Franklin County Ohio Ghosts and Hauntings
Groveport Road, Grove City
Columbus, OH 43123
Some have seen a Bigfoot-like creature called a Woolly Booger lurking beneath the shadows of the trees near Little Pennsylvania Cemetery and Big Darby Creek near Darbydale. Others have been told a man butchered his family before killing himself, only to return from the grave as a boogeyman. . .
The Kelton House Museum
Columbus, OH 43215
Cultural Arts Center
Columbus, OH 43215
The Cultural Arts Center was built where Ohio's first penitentiary was located from 1812 to 1834. Just around the corner and down the street was the gallows. The ghosts of two hanged there haunt the building.
Greenlawn Cemetery
Columbus, OH 43223
If you knock on the Hayden Mausoleum door at Greenlawn Cemetery, you will hear someone. . . or something knock in return.
Ohio Theatre
Columbus, OH 43215
Built on land that was once the city building. Ghostly pranks and flickering lights have long plagued this beautiful building.
Fort Hayes
Columbus, OH 43215
Once the Columbus Arsenal, this property was a recruiting and training post for many soldiers from the Civil War through the Vietnam War. Now called Fort Hayes, it is haunted by the ghost of soldiers who came to the camp including one killed in front of this building by the explosion of a cannon.
Elevator Brewery
Columbus, OH 43215
The Elevator Brewery is haunted by the ghost of a man who was killed by an angry lover in the winter. Footsteps can be seen in the snow.
Central Ohio Fire Museum
Columbus, OH 43215
Old firehouse horses once kept there to pull the fire engines can be heard whinnying in Engine House 16.
Franklin University Offices
Franklin University
Columbus, OH 43215
The ghost of an office worker plays pranks on those working there.
Columbus State Community College
Columbus, Oh 43215
Columbus State was built over the old Catholic Cemetery. Ghosts of those who were buried there and not moved haunt the area.
Glen Echo Park
Columbus, OH 43202
Glen Echo Park is haunted by the ghosts of a girl killed in the park and a man who committed suicide.
Walnut Grove Cemetery
Worthington, OH 43085
Walnut Grove Cemetery is haunted by ghosts who form as mists around the cemetery.
Old State Penitentiary
Columbus, OH 43215
The Ohio State Penitentiary sat on what is now the Arena District - the entertainment region of downtown Columbus, Ohio from 1834 until it was demolished in 1994. Ghosts of the Old Ohio State Penitentiary walk the streets now instead of the floors of the prison.
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