What Happened In Boston Ohio

20 facts to know what happened to the helltown ohio.
What happened in boston ohio. In this episode we look at the federal take over of three townships. One of the most comprehensive online resources for the truth behind helltown has been written by james willis on his ghosts of ohio website detailing the many legends as well as the history of the area originally this was the town of boston which sprang up on the ohio erie canal in the early 1800s but it has origins much older than that. Boston mills hell town hell town a dark foreboding place where ghosts cults and serial killers lurk. Here the cross all over the church are placed upside down.
Boston township in summit county ohio is known by another name helltown thanks to legends and folklore about so called hauntings and satanic activity in the area the township was founded in 1806 and since that time the national park service has taken some abandoned areas through eminent domain. You may be surprised a. Helltown ohio is in fact an abandoned town whose deserted buildings provide plenty of fodder for creepy photos or at least they did until they were all torn down in 2016. Boston township is one of the nine townships of summit county ohio united states about 23 miles south of cleveland.
The 2000 census found 1 664 people in the township 1 062 of whom lived in the unincorporated portions of the township. For instance the city still celebrates python day in honor of. 1 the satanic church in the helltown here most of the people in this area goes to the church to worship devils and black mass is conducted. Of course we were intrigued so we visited hell town.
Boston township was part of the area in northern ohio designated as cuyahoga valley national recreation area. An entire town cursed and frighteningly dangerous after dark. While what really happened to the town s residents is quite disturbing in its own way most of the urban legends have rather mundane explanations. Boston mills peninsula and everett over 32 000 acres that were taken by force due to eminent domain.
It s true that a number of houses were left abandoned in the 1970s after the government acquired the area of boston township in ohio in 1974 to develop the cuyahoga valley national recreation. These explanations of course don t diminish the public s enthusiasm for legends of unusual occurrences in boston ohio.