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The 7th Barn
A little over a century ago, somewhere near Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, a husband and wife were awaiting the arrival of their first child. They were a wealthy couple and had just built a new house on a large plot of land. When they looked out their bedroom windows, instead of seeing neighboring houses or busy streets, they were met with rolling hills and clusters of trees.
The growing family had big plans for their property. They dreamt of starting a farm, one where they could raise animals and teach their children to work the land.
As his wife’s belly grew, the husband began to feel restless (perhaps a bout of pre-baby jitters). He decided it was best to keep his hands busy, so that same day, he began building a barn. The construction took him several months, but the man was able to complete the project just in time. He dedicated the barn to his first-born child, hung a sign by the door to memorialize the occasion, and shortly after, their son was born.
A second child followed shortly after, and then a third. During each of his wife’s pregnancies, when he wasn’t doting on her or the children, he was working on the barns. For you see, each time his wife was pregnant, he built a barn for the unborn child. Soon, the family had six children, and therefore, six barns.
When the woman became pregnant with her seventh child, the parents were ecstatic. They weren’t as well off as when they first acquired the house and property (because feeding so many mouths is anything but cheap), but they still had enough funds to build a seventh barn.
After all, it was tradition.
When he completed the seventh barn, the man engraved his soon-to-be child’s name into a sign and hung it by the door. But, unlike the previous times, when his wife had given birth almost immediately after the barn was finished, on this occasion, there was nothing. His wife told him not to worry, she’d had six healthy babies, and this one would come when he was ready.
Days went by, then a week. The man suggested they call a doctor, but the woman laughed and assured him there was no need to worry. She teased him for acting like a new parent, but no matter what she said or how many times he paced the halls, he couldn’t shake the feeling that something wasn’t right.
Nine days after the husband finished the barn, the man developed a splitting headache. Moments later, his wife went into labor.
Just like the times before, the husband called the midwife, who quickly rushed over to assist. However, this birth would not be like the others. For reasons still unknown, the woman died shortly after bringing her seventh child into the world. A few hours later, the baby followed his mother through the veil.
Other than his blinding headache (which seemed to increase with each passing day), the man was numb. He went through the motions of feeding and caring for his children, but most of the time, he sat and talked with the shadows in the seventh barn.
About a month after his wife and child’s deaths, the man woke his children in the middle of the night. One by one, he took them to the barn’s named after them, and one by one, he hacked them into pieces and buried their bodies beneath the floors.
Then he went to the seventh barn, strung a rope from the rafters, and hung himself.
After the tragedy, the man’s next of kin tried everything to sell the property, but nobody wanted anything to do with the haunted farm. Eventually, they sectioned the land into parcels, built more houses, and slowly, very slowly, people forgot about the local man who lost his mind and murdered his family.
But then, about one hundred years later, an Ohio local and his son took a special interest in the myth of the seventh barn. In 1997, they set out to find the farm’s location, which supposedly wasn’t difficult if you were familiar with the area. According to him, all seven barns were still standing. Even the handmade signs engraved with the seven children’s names existed as if they had been waiting to be rediscovered.
The man and his son were interested in local legends and scary stories but had no fear of ghosts. In fact, they longed to capture some sort of paranormal footage on camera. The pair decided the best way to do this would be to stay overnight in the seventh barn (the only barn that had never been purchased or parceled off).
Nobody knows the events of that night, but when the man didn’t return home with his son for breakfast the next morning, his wife began to worry. When they didn’t come home for lunch or dinner, she called the police.
When police arrived at the abandoned barn, they found father and son hanging from the rafters.
As far as we know, somewhere in rural Ohio, the seventh barn still stands, waiting for its next visitor.
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This retelling was based on the urban legend, “The Seventh Barn.”
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