Ghost Stories. Haunted Hikes. Pictures of the places. GPS/Addresses to Visit--Read the stories and visit the places too! Screaming Bridge over Maud Hughes Road in Butler County Lincoln Ghost Train Franklin Castle in Cleveland Ghostly Bride in a White Gown along Trebein Road in Greene County Anna Bell’s Grave in Hardin County The Maplehurst Mansion Ghost in Mt Vernon Harrod Cemetery Hatchet Man One-legged Captain at Benjamin Joy Cemetery Bessie Little Bridge, Frankenstein's Castle, and Johnny's Grave in Dayton Stumpy Hollow Bloody Mary near Mansfield Ghost Hollow near Portsmouth and over 70 spooky ghost stories from Ohio. Sit back and enjoy ghost stories and folklore of Ohio with Jannette Quackenbush, who has written over 20 ghostly books from New Orleans to Pennsylvania with many of the stories passed on directly to the writer. "My books are not about my journeys. They are about my readers' journeys. I want my readers to see the places I saw, read about them, and visit them too. That is why my books offer the richest and most robust ghost stories, lots of area pictures, and GPS to visit the legendary places if they are able . . "

A rich vein of bizarre and uncanny tales snakes through Ohio's cornfields and cityscapes. In the earliest days of statehood, dark reports spoke of witches causing feathers to form a deadly ring in one's bed, magically strangling its sleeping victims. For years, the ghost of Abraham Lincoln's funeral train rolled through Urbana, a small town in the center of the state, and caused clocks and watches to stop in its wake. A vampiric entity was said to haunt a strange cabin in the Black Swamp, and a werewolf reportedly roamed a Defiance train yard. Join Cincinnati historian Steven J. Rolfes on a tour of Ohio's strangest supernatural lore, from wailing banshees to the devil himself.

Discover Ohio through its legends, ghostly tales and hauntings. We've woven together over 100 of Ohio's most terrifying stories. If you like adventure, you will love this guide that leads you down ghostly wilderness passageways in the Hocking Hills, then through the dark streets of downtown Columbus, Ohio. We even cross paths with some body snatchers in Muskingum County. We'll guide you through part of northern Ohio and a spirited old poorhouse and even a lighthouse on the Lake Erie shores.

Every city has its odd and scary side, and Dayton is no exception. The ghost of Paul Sorg still sits in his favorite seat in the Sorg Opera House more than a hundred years after his death. The so-called phantom terrorized truck drivers crossing the Englewood Dam before disappearing for good. The famed Butter Street Monster roams Germantown. Magee Park is home to numerous bigfoot and ghost sightings--and even a unicorn sighting. A building of many names, the tower on Patterson Boulevard in Kettering near Hills and Dales Park has been the source of many stories for generations, but only now is its true story finally told. Dayton native, author, and host of the Dayton Unknown blog Sara Kaushal leads a chilling tour of Gem City's strange and unusual history.

At a casual glance, Hamilton is a typical midwestern town, but a closer look reveals strange and inexplicable events of possibly supernatural origin. A mischievous poltergeist plays its tricks in a High Street tavern. More than a century ago, a young boy narrowly escaped death in a fall that left him gravely ill, and some say his cries still echo in his family home. A vaporous woman appears on the stairs of a Hamilton home once owned by one of the county's richest men. Could this be his daughter who died from suicide? Hamilton native and contributor to the Dayton Lane Ghost Walk Shi O'Neill mines the history of the town's many spectral occurrences.

Discover the spookier side of West Virginia with over 85 ghost stories, legends, and haunts from Harpers Ferry, where Screaming Jenny still never outruns the trains, to Hatfield-McCoy Country where Devil Anse Hatfield rises from the grave along with his sons. Explore Moundsville Prison and see the shadow man, then investigate the death and ghostly hereafter of Mamie Thurman, the housewife with a secret life who haunts 22 Mine Road. Follow the Rail Trail to get a glimpse of the ghost of the Silver Run Tunnel and take a thrill-ride through one of the most haunted tunnels-Dingess Tunnel. There's the Headless Ghost Rider of Powell Mountain and a woman who still walks the Ohio River shoreline of Blennerhassett Island long after her death.

Ghosts and other supernatural phenomena are widely represented throughout modern culture. They can be found in any number of entertainment, commercial, and other contexts, but popular media or commodified representations of ghosts can be quite different from the beliefs people hold about them, based on tradition or direct experience. Personal belief and cultural tradition on the one hand, and popular and commercial representation on the other, nevertheless continually feed each other. They frequently share space in how people think about the supernatural. In Haunting Experiences, three well-known folklorists seek to broaden the discussion of ghost lore by examining it from a variety of angles in various modern contexts. Diane E. Goldstein, Sylvia Ann Grider, and Jeannie Banks Thomas take ghosts seriously, as they draw on contemporary scholarship that emphasizes both the basis of belief in experience (rather than mere fantasy) and the usefulness of ghost stories. They look closely at the narrative role of such lore in matters such as socialization and gender. And they unravel the complex mix of mass media, commodification, and popular culture that today puts old spirits into new contexts.

One night, not long in the past, a park ranger was alerted to a hound baying deep in the hollow of Old Man’s Cave. He made his way from the park office and along the dark trail to search it out, flashlight in hand and following the howls until he was sure the dog was just within reach. Louder, the cries rang out, circling the ranger whose flashlight caught no sign of the dog in its beam. Then suddenly, the howls stopped as quickly as they had begun. He had come face to face with a legend—the baying hound of Old Man’s Cave. This is just one of the many legends in the regions in and around Hocking Hills and Old Man's Cave: The Old Man of Old Man’s Cave Ash Cave Pale Lady Rock House Legend of the Dead Horse Thief The Bully, The Engineer, and Lavender Lady of Moonville Tunnel The Weeping Angel in Athens The Lone Grave at Shallenberger Nature Preserve Dead Man Hollow at Shawnee State Forest Athens Asylum Bloody Horseshoe Grave Over 55 frightening ghost stories and folk tales along with haunted places to hike: Hocking Hills State Park Wayne National Forest Ohio State Forests Moonville Rail Trail This is the first edition of Haunted Hocking and is updated to reflect the same as the Haunted Hocking Ghost Stories in the Hocking Hills. Jannette Quackenbush has authored over 30 books including Ghostly Guides: *Haunted Hocking Hills *Ghosts of Moonville 1-2 *Haunted Ohio Hiking Trails With Ghost Stories *Haunted Hikes of the Appalachian Hills and Hollers 1 & 2 *Haunted Hocking: A Ghost Hunter's Guide to the Hocking Hills *Ohio Ghost Hunters Guides 1-9 *West Virginia Ghost Stories Legends and Haunts 1-3 *Pennsylvania Ghost Stories *Ghost Stories and Folk Tales of New Orleans *Little Book of Gettysburg Ghosts and many more! *Monsters, Cryptids, and Mysterious Wild Beasts Hiking Guides: *Hocking Hills Hiking Trails *Ohio Hiking Trails: The Adventurer's Guide to Ohio's Best Hiking Trails to Explore. Some little-known. A few much traveled. All unique.

Crack open this book and you'll enter the strange world of Ohio's paranormal legacy. As revenge against his faithless fiancee, an Egypt Pike man spends his afterlife terrifying contented lovers who cross the bridge where he took his own life. At the site

"Weird Encounters" features more than 75 supernatural stories contributed by writers from across the country. This chilling anthology tells of Historic Haunts and Hostel Environments and conjures up a host of phantasms and destructive spirits.