Jesse Wilkins

Whether the spirit is trying to keep the show running or just doesn't realize it's over, no one really knows.

But if you spend enough time alone in that theater when it's empty, they say you start to feel watched from somewhere up in the rafters.

Across town sits one of Newark's oldest burial grounds, Cedar Hill Cemetery.

Established in the mid-1800s, it's sprawling, quiet, and undeniably beautiful.

It's also home to some of the area's most well-known ghost stories.

The most famous might be the Baker Mausoleum, a large stone crypt with a reputation for strange sounds.

People have reported whispers echoing from inside the sealed tomb.

One local legend is that if you knock on the door three times, you might hear someone from inside knock back.

And others have claimed to see a misty figure pacing the steps, disappearing as you get closer.

But it's another monument that draws the most attention.

the baby face tombstone.

It's a carved gravestone featuring the image of a child's face, and legend says that if you stare at it long enough, it stares back.

Some even swear that the eyes follow them as they move.

Others say if you look away, and then back again, the baby's expression has changed, ever so slightly.

and then there's the main event of hauntings in newark the licking county jail we had the chance to investigate the old licking county jail and what we found there is something we won't soon forget you can find that full investigation on our youtube channel before you go watch that though it's worth understanding what kind of place this jail really is

and why so many believe the people who suffered inside never truly left.

The Licking County Jail opened in 1889, its thick walls and heavy iron bars designed to make escape impossible.

It's a brooding gothic structure that looks more like a fortress than a jail, a monument to punishment, built to house Newark's most dangerous and most desperate.

In its early years, it was a symbol of justice and control.

Today, it's better known as one of the most haunted buildings in Ohio.