Haunted Athens Ohio
Welcome To Haunted Athens Ohio, your official source for pictures, ghosts stories, true tales and urban legends related to the haunted or supposedly haunted locations in my hometown. Aimed at being your one-stop resource for information about Athens haunted buildings, cemeteries, businesses and other properties, this site is growing into a complete resource on the completely bizarre, unusual and unexplained.
I’ve lived in the Athens, Ohio area most of my life — just off Peach Ridge near Simms Cemetery, one of the graveyards that makes up the Athens cemetery pentagram. Through the years, I’ve visited these cemeteries and other haunted Ohio locations many times. In fact, I’ve become somewhat of an expert on them.
There are lots of stories on the Internet about the locations I’ve visited, but very few of them deliver the kind of detailed content you need to fully understand these haunted hotspots. Now, I feature these places on Haunted Athens Ohio along with the background information and stories that put them in context. I photograph and write about places as the whim hits me so this is not yet a complete resource, but it’s expanding all the time.
Beginning with Simms Cemetery, I hope to take you on a journey to The Ridges, The Ridges Cemetery, Wilson Hall at Ohio University and Mt. Nebo as well as other haunted locations as I learn about them.
Be sure to check back frequently for more photos and information from me and my friends. And watch out: If you don’t believe in ghosts, I don’t believe you’re exploring your world closely enough.
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- Athens Ohio Map
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- Athens Ohio Map
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- Athens Ohio cemetery pentagram
We’d love to hear some interesting stories form locals who’ve grown up in the area. If you’ve had experiences in any of these places or any others around the area please share your stories with us.
Thanks
HAO
Route 685 (greens run) is haunted by a wrecked car on the big turn
born and raised in athens county. my ancestor Margret Snowden was the first white woman of athens county. so im very connected to this countys history. Between the old native american campsites and villages around to all the old towns i know where most are at. the spirits of the past walk among the living around athens ohio
To whom it may concern,
My name is Christopher Sharpe and am a founding member of the Appalachian Paranormal Activity Investigators (A.P.A.I). We are a fairly new group that have been studying the paranormal for about five years now. The reason I am writing this is that we are currently looking for homes and other places that the owners feel may be haunted and are looking for a team to come in and investigate. We have been scouring for investigation sites but to no avail. If you need anymore information on our group please let me know. We can be contacted at apactivity1@gmail.com. Thank you all for your time.
I went to OU and was there from 1977 until 1981. I did volunteer work at the Athens Mental Health Center and lived in two houses that used to belong to the same (mining) family that were both haunted and across the street from a cemetary. One of the houses was the family’s “big house”, built in the early 1800′s and the other house was built later for one of the children and his family on the same property. The larger house was where a group of roomates and I experienced several books pulling themselves out of the built-in bookshelves in the living room and falling to the floor. The smaller house was where I saw a rocking chair rock, by itself, for 5 minutes and I was the only one at home at the time.
I would love to hear more! I am an aspiring author and I am in the beginning stages of writing a “Haunted/Supernatural” story based in my home state (which of course is Ohio!) featuring the surrounding area of Athens meshing with the characters from the Supernatural T.V. series. Involving the 2 main characters, who are brothers; Sam and Dean Winchester who are Hunters of the Supernatural.
Your site is the most in-depth that I have found so far!
Good luck on the book and thank you!
Greetings! I am a fellow Ohioan with a very small group of investigators. Would love to do this area. I am a sensi, yet approach ‘ghosts’ from a skeptic approach. I live near the Mansfield Reformatory & have had interesting experiences. If you could even point me in the direction of how to make this happen, it would be greatly appreciated!
Just do a couple of Google Maps searches and you should be on your way… Good luck!
K so this is silly but I thought I’d tribute something 2 ur website even tho it’s about Ashville Ohio. The ashville diner on long st. is suppose 2 b haunted apparently it was written about in Haunted Ohio, a man died in a fire there once upon time, but fact is I worked there nearly 3 yrs & I always got there an hour b4 I was suppose 2 b there 2 get everything ready 2 open up which was around 4:30 am so I completely alone, & not once did I ever experience any phenomenon but those b4 me & after I quit has said they did so idk.
But when I was 13 friends & I camped out @ this place known as the canyons which is located around under the train bridge next 2 the creek. It started 2 rain & the fire didn’t last that long & we had blankets & beer only @ the time we hated but it was alot of fun, anyways after midnight I was just sitting there listening 2 every 1 when I looked across the creek I saw 4 figures wearing white tshirts smoking. Now it wasn’t any 1 playing a prank cuz nothing happened or was said about. After a week later I talked about what I saw leaving out a few details like the # of people & what they were wearing 2 people who wasn’t there, 1 time I told my mom & every 1 knew of the 4 people wearing white t-shirts w/out me saying anything about those 2 details. Very creepy & very cool. It’s been 10yrs later & even my husband saw these 4 figures & again w/out me giving the specific details!!!!
i have an cousin that worked at Athens Sanitorium for many years, dont know the info she might have but if interested please email me back. she used to tell us crazy stories.
I live in Jacksonville Ohio all my life. I am close to 685 (Greens Run). I did not know 685 (Greens Run) is haunted by a wrecked car on the big turn. I would like to know more info on 685 (Greens Run).
Thanks
Keith
Thanks you for such an informative site!! We’re from South Carolina and son attends OU. I am so intrigued by the area.
Last week, my son dropped me at the Ridges while he took my SUV back to finish his move-out. I wanted to explore and photograph the Ridges and had a severely profound paranormal experience in the cemetery closest to Nagy Pond. I’m sensitive to spirits (have been all my life. I don’t communicate, but sometimes a very dominant spirit can make itself known to me). My guard was down and I forgot my protection prayer upon entering the cemetery. There is a line of 8 tombstones deeper in the woods up the path from Nagy Pond. That’s where a horrible chemical smell filled my mouth (metallic like blood, yet sweet like fruit). It made me gag and retch filled my sinuses and this went on for 20 minutes despite me drinking an entire bottle of water. It only subsided when I moved away from that line of tombstones.
Both my fully charged camera battery and phone batteries were drained (I only shot about 40 pictures and my battery in my DSLR can take up to 1,000). My truck was back at my son’s dorm on South Green and my Kindle inside was drained and my GPS was shot.
Something definitely was trying to tell me it’s story. Does anyone have any information on if chemicals (such as Ether) were used on the patients?? I definitely felt like I was gagged with a chemical soaked rag.