night, there are these huge gravestones that glow bright green. If you touch them and...
The Medina Steakhouse & Saloon
There have been a number of people who have seen 2 women and a man walking around through the restaurant.
East Branch Of The Chagrin River.
Noises heard, logs falling, chills, red orbs seen.
Johnny's Pub and Grill
Salt shakers will smash against the wall. The freezer door will open and close for no reason. Food left unattended will have things added to them upon return.
Brooklyn Acres
There is a ghost of a young boy that haunts the Brooklyn Acres at night. It is said that many people have spotted him drinking his root beer and eating his candy cigarettes. Shawn was picked on so...
Franklin Castle
Cleveland's most haunted house. Built by Hannes Tiedemann, multiple family tragedies occurred here. Reports of children's voices, apparitions, and unexplained phenomena.
736 Lakeview Ave
It used to be an old nursing home but had been vacant for 10 years before the school moved in. The school is the Virtual Schoolhouse. Staff hears loud screaming and footsteps before school. The...
Brooklyn High School
In the high school's auditorium there is a believed ghost named Clarence. Before concerts & plays someone must ask the ghost's permission to use the auditorium. If someone does not ask permission...
Brooklyn Middle School
This school is known to be haunted. Many students believe there is a ghost named Clarence haunting the halls and a ghost named John haunting the lower floors. John was a student at Brooklyn Middle...
Dalton Cemetery
A cemetery that people say is haunted by two men and a woman. One of the men is supposed to be the founder of Dalton and the women is his wife. Nobody knows who the other man is.
County Jail
Often a ghost or a figure of a small person has been seen, and felt to be the presence of a very calm, sad, lonely, non-hostile woman, possibly a native. As a lot of Cherokee Indians Reside there.
Variety Theater, Loraine Ave
A figure in white has been seen on the first floor by the old water fountain. A man has been seen with red eyes in upper balcony. Noises have been heard on stage like workers. The stage noise is...
State Route 170
A young man wrecked his car on the bend on this road. He supposedly still walks the road and can be seen wearing a flannel shirt and is around 6ft tall. His figure appears to cross the road, is...
Baldwin-Wallace
Kohler Hall - A current dormitory for Baldwin-Wallace College, this building was built in the mid 1800s, and used as a hospital during the civil war. It has been (among other things), a part of...
Puratis Hill
In the 1960's, a roller coaster at Puritas Amusement Park derailed, killing everyone on the ride. At night, when driving up the hill, the screams of the dead can be heard. The local apartment...
Locust Grove
Old summer picnic area/swimming hole. Children kept drowning so it was shut down in the late 70's. Swimmers can feel hands pulling at their legs while swimming.
Washington Elementary School
Late at night when the janitors are gone, little boys and girls from the school come out of the cracks like ghosts. They dance around and go to gym.
Hisey Road
A little boy is said to have committed suicide in the 1990's by hanging himself in what is now a burned down house on Hisey Road. His ghost has bee seen at the house. The house burned down a few...
Myrtle Hill Cemetery
In Mytrle Hill Cemetery there is a giant granite ball that is a gravestone. No matter how cold it is outside the ball is warm to the touch. The story as it goes is that a witch is buried under the...
Lusk's Lock
Lusks lock is part of the beaver creek canal system that was the lifeline of the area in the 1800 & 1900's. Lusk's lock is said to be haunted by a worker of the lock who died there. You can see...
Zoar Historical Village
Several ghosts have been reported in this historic village, our hunt turned up a portal type haunting in an old Nursing Home where the elderly were abused by the matrons hired to look after them.
Witches' Hill
There is a cemetery in Olmsted Falls that is said to be haunted every Halloween by people who were accused of being witches and put to death. supposedly they come out after dark.
Riders Inn
The story about Riders Inn is that there is a ghost from the civil war. People have said that they have seen him, standing by the windows waving. - July 2004 update/additional info: The owners...
Lake Erie College
College Hall - There's a ghost named Stephanie who haunts mostly the 4th floor, which is closed off now, but they say she can get downstairs through a mirror in the social parlor. She roams...
West Middlesex
Hogback Road - Road is one of those roads that has winter snow removal on half, and none on the other. The latter is a winding stretch of half gravel half pavement that's no fun to drive on no...
Hillsville Road
A ghost train can be seen on foggy nights off of Hillsville Road in New Castle. Also, there are ghost lights seen under a bridge that runs over the Mahoning River.
Mentor
James A. Garfield House - Witnesses report having uneasy feeling about the upstairs.
Candlewood Suites Hotel
Lights turn on and off by themselves. Cool breezes can be felt in the hallways when there are no windows or doors open. People have reported seeing a shadowy figure out of the corner of their eye...
Rite Aid Pharmacy
An old theater used to occupy this site and was torn down so they could build an office building with the pharmacy on the ground floor.
Hogback Road
It is said that the area was and is still used by the KKK. There is a bridge,it is said people were killed under this bridge. If you put your keys on the bridge for 5 mins,Your car will not start....
Fairport Light House
the Fairport light house is known for being haunted by a gray cat rubbing against anyone who goes in the lighthouse. One day investigators found a dead gray cat in the wall. Also other people say...
Little Beaver Creek
the bridge over Little Beaver Creek, in Lisbon is haunted. There is said to be strange sounds and ghosts seen. Not too far from there, On Church Hill Road there is another bridge, which is said to...
Beaver Creek State Park
Part of an 1830s canal system, known as Grethen's Lock, is named for the ghost of a young Dutch girl. She died of malaria on August 12, 1838, and on the anniversary of her death he ghost is said...
Coverts Crossing
in the early 1940's there was a girl that was on her way home from her high school prom and ended up driving off the side of the bridge on a stormy night. It is said that at midnight every night,...
St. John Westshore Hospital
Rumors of hauntings on the second floor. Things moving unexplainably... seeing a ghostly, white, man in a hospital gown in patients with heart-related injuries. Little girl seen in patients...
Taco Bell
you will here loud music that only a few people can hear. It will either be a comical kind of music or sad music. it depends what mood the ghost is in. some times she will come up and grab you...
Huntington Playhouse
There are 2 ghosts one is of the owner of the land Mr. Huntington(but he sold it to the theatre owners)and the second is an old electrician(not sure of his name)he will turn the lights on and off...
Leroy's bridge
is haunted by a man that was killed by falling of the side.
Beall Ave. School
Gault Learning Center - Witnesses report to hear their names being called at night and there is nobody there doors slam. It is an old building it was built in 1901
College of Wooster
Freedlander Theatre - People dressed in clothes from the early 20th century have been seen sitting in several rows of the theatre seemingly waiting for a show begin. They could not be heard, but...
Madonna Cemetery
A tombstone lies here with a picture of a man who has, one white hand and one Black Hand on it. Legend states that if you put a white sheet over the top of the headstone on All Hollow's Eve...
High School
Students hear bangs and see knobs turning in the light booth of the auditorium and he is unknown. The spirit messes with the sound switches and makes light flicker at times during practices. Also...
St. Peters Church
when it's quiet enough or not too many people you can hear footsteps walking up and down the isles.
The Olde Jaol Restaurant
The fine dining area of the restaurant, in this former Wayne County Jail in Wooster, used to actually be the cell block. The area is located in the basement of the building. The restaurant is said...
East Liverpool
Beaver Creek Canal systemA reporter once took a picture and when it was developed there was some figures of Native Americans in it. And one particular ghost is that of Gretchen, who as a child...
Court House
On a trial day, a couple were getting a divorce. The man was sitting behind her in the court, and grabbed her head, then slit her throat, killing her in the courtroom. It happened in 1982. Later,...
Westminster College
Hillside Girls Dormitory - Witnesses report strange occurrences such as opening and closing of doors, not to mention locking of doors, the turning on and off of lights, things being knocked over...
Shenango Township
The old Whitemen Homestead is haunted by several ghost. There is a spirit of a civil soldier that walks across the dining room causing the lights in the room to flicker and go out.
Thiel College
Roth Hall - Many people have seen a ghost haunting Roth Hall. The origin of the ghost is unknown.
Stone Quarry
The haunting of the local Stone Quarry also known as the lights of the Stone Quarry. Legend has it that when a settler had come to our town over 100 years ago, he had an affair with an Indian...
Stone Quarry
At night in three ghostly lights can be seen two of them red, and one white. In the late 1700's a Mingo Indian chief had a white wife, and another Indian whom he loved. The Indian pushed the chief...
Covered Bridge Road
Young Amish girl seen at night. The legend is said her and her family was in a buggy accident and she was thrown into the Neshanach Creek and drowned. She walks around at night looking for her...
Avon Lake High School
A figure of a ghost was seen in the auditorium of the school. Many students have heard loud banging noises and have seen mysterious lights. An old janitor, by the name of Clark Danbury died a...
Elyria high school
It is said that the tunnels under the school have ghosts. There is also activity in the Washington building. The really big hot spot is the auditorium.
Cascade
They say at night if you go up in the rocks you can see fire and people around it. You can hear howling and screaming by the falls. They have reported a shadow figure on the swings.