historic ghost story – Tuscarawas County Stories

The Churchyard Ghost

AI generated image of a ruined church and graveyard in 1904 Ohio. (Source: ImageFX)

In November 1904 readers of the New Philadelphia, Ohio Daily Times were treated to a story about a haunted Tuscarawas County church and cemetery. While the newspaper story never mentioned the name of the community or the church itself, it did share some of the stories associated with the haunted location and the effort ofContinue reading “The Churchyard Ghost”

The “One Dollar Ghost”

Ms. Sills encountering the ghost of Abraham Koons, circa 1819. (Source: Dall-E)

I stumbled across a letter written in 1819 from a Tuscarawas County resident in a Canton, Ohio newspaper that told a fantastical ghost story that I simply had to investigate further. A letter from New Philadelphia, Ohio appeared on the front page of a July 1819 edition of the Canton Ohio Repository newspaper describing aContinue reading “The “One Dollar Ghost””