Last weekend, my roommate, a lot of friends, and I went to Cedar Point's Halloweekends in Sandusky, Ohio. It had everything Halloween needs: Thrill rides, ghoulish creatures roaming about, foggy corridors, spooky music, haunted houses, and... apparently real ghosts. Like many other amusements parks out there, Cedar Point has become home to a few not-so-well-known ghost stories that have nothing to do with the creepy walkthroughs and haunted houses. It seems it's not only thrill-seekers that inhabit the park.
What goes on here?
First, let's start with the park's most famous haunting, and the one that has been through the most changes. Muller's Carousel Horse (or Military Horse) used to be part of the Frontiertown Carousel. Although now it is in storage in a building behind Frontiertown, there have been many reports from it's time on display of employees seeing a ghostly woman riding the horse after the park has closed. Although it did not start out this way, legend has it that this is Mrs. Muller, who fell so in love with the horse that she doesn't even let it be photographed! Unfortunately this can't be tested without permission now, so perhaps we'll never know just how Mrs. Muller does feel about her horse. A website below contains other theories and more detail and this mysterious carousel staple(Ghosts of Ohio).
Next, let's move onto the Hotel Breakers. Built in 1905, this hotel stands on the edge of both the water and Cedar Point. It has been a historic landmark, and then stripped of its title. Only a handful of famous people have stayed there, but it, too, has its share of ghost stories.
There's a rumour that this hotel and the whole park itself were built on Native burial grounds. No idea if this is true, but it might account for some of the strange things going on all around the area.
Room 169 is particularly active. The story is that a young woman named Mary hung herself in there after being jilted my a lover. Now employees hear voices, things move and have problems using anything electric inside the room. I know which room I'm asking for, should I stay at the Breakers.
Some employees report seeing a figure walk in Frontiertown, but there aren't many reports on it.
http://pointbuzz.com/forums/Thread/23390.aspx
You might find this useful in trying to determine if Hotel Breakers is haunted. This forum contains many different people's experiences staying in the Hotel. Feel free to add your own!
There isn't much information on the ghostly activity of Cedar Point. If you've got a story to tell, let me hear it! I would love to add it to the information above, and make this post as detailed as possible. Happy Haunting, and have one spoooooooky Halloween!
http://www.ghostsofohio.org/lore/ohio_lore_18.html
http://pointbuzz.com/Forums/Thread/21149.aspx
http://theshadowlands.net/places/ohio.htm
http://strangeusa.com/viewcity.aspx?city=Sandusky&state=OH&fullname=
i was employed at cedar point when I was a teenager and grew up there before that. my first year there, in catering, I was told about a ghost of a man who was found dead in the ballroom above the main catering building, named henry. I was skeptical, that was until I saw him for myself. I became a bit obsessed, and started trying to communicate, and receive a lot of evp and personal experience. lumped in with that, walking down frontier trail, my mother and I felt ourselves being touched as we passed the old fort. if I could be so bold, cedar point is very haunted, and I think its being covered up. its not just some horse, its real. thanks for the info, happy hunting
ReplyDeleteMy wife and I stayed in the old part of the building. We were haunted by a woman in a white dress. She would just stand at the end of the bed and stare at us. Terrifying.
ReplyDeleteMy boyfriend and I stayed there yesterday, when we were walking past the indoor pool by the elevators and TGIFridays, the elevator opened with no one on it, so we walked passed it and stood to the right of it and waited for it to close, about 5 minutes later we walk passed it again and I said "It's still open!? That is freaky!" And as soon as i finished my sentence it closed...we left immediately after.
ReplyDeleteMy boyfriend and I stayed there last year around this time, we stayed in the old part where we believe room 169 was. I had no idea about the room until I went in our room first and it smelled, the heat wouldn't work and it was so cold, and the bathroom just felt weird to us. The sink had red stains in it and so did the walls. We just felt it to be odd and scary, then we seen online there was a woman who hung herself in one of the rooms in that area.
ReplyDeleteThank you for all your comments! I appreciate you taking this blog and making it more personal. You affirm my research as well!
ReplyDeleteI worked at breakers in 09. I got the honor of 169 being my employee dorm. I had lots of issues with running noises in and out of the room with noone present running. Many errors with my microwave and laptop that i have not had since. I still have the microwave. Power would circuit out. But the rest of the hall would work fine. They had two sets of bunk beds that i could touch the pole from my bunk aka smash my head on as i sat up. There definitely is a presence there.
ReplyDeleteI worked at breakers in 09. I got the honor of 169 being my employee dorm. I had lots of issues with running noises in and out of the room with noone present running. Many errors with my microwave and laptop that i have not had since. I still have the microwave. Power would circuit out. But the rest of the hall would work fine. They had two sets of bunk beds that i could touch the pole from my bunk aka smash my head on as i sat up. There definitely is a presence there.
ReplyDeleteIn 2005 while staying at Hotel Breakers my wife at the time tripped for no reason while walking through the beach side hall way of the main rotunda which connects the two wings of the hotel. An old man helped her up and told her people trip there all the time for no reason, some say it's a playful ghost tripping people. Over the years I paid attention and notice he was correct. Even now in 2016 after the hotel remodeling I seen a young lady trip in the same spot. The spot is the dead center of hallway in rotunda and its usually people walking on the lakeshore side that trip.
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ReplyDeleteIn 2005 while staying at Hotel Breakers my wife at the time tripped for no reason while walking through the beach side hall way of the main rotunda which connects the two wings of the hotel. An old man helped her up and told her people trip there all the time for no reason, some say it's a playful ghost tripping people. Over the years I paid attention and notice he was correct. Even now in 2016 after the hotel remodeling I seen a young lady trip in the same spot. The spot is the dead center of hallway in rotunda and its usually people walking on the lakeshore side that trip.
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