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State: Ohio
Historical haunted places
Historic place
Cincinnati, OH
Cincinnati Music Hall opened in 1878 as a monumental venue for music, exhibitions, and civic gatherings in the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood.
Legend
Historic place
Cincinnati, OH
Opened in 1933, Union Terminal is an Art Deco transportation landmark known for its rotunda, mosaics, wartime traffic, decline, and adaptation as Cincinnati Museum Center.
Legend
Historic place
Cleveland, OH
Hannes Tiedemann built the house from 1881 to 1883; it later served several institutional and cultural uses, and its identity as Franklin Castle grew through later ownership and publicity.
Legend
Historic place
Cleveland, OH
Dedicated in 1893, Grays Armory reflects the history of an independent militia company, civic ceremonies, military service, architecture, and Cleveland public life.
Legend
Historic place
Cleveland, OH
Founded in 1869, Lake View Cemetery developed as a landscaped burial ground and contains major memorials, architecture, horticulture, and records of Cleveland communities.
Legend
Historic place
Mansfield, OH
A preserved former Ohio prison known for monumental architecture, correctional history, reported paranormal experiences, and its role in The Shawshank Redemption.
Reported
Historic place
Cleveland, OH
Five major theaters opened in Playhouse Square in 1921 and 1922; after decline and closure, a grassroots preservation campaign helped restore the district as a performing arts center.
Legend
Historic place
Cincinnati, OH
Chartered in 1845, Spring Grove developed as a rural cemetery and carefully designed landscape that became a National Historic Landmark.
Legend
Historic place
Cincinnati, OH
The early nineteenth-century house later associated with the Baum, Longworth, Sinton, and Taft families now holds an art collection and layered political history.
Legend
Haunted towns and cities
Haunted town
Cincinnati, OH
Cincinnati grew on the Ohio River through Indigenous dispossession, migration, river commerce, industry, reform movements, arts institutions, and neighborhood development.
No paranormal claim
Haunted town
Cleveland, OH
Cleveland developed on Indigenous homelands near Lake Erie and the Cuyahoga River through canal and lake commerce, immigration, manufacturing, reform, arts institutions, suburbanization, and preservation.
No paranormal claim