Is your local park haunted?

Hey guys. Kings Island has a few really interesting ghost stories. Tower Johnny, Tram Girl, Racer Boy, ect. If you don't know about these, I made a video on YouTube about it...

But the video isn't exactly what I want to talk about. I was wondering if Kings Island is unique in having stories like this. I do recall stories about the ballroom at Cedar Point being haunted. A friend of mine swears he heard music and saw a ghost couple ballroom dancing there. And I remember hearing a story about a man who murdered his wife and put her decomposed body into a carousel horse that was in use in CP's Frontiertown.

But KI and CP are the only two parks that I know of that has ghost stories, and maybe Camden Park a little bit because of the Indian burial mound on the property. Do you think the parks encourage stories like this to make people talk about the parks? Maybe not because some of the stories are about deaths at the parks. Do you think it might have something to do with the eerie feeling a park employee might get when they leave an empty, dark park? Or maybe ghosts are real?

Do you believe in ghosts? Do they haunt your homepark?

If you have Ghosts, you have everything.

I worked at Six Flags Over Texas and there were a couple of ghost stories that floated around. A Google search is probably worth if that entertainment. I never saw anything and most of the stories I heard from coworkers were second and third hand. There's a couple on social media about my current place of employment and I've never once seen or even heard of a coworker seeing anything in 25 years. I personally don't believe in ghosts, but I won't laugh too hard at anyone that thinks they've experienced something along those lines.

I'm not sure if any of you knew this, but at Hotel Breakers the merry-go-round horse statues near the check-in desks are haunted. They switch positions when no one is around.

I took pics for my girls so they would have some proof.

Checking in during the morning:

Later that afternoon:

^lol

In all the years I worked at Cedar Point, I had only ever heard of the haunted carousel horse. For a season or two it was displayed on the Frontier Trail during Halloweekends with the story of the horse displayed on signs.

The story from the ballroom that Travis mentions above is not one I have heard of. If there was any building at Cedar Point that would be haunted, it would be the Ballroom but I spent many years working in there, especially very late at night and alone and I can say I have never seen a ghost in there or heard music. Although any music heard would probably just make me think it was coming from the entertainment rehearsal rooms on the other side of the wall from the ballroom.

I spent over a decade at the park and have been in every building, during summer and winter, late at night and in the day, and never saw a ghost. Plenty of places creeped me out when I was in them alone though. Hands down the old Goodtime Theater was the one place I hated being in alone, any time of the day.

Guess I’ll be the one to poopoo the fun: ghosts aren’t real.

Geauga Lake is haunted by the ghost of Dick Kinzel and he ain’t even dead yet.

Ghosts add to overall charm.

Bakeman31092:

ghosts aren’t real

There are more things in heaven and earth, Bakeman, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

Heaven isn't real.

Bakeman31092:

Heaven isn't real.

Then what is Disney World?

Mostly a series of walls separating you from construction.

PhantomTails:

Heaven isn't real.

Then what is Disney World?

Scientology.

The more you pay, the better your heaven.

Thank you, L. Walt Disney!

Worked at a few parks and the only ghost story I can remember was from Six Flags Over Georgia.

The carousel there came from Riverview Park and it was supposed to be haunted. Security would find it with lights on in an overnight park walk or sometimes running and supposedly would quit the job because of weird stuff happening around the carousel.

This could be a good explanation for security that were tired of working overnights. But fun side story to a carousel with a solid history and is a work of art.

The same story circulated about the Frontier Carousel as well.

That could be like a park urban legend that goes with staff that get transferred around.

I moved around a lot at work it it would be amusing to hear these same stories pop up in different places.

Remember around this time of year someone would tell me about how they heard about this haunted house attraction that was so scary that if you made it to the 13th floor you got your money back. Heard this in Georgia, Texas and California. That would likely have to be a haunted office tower!

Another one was a theater that showed this horror movie that so scary and/or gross that if you made it to the end you got your money back or free tickets to other movies.

I'm an advanced class horror movie nerd. So much so that I actually get paid to host horror trivia nights that regularly sell out and get live streamed, So I didn't buy that one at all but it was amusing hearing it at different locations.

I can only hope you dress as Svengoolie.