Haunted Marion, Ohio by Joshua Simpkins

Author:Joshua Simpkins
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
Published: 2013-03-15T00:00:00+00:00

A lonely stretch of railroad tracks crossing Dry Lane Road near LaRue. Courtesy of the author.

“Dry Lane” or “Dead Man’s Valley” is located near LaRue where a lonely road crosses the Big Four track, and which is looked upon with terror by the superstitious.24 It is a wild looking place, and a legend is told of how for years at nightfall a person could be seen standing at the crossing, and when the belated pedestrian or driver would arrive at the crossing the ghostly personage had mysteriously disappeared. A couple of deaths have occurred at this crossing. A resident of Agosta was stealing a ride and fell off a freight train and was killed at this place. Previous to this, a farmer was struck by a train and killed. In this manner the locality gained the named of Dead Man’s Valley, but it is more generally known as Dry Lane.

In years past a number of robberies occurred there, and ever since the road was laid out there has been something mysterious about the place. It is a desolate bit of territory, and when in the autumn, at night fall, the ghost-fearing inhabitants of that portion of the country are passing, they are wont to whip up their horses and cross at a faster speed than their steed is in the habit of traveling.

Even now it is looked upon with superstition. The beaux in returning late at night from a call on the belles of the neighborhood will drive a mile out of their way to avoid crossing the lonely spot, and when they do, it is with a mingled feeling of awe and fright, and once across they never look back. Stories of crime and romance are told of the place, but none have ever been proven, with the exception of the robberies long ago.

[It] is one of the romantic localities of Marion County, about which many hair-raising legends are told.

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