Gore Orphanage

The ruin is a building that formerly housed the Swift Mansion and, later, the Light of Hope Orphanage, and is the subject of local urban legends, whereby the violent deaths of young adults and children are alleged to have occurred.

Historians also have determined that Gore Orphanage is the name of a road, not a building, and many unrelated people, places, and events simply have been combined into a ghost story.

[4] A local activity known as "legend tripping" involves teenagers testing one another's courage with ghost stories of haunted locations to which they travel by automobile.

As early as 1905, teenagers were visiting the Swift Mansion before it developed its current Gore Orphanage legend, in search of the supernatural, due to its reputation for being haunted.

Season 5 Episode 9 of the television show Supernatural takes place at a fictitious hotel built atop the ruins of Gore Orphanage in Vermilion, Ohio.