Moonville, Ohio

Moonville is a ghost town in southeastern Brown Township, Vinton County, Ohio, United States.

Little remains of this former mining community except a few foundations, a cemetery, and an abandoned railroad tunnel which is the subject of numerous ghost stories.

By the 1960s all the buildings were gone and there was little to mark the site, other than Moonville Cemetery, the tunnel, and foundation stones found near the tracks.

The legends of the Moonville Tunnel include several tales of ghosts that allegedly still haunt visitors to this day.

Visitors have seen a ghostly figure holding a lantern while walking alongside the track and through the tunnel.

[9] The Lavender Lady Visitors of the Moonville Tunnel have seen thin, elderly women walking alongside the trail.

[11] The legend now says that the ghost of Baldie Keeton stands above the tunnel and stares at the approaching visitors.

[13] Railroad workers called the line the most lonesome, desolate eight miles (13 km) of track between Parkersburg, West Virginia and St. Louis.

[citation needed] In June 1985, CSX announced that the line between Cumberland, Maryland and Cincinnati would be reduced to secondary status, and the last scheduled freight train passed through Moonville in August.