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Char Bar - Columbus Ohio Ghost

 

 

Char Bar

Columbus, Ohio

The Old North Graveyard and the Viaduct

That there have been sightings of only one particular ghost at the Char Bar seems almost strange considering where it sits. Then again, although many hooded pedestrians may have walked the streets of Columbus, you have to wonder if the form is not something grimmer than a residual entity or restless spirit making its appearance considering the businesses in this district have cozied up to an old graveyard where all the patrons there were not completely interred, The Old North Graveyard. Then, in 1875, a tunnel underpass was built to curtail the massive onslaught of carriage traffic that mixed with streetcars and train traffic. Between the stench of manure left in the tunnel and lack of ventilation, it had a short life and people decided it was easier to compete with the traffic than walk the tunnel. Later a viaduct was built above the train and it altered the road so the cellar door once opening to the main street in the bar, was now underground.