Wick House: Youngstown State University's Haunted Part of History

Wick House in Youngstown, Ohio, is a well-known haunt in the area. This old mansion is now part of the Youngstown State University campus. It was built in 1906 for Col. George Dennick Wick. Wick House sits right at the intersection of the eastbound U.S. 422 service road and Wick Avenue. The address is 656 Wick Ave. in Youngstown.

In 1912, life was great for Mr. Wick and his wife Mollie Wick, but his health had started to fail. In an effort to try to get better, he and his family decided to head to Europe. In April of 1912, they were slated to return on the ill-fated RMS Titanic. Mollie Wick survived, but her husband did not.

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Mollie headed back to Youngstown and always held onto hope that George Wick would return home, as his body was never found after the Titanic sunk. She would sit all day looking out the main door and windows for him, but he never came home.

When Youngstown State University initially purchased this home, it was used as a residential dorm in the 1980s. There were many reports of weird feelings on the second and third floors. Things like the main door opening, flickering lights, and opening blinds were observed more than once. Some students have even reported seeing an "ethereal female" in the area of the lobby in the late-night hours.

Wick House is now used as a Disability Service Center. The reports of strange happenings are fewer, but some people are still reporting odd occurrences on occasion.

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When I went to Youngstown State University, it took all of three days before I started to hear about the different possible haunted places on campus. The dorm hall I was staying in was supposedly one of them, and then Wick House was mentioned. I had only been inside the old mansion a few times, and, of course, it looked a bit different now than it had in the early 1900s.

I personally never felt, saw, or noticed anything out of the ordinary, but some of my fellow classmates swear that they had odd experiences at some point when inside Wick House. There were even some staff members who would tell stories about the different paranormal experiences that they had had at some point when in that house. The stories were quite interesting and relatively believable. Overall, the house is very beautiful and has maintained the majority of its original work. It is definitely worth seeing.