Built on the site of a Civil War camp ravaged by disease, the Ohio State Reformatory first opened in 1896 to reform young offenders but eventually grew to house the most dangerous criminals. By the ti
Ice-pick Lobotomies * Straight Jackets * Seclusion Cells * Ice Water Baths Sounds like scenes from a horror movie. Welcome to the 19th century asylum. It held the demented, the insane and the unfortun
Afterlife with no parole.If you die in prison, your soul stays in prison. At least that's what many inmates believed. 998 murders and suicides combined with 85 hangings and 9 electrocutions all make f
Lingering mountain Spirits still walk these Hills. Fireside Folklore of West Virginia offers up ghosts, paranormal activity, haunted buildings and the legends they are born from.The Mothman,The Headle
Ghostly diners, violent crimes of passion, phantoms peering from theatre balconies, canal workers who still walk the towpaths--the haunted history of Stark County includescharacters and legends as biz
