Being horror lovers, we all have great interest in listening to the story of an old mansion, knowing about historical remains, or finding out the true story of an abandoned place. In this article today, we are going to talk about one such haunted place, known as the Witch Tower of Ohio, about which we gonna know a lot today, and which is also known by another name Frankenstein’s Tower.
The witch tower of Ohio, which is hidden amidst a forest near Dayton, is more commonly known as the Lookout Tower and due to its castle-like structure, it appears no less than a castle. The tower has been associated with numerous urban legends throughout the years. One of these legends believed that the tower was built during the time of civil war and a woman plunged to her death from the top of this tower when she heard the news of her husband being killed in the war, and since that day, the tower has been considered cursed. But we cannot accept this story as true because the tower was actually built in the 1940s and civil war took place long before that.
According to another popular legend, a group of teenagers sought shelter in the tower during a stormy night, and due to a flash of lightning struck from the sky, they all were killed. But two of them were alive despite being severely burnt and they kept shouting for help all night, but it was difficult to hear their voice from the middle of the forest, so no one could come to help them, which led them to a painful death. Now there is also no evidence of this story being real, but here we have a third story similar to it, which was also mentioned in the local newspaper.
So the third story is dated back to 1967 when a 16-year-old Peggy Harmeson and her boyfriend Ronald Kevin Stevens took shelter in the tower to escape a terrible storm. They both entered the tower around 7:30 in the evening, but the very next day, the bodies of the two were found from the tower. If reports were to be believed, Lightning struck the tower and led them to death. Ronald's face and chest were badly burnt by lightning and Peggy's dead body was also found in the same condition from the eleventh step of the tower. People linked this incident to the already existing stories and hence this story also became a part of the haunted events of this tower. Consequently, the tower was closed forever.
But as soon as the tower went closed down, various rumors began to spread, such as whoever went inside the tower saw the burnt face of that girl there, and even after so many attempts, the blood of that girl has not been cleared from the stairs.
One summer two ghost chasers decided to explore this place, both of them went to the basement of the tower and tried to communicate with Peggy Harmeson using ghost meters and electromagnetic field radiation sensors and tried to record the whole scene in a videotape. At first, they did not feel anything, then suddenly all the electromagnetic sensors became active together. Then they heard some sounds coming from the top of the tower as if someone was laughing there. Ongoing up, they saw some fresh blood fallen on the eleventh step, later, one of them saw a man running towards the main gate of the tower, and after chasing him, they reached a room where they saw a burnt man was standing in a corner, placing his face towards the wall in the dark.
Seeing this, they both left the place quickly, saving their lives, now as expected they could not pick up their recorder, hence it was impossible for them to prove what was actually happened there. Even today, they do not like to talk about this incident and call it the most frightening experience of their career. After their statements, many more strange stories related to this tower started to emerge, which were even scarier than the earlier.
It was being said that a pentagonal design has been made on the top floor of the tower, which was not here initially. Actually, in the 1940s, it was built as a lookout tower as it offers a view of up to 15 miles out of the forest from its top. Originally there was no pentagonal design on its top floor, but there is no evidence that proves it to be true, but through this fact, an incident came to light that started depicting this tower as a witch tower.
Around 1950, there were some nomads who came from the east in Ohio and these people brought some others with them, and over time these nomads stopped appearing in Ohio and people assumed that they had moved from here Or have gone elsewhere. But some locals notice that this nomadic group started taking shelter in that tower every night, they did not appear anywhere during the day, but at night they used to meet in the same tower. Due to their scary appearance, people did not want to get close to them and these nomads themselves did not like to connect with the local people.
After a short time, the locals realized that the people they had considered nomads were actually a cult who had made this tower their shelter and prayer place. The locals soon began to believe that these people do some kind of witchcraft where they remain in an attempt to resurrect the dead. This suspicion began to turn into reality when the locals found some graves of a nearby graveyard dugout, from where dead bodies, started disappearing one by one. Apart from this, they also found some human organs at some distance from the tower. People were now beginning to believe that it was this cult that created the pentagonal design on the top floor of the tower that symbolizes the devil star. These people were devil worshipers and this design was part of a ritual in which these people worshiped the devil by placing dead bodies or human organs, mostly head, and offered sacrifice. Because of these stories, the tower was also started to call as witch tower or Frankenstein’s Tower.
Currently, the main entrance of this tower was sealed and its three windows were also permanently closed so that no one could climb and enter it. But even today people try to enter into it, wanting to explore it. Many local boys have climbed to the top of the tower wall and many of them have reported that there is actually a hole on the roof which proves that the tower has been hit by lightning several times. Many people have also confirmed this pentagonal design and after seeing it, have said things like bad incidents occurred in their life. After the advent of the internet and technology like drones, many explorers have shown the images of the tower which revives the stories related to it.
On the internet, you will find many such videos in which people have taken a drone shot of the tower's top where it is clearly visible that there is a big hole on the roof, as well as some human drawings on the roof walls which are probably those local boys, would have made who dared to climb on the roof of the tower. Due to its ghostly legends, this tower has become an explorer's place and people have also stopped going inside it. As far as the police were concerned, they had closed it only for the reason that there had been lightning in the past too many times and after the case of Peggy, this thing became necessary for the security of the locals.
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