Historic haunted places in Chillicothe, OH. Each page gives the ghost story, whether visitors can go, and a link to the site the story came from. The stories are folklore, not documented fact.
Open seasonally for guided tours (admission; Ohio History Connection).
Visitors at the 1807 hilltop home of Ohio governor Thomas Worthington describe a figure matching his appearance walking through the parlor and formal rooms, and out on the sloping …
The tavern's ghost got his name by accident: when a door swung open and a light kept going out, an early owner's friend shouted 'Harold! You cut that out!' and the name stuck. Staf…
Visitors describe faceless, human-shaped shadows moving through the oldest sections at dusk and vanishing before anyone can get close. The cemetery's signature legend concerns the …
Billed as Ohio's oldest theater, the Majestic is said to have served as a makeshift morgue during the 1918 flu epidemic, and the back dressing rooms where bodies were reportedly ke…
This is Chillicothe's version of the Ohio crybaby tunnel: visitors say they hear an infant crying inside at night, an echoing sound that's hard to pin down and sometimes stops all …