Sam B's Restaurant (Third Floor Theater)

Bowling Green, the seat of Wood County in northwest Ohio, grew as a commercial center supported by natural gas extraction and later by Bowling Green State University. The building that houses Sam B's Restaurant stands downtown and includes a third-floor space that once served as a theater — a common configuration in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century commercial blocks, where upper stories provided assembly halls, performance spaces, or lodge rooms above street-level businesses.

The Ohio Exploration Society, which documents paranormal claims across the state, records that the third-floor theater was the site of a murder. Beyond that violent history, two employees are said to have died under unexplained circumstances somewhere on the premises. The exact dates, identities, and circumstances of these deaths have not been independently documented in newspaper archives or county records that are publicly accessible.

Staff members have reported strange activity throughout the building, particularly in and around the kitchen area. The specific nature of those reports is not detailed in available sources beyond general accounts of unusual occurrences. Because the building's dark history rests on a single source with limited verifiable corroboration, the full context of events here awaits further documentation.