Juice News Daily has published a list of haunted places
in Ohio, included was several hauntings at Cedar Point and Sandusky.
Cedar Point - Amusement Park - The carousel in the park is an
old one, with hand carved horses. Legend has it that the man who
carved the horses for the carousel caught his wife cheating on him
with a jockey from the local horse track. He shot and killed them both
for their infidelity. There is a black horse on the carousel with
bones carved into his mane, and the image of a jockey is carved into
the saddle of another horse. Employees have reported hearing the music
of the carousel at night while it spins backwards. They have also
reported leaving it at night and arriving the next morning to find the
horses in different positions.- November 2003 update: The carousel did
not originate in Ohio it is actually from Michigan, near Lake Lansing.
The locals there believe that Al Capone used to torture people on the
carousel and then dump their bodies into the lake, which is where the
haunting actual begins.
Sandusky - Cedar Point - a young woman walking past CJ's
Provisions in the Frontier Trail. Anyone working in that stand has
reportedly felt someone there or has apparently seen someone walking
by the doors when they are closed before the season begins. Legend has
it that a young woman walks up and down frontier trail looking for her
boyfriend / husband in that area. Strange things have happened in
CJ's. If you leave a sponge on the sink in the fudge area and leave to
go and do something, like take your break or go outside to get
something and you come back and your sponge is gone. No one else has
taken it or even seen where it went to. Then when you go back,
sometimes the sponge reappears in the same place that you last left
and there are only 2 of you in the stand. (I have first hand
experience with this since I've worked there this past 2003 season).
Sandusky - "Hotel Breakers - To get the story straight
on Hotel Breakers (it was probably a seasonal employee making
something up about Fridays) There are two known reoccurring instances
of hauntings in Hotel Breakers. Hotel Breakers has now four sections
all of which were built at different places in time, the oldest and
still central being of the hotel is "The Rotunda" which is named so
for its circular five floored circular structure of which live it's
majority of rooms. "The Lobby" is a two story structure in which
contain offices and old meeting rooms on the first floor of such,
second floor has rooms that were once guest rooms, now employee
dwellings. this is that which we are most interested in for in one of
the two second floor hallways is room #169. The very room in which
during the early 1900's when the park was still just a beach resort, a
guest by the name of Mary hung herself in dismay (supposed to that of
a lover), hung herself in her room. Since then, Employee and guest
alike have had odd occurrences, disturbances, violent unseen actions,
noises, problems with electronics occur. The third oldest portion of
the hotel "Breakers East" Which in itself wasn't built until the mid
90's and is portioned into three and four floors. The occurrences in
this section were sightings of "Faceless apparitions" in a small
combination of number. All other sightings and instances are not known
as re-occurring and random. The whole park is rumored to be haunted,
and also rumored to have been built on a native burial ground.
Sandusky - River Well House - In the 1800's, the McGreen was
given money as a gift. they argued among each other what they should
do with it. They left the money in their wagon until the morning so
they would have time to decide. When the family awoke, the money was
gone. Mr. McGreen was so mad that he killed everyone and hung himself
in the well. Strange things happened in the house for almost 200 years
later. Doors would open by themselves. Pets refused to go into the
dining room nor would plants ever live in it. Small fires would start
in the fireplace on their own. Door handles would be witnessed as
wiggled when no one was on the other side to do so. Shadows are seen
and images are seen outside a huge picture window that looks over a
river. the well is still there and nothing will grow with in a 10 feet
radius of it. In 1979, the house mysteriously burned down without any
indication of a cause.
Sandusky - Sleep Inn - When employees walk the halls of the
third floor at night, there is an uncanny feeling that they are not
alone. The television in 317 will turn on and flip channels all by
itself. A laundry attendant was trapped in 315 (the locks are on the
inside, and the door opens to the inside, but the door would not open
from the inside.) Housekeepers cleaning room 324 have seen the
curtains in 312 fluttering/opening, but when the room was checked, the
AC unit was off and the room was vacant. Doors slamming and footsteps
can be heard when employees are up there alone, but when they call out
or go to see who's there, the halls are empty.