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 Concord Cemetery, Athens County, Ohio](Haunted_Ohio_Athens_County_IMG_6191.jpg)
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 Mine Disaster Area
Millfield, OH](Haunted_Ohio_Athens_County_IMG_5650.jpg)
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.
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.
![Strouds Run State Park Strounds Run State Park - Athens Ohio Ghost](Haunted_Ohio_Athens_County_steesstrounds.jpg)
Strouds Run State Park
Athens, OH 45701
Strouds Run - The last buffalo in Ohio were killed here and their ghosts haunt the shores.
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A lady who was killed when her home exploded has been seen running along the roadway, her dress on fire.
![Luhrig Road Screamer - Athens County Ohio Luhrig Road Screamer -](Haunted_Ohio_Athens_County_IMG_4310.jpg)
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 Athens Weeping Angel - Athens Ohio](Haunted_Ohio_Athens_County_weepingangel2013.jpg)
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 Jefferson Hall, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio](Haunted_Ohio_Athens_County_jeffersonhall2014.jpg)
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 Wilson Hall, Ohio University, Athens Ohio](Haunted_Ohio_Athens_County_wilsonhall2014.jpg)
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 Tinker’s Cave
Glouster, Ohio](tinkerscave.jpg)
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 Kings Station – King Hollow Ghost Town
New Marshfield, OH](Haunted_Ohio_Athens_County_IMG_6315.jpg)