When you were a kid was there a haunted house in your neighborhood? There was in mine! [View all]

The mansion sits high on a ridge along Walhalla Road in Clintonville, a neighborhood in north Columbus. What makes this home different from the neighboring homes is the legend that surrounds it. Mooney’s Mansion was built in 1913, predating most of the other homes in the area. The legend takes place in the 1950s, when a husband supposedly killed his wife in the home. One variation of the story states that the man murdered his wife and daughter with an axe and may have even committed suicide. Yet another variation says the man hanged the bodies from the Calumet Street bridge. In any case, the legend states that blue lights can sometimes be seen through the windows, floating around inside the house. Reports say if you go under the bridge on Walhalla Road at night, you can see the reflection of the wife and daughter in the water to the right of the road.👻