Haunted Ohio: Ghostly Tales from the Buckeye State

Haunted Ohio: Ghostly Tales from the Buckeye State, includes index, index of stories by county, addresses of haunted places open to public, bibliography

Visit that altered state of consciousness: Haunted Ohio, a collection of over 125 Ohio ghost stories. There you'll meet a haunted garden-party dress, the actress who vanished from her dressing room and who still takes curtain calls, and the headless motorcyclist of the Great Black Swamp. Read about Thomas Edison's machine to talk to the dead, phantom soldiers, Ceely Rose, who poisoned her entire family, and author James Thurber's real-life "Night the Ghost Got In." These are mostly "true" ghost stories based on interviews and personal experiences, with a few folktales thrown in. There are tales as old as Native American ghostlore, as new as the one about a haunted airplane. There are stories about haunted presidents and haunted cemeteries. There are tales of the dead and famous and of the faceless dead.

Stories from the following Ohio counties: Ashland, Auglaize, Butler, Champaign, Clark, Clermont, Columbiana, Coshocton, Crawford, Cuyahoga, Defiance, Erie, Fairfield, Franklin, Greene, Guernsey, Hamilton, Hardin, Knox, Lawrence, Licking, Mahoning, Marion, Medina, Meigs, Miami, Montgomery, Morgan, Morrow, Muskingum, Noble, Perry, Portage, Richland, Sandusky, Summit, Tuscarawas, Vinton, Wood, Wyandot.