With autumn whispering its arrival in the chilly air, only the truly daring venture into the realm of the headless things— Stumpy’s Hollow (Norwich, Muskingum County) Headless Horseman of Cherry Hill (Fayette County) Headless Horseman of Rogues Hollow (Wayne County) That said, my favorite this week is . . .There…

The Unearthing of Miss Arnold: Miss Arnold, a modest young woman, died in the winter of 1823 and was buried under snow at Moxahala Cemetery in Zanesville. Weeks later, her body was discovered missing—stolen from her grave by medical students for dissection. Outrage swept the town, but with no law…

Scotts Creek is a narrow, winding stream, bordered by ancient forests and fertile croplands outside the town of Logan, Ohio. Today, travelers trace its banks by car, winding their way into the mysterious Hocking Hills from Columbus or Charleston, where the landscape shifts from open fields to deep, ancient hollows…

Murder Ridge in Vinton County Every one of us has our worst nightmares, the ones awakening us in the middle of the night in a cold, dripping sweat with heart hard-thumping like the frenzied, frantic beating of sticks to a marching band’s drums during halftime at a high school football…

When people join me on my night hikes and ghost hunts along the Moonville Rail Trail, I often don’t have the chance to share every spirit’s story as we pass by the places of their tragic ends and where they now wander eternally. Being the only passage of travel in…

In the autumn of 1850, John Gamble was a man building a life—he worked as a carpenter, a farmer, and a river trader—anchored across the Ohio River from Sardis. He had settled his family on a stretch of land rich in timber in what would eventually be called Wetzel County.…

Casa Rosa was a stately mansion once majestically standing along the streets in the lower part of New Orleans’ Third District. Don Juan Luis Angula of Spain painstakingly built the home with the old money he brought with him when he moved there. As years passed and after his death,…

In the mid-1800s, passenger packets and cargo boats traveled the waterway connecting the Ohio River and Lake Erie, called the Miami & Erie Canal, from Toledo to Cincinnati. A driver guided a mule that walked the towpath along the shore and pulled the boat. During the canal years, between Spencerville…