helltown barn

built : unknown
abandoned : unknown

helltown is probably the most haunted place in ohio, according to every single website I've seen related to it. apparently, it's some super haunted town that's entirely abandoned... well, except for the cultists, rapists, and even serial killers that like to hang out there. truth be told, there's nothing haunted about helltown. there's hardly anything even abandoned about it, except for this barn and a house or two. other than that, it's your average town. i don't want to bore you with the urban legends surrounding this place, so i'll just tell you about our trips there.

we've been to helltown probably about a dozen times. not once have we seen anything to lead us to believe there's anything special about it. one time we went in the abandoned barn and took some pictures, and that's it. other than almost hitting deer on multiple occasions, nothing life-threatening has ever happened to us while visiting helltown.

update: i've recently received an email from someone with some truth about this barn

The barn that you highlight on your site as "Helltown Barn" was owned by Bob and Evelyn Lindley. It and the house that sat in front of it had been in Mr. Lindley's family for at least 4 or 5 generations. Then the National Park Service decided they needed the property for "visitor purposes." After destroying the house, they continue to let the barn sit there and rot. The "visitor purpose" that it serves is as a "scene setter" to show that farming was once an important part of the valley's history. Mr. Lindley worked in a rubber factory in Akron by day and worked his farm, including dairy cows, during the rest of his time. After the park took the Lindley's house, they moved to her family's ancestral home on Scobie Road. Mrs. Lindley's maiden name was Scobie. No sooner had the Lindley's moved into the home on Scobie Road that the National Park Service decided they needed that home for "visitor purposes" as well. The 1850s Scobie home and a next door former one-room school house built about 18 54 were soon demolished. Or were they given to the fire department to burn for practice? I can't remember. At any rate the Scobies, now taking the hint that they were not wanted in the valley of their forefathers, moved to an 1850s farmhouse in Hudson. To the best of my knowledge, they never returned to the valley. They have since both passed away, Mrs. Lindley dying most recently. It really does a disservice to all of those families that lost their homes to the National Park Service, through no fault of their own, that their forceably abandoned homes and barns are characterized in such a disrespectful manner.

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