Carlisle – Demon Tree
Across the street from the Carlisle Park Apartments is the entrance to the local bike path. Beside the
entrance is a large dead tree that some say continues to grow taller and stronger. Witnesses have claimed
to have heard voices and even been chased away from the bike path.
Kings Mills - Paramount Kings Island
It is said that a young girl approximately 6-8 years old wonders the park at night mainly staying around the
water park, perhaps upset that all the other kids are having such fun. A boy dressed in all white is supposed
to haunt the racer roller coasters thus he’s named the “racer boy”. A gentleman named Tower Johnny that is
most seen near the Eiffel Tower had apparently falling from the tower in the early 1980’s. He climbed up the
elevator shaft while celebrating graduation with friends and fallen off where he died soon after getting cut in
half by wires.
Lebanon- The Golden Lamb
Many famous people including Jonathan Garfield, William McKinley, John Quincy Adams, Benjamin
Harrison, William G. Harding, William Howard Taft, William Henry Harrison, Ulysses S. Grant, Martin
Van Buren, Rutherford B. Hayes, Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, Henry Clay, Harriet Beecher
Stowe, Charles Dickens, and Mark Twain have visited the Golden Lamb. Each one of their rooms is
named after one of its famous guests. There are rumored to be at least two possible ghosts at the
Golden Lamb.
The most famous ghost of the Golden Lamb is Sarah Stubbs (the daughter of Albert and Eunice
Stubbs. When Albert died, Eunice and her children moved to the Golden Lamb). Sarah was Isaac
Stubbs’ niece (he was the inn’s manager). The peculiar thing about this is that Sarah did not die
there, but grew up to be an old lady. So why would her ghost be there and as a little girl? Perhaps it is
because it is not she! Some believe it may be some forgotten guest who died as a child. Others
believe that it may be a girl named Eliza Clay, the twelve-year old daughter of Henry Clay who died
from a terrible fever at the Golden Lamb in 1825. Local legend has it that Eliza still haunts the halls of
the Golden Lamb. The only problem with that tale is that billing records indicate that the Clays stayed
at a rival hotel while in Lebanon, the Indian Chief Tavern.
At any rate, the paranormal activity is said to occur mainly in one specific room, Sarah’s room and
began after her stuff (including a rocking chair and bed side table) was moved into a different room
for display. This new room isn’t open to the public and the door is covered with Plexiglas, but this is
not the room where the center of activity is claimed to occur. Sarah is said to appear as a young girl in
a white nightgown and is known for knocking pictures off the walls and furniture, making noise and
feet stomping.
The other famous ghost who is believed by some to haunt the Golden Lamb is a well-known
defense lawyer, Clement Vallandigham, whose accidental shooting death occurred in his second floor
room on June 16, 1871.Vallandigham came to defend Thomas McGehan who was charged with murder after
a ballroom brawl. McGehan’s defense was that the victim shot himself. And so did Vallandigham, as he
accidentally demonstrated to colleagues how the accident could have happened, to his own demise. It has
been said that you can sometimes smell his cigar smoke in the building and seeing a gaunt, gray man.
Lebanon- Orphans’ Asylum and Children’s Home
The home was built atop a hill in 1874. It is believed that the building is haunted by some of the children and
faculty that once lived there. Children have been seen looking out the third floor windows, stairways and
many of the bedrooms. It’s also believed that a young boy hung himself in the barn out back. Today the
building is operated by the Warren County Juvenile Court.
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