Showing posts with label Ohio. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ohio. Show all posts

Monday, October 8, 2012

Phantom Cat of Fairport Harbor Lighthouse - Fairport Harbor, Ohio

In the 1870s, the Fairport Harbor Lighthouse in Ohio was manned by Captain Joseph Babcock.  He lived there for in the keeper's quarters for a decade along with his wife Mary and children Hattie and Robbie.  However, tragedy would strike the Babcock family early on.  A family pet would console them during hardship and many say this unlikely soul still haunts the lighthouse to this day.  Read the full story>>


The original Fairport Harbor Lighthouse now the Fairport Harbor Marine Museum in Ohio
The original Fairport Harbor Lighthouse now the Fairport Harbor Marine Museum in Ohio

Monday, October 24, 2011

Ghosts of the Ashtabula River Bridge Disaster - Ashtabula, Ohio

It was December 29, 1876 during a bustling holiday travel season that the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway Train No. 5, the Pacific Express left Erie, Pennsylvania bound for Cleveland, Ohio.  The express consisted of two locomotives pulling several passenger cars loaded with over 150 holiday travelers as it plowed it's way through a winter storm coming in off of Lake Erie.  The train and many of it's passengers would never make it to Cleveland. 


Artist's depiction of the Ashtabula River Bridge disaster in 1876

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Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Ghost of Esther Hale - Beaver Creek State Park near East Liverpool, Ohio (Hambleton Mill Ghost)

In the late 1830s, in a former town called Sprucevale, Ohio located along the banks of Beaver Creek, lived a young woman name Esther Hale. She had a small cottage near the Hambleton mill by the creek. Esther fell in love with a local man and was engaged to be married to him one summer afternoon.  As the wedding date came, at the ceremony Esther waited patiently for her groom to arrive.  However, after hours passed, he never showed. This would spell the end for Esther...   Read the full story>>

Although this is not the ghost of Esther Hale, this is how she may appear if you encounter her along the banks of Beaver Creek