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Rooney Member Since: January 2007 Contributions: 5217 Gold Stars: 894 View User Posts	Re: LOCAL LEGENDS / HAUNTED PLACES Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 3:07 pm Central Time We used to have a "deadman's curve". The street was very narrow and went through someone's wooded property and about halfway through there was a driveway to their house. Supposedly in the '60's they had a daughter that they did not allow to go out to her prom. So she snuck out anyway to go to the prom. After the prom on her way home in a drunken stooper with her boyfriend; they came driving through "deadman's curve" to take her home and ran into a tree throwing the daughter through the windsheild and killing her. On moonlight nights in April/May during Prom season you could see her ghost still trying to make it home before her parents discovered that she had snuck out. The house was sold in the mid-nineties and the wooded property all bulldozed and a sub-division built there....so no more "urban legend".
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harpo66 Member Since: June 2007 Contributions: 19 Gold Stars: 25 View User Posts	Re: LOCAL LEGENDS / HAUNTED PLACES Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 4:48 pm Central Time I am also from Ohio... About 5 miles from where I work is a state park and that area and the surrounding area is considered the most haunted place in the state! Look it up.... Sprucevale, OH.... Over Memorial Day weekend, we were out at the park, and they opened up the buildings, and we were walking through the one house, and taking pictures.... When we uploaded the pics, one of the pics of my brother being goofy in the house, showed at least 30 "orbs" around him.... A couple different cameras took photos, and each one showed them... In the next few pics, there was nothing... Creepy!!
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harpo66 Member Since: June 2007 Contributions: 19 Gold Stars: 25 View User Posts	Re: LOCAL LEGENDS / HAUNTED PLACES Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 5:16 pm Central Time Here are two pics we shot of my brother... http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a180/HarpoM/LesOrbs02.jpg http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a180/HarpoM/LesOrbs01.jpg and here is the local legends page about this park: http://www.carnegie.lib.oh.us/mythsandlegends.htm and this is the house he was in (where he was sitting at the table) http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a180/HarpoM/fronthouse.jpg http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a180/HarpoM/backhouse.jpg
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-Alan D Hopewell Member Since: October 2006 Contributions: 7558 Gold Stars: 1210 View User Posts	Re: LOCAL LEGENDS / HAUNTED PLACES Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 9:20 am Central Time H66- I'm from Lorain, and there's a number of haunted places in/near there, probably the most well-known being Gore Orphanage. Also, if you've ever read the "Haunted Ohio"series of books by Chris Woodyard, I'm in Vol. III, the story, "High-Level Haunt". _________________ "I can do all things through CHRIST, Who strengthens me." -Phillipians 4:13, King James Bible
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harpo66 Member Since: June 2007 Contributions: 19 Gold Stars: 25 View User Posts	Re: LOCAL LEGENDS / HAUNTED PLACES Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 11:09 am Central Time I have not seen those books in person, but I have heard about them. I read your post above about the Gore Orphanage. Pretty creepy! Lorain is up near Cleveland, right?
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-Alan D Hopewell Member Since: October 2006 Contributions: 7558 Gold Stars: 1210 View User Posts	Re: LOCAL LEGENDS / HAUNTED PLACES Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 12:30 pm Central Time About 25 miles SW of Cleveland, a ways down the coast. _________________ "I can do all things through CHRIST, Who strengthens me." -Phillipians 4:13, King James Bible
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Braniff Member Since: December 2006 Contributions: 713 Gold Stars: 61 View User Posts	Re: LOCAL LEGENDS / HAUNTED PLACES Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 1:42 pm Central Time The old amusement park in the Des Moines, Iowa, area, Riverview, had a rollercoaster, known as the Wild Mouse. At the top of the incline which pulled the cars up from the boarding area, there was a sharp turn which overlooked a lagoon. Many have often said that cars on the Wild Mouse would derail at the sharp turn and go off the rollercoaster track. However, I have not found anything on the websites devoted to Riverview which dealt with the Wild Mouse rollercoaster being derailed. Riverview has been closed for almost thirty years--almost no traces of it exist, in fact. (NOTE: This is a corrected version of my original post--June 28, 2007.) Last edited by Braniff on Thu Jun 28, 2007 4:56 pm; edited 1 time in total
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-Alan D Hopewell Member Since: October 2006 Contributions: 7558 Gold Stars: 1210 View User Posts	Re: LOCAL LEGENDS / HAUNTED PLACES Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 8:58 am Central Time Braniff wrote: The old amusement park in the Des Moines, Iowa, area, Riverview, had a rollercoaster, known as the Wild Mouse. At the top of the incline which pulled the cars up from the boarding area, there was a sharp turn which overlooked a lagoon. Many have often said that cars on the Wild Mouse would derail at the sharp turn and go off the rollercoaster track. However, I have not found anything on the websites devoted to Riverview which dealt with the Wild Mouse rollercoaster or any other legend at that park. Riverview has been closed for almost thirty years--almost no traces of it exist, in fact. view There used to be an amusement park in Cleveland, Euclid Beach Park, which closed in '69, that also had a ride caled the Wild Mouse, and a similar urban legend. _________________ "I can do all things through CHRIST, Who strengthens me." -Phillipians 4:13, King James Bible
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the_urban_prince Member Since: April 2006 Contributions: 180 Gold Stars: 92 View User Posts	Re: LOCAL LEGENDS / HAUNTED PLACES Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 2:32 am Central Time somewhat off topic but theres a mental institution called Bryce hospital here,and theres always people "escaping" from it.....its like a set up to a bad horror movie that keeps happening every other year.. i mean wheres the damn orderlies and staff??,are the patients being watched by spider monkeys or something
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-Alan D Hopewell Member Since: October 2006 Contributions: 7558 Gold Stars: 1210 View User Posts	Re: LOCAL LEGENDS / HAUNTED PLACES Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 8:34 am Central Time I'd started this thread last year, and I'm bringing it up, again, for the season...do you have, near where you live, any places with a reputation for being haunted? _________________ "I can do all things through CHRIST, Who strengthens me." -Phillipians 4:13, King James Bible
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Totally_Gnarly_Fresh_Rad Member Since: June 2007 Contributions: 1961 Gold Stars: 251 View User Posts	Re: LOCAL LEGENDS / HAUNTED PLACES Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 2:25 am Central Time Vanderlip Mansion in the Palos Verdes Peninsula, owned by a mega wealthy and reclusive family with a platoon of "barkless" guard dogs (see below), was our local "haunt" growing up. At dawn, the area can be particularly creepy as there are no street lights, consistently thick coastal fog and a quiet so eerie, it's deafining.
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