Welcome To Akron Ghosts
From public buildings to private homes, the city of Akron remains flush with unsettled spirits. Venture through the cursed streets of Akron and discover its lost souls that have yet to find peace within Akron’s rolling hills.
Lore and Legends
Akron’s past continues to leach into the present day, unable to be erased no matter how many buildings are torn down and replaced with glossy new facades. Venture with Akron Ghosts to the site where Henry Clark’s Tavern once stood to discover a spot infused with various phantoms of a bygone era.
Hear the accounts of those who’ve come face to face with these specters in the modern-day Evans Building, where ghosts continue to make themselves known in the place where they once sought refuge. Feel a shiver down your spine as Akron Ghosts reveals the tale of Rogue’s Hollow and its sinister legends, like those of Cry Baby Bridge.
Uncover accounts of ghostly miners who continue to dig and quarry as if trapped in an eternal loop, though their lives have long since ended. Travel deeper into the legends of this cursed ghost town and its reputed demonic presence. Feel a tinge of terror learning about the headless beasts, restless spirits, and odd happenings that haunt this seemingly diabolical land on a chilling ghost tour with Akron Ghosts.
What Will I See?
Visit Akron’s Most Haunted Locations, Including:
- Akron Beacon Journal Publishing – Once the site where journalists penned articles late into the night and papers rolled hot off the presses, this home of the Akron Beacon holds stories of a white-haired phantom.
- Akron Civic Center – More than one strange spirit lingers in the afterlife at this esteemed theatre, with phantoms ranging from otherworldly wanderers to a former employee who keeps a watchful eye on the center.
- Perfect Pour – Once the site of an illegal speakeasy, Perfect Pour remains saddled with a disgruntled spirit who makes his hostile presence loudly and angrily known.
The Melodrama of the Undead
To many, theaters are places of animation and drama, offering a brief escape from the mundanity of modern life. Yet, for the resident specters of the Akron Civic Center, this entrancing venue is one in which they remain eternally in limbo.
Journey with Akron Ghosts to peek behind the ghostly curtain of this opulent theatre, exploring the untimely death that occurred during its construction and the tragic troupe of spirits that remain within.
Inhabited by restless souls, this glittering theater continues to dazzle and enchant patrons while sending a chill down the neck of those who dare look deeper. Its spirits range from the mysterious and somber to those simply dedicated to preserving the theater’s fine appearance. Their stories and many more await on a terror-filled Akron ghost tour.
Why is Akron so Haunted?
An Unquiet Past Seeps Into The Present
Echoes of bygone eras reverberate within the walls of many of Akron’s historic buildings. Venture with Akron Ghosts to a 19th-century schoolhouse and breathe in stories of its eerie antiquity.
Shiver in the shadow of this 180-year-old building as accounts of the nearby Perkins Stone Mansion and its uncanny occurrences are unveiled. This historic home-turned-museum contains many ghosts within its bounds, including those of queer child spirits and a phantom figure believed to be a former owner.
Hear the stories told by volunteers, visitors, and guides of this house museum, all of whom have experienced otherworldly activity in one form or another. They say the past is a living thing — a statement that seems to be doubly true inside Akron’s historic homes.
Akron’s Most Haunted
Akron is a city that bristles so thickly with ghostly beings and dwellings that you couldn’t possibly visit them all in one day. Consider the Hower House on Fir Hill. Although time has moved on since Henry Hower shirked his promise to his wife on her deathbed, the spirit of his first wife has not.
According to many accounts, Susan Hower continues to stew in her resentment within the Hower House, embittered by what she saw as a brazen infidelity. Had Henry Hower not promised his first wife he’d never remarry after her passing, Akron might not have such an indignant spirit in its midst.
On Power Street stands a haunt that’s far less charming. A place few ever hoped to see the inside of, the former site of the Summit County Juvenile Detention Center contains a painful and heartbreaking history. Haunted not only by the many wayward teens who passed through its halls, it holds a far sadder tale as well.
The ghost of a former matron as caring as she was kind, lingers on within the building even though her duties have long since ended. Her distressing presence continues in footsteps, objects that shift or move, and a curious heaviness on the second floor that soaks the air.
* This is a walking tour and we do not enter privately-owned buildings or private property *
