APS Case File #081

Johnson's Island Cemetery

Location
City: Johnson's Island
County: Ottawa
State: Ohio

History
Very little remains of the Confederate POW camp that once occupied Johnson's Island in Sandusky Bay. Today you can reach it by highway bridge and see the cemetery where so many rebel soldiers were buried, far from home.

Legend has it that the ghosts of the soldiers stand up from their graves and march south, in formation, across the bay and toward home. Workers at the stone quarry saw them one day in the early 1900s while taking shelter from a storm under the cemetery trees.

Comments
An investigation is planned for 2009.
-John Albrecht Jr., Lead Investigator

Status
Case Open

Souce: www.forgottenoh.com