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Athens County Ghosts and Hauntings

 


 

 

Concord Church and Cemetery
Glouster, OH 45732

Concord Church and Cemetery is haunted by an elderly woman who rocks a crying baby.

 

Concord Cemetery, Athens County, Ohio

 

Millfield Mine Disaster Area

Millfield, OH 45761

 

Millfield Mine area has been known to rumble beneath the feet as a reminder of the explosion that killed 82 men November 5, 1930.

 

 

Millfield Mine Disaster Area

Millfield, OH

 

Athens Lunatic Asylum
Now Lin Hall of Ohio University
Athens, OH 45701

Faces of those who once called this hospital home have been seen in the windows of Athens Asylum. Voices, footsteps and chatter are heard within the walls.

 

 

Athens Lunatic Asylum 
Now Lin Hall of Ohio University 
Athens, OH 45701

 

 

Strouds Run State Park
Athens, OH 45701


 In the autumn of 1962, 31 year-old Ohio University instructor, Gene Isaac Stees, hit his estranged and pregnant wife over the head with a crowbar, then stuck a plastic bag over her head. The body was then placed into a steel drum and dumped into Dow Lake at Strouds Run. The ghost of Mrs. Stees has been seen walking the water's edge, wringing her hands in grief. Gene Isaac Stees escaped from prison in 1972 and he has never been apprehended.

 

Strounds Run State Park - Athens Ohio Ghost

 

Strouds Run State Park
Athens, OH 45701
Strouds Run - The last buffalo in Ohio were killed here and their ghosts haunt the shores.

 

 

Luhrig Road Screamer -

A lady who was killed when her home exploded has been seen running along the roadway, her dress on fire. 

 

Luhrig Road Screamer -

 

West State Street Cemetery
Athens, OH 45701

West State Street Cemetery - Angel weeps for those who were unknown and buried there.

 

Athens Weeping Angel - Athens Ohio

 

Jefferson Hall Ohio University
Athens, OH 45701

Jefferson Hall is located on East Green at Ohio University. It was built in 1956 and opened in 1958. It was used as a dining hall and residence hall originally housing female students. It was 1996 when the first reports of the ghostly apparition of a lady appeared to students in an upper room.

 

Jefferson Hall, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio

 

Wilson Hall - Ohio University
Athens, OH 45701

Built in 1964 atop what was once the bustling side of the Athens manufacturing district.  Shadows have been seen in the building.

 

Wilson Hall, Ohio University, Athens Ohio

 

Tinker’s Cave

Glouster, Ohio  45732

A notorious horse thief once roamed the countryside around Logan. The cave where he hid the horses is haunted by the very horses he stole-

 

 

Tinker’s Cave 

Glouster, Ohio 

 

Kings Station – King Hollow Ghost Town

New Marshfield, OH 45766
The railway near King Station is said to be haunted by the ghost of a woman who killed herself in the late 1870s by slitting her throat. She follows visitors on the old railroad tracks.

 

Kings Station – King Hollow Ghost Town


New Marshfield, OH