Squire's Castle

Squire's Castle, in the North Chagrin Reservation of Cleveland Metroparks, is the stone gatehouse that English-born Standard Oil executive Feargus B. Squire built in the 1890s for a grand estate; the mansion was never built and the shell is now a ruin that visitors may walk through. The local legend, retold on News 5 and across Northeast Ohio, is that Mrs. Squire died in a fall or by hanging in the basement, and that her screams and a dim figure are seen at night. Historians find no record of any such death, but the story has become part of the park's lore.