The Big Book of Ohio Ghost Stories by Willis, James A. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Front Matter Copyright Contents Introduction Northwest Ohio

Trouble at Weidler’s Passing The Theater Ghosts of Bowling Green State University Euler Road’s Crybaby Lane Holcomb Road’s Ghostly School Bus Murder at the Old Potter House The Legendary Elmore Rider Hanging with the Bishop at Brownella Cottage Beware the Hatchet Man! The Confederate Ghosts of Johnson’s Island Cemetery The Ghosts of Kelley’s Island Lima’s Crybaby Bridge Still Fighting the Battle of Fallen Timbers Don’t Come A-Knockin’ on Abbott’s Tomb Simon Girty: Ohio’s Most Misunderstood Ghost Defending the Troops at Fort Meigs The Bloody Bridge The Fatal Car Crash on Gibbs Bridge

Northeast Ohio

The Ghosts of the Akron Civic Theatre Getting a Ghostly Push through the Haunted Tunnel The Ashtabula Train Disaster Welcome to Hell Town Bring an Extra Set of Keys to This Crybaby Bridge The Witch’s Ball of Myrtle Hill Cemetery The Sad Tale of Black Mary Ann Guns Drawn at the Drury Mansion Chief Joc-O-Sot Is Not Very Happy Franklin Castle: Ohio’s Most Haunted House Strange Doings at Squire’s Castle Where Did Silas Tinker Hide His Gold? Rogues’ Hollow: The Roughest Place on Earth Esther Hale: The Bride of the Bridge Gunning for Pretty Boy Floyd Who Was Mary Jane and Why Does She Haunt Mount Olive Cemetery? Are Some Inmates Still Doing Time at the Ohio State Reformatory? Never Let Ceely Rose Serve You Breakfast The Reclusive Ghost of Phoebe Wise A Night with the Ghosts of Punderson Manor Lodge Snakes Alive! It’s Chester Bedell’s Grave! Suzanne’s Still Watching Over the Rider’s Inn What’s Hanging up There on Dean’s Hollow Bridge? The Legend of Gore Orphanage The Dark Angel of Maple Grove Cemetery

Central Ohio

Beware the Woolybooger! The Many Ghost Stories of Kenyon College All That and a Ghost Cat Too Round and Round at the Stonewall Cemetery The Legend of the Blue Flame Ghost Spinning Tales of the Merchant Ball Ghostly Eyes That Follow You

Columbus

The Lady in Gray Not on Captain D’s Watch Last Call for Colonel Pritchard The Ghosts of Fort Hayes Entering the Gates of Hell All in the Family at the Kelton House Legend Tripping at Mooney’s Mansion The Ohio State University: Where Buckeye (Ghost) Legends Are Born The Lady in Blue at the Old Governor’s Mansion Losing Your Head on Watkins Road Bridge

Southwest Ohio

Steer Clear of Dead Man’s Curve after Dark Hell’s Church Creeping Around in Satan’s Hollow The Boy on the Bike Never Double-Cross George Remus Fun and Fright at Kings Island Theme Park Searching for Amy on Lick Road Something’s Cooking at the Patterson Homestead Albert and Bessie, the Doomed Lovers The Ghosts of Woodland Cemetery The Witches’ Tower Out for a Jog on New London Road The Hitchhiking Ghost of Princeton Road The Castle That Harry Built Signaling the Phantom Motorcyclist

Southeast Ohio

Simms Cemetery and the Athens Pentagram Ghostly Jam Sessions on Mount Nebo The Stain Strouds Run State Park The Weeping Angel of West State Street Cemetery Elizabeth’s Grave Egypt Valley Wildlife Area The Haunted Tunnel Woodland Cemetery: The City of the Dead The Haunted Moonville Tunnel Hope Furnace No Way Out for Morgan’s Raiders The Bloody Horseshoe Grave Down in Dead Man’s Hollow

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