Most Haunted Places In Warren, Ohio To Visit
Following are the most haunted places in Warren, Ohio, where the echoes of tragic deaths and forgotten souls linger in the darkness. These haunted spots have witnessed centuries of sorrow, and some say the spirits of the departed are not yet ready to rest.
City Hall
: "It has been reported several times in the local newspaper that Warren''s City Hall building is haunted. A cleaning lady with in the last two years ran from the building after seeing a figure walking inside while she was cleaning. There have been several reports with in the past few years of sightings with this figure."
Kent State University
: "Trumbull County Campus - A man who worked there as a custodian. At night they would hear all kind of knocks and tapping noises. After checking everything in the building several times to make sure nothing mechanically was responsible for the noise, they were baffled. We were told that a medium was called in, who in turn told them that the campus had been built on what was formerly the grounds of an old folks home. The campus is haunted by people who passed away there. The noises heard are tapping of canes and walkers."
Kent State University
: "Trumbull County Campus - Theater - A witness reports seeing an apparition of a woman in blue sitting outside the theater lobby. Feeling not alone and hearing footsteps."
Mahoning River 's grave yard behind Red Cross Central Office
: "is not but half a mile and on the same street down travel from the tunnel is the now standing central office for the Red Cross of Warren, of which even behind contains it''s own graveyard along the edge of the river. The graveyard is dated and worn with only few tombstones behind it with only but thirty at most stones contained. The supposed story follows that a weary and distraught wife of a civil war officer (of himself had been killed in battle) threw herself to the river of what once drew deeper than it''s current form. She is seen also annually during winter months thou in flowing white gown or white soaked in blood and haggard and drenched either matter crying can be heard sometimes."
Mahoning River
: "The Underground Railroad" - All too many homes in the area that still stand from that time all have secret passages, hidden doors and any trick the Railroaders could think to build. One in specific of these devices was a tunnel that led right beneath the Mahoning River itself not but two hundred yards from the Courthouse, of which is still standing in it''s own eloquence. this tunnel was of about the length of a football field and is not visible form but five feet from either entrance, and now has been fortified off for danger of collapse. Apparently that is what brought about such as is a haunting. during time of escaping slaves, the tunnel had once collapsed. the river only being one third as wide as the tunnel was long still waved threat. a collapse toward an end trapped a group of slaves who moans and screams could be heard for days. The screams can still be heard on cool autumn days."
Warren Judicial Courthouse
: "Little known but to some employees, and those who have seen or heard the experience is the Courthouse''s dark history. the courthouse is in itself old enough that at one time had it''s own cells to jail those who awaited trial. the stone basement walls are sometimes heard to echo with the footsteps of prisoners or others who met ill fate."