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majestic theatre in Chillicothe, Ohio was built in 1853 and was the beginning of entertainment in the town as the story goes in 1918 the spanish influenza hit hard and Out at Camp Sherman (North of Chillicothe) hundreds and hundreds of soldiers died due to the flu. The local mortuaries could not hold all of the bodies. Lowery mortuary across the street used the theatre for a makeshift morgue. The bodies were stacked like cord wood in the dressing rooms until they could be taken to the stage for embalming. sometimes one of the bodies would be found to be alive and would be taken to the local hospital. The blood and other body fluids during the embalming procedure were drained out into the alley, therefore to this day the alley is called blood alley. in some areas of the stage behind the curtains people say they can still see blood stains on the floor. they also had to remove an old balcony that was there years ago, and some people say that they have seen ghosts walking through the air where the old balcony used to be

Mooney’s Mansion
located on Walahala Dr. off of Indianola ave. on the northend of columbus
During the 1950s, a couple lived in this mansion until the husband axed his wife to death and buried her in the woods surrounding the house. The statue of the woman that the husband had erected as a wedding gift when the two first married now appears to bleed–due to the ax wounds. The husband’s ghost is said to inhabit the upstairs bedroom in which the murder took place.

Mudhouse Mansion is located on mudhouse road. take Route 22 east out of Lancaster to Lake Road. Go left on Lake Road, which winds around for about a mile, and then turn left onto Mudhouse Road. there are no trespassing signs posted on the gate so beware.

Hauntings
some say a government official who lived there after the Civil War still kept slaves, locking them in one of the outbuildings at night. One night the slave dug his way out, entered the house, and slaughtered the entire family.

The house lay vacant for years afterwards and neighbors heard strange groans and shrieks coming from within the empty mansion. Everyone believed it was haunted by the ghosts of the slaveowner and his family. Nobody dared to enter the menacing looking building.

According to another local legend, a family actually did buy the house in 1892 and moved in with his wife and their 3 children. Neighbors saw the family moving in, unloading their belongings from trucks and carrying them into the house.
.Neighbors never saw them again. The family never left the house. Neighbors thought it was very odd for a family of 5 to spend all their time indoors.
When one neighbor looked out her bedroom window, all she could make out was the figure of a woman, dressed all in white, standing at the second floor window. The figure wasn’t doing anything, just standing there, staring at her.
When the neighbor looked again, the following day, she saw the figure again, standing in the same position. Every day, whenever the neighbor looked at Mudhouse Mansion, the figure was always there. Standing in exactly the same position.
This went on for several days then one day feeling a little uneasy the neighbor finally called the police and asked them to investigate. When policemen broke into the mansion and climbed the stairs to the second floor, they were greeted by a terrible sight.
All 5 family members were hanging lifeless from the ceiling. They were all dressed in white nightgowns. It appeared that they had taken their own lives. The figure the neighbor had seen was the mother of the family. And she hadn’t been standing at the window, she had been hanging there… for 10 whole days.

no one has lived in the house since and no trespassing signs surround the property.

The Moonville Tunnel is located in Vinton County, Ohio. It is a part of the Zaleski Forest.

There are several ghost related stories about this tunnel the most popular seems to be about a train conductor.

The ghost of the man who haunts the tunnel was a train conductor
who was drunk and fell in front of the train and was decapitated. to this day he can bee seen wandering around the tunnel waving a lantern.

Moonville was a mining town with about 100 residents. Legend has it that an illness overtook the town. They were ordered not to stop in Moonville. It was under quarantine. The people of the town began to get worried when they started to run low on supplies. You must understand this is a very out of the way, lonely , isolated area. The people came up with a plan they would send some one out to stop the train outside of the tunnel and not in the town. The man was late getting there. Some people say he was sick. Some say he was hung over from a night of drinking. the man who was to stop the train ran to the tunnel and he saw the train approaching. He was desperate and determined to catch the train. He knew the conductor would not stop unless he was outside of the town. He frantically ran into the tunnel and was killed by the approaching train. The conductor did not see him.

There are documented cases where a woman was
killed about a mile from the tunnel while walking the tracks in 1886. and some people have seen her ghost wandering around and then dissapearing from the tracks

Directions
Take Route 278. Going south, once you pass the lake, make the first possible left. This will be onto Wheelabout Road, (aka Township Highway 18). The road forks right away, stay to the left and follow this narrow gravel road several minutes until you cross Raccoon Creek on a one lane bridge. Immediately following this bridge, you'll see the gravel path where the railroad tracks used to cross the road. It's a straight gravel path in going in both directions. Park here and walk down the path to the left. After a short walk you will come to the torn down trestle. Go down the steep incline right next to the old stone pillar. At the bottom you can cross the creek on a rock path and then climb up again. Continue walking down the path and the tunnel is just ahead. To get to the cemetery, continue down the road a short distance and take the branching path off to the right. It winds around up to cemetery. If you dont want to (or can't) cross the river, there is a path just before the bridge that runs along the river and up to the tunnel

The Hope Furnace was built here over 100 years ago to process the iron ore extracted from the region's sandstone bedrock. The iron resulting from the ore smelting process was used to produce many different items, including ammunition and cannon for the Union Army during the Civil War. Hundreds of men labored cutting timber, working the furnace and driving teams of mules hauling iron ore to the furnace. Charcoal fires were tended 24 hours a day; so much wood was required for this process that the surrounding hillsides were almost completely stripped of their timber. At the height of the Hope Furnace's production, Ohio was one of the nation's leading producers of iron. As time passed, iron ore was discovered farther west and Ohio's reputation as a major iron producer waned.

legend has it that the ghost of a watchman who had stumbled into the fiery furnace and burned to death over a hundred and forty years ago. He is said to be seen with an orange lantern strolling across the top of the furnace on rainy evenings, traveling as if walking on air where the old buildings once connected to the furnace.
It is the furnace, legend tells, that has the ghost of a watchman who had stumbled into the fiery furnace and burned to death over a hundred and forty years ago. He is said to be seen with an orange lantern strolling across the top of the furnace on rainy evenings, traveling as if walking on air where the old buildings once connected to the furnace.