13 Ghost Towns and Dark Places in Ohio They Don't Want You to Find

A prison fire where the guards would not unlock the doors. A train that fell into a burning gorge. A school where 172 children died a few feet from the exit. A killer in a Cleveland ravine who was never caught. And a castle of a prison you have probably already seen in a movie. Tonight we count down 13 places in Ohio with a dark past, from the Moonville Tunnel to the Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield, the real Shawshank prison. Which Ohio place did I miss? Tell me in the comments. CHAPTERS 0:00 Intro: the night a prison burned 1:09 13. Moonville Tunnel, Vinton County 2:19 12. San Toy, Perry County 3:29 11. Ashtabula River Bridge 5:03 10. Millfield Mine, Athens County 6:25 9. Gnadenhutten, Tuscarawas County 7:58 8. Youngstown, "Crime Town USA" 9:41 7. Lucasville prison riot 11:15 6. Collinwood School Fire, Cleveland 12:31 5. Kingsbury Run, Cleveland 14:14 4. Ohio Penitentiary fire, Columbus 15:38 3. Kent State, May 4, 1970 17:02 2. Athens Lunatic Asylum (The Ridges) 18:44 1. Ohio State Reformatory, Mansfield 20:18 Final thoughts SOURCES Ohio History Connection and Ohio historical markers (Moonville, Gnadenhutten, Ashtabula, Millfield) · Chestnut Grove Cemetery, Ashtabula · U.S. Bureau of Mines and Ohio mine reports on the 1930 Millfield explosion · Gnadenhutten Historical Society · Saturday Evening Post, "Crime Town USA" (March 1963) · Ohio Dept. of Rehabilitation and Correction records on the 1993 Lucasville riot · Collinwood fire records, Cleveland Public Library · Encyclopedia of Cleveland History (Kingsbury Run, Collinwood, Ohio Penitentiary) · Cleveland Police Museum · Report of the President's Commission on Campus Unrest (1970) and the Kent State May 4 Visitors Center · Ohio University (The Ridges) · Mansfield Reformatory Preservation Society. FOOTAGE & PHOTO CREDITS Video clips (CC BY, YouTube): • "Night time drone views of Columbus College of Art & Design and Downtown Columbus, OH - 04.08.22" by Chris Cafiero –    • Night time drone views of Columbus College...   • "Moonville Rail Trail" by Mike Dombroski –    • Moonville Rail Trail   • "Moonville Tunnel Drone Tour Spring 2018" by Crystal Sound & Imaging –    • Moonville Tunnel Drone Tour Spring 2018   • "My Train's A Comin' - Fall Foliage Drone Footage of Appalachia" by Classic America –    • My Train's A Comin' -  Fall Foliage Drone ...   • "DJI Phantom 2 Vision+ MillCreek Park ( Youngstown, OH )" by Michael Nizami –    • DJI Phantom 2 Vision+  MillCreek Park ( Yo...   • "Cleveland, OH - Cuyahoga River Bridge #1" by Northeast Ohio Steam Films –    • Cleveland, OH - Cuyahoga River Bridge #1   • "Cleveland at Night" by Paul –    • Cleveland at Night   • "Exploring the prison from "The Shawshank Redemption" movie" by dante luna –    • Exploring the prison from "The Shawshank R...   Photos & clips via Wikimedia Commons (licence in brackets; images may be cropped or zoomed): Aelffin (CC BY-SA 3.0) · Asoep44 (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Avicennasis (CC BY-SA 2.0, CC BY-SA 3.0) · Becker1999 (CC BY 2.0) · Bwsmith84 (CC BY 3.0) · ChristopherM (CC BY 2.5) · CreepyCatherine (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Crystal Sound & Imaging (CC BY 3.0) · DanaK~WaterPenny (CC BY 2.0) · Dave Toth (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Deerszn (CC BY 4.0) · Don O'Brien (CC BY 2.0) · FunksBrother (CC BY-SA 4.0) · gargantuen (CC BY-SA 2.0) · Jaknouse (CC BY-SA 3.0) · JonRidinger (CC BY-SA 3.0) · Kathryndanielle (CC BY-SA 3.0) · Marianodemiguel (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Michael (Flickr) (CC BY 2.0) · Michael A. Orlando (CC BY-SA 3.0) · Mike Sharp (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Niagara66 (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Ohio Redevelopment Projects – ODSA (CC BY 2.0) · Pacificboyksu (CC BY 3.0) · Roseohioresident (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Sam Howzit (CC BY 2.0) · Scanneto (CC BY-SA 3.0) · Senncasey (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Tim Evanson (CC BY-SA 2.0) · "San Toy.jpg", unknown author (CC BY 2.5) · Ɱ (CC BY-SA 4.0) Licences: CC BY creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 · CC BY-SA creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 Other footage: public-domain archive images (Library of Congress, incl. Carol M. Highsmith and Alfred T. Palmer; U.S. National Archives; DPLA; Wikimedia Commons), CC0 photos (Dan Keck, Designism, Garden Sprite, Rijksmuseum), and stock video from Pexels. Some clips are generic stock footage used for atmosphere and do not show the actual places. #Ohio #DarkHistory #TheForgotten50