Haunted Places in Scioto County, Ohio



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    Mount Unger Cemetery

    Otway, Ohio

    15.8 miles from Scioto County, OH

    Local legends say Mount Unger Cemetery is visited by the spirit of a man who hanged himself here after having murdered his wife.

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    Emmitt House

    Waverly, Ohio

    22.3 miles from Scioto County, OH

    Ghost tours here may turn up somethine eerie at this historic house, which has been featured on TV's Haunted Collector. Rumor has it that there are bones buried under the home's concrete slabs, which may be the catalyst for the spooky stuff that happens here.

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    Wickerhamm Inn

    Peebles, Ohio

    24.5 miles from Scioto County, OH

    At this 1800s building, a murder is said to have led to the haunting that occurs here. The place was a tavern until the 1850s, and so the legend says, a stagecoach driver was murdered and beheaded here in a 1820s robbery. Although there were bloodstains on the floor and ...

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    Woodland Cemetery

    Coal Grove, Ohio

    27.6 miles from Scioto County, OH

    Along the banks of the Ohio River in Ironton, Ohio is Woodland Cemetery, also known as the City of the Dead. Founded in 1871, it presently contains more than 8,000 graves. The cemetery entrance is beautifully gated and the cemetery itself is beautifully landscaped. Its departed residents include veterans from ...

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    Paramount Joe - Paramount Arts Center

    Ashland, Kentucky

    29.3 miles from Scioto County, OH

    Originally called the Paramount Theatre and opened in 1931, the Paramount Arts Center is said to be haunted by a ghost locals call Paramount Joe. According to Joe's legend, as the theater was being built, four workmen were in the auditorium. Three went to lunch, and when they came back, ...

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    Bluegrass Inn

    Ashland, Kentucky

    29.7 miles from Scioto County, OH

    Its room 129 and 127. Very light blue orbs about the size of a softball feeling of dread and hair stay raised up whole time in the rooms and I was scratched 3 finger nail scratches down my back that were not deep but very bright red and burned a ...

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    The Precinct Office Center

    West Union, Ohio

    29.8 miles from Scioto County, OH

    This historic former jailhouse is now the county office, but has a haunting dating back to the turn of the nineteenth century. Prisoners were reportedly frightened by a apparition robed in white, who repeatedly floated past their cells without making a sound before vanishing. This manifestation has made various ...

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    X Cave - Carter Caves State Resort Park

    Olive Hill, Kentucky

    30.5 miles from Scioto County, OH

    Cave X is called this because it has 4 entrances that meet in the center, like an X. This cave is said to be haunted by two Cherokee lovers. It is said that warrior Huraken found this cave and its hidden vein of silver, but kept it a secret so ...

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    Harvey Wells House

    Wellston, Ohio

    33.3 miles from Scioto County, OH

    This historic house was a dark history, with a former owner jumping to his death from the upper floor after a combination of troubling equations and a drinking problem. The was refurbished as a nursing home, which closed down several decades ago. Staff working here claimed to see him ...

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    Schrader Road Tunnel

    Chillicothe, Ohio

    35.5 miles from Scioto County, OH

    Schrader Road Tunnel is rumored to be haunted by a ghost or two. A legend says that a woman put her unwanted baby on the train tracks, and then, in some versions of the story, hanged herself. The baby is heard crying here. But there may be another ghost as ...

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    Crosskeys Tavern

    Chillicothe, Ohio

    36.6 miles from Scioto County, OH

    Established in 1972, the Irish tavern is haunted by a prankish spirit called Harold who likes to turn the lights on and off, move objects, break glasses, and make footsteps and whispering sounds in the basement. Speculators say Harold may be the ghost of a man who was murdered behind ...

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    The Majestic Theatre

    Chillicothe, Ohio

    36.7 miles from Scioto County, OH

    The Majestic Theatre, formerly the Masonic Opera House, was built in 1853 on the site of Chillicothe's first bank, which burned down. In 1918 when a Spanish flu epidemic hit nearby Camp Sherman, the theater became a makeshift morgue and autopsy site. It is said that the soldiers' spilled blood ...

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    Z. D. Ramsdell House

    Kenova, West Virginia

    36.8 miles from Scioto County, OH

    Businessman Z.D. Ramsdell's home was completed in 1858, and rumor has it it was built on the site of an Adena Indian burial mound. It was said to have contained a hidden basement used in the Underground Railroad. Ramsdell died of tuberculosis in 1886, and although the restored house is ...

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    Colonial Lanes

    Huntington, West Virginia

    39.4 miles from Scioto County, OH

    The 1959 bowling alley, in particular its tavern, is rumored to be haunted by Mr. Frankel, a former owner. Witnesses describe a smell of cherry pipe tobacco, heavy footsteps coming from the stockroom, their names being whispered or called out, the kitchen door opening and then slamming shut, and other ...

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    Keith-Albee Theatre

    Huntington, West Virginia

    39.8 miles from Scioto County, OH

    This 1920s rococo theater building is said to be one of the area's most haunted places. Deaths that have occurred here include two electricians electrocuted in the basement, a maintenance man who died in the projection room, and a homeless man who froze to death below the stage area. Witnesses ...

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    Our House Museum

    Gallipolis, Ohio

    42.5 miles from Scioto County, OH

    Our House Museum is housed in a former 1819 tavern, rumored to be haunted. Footsteps have been heard in the front hall, and a woman has been heard singing in the second-floor ballroom.

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    Aberdeen Baptist Church

    Aberdeen, Ohio

    42.6 miles from Scioto County, OH

    The apparitions of young children have been seen inside the church building and in front of it by passing motorists and parishioners. Screams come from inside the church during the night. (Submitted by Callum Swift)

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    Jenkins Plantation Museum

    Glenwood, West Virginia

    42.8 miles from Scioto County, OH

    The plantation, now a museum, was originally built in 1835 and was named after Gen. Albert Gallatin Jenkins of the Confederacy. The general is believed to haunt the house. Witnesses have seen his apparition and heard the sound of his boots walking in the building.

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    Phillips' Folly

    Maysville, Kentucky

    43.1 miles from Scioto County, OH

    Phillips' Folly is a three-story brick house begun around 1828 by Williams B. Phillips. Its nickname came about when Phillips vanished when only the frame had been built, leading folks to believe he had run out of funds for the project. Phillips came back a few years later and finished ...

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    Rankin House

    Ripley, Ohio

    46 miles from Scioto County, OH

    Rankin House belonged to abolitionist Reverend John Rankin, and he was said to put a bright light in his attic window to symbolize to runaway slaves that it was safe to seek shelter here. Apparitions of slaves are said to appear on Jacob's Ladder near his house on moonless nights.

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    The Historic Lowe Hotel

    Point Pleasant, West Virginia

    46 miles from Scioto County, OH

    Opened in the early 1900s, the historic hotel is believed to be haunted by many ghosts. The most well known may be the apparition of a beautiful and disheveled young woman seen dancing on the mezzanine between floors 1 and 2. There are also rumored to be many other ghosts ...

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    Baird House Inn

    Ripley, Ohio

    46.2 miles from Scioto County, OH

    This historic house inn may no longer be in operation, and is now a private residence. The inn was a popular stopover for travellers on the river, and since it was built in 1825, has had a colourful history. Guests and staff at the former inn have reported hearing ...

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    Snow Hill Country Club

    New Vienna, Ohio

    54.3 miles from Scioto County, OH

    Snow Hill Country Club, built in the 1820s as a home for the Harris family, became a country club and golf course in 1924. "Dinner and a Ghost" events have been held there to introduce visitors to its haunts, which are said to cause electrical problems, weird sounds and smells, ...

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    Wildermuth Mansion

    Pomeroy, Ohio

    54.6 miles from Scioto County, OH

    My family has been restoring the old Wildermuth mansion for the last 18 years now, have had lots of interesting things happen there and sightings too. Hhave seen animals several times in the house as well as seeing Mothman twice flying over the house! Yes twice! In the process of putting ...

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    Roundtown Players

    Circleville, Ohio

    55.1 miles from Scioto County, OH

    Built in the 1890s as a memorial for Civil War soldiers, this building has housed a public library, an armory, and now the Round Town Players theatrical group. An apparition of a Civil War soldier has been seen reflected in the mirrors at Memorial Hall.

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    Hurricane Creek Rd

    Hurricane, West Virginia

    57.2 miles from Scioto County, OH

    A woman and a small child in out of style clothes have been seen, before vanishing. Not much is known about them. (Submitted by Chris Berglund)

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    A Georgian Manner Bed and Breakfast

    Logan, Ohio

    58.1 miles from Scioto County, OH

    At this historic inn, a murder mystery is said to have taken place in 1898. Then-owner John Engle was allegedly poisoned by his wife, who put strychnine in his coffee. She was acquitted of the crime. Witnesses have seen apparitions of a man and children in period clothing playing on ...

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    Athens Lunatic Asylum - The Ridges

    Athens, Ohio

    59.4 miles from Scioto County, OH

    Featured on TV's The Scariest Places on Earth, the asylum has long been a place of mystery and hauntings. There are 1,930 graves at three cemeteries nearby, all marked with only a number. Research has shown that some of the mysterious dead mental health patients may have been veterans, victims ...

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    Ohio University

    Athens, Ohio

    60.1 miles from Scioto County, OH

    Ohio University has a few different spots that are said to be haunted: The Brown House is haunted by donor Millie Brown, who peers out a window; also the phantom sounds of kids splashing in a long-gone pool have been heard in the back yard. The Delta Tau Delta fraternity ...

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    Carrington Rock

    Salt Lick, Kentucky

    64 miles from Scioto County, OH

    Apparitions of Confederate soldiers and a pacing woman have been seen at Carrington Rock. The woman, witnesses say, eventually throws herself off the edge, screaming as she falls. Witnesses also have heard the sounds of officers calling orders to soldiers and moans and cries of pain on the battlefield.

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    Mickey's Bar & Grill

    Lancaster, Ohio

    65.9 miles from Scioto County, OH

    This historic tavern was formerly the headquarters for an oil company, and at the turn of the nineteenth century, a man was allegedly killed in a machinery accident on the premises. His apparition has been known to talk to patrons in strange voices and he has also been known to ...

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    Tammi Jo Jean's Cafe

    Lancaster, Ohio

    66.2 miles from Scioto County, OH

    This historic store and an adjoining row of stores are believed to be haunted by a series of playful entities. Bumps, bangs, voices, whistles and missing items are all among paranormal activity reported here. (Submitted by Callum Swift)

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    Ramada Inn

    Paintsville, Kentucky

    69.1 miles from Scioto County, OH

    This Ramada Inn is said to have a ghost of a woman who walks in high heels through the atrium as well as unexplained voices, levitating objects, and a man's apparition. A woman is heard laughing in Room 216.

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    Mudhouse Mansion

    Lancaster, Ohio

    70.7 miles from Scioto County, OH

    The house is an abandoned private residence, and the owner will sue you if you illegally visit the house without her permission. A white apparition has been seen standing at the front windows of the house, and strange lights move around the upper levels. Ghostly slaves and murdered family members ...

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    Oakhurst Golf Club

    Grove City, Ohio

    75.2 miles from Scioto County, OH

    A rumor has been going round that a bride fell off balcony in the 1960's, employee's say a woman in a white dress can be seen throughout the building but very rarely. The Upstairs kitchen that is located near the ballroom which is used for events is said to be ...

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    Hammel House Inn

    Waynesville, Ohio

    77.1 miles from Scioto County, OH

    The inn has been declared one of the most haunted buildings in Waynesville. The most haunted room at the bed and breakfast is Room #004. The shadowy apparition of a young merchant who was murdered in the inn has been seen here, as well as in the dining room of ...

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    Clay Haus

    Somerset, Ohio

    78.5 miles from Scioto County, OH

    Clay Haus, a restaurant that serves German and American fare, is believed to be haunted. Witnesses have seen apparitions, heard knocks and footsteps and felt eerie presences.

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    Clay Haus Restaurant

    Somerset, Ohio

    78.5 miles from Scioto County, OH

    This restaurant is housed in a historic building, which was built over the site of a civil war house. During the levelling of the lower floor, the current owners dug out the basement using their hands, and came across many interesting artefacts, which are on display in the main ...

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    Ye Olde Trail Tavern

    Yellow Springs, Ohio

    84.2 miles from Scioto County, OH

    The historic tavern, built back in 1827, is believed to be haunted by an ominous woman in blue. She has only been known to appear to men, and is openly hostile towards women. She has been known to knock objects off shelves and make sinister whispering noises to visitors ...

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    Wright-Patterson Air Force Base

    Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio

    89.9 miles from Scioto County, OH

    Wright-Patterson Air Force Base is said to be haunted by apparitions, moving objects, unexplained noises, voices laughing, footsteps and mysterious shadows. The site has been featured on an episode of TV’s Ghost Hunters.