When you were a kid was there a haunted house in your neighborhood? There was in mine!

[Floyd R. Turbo]

The mansion sits high on a ridge along Walhalla Road in Clintonville, a neighborhood in north Columbus. What makes this home different from the neighboring homes is the legend that surrounds it. Mooney’s Mansion was built in 1913, predating most of the other homes in the area. The legend takes place in the 1950s, when a husband supposedly killed his wife in the home. One variation of the story states that the man murdered his wife and daughter with an axe and may have even committed suicide. Yet another variation says the man hanged the bodies from the Calumet Street bridge. In any case, the legend states that blue lights can sometimes be seen through the windows, floating around inside the house. Reports say if you go under the bridge on Walhalla Road at night, you can see the reflection of the wife and daughter in the water to the right of the road.👻

[murielm99]

1. There was a haunted school.

It was cursed, allegedly. People bought it after it was no longer in use as a school. They tried businesses and apartments. They tried storage. Nothing worked. The legend was that a janitor had hanged himself in an attic room.

The place was torn down eventually. If there was a ghost, where does it go when its home is gone?

[Floyd R. Turbo]

3. 👻Perhaps if a ghost loses its home it's

spirited away!👻

[Marthe48]

2. Actually, the neighbor kids thought our house was haunted

It was set back off the road, surrounded by woods. It was built in the 30s, so it was older than the rest of the houses on the street. My great aunt lived with us. She had had a stroke, and had a downstairs bedroom. She had long gray hair, and a long chin. She didn't like noise and would raise a curtain to yell and gesture at us kids if we were playing near her room. She could look scary, but she was harmless, just a poor old lady. At the bus stop, some of the kids said we had a witch living in our house.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

4. 😢

[betsuni]

5. Found a video about my haunted home town of Steilacoom, Washington.

The E.R. Rodgers house was a restaurant and everybody who worked there knew about the ghosts. Nobody went alone to the wine cellar. The bar was right below the attic where one of the ghosts insisted her rocking chair remain next to the window so she had a good view of Puget Sound (story was that when it was a boarding house a woman waited for her sweetheart to return -- maybe he was a sailor, or gone to war or a gold rush -- but his ship never came in). Wasn't unusual for all the lights to turn on in the middle of the night, police were used to being called to go and turn them off.

When my family moved to Steilacoom we lived in a house across from the Orr house and Mr. Orr was still alive, an ancient very friendly man. Bair Drug & Hardware hadn't been touched since it closed in the '30s (the trolly from the city of Tacoma that stopped in front of the store was discontinued) and you could see the old medicines and products covered in dust through the windows. An old man lived in the E.R. Rodgers house who had a small natural history museum with lots of rocks like quartz and invited kids to come in, but I was scared of the dark old house and only went once with my brother,. For all I know that old man could've died there and joined the older ghosts.

The little town is full of ghost stories. It has a Sleepy Hollow feel, that history has passed it by, at least when I lived there a long time ago. Steilacoom was supposed to be chosen as the railroad terminus on the Sound but lost out to Tacoma in 1873 and history stopped. Just to the north of town is Fort Steilacoom built in 1849 (became the psychiatric hospital Western State). Popular ghost hunting area.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

6. 😱