Utopia Ohio Underground Church
These days it belongs to resident pam meece who occasionally lets visitors like writer randy mcnutt pictured tour the mysterious worship space.

Utopia ohio underground church. Around the mid 1800s they built a church 25 feet underground made in stone the underground church is still there you can still get to it if you can get through a fence. Utopia ohio in clermont county. This is actually a wine cellar built when the ohio river valley was the west my friend willie says if you tell a story long enough well it has to be true.
Utopia ohio wine cellar left contrary to the embellished story on the internet this is not a haunted underground church. In 1847 many residents of the town were killed when the ohio river flooded. Utopia was founded in 1844 by the followers of charles fourier after the failure of an earlier fourierist phalanstere called the clermont phalanx.
Utopia is an unincorporated community in far southern franklin township clermont county ohio united states along the banks of the ohio river. Ohio erected a historical marker designating this utopia in 2003. Theres an underground church across the street where the wattles people would practice their rituals.
Utopia has been referred to as a ghost town although there are still people who live there. Access google sites with a free google account for personal use or g suite account for business use. Utopias haunted underground church will be open every weekend in october.
We used to camp out here before we ever moved here. John wattles stone house is visible supposedly haunted on rainy nights as is the riverbank by the dripping ghosts of his doomed angry followers. Videos by state indiana videos iowa.
No one under the age of 18 permitted without an adult. The story goes that the town was basically founded by a spiritualist back in the 1800s had a group of followers. Fouriers writings inspired his readers to create their own utopian society hence the name utopia within three years the community broke up.
Donations start at 500 per adult. No one really knows why spiritualist john wattles and his followers built this underground church in utopia ohio.

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