![]() What began as a haunted hayride decades ago has transformed into an intense, sensory overload experience that’s built for only the bravest of souls. Dead Acres (Columbus)ĭead Acres’ Haunted Hoochie attraction is the scariest scene in the Columbus area around Halloween. This haunted house is not for the faint of heart its spooky tales have gained notoriety and have been highlighted in the HuffPost and ABC News. ![]() ![]() In the 1980s, it opened back up to the public. After discovering the janitor was to blame, the school shut down in 1952 and is rumored to have been haunted ever since. The Dent Schoolhouse (Cincinnati)Īccording to legend, The Dent Public School opened in 1894 and was shut down in the 1950s after several children disappeared mysteriously over the course of a decade. If you’re up to the challenge of trekking through a haunted abandoned prison filled with crazy criminals lurking throughout, you might have nerves of steel. Nobody dares to visit this haunted attraction except around Halloween each year. But this well-known spooky spot already registers high on the scare scale for the creepy clowns and psychotic inmates that have taken over and transformed it into Blood Prison. The famous Mansfield Reformatory, where Shawshank Redemption was filmed, gets bonus points for being an old, unkempt prison. If you think we left a spine-chilling spot off our list, leave us a note in the comments! Escape from Blood Prison (Mansfield) We searched the state for the most fear-inducing experiences out there, and we came up with these five sites that are sure to spook your socks off. Check out this list and plan a terrifying trip to see for yourself, if you dare! ![]() Across the nation, there are an estimated 1,200+ haunted attractions in the U.S., and several of the spookiest spots are here in Ohio. Halloween is part of the fabric of fall, marked by jack-o’-lanterns, festive costumes, candy, trick-or-treating and, of course, haunted houses. Happily oblivious to its serious intent, people like to stand in the concrete corn field and take photos of themselves.As the leaves turn and temperatures fall, ghouls and goblins come out to play in the Buckeye State. ![]() But time softened those bad feelings, and Ohio now promotes Field of Corn as one of its top public artworks. The field is indeed surrounded by corporate offices, bland businesses, and suburban neighborhoods.įield of Corn instantly became a joke: giant, inedible food, paid for with tax dollars. The artwork, he said, was meant to symbolize "the death of agriculture" in the face of suburban sprawl. The variety Cochran used was a "double-cross hybrid called Corn Belt Dent Corn." Cochran arranged the white corn ears in neat rows, inspired by the identical white tombstones in Arlington National Cemetery. Three different molds were used to create the concrete ears of corn, and each ear faces a different direction so that they all look a little different. A row of old Osage Orange Trees anchors the west side of the park, where you'll find signs explaining hybridization and describing the project. He completed the artwork - which he named "Field of Corn" - on October 30, 1994. An Ohio artist, Malcolm Cochran, was brought in by the Dublin Arts Council to create the environment of corn. ![]()
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