Well, this is a true story that I witnessed many times.
My uncle and aunt (Johnny and Julie) and Julie's parents lived in a house in Barberton, Ohio. When they first moved in, they were told that the house had been old Barberton Hospital and the basement had been a morgue. That really didn't bother either of them so they really didn't think about it. The happenings didn't start until they had lived there for a few weeks. Johnny and Julie lived in the apartment downstairs and her parents lived upstairs.
Johnny locked the basement door every night as well as the door to the stairs that went to the upstairs apartment, yet, every morning both doors were unlocked and open. Then in the upstairs apartment there was this thing about this one wall. When you looked at it a certain way, you could see a face (almost as if it had been drawn or carved into it). So they sanded it down, re-plastered it, and painted over it. As the paint dried, you could see the face EVEN BETTER THAN BEFORE!!! He did it about three times and each time the face would come back better than before. It started to look like the Devil himself. Johnny wanted to tear out the wall but Julie's dad said no way. They didn't mind the little stuff (doors opening, cold spots, or even the whispers in the ear) but one night put a stop to it all.
A friend had come over to their house to pick up a lamp that had been stored in the attic since before they had come to live there. They were cleaning everything out and he had said before that he needed a lamp. Now this guy was no regular wimpy guy. This guy was 6 feet 5 inches tall and about 320 pounds. He rode a Harley and drives trucks for a living. He ( i'll call him "Spike") was told to go to the attic and get it. He went up the stairs and saw the lamp as soon as he got to the top. It was shining brightly and it was a lovely antique. As he went to unplug it he got all cold. He looked down and saw that the lamp was unplugged!! As he started to scream and run from the attic, he said he heard a laughing in his ears. He never came back. That was when they decided to get away from that house. To this day my aunt won't even drive down the street that house is on.
Submitted from: Ohio, USA
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
Haunted Hospital
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This is the second story I've seen on that house! I've been collecting Barberton ghost stories! If you have anymore stories about it, e-mail me at jesking015@yahoo.com!
Jessica
The scary thing about hospitals is that it is a place where some sick people die.
If they died there, their soul may get stuck in there.
Actually, there's no problem with the hospital or when people died on a certain area.
Paranormal Ghost-caused events happen on a certain place because of its history. When a person dies, some of its energy are left in the area.. this energy is what we call residual energy... the problem comes when there is enough energy stored within the place. This combined energy causes what we call poltergeist phenomena, but this doesn't literally mean that the soul of the deceased is still present or stuck in the area, although, this could be a possibility.
Jen
Psionist Group
Anyone had any idea of the history of the place?
This is Jessica again. This story is going to be in the 2nd edition of Ghosts of the Magic City put out by the Barberton Historical Society.
My understanding was that it was a house, then converted into a hospital as the need arose, and then converted back into a house when the next hospital opened on Wooster Rd. It's over on the West side.