I thought of including this one with the Crybaby Bridge piece, as this one supposedly happens/happened in the same area. There is an old farmhouse within sight of Crybaby Bridge. The story was always known in the area of Ohio I'm from as "The Bloody Baby Footprints".
I don't recall what was said to have happened to the baby in this farmhouse. But, somehow, a very small child was said to have died horribly. According to the story, on most nights the ghost of the child lets anyone in the house know that it is still there by walking down the wooden steps and into the living room. The child's ghost is said to leave a trail of small, bloody footprints behind it. According to the story, anyone in the house would be able to hear the sounds of a small child half walking, half scooting down the stairs. If they were to look, they would see the footprints left by the ghost. Upon reaching the floor at the bottom of the steps, the ghost was said to have made its way into the living room, running as small children who have recently learned to walk tend to do. Again, the trail would be marked by a line of bloody footprints. Once the ghost reached the middle of the living room, the prints would grow more and more faint until they stopped appearing. But the sounds of the child would continue as the ghost finished crossing the room. Then the sounds were said to stop, too. The footprints that had been left behind were said to remian for a few more moments before fading away.
As with Crybaby Bridge, this is hear-say. I have seen the old farmhouse first-hand, so I know that it's there. Or at least it was. I moved to Florida four years ago. By now, the house may have been torn down, or burned, or anything. I believe there had been a couple of attempts at burning it in the past. Also, I'd heard reports of KKK members buring crosses in the field behind the old farmhouse. Anyway, I know that the house was real, but I was never inside it. Nor have I ever spoken with anyone who claimed to have been. Everyone in the area it seemed knew the story, but no one was sure when it began or who had been in the house to witness the sounds and the forming of the phantom bloody footprints.
-Scott
