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The Untold Story Of Gore Orphanage, Ohio (Light Of Hope) · Mystery Archives Episodes

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  The desperate screams of children and thick black smoke
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  filled the air as dozens of onlookers stare in horror.
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  The old orphanage is soon reduced to a pile of glowing
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  Embers. The slowly extinguish where the
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  souls of the children extinguished with them or do
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  they cry out from Beyond the Grave.
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  Today here on mystery archives, we explore this nightmarish
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  tragedy and tell the untold story of Gore Orphanage.
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  The year was Nineteen. Oh, two and a religious zealot
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  named. Reverend Johan sprunjer decided
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  to establish an orphanage on Gore Road and the Vermillion
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  area. He and his wife katharina had
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  moved to Ohio after their prior orphanage had burned down in
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  Burn, Indiana. All those located on Gore Road,
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  the actual name of the orphanage was Light Of Hope.
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  Although, its name would not fit its future reputation.
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  The new orphanage consisted of four sets of farm buildings
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  covering a total of five hundred and forty three acres.
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  A magnificent Greek style mansion house at abandoned on
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  the property as well. And it to had a strange and
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  tragic backstory originally built by a man named Joseph
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  Swift in the 19th century. It housed elaborate Furnishings
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  ornate, Woodwork and marble columns but happiness soon
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  turned to tragedy when Swift's five-year-old daughter suddenly
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  passed away. And within a matter of months is
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  24 year old son, would also pass shortly after both of these
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  terrible happenings, the Swift family Investments, began to dry
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  up, forcing Joseph, to sell his once dream.
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  Home to a man named Nicholas Wilbur, Who was a renowned
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  spiritualist. Mysterious rituals and seances
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  were said to have been conducted regularly in the secluded
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  Mansion. Conjuring up the spirits of
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  deceased children. The spirits were said to inhabit
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  a particular room within the Mansion itself and that Wilbur's
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  own children or psychic and could communicate with them on a
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  regular basis. Tragedy would also be fall
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  Wilbur as well for of his grandchildren would died at the
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  Mansion during a diphtheria epidemic.
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  The Mansion was then abandoned in 1901 roughly one year prior
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  to sprunjer purchasing the land, sprung GE did not.
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  However, try to use this Mansion as part of his orphanage, he
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  decided to utilize it as part of a self-sustaining religious
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  community. Instead, it housed a small
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  chapel and a printing press proudly stamping Bibles and
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  other religious. Sprinted there with wide of
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  Hope. The orphanage grew to be quite
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  large population. Wise housed over 100 children at
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  any given time, boys lived in a farm called the Hughes Farm
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  while the girls lived at the Howard Farm, but rumors of
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  darkness and despair would begin to plug Light Of Hope.
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  Orphans frequently ran away from the home often waiting through
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  the Vermillion, River to escape and many children soon told
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  horrific stories of abuse. Neglect and slave labor.
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  They described their diet consisting of calves, lumps, hog
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  heads and sick cattle if they were fed at all.
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  Their food was also often cooked in the same pot.
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  So that were used for boiling undergarments, and the
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  allegations didn't stop here. They would go on to describe
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  rat-infested quarters where the children lived and how the rats
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  would Often by children, as they tried to sleep.
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  The children also only had one tub per Farm to bathe in, and
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  they can only bathe every two weeks and had to use the same
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  water as the other children. Stronger would also apparently
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  rent the children out to neighboring, Farms, as laborers
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  for a price, it would beat the children with a thick leather
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  strap. If any of them dared to step out
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  of line illness was apparently only treated via prayer and the
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  children didn't receive a proper education as they were meant to
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  and 1909 a formal investigation was conducted by the state of
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  Ohio. But because there were no laws
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  on the books. At the time, they failed to be
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  able to do anything about the situation.
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  The sprung girs would ultimately admit to many of the allegations
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  that were lobbied against them. The fate of Light Of Hope would
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  soon come to fruition. However, Mr. Springer died.
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  Just two years after the conclusion of the investigation,
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  leading to the closure of the orphanage and 1916, after years
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  of financial troubles, the children would be dispersed
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  throughout the local community and or return to any relatives
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  that would take them. But unlike the infamous Legend,
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  there is actually no evidence of the orphanage burning down
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  whatsoever. But there is an eerily similar
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  event that happened about 40 miles away from where Light Of
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  Hope is located. shortly before the orphanage investigation and
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  1908 a disaster took place and the town of Collinwood the
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  school mysteriously, caught fire and caused the deaths of 176
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  students and for adults. These poor souls either burned
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  to death or were trampled in the ensuing chaos.
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  According to Witnesses, the children attempted to exit the
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  building through the main stairwell, but it was already
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  blocked by flames. The majority then tried to make
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  their way to the rear exit of the school but it was
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  unfortunately locked crammed together.
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  With little to no room to move the fire swept from hallway to
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  hallway. Consuming all in his path.
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  The cries of the children disturb desperate parents and
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  onlookers who could do nothing to save them. after the tragedy,
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  the school's janitor would be accused of setting the blaze,
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  but was later, proven innocent He himself lost four children in
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  the fire and was terribly burned, trying to rescue one.
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  And for a time he was detained by the police and protective
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  custody to keep the residents from lynching it.
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  This terrible and very real event, is what more than likely
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  inspired the Tall, Tales of Gore Orphanage, perhaps the details
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  were mixed up or interwoven for one reason or another, it could
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  be that after the fire many families from Collinwood moved
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  away, many of them to wear Light Of Hope is located at the time.
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  The fire itself brought an end to the town of Collinwood
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  leading to its annexation into Cleveland just two years after
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  the tragedy. Although Gore Orphanage are
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  Light Of Hope also shared a dark past, it would also experience a
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  fire, but one, much different than the legend after its
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  abandonment. They quickly became a dwelling
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  ground for teenagers and troublemakers the Swift Mansion
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  soon. Became covered in graffiti and
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  would be burned down in 1923 more than likely by the same
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  culprits. This is what remains of the site
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  today. And although there is no
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  evidence of anyone passing away during the days of Light, Of
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  Hope orphanage, there certainly is a dark past and multiple
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  deaths that have taken place upon the land, the dark rituals
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  and seances conducted within the Swift mansion in.
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  And of itself could have conjured something into this
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  world, that shouldn't be here. And since its abandonment, a lot
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  of paranormal activity has been reported in or around the site
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  apparitions. Disembodied voices, balls of
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  light screams and ghostly hand prints are just some of the
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  strange paranormal activity that has been reported on Gore
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  Orphanage Road. And whatever the case may be,
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  whether the stories are true or false, one can say with
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  certainty, that given the dark events of the land that were
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  aware of, it's not surprising that this Legend Continues to
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  live on today. And that gor orphanage has
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  earned its spot in history as Ohio's.
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  Most haunted destination. Thank you so much for watching.
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