The Allendale train tunnel is located south of Cincinnati, in the woods behind the Allendale trailer park in Elsmere, Kentucky. Some years ago, legend says a man hung himself from a hook that is set above the tunnel entrance. Now, his ghost is said to walk the tunnel, or some say, appear still hanging from the hook. There are also reports of disembodied voices, as well as screams coming from inside the tunnel.
There is sometimes confusion with finding it because it’s known as a train tunnel. No train runs through it. It’s actually a tunnel for the stream that runs under the tracks. To reach it, you must enter the woods, travel down a hill, and follow a stream to reach the location. Heavily spray painted and littered, it’s obviously been a teen hangout for years.
There is a hook above both entrances, so at least that part of the legend is true, But who knows if anyone hung themselves from either one. Good luck finding it, it can be a pain to get to.
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i live here in allendale
lol you live in a trailer park
My local Paranormal Investigation team (Queen City Ghost Hunters) and I investigated this place. We have several photos of orbs and such, video quality was shit so the recordings are garbage, and we all heard footsteps in the water while inside the tunnel. Legend has it that a man hung himself, but we picked up on multiple presences, not just one. I can’t say what it is or why the place is haunted, but there is definetly something going on down there!
Ive been told that many Indians were barried there, not to mention the trailor park that has a part with the tunnel is also haunted. Random trailors burning down. Also many other people have commited suicide on the hooks attached to the tunnel. A woman hung herself on the opposite side of the Tunnel where the Man supposing to be named Jacob Space.
Are you guys look for another investigator i want to get involved in the paranormal world. In cincy
I USED TO LIVE THERE AND THATPLACE STILL MAKES THE HAIRS ON THE BACK OF MY NECK STAND UP
I lived here when I was a kid about 15 or so years ago. Back then you could actually get on top of the tunnel by the entrance, there was less overgrowth. People were saying a man hung himself from that hook back when I was a kid too. Dunno if it’s true or not. I used to play in that tunnel all the time. It looks different than it did when I was a kid. It still looks creepy though. I spent 5 or so years in that trailer park. I eventually moved to Newport.
I also remember an old tree house up in a big tree that we could never get too. Wonder if it’s still there…
Hey Jeff, I remember we could walk to the top of the tunnel too would jump off the top of the tunnel into the water as kids haha. I remember the tree house too!! It was really high up close to the top of the hill.
My brothers and I spent a lot of time in that tunnel. I can only remember a few times that we were down there after all these years. I may go back there one day.
The tree house was missing the boards that you could climb when I was a kid, so we couldn’t get up there. They may have tore it down by now.
Sorry it took so long for me to respond, I forgot the name of this website. You may not get a chance to read this, but it was good meeting and talking to someone who grew up where I did. 🙂
@Jeff -I bet we lived there the same time in the 90’s! Feel free to add me on Facebook if you have it. It is really cool, I have a ton of good memories there.
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I remember you. I didn’t realize it until I saw your last name. Your brother’s name is Chris, I think, right?
Its not, as a pre-teen, thats an average hangout spot for me and my friends. I can officially say for all I know, the treehouse is not there, or we just havent seen it. But I found out just today that somebody supposedly hung themselves there
My aunt talks to spirits so I asked if she would go down there with me at night to go and ask the spirit if it knew anything about a death that occurred in my family recently in the park. When we went down there my aunt said a prayer to protect us from any spirit from following us home. We sat on the other side of the tunnel (which isn’t visible in the pic). She got up after a few moments of silence and went into the tunnel for about 2 minutes. When she came out she said she felt a female and male presence. She said that the female presence was protecting us from the male presence. The male presence was obviously the man who hung himself but the female presence was a woman named Margret that was buried on the 0ther side of the train tracks in the 1800’s after she was murdered. When I ask Margret questions I could kind of feel an answer but I wasn’t sure so I ask my aunt who gave me the answer from Margret. Margret said that the male presence regretted killing himself and was looking for a way to be human again which freaked me out. Margret said to not go down there at night without my aunt and if, which I don’t think I will, I go down there in the day to say a prayer like ” god protect me” or something like that.
looking for people to investigate this location.
I live right by here if anyone is interested in going I can give directions or show you. I used to play in it as kids and while we personally never saw anything, there could be something. It was fun to play in it and in the woods though.
I would like to know where the entrance is.
If you go on east covered bridge drive in elsmere/florence kentucky, there is a path in the woods at the end of the street, go down the path and turn left and walk for a bit and you should see it, you can also get the other end of the tunnel through allendale trailer park, hope this helps.
That trailer park is disgusting
I used to go back there all the time when I lived in Erlanger. I swear I seen a ghost or something sitting on the ledge thing for like a split second and he/she turned his head, noticed us and disappeared. But that was a few years ago when I was like 8 so no one believed me.
People would hang dolls from the hook. definetly wanna go back there soon.
I just recently moved into the trailer park. Some people that grew up there showed it to us, it’s really pretty around there. I didn’t know about all of the creepy stuff until after I had already went. I didn’t see anything, however a friend swears he seen a little girl on a seperate occasion I think some ghost hunters should check it out!
I just went down there the other day walked through the tunnel and on the way back through there were barefoot prints that were not there going through the other way. There is definitely paranormal activity.
Can someone please point out on Google Maps exactly where this tunnel is? You can’t really see anything for the trees.
Here’s a link to a pic that shows the way from the trailer park entrance https://creepycincinnati.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/capture.png
I live off Manderlay, which is walking distance to the tunnel. I was just taking a stroll walking towards the covered bridge park in elsmere and I noticed a trail right before the park entrance and just down the hill was the tunnel and I didn’t even know that it’s supposedly haunted. The weird thing is about 500 feet down the trail is a picnic table under a tree with a rope that’s tied into a noose.
I live off Manderlay, which is walking distance to the tunnel. I was just taking a stroll walking towards the covered bridge park in elsmere and I noticed a trail right before the park entrance and just down the hill was the tunnel and I didn’t even know that it’s supposedly haunted. The weird thing is about 500 feet down the trail is a picnic table under a tree with a rope that’s tied into a noose. Super easy to get to actually.
This creek is filled with magical tunnels. Very peaceful places. I one day will walk this tunnel. but yes its very awkward to park and get to I tried once and ended up a far way from it.
I live close by and am having some strange stuff going on in my house!
I played in it as a kid and hung out in it as a teen…never heard of any of this…ha..and it was always called the “the big tressle ” to us…the ” little trestle” was a few thousand feet north on the tracks…neither were really treaties but that’s what they were called back in the 50s, 60s and 70s
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I know this tunnel for real, friends and myself, would go through it and over it several times a week. Some friends and I also where the first to investigate the large train derailment further back the tracks. In fact I still have in a sealed jar, containing a powder chemical taken from one of the cars that derailed there. (We’re talkin about 53-54 years ago). There was a new construction zone too after the derailment, being built back that way… I would guess maybe near Eagle Dr?? No homes only a huge construction zone with a mess load of underground “walkthrough passages” were being laid out and built.
I’ve been inside and over that tunnel, almost daily. I have walked the inside ledge so many times. Now I never heard of the hanging of the gentlemen, but you certainly can feel there is something there that very unrest. Something most don’t know, there was a large train derailment further down the tracks. Hard for me to recall now, but seems like it happened before Fuchs Rd. Can’t recall if anyone was hurt or died in that incident. (I actually still have in my collection, a bottle of powered Chemical which I took from that derailment over 50+ years ago, my brother and I found it there.)