This is the hauntings list for Columbiana County. Remember that some of the places listed are merely legend or hearsay, but many are genuine and documented haunts. If you know of any more hauntings or legends for this county, please submit them to our Hauntings Submission Page.
East Liverpool
Beaver Creek State Park - Part of the Beaver Creek canal system, a reporter once took a picture and upon being developed, the image of a Native American appeared on it. Two of the locks in the park are haunted. One is haunted by Gretchen, the daughter of the man who built the lock. She died and was entombed in the stones of the lock until she could be sent back home to Holland. She was never sent. The lock is now known as Gretchen's Lock. Reports of hearing her cries and occasional sightings of her walking along the lock take place there. The other haunted lock is known as Jake's Lock. Jake was a night watchman who was struck by lightening and fell into the canal. His lantern can sometimes be seen as he does his rounds for eternity. Electronics tend to mess up when his ghost is present. The park is also home to the Mushroom Lady, a ghostly woman who is said to have killed her lover with poison mushrooms in a stew. Her bones were found years ago, but her spirit remains. She too appears in photographs from time to time. And lastly, the ghost of Esther Hale known to haunt the park. She had been left standing at the altar and never removed her wedding gown. She was found dead in her home four months later, her bridle veil still over her face. On August 12, her anniversary, her ghostly activity increases. Her touch is said to be deadly.
Elks Lodge Phone Booth - The ghost of a murdered teen named Shawn Smith has been known to call the phone booth near Elks Lodge. His ghostly voice tells the person who answers the phone to look across the street, where the fluorescent figure of the teenager with no head can be seen. The hauntings seem particularly strong on every Saturday during the month of March.
Lee Street Residence - A home on Lee Street is haunted. Witnesses have reported seeing blue and white figures in the back bedroom and in the kitchen. A transparent person has been spotted in front of the oil tanks in the basement.
Spring Grove Cemetery - This small Civil War Era cemetery is said to be haunted by a little boy dressed in 1920s clothing. Many people have spotted his ghost over the years. It is believed that the ghost belongs to a boy named Billy Amos, who died in 1924 at the age of seven of a congenital heart condition. He had lived just across the street from the cemetery with his parents and his sister. The family could not afford a casket, so Billy's father build a crude casket and the funeral home buried him in the cemetery. It is believed that Billy's ghost is just trying to find it's way home.
Highlandtown
Rex Road - A man with a chunk of his head missing is said to haunt this around, along with his dog. The man is known to chase off people who stop on the road late at night.
Leetonia
Columbia Street House - Residents who sleep on the top part of the upstairs of this house are often woken up in the middle of the night by a loud banging noise on the bedroom door. The attic is believed to be haunted by an old woman who sews on an old sewing machine; she is often heard working late at night. Some have seen the apparition of a man looking at them as they walk next to the stairway. (Thanks to Bill Beiling for submitting this haunting).
Lisbon
Church Hill Road - The bridge on Church Hill Road is said to be haunted, as well as the church. We have gotten word that the church was indeed burned to the ground. According to website visitors, the church was burned down by three drunks who were burning books inside the church. (Thanks to Jerry Noxville for the update).
Little Beaver Creek - The covered bridge that spans the Little Beaver Creek is said to be haunted. There are repots of strange sounds and ghosts have been seen.
Middleton
Elks Club - When Scarlet Fever swept through the town in the early 1900s, this former church was converted to a makeshift hospital to combat the disease. The priest of the church was also a doctor, and volunteered to help the victims. As time passed, he became infected as well, and eventually died. His ghost is often seen upstairs, where the infected patients once stayed, and has been heard playing the piano downstairs.
New Springfield
German Witches Graves - Just off of Lipply Road, there's a hayfield with a clump of trees in the center. Three tombstones in this clump of trees are said to belong to witches. All three graves are written in German. Ghostly figures have been spotted in the trees, as well as the field. The three witches still haunt the area as well. (Thanks to Raymond Wambsgans for submitting this haunting).
New Waterford
Hillbilly Hill - The ghosts of Indians are said to haunt the woods of this hill located on the side of McCloskey Road near Bull Creek Road.
Hisey Road - At the site of a burned down house, a 15-year old boy, Rick Cooper, hung himself in the barn in 1990. It is said that if you pull into the driveway, you'll be facing the exact spot where he committed suicide. A ghostly figure can sometimes be seen roaming the grounds.
Krebs Land - The land owned by the late Mr. and Mrs. Krebs is supposedly very haunted. Apparitions have been seen, and banging has been heard on the walls. A book titled "The Dead Won't Hurt You or Will They?" by Schiffer publications has even been written about it.
Mount Calvary Community Church - The church is said to be haunted by the ghost of an unpleasant female.
New Waterford Apartments - These apartments are haunted by several ghosts. One is known to be a young boy who can often be heard crying for his mother.
Old Coe Place - The sounds of ghostly footsteps can be heard throughout the house at night. It has been said that one of the Coe family members had hung himself in the attic. The attic has not been opened since the incident occurred in the early 1900s. Chairs move around for no apparent reason and the figure of a man in a suit has been seen walking right through the front door. (Thanks to Whitney Yereb for submitting this haunting).
Rogers
Bowman's Cemetery - Located deep in the woods off of Lusk Lock Road, the cemetery is said to be haunted. A witch killed children there and was hung from a large tree. There is also a grave with a huge crack in it that you can stick your entire arm down.
Lusk's Lock - Part of the Beaver Creek canal system, the lock is said to be haunted by a worker who died there. Witnesses have seen him walking along the lock in his work clothes.
Salem
Egypt Road's Crybaby Bridge - It is said that one day as the baby's parents were arguing, the baby went to the bottom of the driveway where a bridge was. When the parents noticed the baby missing, they seen it at the bridge. As the mother ran down the driveway to save her baby, the baby fell over the bridge. Today you can still hear the scream of the baby and it's mother coming to save it. Legend also has it that that when an old mine was blasted shut near the area of the bridge, a miner was killed in the explosion. He is now said to haunt the area. Teenager suicides were said to take place on the bridge in the 1970s and the area is home to a "weird" cult and various gangs.
Salineville
Sadie Barkus - One Halloween night, an elderly woman was tied to her bed by an unknown male assailant. The woman by the name of Sadie Barkus was burned to death, along with her dogs, when the man set fire to her home. Every Halloween late at night in Salineville, it is said that one can still her dogs howling and barking at night. Many daffodils grow wildly where her house once stood. On Halloween in 1997, the woods near her home mysteriously caught fire. To this day, no one knows who killed Sadie or set the 1997 fire.
Wellsville
Old Home / Indian Burial Yard - Noises have been heard coming from the barn on the property and objects have been known to fly across the room towards investigators with no known reason. A strange light that resembles a Native American can sometimes be seen in the windows of the house.
