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Anecdotal reports in Ohio

Ohio keeps 14 anecdotal files — secondhand accounts and casually repeated reports, the friend-of-a-friend shelf. The archive holds them because the stories circulate and somebody should keep count; each is filed as reported, no stronger.

14 dossiers0 counties covered93% open to visitorsProspect Place — deepest file
Mansion
High confidence

Prospect Place

Trinway, Ohio

Mansion associated with documented cultural history.

5 claims · 2 legends→
Cemetery
Medium

Erie Street Cemetery

Cleveland, Ohio

The 1826 cemetery—where Chief Joc-O-Sot waits to go home.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Former Prison
High confidence

Ohio State Reformatory

Mansfield, Ohio

The castle-like prison where The Shawshank Redemption was filmed.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Former Hospital
Medium

The Ridges (Athens Lunatic Asylum)

Athens, Ohio

Kirkbride asylum campus famous for the Margaret Schilling stain.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Railroad Tunnel
Medium

Moonville Tunnel

Moonville, Ohio

Abandoned 1857 rail tunnel haunted by a lantern-swinging brakeman.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Lodge
Medium

Punderson Manor

Newbury, Ohio

Tudor-style state-park lodge on a lake with a cold-spot legend.

2 claims · 1 legend→
University
Medium

Ohio University — Wilson Hall Room 428

Athens, Ohio

The sealed dorm room—"uninhabitable" per the university.

2 claims · 1 legend→
University
Medium

Kenyon College — Old Kenyon

Gambier, Ohio

The 1949 fire dorm—still haunted, still housing students.

2 claims · 1 legend→
University
Medium

Miami University

Oxford, Ohio

"The Cradle of Coaches"—and the campus’s layered ghost lore.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Site
Medium

Collinwood school fire site

Cleveland, Ohio

March 4, 1908—the fire that killed 172 children.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Mansion
Medium

Franklin Castle

Cleveland, Ohio

Cleveland’s most haunted house—a Victorian dark-history magnet.

2 claims→
Historic Site
Medium

Col. William Hubbard House

Ashtabula, Ohio

The lake terminus—where fugitives boarded boats for Canada.

1 claim→
Historic Site
Medium

James A. Garfield National Historic Site

Mentor, Ohio

Lawnfield—the president’s home, kept as he left it.

1 claim→
Historic Site
Medium

Rutherford B. and Lucy Hayes’ Home at Spiegel Grove

Fremont, Ohio

Spiegel Grove—the 19th president’s wooded estate.

1 claim→

Full Ohio record → state index· Every anecdotal filing → evidence shelf

Record last amended October 2, 2026 · shelves recounted with the archive