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Morgan County Courthouse
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Anchorage Putnam Villa Marietta, Ohio w/COGS Paranormal Group November 2008
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Overlooking West Marietta/Harmar in Southeast Ohio is the imposing ashlar sandstone Italian villa known as "The Anchorage" or "Putnam Villa". This home, built in 1859 by Douglas Putnam for his wife Eliza, comprises 22 rooms and a grand tall campanile that fronts the house. From the tower room, the largest part of Marietta and its two rivers can be viewed. John Slocomb was the architect and master builder. The walls are made of 24" thick sandstone quarried from the top of the hill behind the house. The foundation is of solid rock and all wood used in the house is locally grown oak. The Anchorage is best remembered as Edward MacTaggerts residence. Using wealth accumulated from oil wells in Oklahoma, Mr. MacTaggert restored the home and furnished it with treasures from his many worldwide travels. From the tower room, the largest part of Marietta and its two rivers can be viewed. This mansion served as the residence of many prominent Marietta citizens including Harry Knox (Knox Boatyard), Dorothy James Roberts (author), and Sophia Russell (Marietta College). The mansion is currently undergoing restoration sponsored by the Historical Society. Some of the rumored ghosts include Eliza Putnam who had the building built as a replica of a friends house in New Jersey and finished in 1859, who died shortly of heart disease in 1862 and is said to still haunt the mansion. David Putnam, Douglas brother is also supposed to be a ghostly resident here. The House was rumored to be a stop on the underground railroad and in its later years was used as a retirement home. This leaves the place with ample history for a potential haunting.
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Bissman Building
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The Bissman Building was built in 1886 by the same architect who was building the Mansfield reformatory at that time. They were completed together and share some similarities. Peter Bissman was an immigrant with a dream and lots of ambition, his descendants have followed that dream down thru the years and even today Peter Bissman's expanded wholesale grocery still stands where the elder Bissman sank down roots, but not in operation. In the early 1930s the twenty smokestacks on the north and south sides of the Bissman's building filled the early morning air with the rich aroma their own brands of coffee. They supplied everyone within a 50 mile radius with groceries and staples and became a part of Mansfield's landscape for generations of people. The building has had a long and interesting life with many out of site happenings in its otherwise mundane operation in its basement during prohibition for example many shady things went on. Their have been deaths and murders, bodies found and unsolved murders left unanswered.These have left there mark upon the structure and linger still. The Bissman descendants have a long history of keeping silent about the happenings and hauntings here while the wholesale grocery was in business, but have come forward along with their ex-employees now that the grocery wholesale is as defunct as its last patrons. Now adding to that history paranormal investigators delve into the building for experiences and evidence that have added to the understanding of the otherness here. Welcome to the Bissman Building come on in.
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Blue Limestone Park
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Blue Limstone Park has a reputation for spirit activity and urban legends have sprung up around there being cult activity as well as paranormal activity back around an abandoned tunnel under the RR tracks. Strange lights and chanting are supposedly heard and seen around the tunnel.
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Bobby Mackey's July 19th 2009
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The legendary Bobby Mackey's Music World in Wilder Kentucky is perhaps the worlds most haunted Honky Tonk. The club has a long history of hauntings and murders from Pearl Bryan who was beheaded by Scott Jackson and Alonzo Walling just two miles away and who's missing head is believed to have been thrown down a well in the basement, to Johanna who is reported to have poisoned her father for having her lover killed and then took her own life here. Bobby Mackey's has a life all its own.
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Bobby Mackey's March 2009 w/COGS Paranormal Group
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The legendary Bobby Mackey's Music World in Wilder Kentucky is perhaps the worlds most haunted Honky Tonk. The club has a long history of hauntings and murders from Pearl Bryan who was beheaded by Scott Jackson and Alonzo Walling just two miles away and who's missing head is believed to have been thrown down a well in the basement, to Johanna who is reported to have poisoned her father for having her lover killed and then took her own life here. Bobby Mackey's has a life all its own.
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Bryn Du Mansion Granville Ohio August 8th 2009
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Bryn Du Mansion, located in Granville Ohio, was built in 1865 by Harry D. Wright, a local businessman. It was purchased in 1905 by John Sutphin Jones (J.S. Jones) who made is fortune in the railroad and coal industries. He also built the Granville Golf Course and the Granville Inn. Jones expanded the mansion to its' current size. An apparition, presumed to be that of J.S. Jones himself, appeared to a guest. Strange glowing lights have also been seen on the third floor with disembodied voices having been heard throughout the house and in some of the outbuildings. EVPs and other unexplained EMF readings have also been caught
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Bryn Du Mansion Granville Ohio November 6th 2009
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Bryn Du Mansion, located in Granville Ohio, was built in 1865 by Harry D. Wright, a local businessman. It was purchased in 1905 by John Sutphin Jones (J.S. Jones) who made is fortune in the railroad and coal industries. He also built the Granville Golf Course and the Granville Inn. Jones expanded the mansion to its' current size. An apparition, presumed to be that of J.S. Jones himself, appeared to a guest. Strange glowing lights have also been seen on the third floor with disembodied voices having been heard throughout the house and in some of the outbuildings. EVPs and other unexplained EMF readings have also been caught
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Buffalo Central Train Terminal w/UPP 2012
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The Buffalo Central Terminal opened to the public on June 22, 1929 and was open until the late 1970s. Built by the New York Central Railroad and designed by architects Alfred T. Fellheimer & Steward Wagner, the art deco style station was built to accommodate up to 3200 passengers per hour, or 200 trains per day. The complex consists of the main concourse, a 17 story office tower, a four story baggage building and two story mail building along Curtiss Street, and the now detached train concourse. The complex sits on a 17 acre site 2.5 miles east of downtown Buffalo. hundreds of thousands passed thru this terminal going about their daily lives while it was opened. Many lost and unfortunate souls, homeless and destitute lived in its nooks and crannies after it was left to rot derelict, several of them dead bodies were eventually hauled back out once restoration plans began. Some of them remain to this day.
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Farnham Manor
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Everette Farnam built the manor in 1834. He was eccentric and would have people signal their intentions by circling the driveway three times. He was ahead of his time in the practice of land use measures. He planted Thousands of trees while most people cleared land. He was from Connecticut. He could quote the bible at length. He was brilliant and misunderstood. He was married to Emily Oviatt and he died in 1884. Ella Mayer got the house in 1910. In 1921 she added the round front porch and side porch as well as portecochere.She ran a house of ill repute. There aren't historical records to prove this because you didn't write that stuff down. One story is that it was a private club where women were a sort of adornment. The house changed hands many times. In 1948 Theodor and Ane Marie Kirk brought the property and opened a Danish Smorgasbord there. When they retired their Daughter & Son in law ran the Restaurant until 1972. After that the house went into decline. A series of renters lived there until 1980 when Bill Cummings owned it. He put 50 grand into the house and leased it out. Zarubas got it in 1989 and the house had sat vacant for years. It was in real bad shape. they restored a lot of it and were going to open a Bed & Breakfast but they got divorce and the house once again sat empty until The Manor is said to be haunted by Everette and Emily and several other ghosts including a young man named Pete. The UPP investigated Farnam Manor July 23rd, 2011.
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Glendower Mansion Lebanon Ohio February 20th 2010
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Glendower is a restored Greek Revival mansion located on a hill South of the center of Lebanon Ohio. John Milton Williams, a framer of the state's constitution, employed Amos Bennett to build the rectangular central unit in the 1840's. Flanking wings were added prior to the Civil War. The mansion's distinctiveness is partly due to its classic cornices and porticoes, its fluted Ionic and unfluted Doric columns, and a low, hipped roof capped by a captain's walk. The 13 rooms include a formal drawing room with two fireplaces. All rooms, furnished with Empire and early Victorian style pieces, reflect the skilled local craftsmen and gracious living of the residents. General Durbin Ward, a brigadier general in the Civil War, lived in the house following the war. The Mansion is believed to be haunted and we were invited down to see for ourselves by our friends the Spiritual Hope Society. We have gotten several EVPs from the mansion and heard disembodied voices in the mansion, our tech manager even startled a shadow person witch then ran from the room he was entering.
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Haunted Xenia Woods
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We visited Haunted Xenia Woods one night to check out the tales of haunted barns and houses hidden back in the woods. We wandered around the woods for over an hour and didn't experience anything more than an incredible amount of pollen from flowering trees and bushes.
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Haydenville Tunnel
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Haydenville Tunnel is said to be haunted by workers who died during the tunnel's construction. The tunnel served as a passage under a ridge to haul clay from where it was dug back to a brick plant which was the sole reason for Haydenville Ohio existing. The tunnel is often said to run under the Haydenville cemetery however, I don't believe the tunnel lines up properly to do so. A cave-in inside the tunnel prevents complete passage thru from one opening to the other. While a few of our pics show some odd fogs and colors we didn't experience anything unusual while we were there.
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Hyede House Fall 2009
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Hyede House is way out in the middle of nowhere in the backwoods of Ohio and has reported incidents of paranormal activity including a couple of different apparitions and disembodied voices, people being touched and getting EVPs. Several deaths have occurred on the property over the years. We were able to actually hear disembodied voices and get EVPs for ourselves during our investigation and as I was setting up our DVR system I heard a sound in the Kitchen like a chair being scooted across the wooden floor even tho their was no furniture in the room at all. It is a creepy place and one I would like to investigate again sometime.
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Junction City Police Department August 2011
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Junction City Ohio PD investigation in August of 2011. At the Junction City Police Department there are claims of footsteps in a first floor connecting hallway between the police department and other govt offices. The second floor often produces the sounds of furniture being drug accross the floor late at night and people in the building have ocasionally been touched. The United Paranormal Project was called in to investigate and experienced disembodied voices and a loud male cough right in the room we were sitting in. We managed to capture an amazing white apparition passing in front of our stationary cameras. The footage and investigation where compelling enough to be aired on television on an episode of my ghost story.
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Madison Seminary Investigation 2011
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the Madison Seminary and The Ohio Cottage 6769 Middle Ridge Road Madison, OH 44057 the United Paranormal Project investigated this large structure in August of 2011. here is a history of this amazing place. The Madison Seminary, a secondary educational institution, was chartered in 1845, and construction of the school began. In spring 1847, the school was ready to accept students. C.S. Hartwell taught the first term in this school. He was succeeded by G.N. Campbell. In 1859, a brick addition was added to the east side of the building, and the existing structure was used as a boarding hall. The seminary continued until July 1891. When public education became available, the Madison Seminary saw its downfall. In November 1891, the building was sold to a women’s group of the Grand Army of the Republic, known as the Ohio Women’s Relief Corps (WRC), and the building was renamed Madison Home. It provided assistance to Army nurses and soldiers, mothers, wives and sisters who had been displaced by the Civil War and had nowhere else to go. In 1891, the west wing was constructed and became known as the Ohio Cottage. When WRC could no longer afford to maintain the building, it was donated to the state of Ohio in 1904, but a portion of the facility still was maintained by WRC. It then became known as Home of the Ohio Soldiers, Sailors, Marines, Their Wives, Mothers, Widows, and Army Nurses. From 1904-62, the state continued to maintain the building, as it was run before, as a home for needy widows, mothers and children of Ohio’s veterans. The building was renamed the Madison Home, which later would suffer severe financial difficulties. In 1959, the brick one-story center section was constructed, which joined the Ohio Cottage and the East Wing. The newer section was used by the Madison Township trustees as their public meeting room during the 1980s and early ’90s. On June 30, 1962, the WRC Madison Home ceased operation when it was taken over by the Ohio Department of Mental Health and Hygiene. Widows living in the home were returned to their relatives. Those having no living relatives to care for them were placed in nursing homes. Many were distraught at the idea of leaving their home. From 1962-75, in an effort to help with the financial strain, the Ohio Department of Mental Health and Hygiene used the facility first to rehabilitate mentally ill patients from Cleveland State Hospital. With patients still living there, the building became a sub-section of Apple Creek Institution, and the name was changed from Madison Home to Opportunity Village. The facility then was used to house mentally retarded women who, for the most part, could take care of themselves. At the same time, it also housed inmates in good standing from the Ohio Women’s Reformatory in Marysville. Through a project with the Ohio Bureau of Vocational Rehabilitation, these inmates and developmentally disabled women would learn occupational skills, such as becoming nursing aides, janitorial and secretarial skills to live productive lives in society. In 1964, the complex was used as an extension of Cleveland State Hospital for aged and senile women, but just for a few months. In April 1975, operating funds declined to the point that the state could no longer afford to operate the programs, and Opportunity Village ceased operations. Subsequently, the property underwent further transformations, including: n 1977 — The Commissioners of Lake County passed a resolution March, 28 1977, to purchase Opportunity Village. The deed was filed on June 3 that year; n 1978 — Madison Township leases the building from the county and moved into it for the operation of Madison Township government; n 1981— Madison Township officially takes title to the property from the Lake County Board of Commissioners; n 1987 — On May 29, Madison Township trustees contact Lake County commissioners about buying the property and building back per the deed’s “reverter clause”; n 1989 — The Lake County Board of Commissioners honors the reverter clause from the 1981 deed, and the commissioners buy back the property. The township continues to lease the building until September 30, 1993; n 1993 — Madison Township moves out of the building, and the building remains vacant; n 1997 — On November 18, the Lake County Board of Commissioners passes a resolution to the sell the building and 2.91 acres of land; and n 1998 — On May 21, the Lake County Board of Commissioners sells the property at public auction to John Cassell, owner of Cass-Mill Nurseries, for $28,500. The facility is used mainly storage and office space for Cassell, who allows the Madison Historical Society to use a portion of the building as offices and as a museum.
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Moonville Tunnel Investigation w/COGS Paranormal Group October 2008
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Moonville Tunnel is well known for being haunted by the ghost of Moonville. The story goes a train brakeman died in the tunnel when he slipped and fell under the train's wheels on a cold night. In fact, there are at least three solid candidates for the Moonville ghost. Reports of the ghost and his lantern attempting to wave down passing trains were recorded while the tunnel was actively in use by the railroad. I have visited the tunnel many times trying to catch sight of the ghost. Here are pics of one of my visits with Central Ohio Ghost Squad (COGS). Several of their group's members caught high EMF readings and other evidence further along the tracks near the next creek.
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Moonville Tunnel Trip 1
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Moonville Tunnel, is well known for being haunted by the ghost of Moonville. According to the story, a train brakeman died in the tunnel when he slipped and fell under the train's wheels on a cold night. In fact, there are at least three solid candidates for the Moonville ghost. Reports of the ghost and his lantern attempting to wave down passing trains were recorded while the tunnel was still in use by the railroad. I have visited the tunnel many times trying to catch sight of the ghost, here are pics of one of my visits.
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Moonville Tunnel Trip 2
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Moonville Tunnel, is well known for being haunted by the ghost of Moonville. According to the story, a train brakeman died in the tunnel when he slipped and fell under the train's wheels on a cold night. In fact, there are at least three solid candidates for the Moonville ghost. Reports of the ghost and his lantern attempting to wave down passing trains were recorded while the tunnel was still in use by the railroad. I have visited the tunnel many times trying to catch sight of the ghost, here are pics from another one of my visits.
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Ohio State Reformatory April 28th 2007
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The old Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield Reformatory, in Mansfield Ohio (also known as OSR) is a historic prison located at 100 Reformatory Road, Mansfield, Ohio. The Reformatory was built between 1886 and 1910 by architect Levi T. Scofield, from Cleveland. The Prison is said to have several different ghosts including The Prison superintendents wife, Helen Bauer Glattke who the story goes was shot by a handgun falling out of a closet while in residence at the prison. Many people believe the superintendent murdered his wife and covered it up. Over two hundred convicts and a couple corrections officers lost their lives in the prison while it was in use.
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Ohio State Reformatory Mansfield June 2008
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The old Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield Reformatory, in Mansfield Ohio (also known as OSR) is a historic prison located at 100 Reformatory Road, Mansfield, Ohio. The Reformatory was built between 1886 and 1910 by architect Levi T. Scofield, from Cleveland. The Prison is said to have several different ghosts including The Prison superintendents wife, Helen Bauer Glattke who the story goes was shot by a handgun falling out of a closet while in residence at the prison. Many people believe the superintendent murdered his wife and covered it up. Over two hundred convicts and a couple corrections officers lost their lives in the prison while it was in use.
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Old Licking County Jail
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Decades after the last inmate walked out of the old Licking County Jail in Newark Ohio, echoes of the lives spent within its walls and the deaths that have occurred here still resonate among the empty cells and unquiet halls. The Old Jail has had far more than its share of horror. It was built in an age where punishment was deemed more important than correction and where corruption was as likely an outcome as justice. The Imposing structure was designed to look more like an ancient castle and has more in common with the Tower of London than with any modern correctional facility. The Jailor/Sherriff and his family lived within these glum walls as well as the inmates and within the walls of this Castle like building three of the Sheriff's died of heart attacks here, a fourth Sherriff had a heart attack at the jail but managed to live 10 minutes at the hospital before passing on. At least 16 inmates have died at the jail, half from suicide. Infamous murderers including "The Hand Saw Slayer", "The 22 Caliber Serial Killers", "The Proposal Day Murderer" and many more were housed here, but the most infamous death/killing here at the old jail was so shocking it made national news., that of Carl Etherington, a Dry-Agent Detective being held at the jail for protection from an angry mob of over a thousand people who had gathered demanding he be turned over to them to face their lynch mob justice. They stormed the jail and rammed the North entrance of the jail door down before finally gaining entry. They rushed up to the second floor cell block where Etherinton was being held and beat him to death with a hammer. Then the mob drug him out of the jail and up to the Southeast side of the Town Square where they lynched him to a telegraph pole. It is said that nearly 5,000 people including women and children all came to take a peak at the hanging agent. The Govnor of the state called in the national guard to restore order and canned the sherriff and Newarks Mayor. Then there is the case of "Laura Devlin" a 72 year old women who went mad and killed her husband then cut his arms and legs off with a hand saw and placed his arms and head in her oven and cooked them, she threw his torso out into the back yard and waited for weeks to try to convince the authorities he had died and been shiped for burial elsewhere, who also called the old jail her home for awhile.
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Old Man's Cave Trip (Hocking HIlls)
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Old Mans Cave, located in the Hocking Hills region of Southeast Ohio is said to be haunted by the hermit Richard Roe who lived in the park a hundred years ago with his hunting hounds. According to the story, one winter day when he accidentally shot himself in the face while breaking the ice with the butt of his gun. Many say they can still hear his hounds barking from time to time. Here are some unusual pics my sister took while exploring Old Man's Cave.
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Prospect Place Trip 1
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Prospect Place is a mansion located in Trinway Ohio. It was built in 1856 by abolitionist George Wilson Adams and is rumored to have been a stop on the underground railroad. One of the more persistent rumors is that a southern bounty hunter hunting escaped slaves was hanged in the barn at Prospect Place and haunts it to this very day. Several other spirits are said to inhabit the house as well including a girl who fell to her death from a second floor balcony.
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Prospect Place w/Denise of SHADE & COGS Paranormal Group January 2009
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Prospect Place is a mansion located in Trinway Ohio that is rumored to be haunted. I was recently contacted by Denise from SHADE and invited to bring some investigators to Prospect Place. I want to Thank Denise for the invite and also COGS for coming along with me to investigate the place. I have been to Prospect Place once before with my partner Tom and his wife Allison and the CORRUPT team. Just like last time, it was during the winter and it was cold enough that we didn't get much time in the barn. One of these days I am going to get out there during the summer when I can really spend some time trying to document the barn's activity and the rumored bounty hunter ghost who is said to haunt it.
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Seneca County Courthouse March 28th 2009
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The Seneca County Courthouse was built in 1884 and was designed by renowned architect Elijah E. Myers. The building is in good condition but is in danger of being torn down in the small town of Tiffin Ohio. The Buckeye State Paranormal and Haunting Investigators (BSPHI) invited us up to be a part of their investigation into the possibility of paranormal activity and to highlight the plight of this grand old building. I went with the director of COGS, Eric Glosser, and although we didn't find any definite paranormal activity we did enjoy the experience of exploring the courthouse with BSPHI. Thanks for inviting us BSPHI!
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Sprucevale Ghost
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Sprucevalle is a ghost town made up of remnants of an old canal town located in Beaver Creek state park. Established in 1837 and abandoned after the canals' collapse in 1870. The area has several Legends and Ghost stories associated with it including Gretchin's Lock where a small immigrant girl was said to have died of Malaria and been entombed in the Locks wall and now haunts the lock. Esther Hale, a spurned bride who went mad after being stood up on her wedding day and eventually died after wandering around town refusing to change out of it, who haunts a nearby bridge and the Hambleton Mill. As well as the ghost of Pretty Boy Floyd who was gunned down by the police here in 1934. And Grannies House where the old lady may have poisoned a canal worker and his wife after being spurned, and buried them out in the nearby grounds.
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The Corner House
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The Corner House is said to be haunted after a husband came home one day and his wife didn't have dinner ready, he supposedly cut off her head and put it in the oven. Screams and the scent of burning meat are supposedly noticed near the house.
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The Sidewell House
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The Sidwell House is an old abandoned house that is rumored to be haunted. The stories say that the husband of one of the families that lived here in the 1970's killed his wife and children. Mysterious Lights, gunshot sounds and other ghostly happenings have been reported in the house for many years. Paranormal activity has been reported as far back as the 1840's when the building was the Rankin Inn.
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Twin City Opera House Public Halloween Investigation October 30th 2009
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Twin City Opera House, located in McConnelsville Ohio, was built in 1890 and, like many old theaters, is rumored to be haunted. The list of spirits is long and includes is the spirit of an usher named Everette Miller who's active in the theater area and basement, a lady in white often seen crossing the stage and walking up the catwalk stairs backstage, a little girl named Elizabeth who has been seen peeking over the railing above the stage and giggling, and a stage hand named "Red Wine" Robert who all make appearances here well past their mortal curtain calls. EVPS, shadows moving, a black mass and growls have all been caught by multiple investigators. Anyone interested in touring or investigating Twin City Opera House should visit www.twincityoperahouse.com for information.
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Twin City Opera House w/COGS & Keith Age
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Twin City Opera House, located in McConnelsville Ohio, was built in 1890 and, like many old theaters, is rumored to be haunted. The list of spirits is long and includes is the spirit of an usher named Everette Miller who's active in the theater area and basement, a lady in white often seen crossing the stage and walking up the catwalk stairs backstage, a little girl named Elizabeth who has been seen peeking over the railing above the stage and giggling, and a stage hand named "Red Wine" Robert who all make appearances here well past their mortal curtain calls. EVPS, shadows moving, a black mass and growls have all been caught by multiple investigators. Anyone interested in touring or investigating Twin City Opera House should visit www.twincityoperahouse.com for information.
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USS North Carolina June 16th 2012
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UPP investigation of the U.S.S. North Carolina on June 16th 2012. Moored as a Museum the Battleship NORTH CAROLINA, across the river from downtown Wilmington, North Carolina, beckons visitors to walk her decks. Envision the daily life and fierce combat her crew faced in the Pacific Theatre during World War II. On June 16th 2012 Lost and Found Ohio and the United Paranormal Project was invited aboard to go on a private paranormal investigation of this behemouth. Take a look at the ship, her corridors and confines, her past and present and maybe those who serve still.
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Waverly Hills Sanitorium May 21st 2009
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Waverly Hills, located in Louisville Kentucky, was the largest Tuberculosis hospital in the United states. Prior to a cure being found, thousands of afflicted came here and died either from the disease or from attempts to cure it. The first building was built on the property in 1910. The huge structure we see today was built in 1924 and closed in 1961 after a cure lessened the need for such a massive hospital. The building re-opened the next year as Wood Haven Medical services, a geriatrics center that remained in operation until 1980 when the state of Kentucky closed it down because of patient abuses. This place was more active than anywhere I had investigated up to this point. The sounds and voices whispering in your ears, odd shadows moving on down the hallways and even hair pulling and touching of investigators were all experienced while we were there.
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West Virginia Penitentiary Moundsville All Night Investigation
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The old West Virginia State Penitentiary in Moundsville West Virginia operated from 1876 until 1995. The building was constructed using convict labor and the stone used in its' construction was hand quarried from local sandstone. The walls are 5 to 6 feet thick and 24 foot high. The building was designed to resemble a Gothic castle. The prison was the scene of numerous riots, some fires, a tuberculosis outbreak and numerous inmate suicides and 36 homicides. There state carried out 94 executions, nine of which were by electric chair with the rest by hanging. These events have left the prison with plenty of possible ghostly residents. 998 men are said to have died within its' walls.
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West Virginia Penitentiary Moundsville Day Trip
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The old West Virginia State Penitentiary in Moundsville West Virginia operated from 1876 until 1995. The building was constructed using convict labor and the stone used in its' construction was hand quarried from local sandstone. The walls are 5 to 6 feet thick and 24 foot high. The building was designed to resemble a Gothic castle. The prison was the scene of numerous riots, some fires, a tuberculosis outbreak and numerous inmate suicides and 36 homicides. There state carried out 94 executions, nine of which were by electric chair with the rest by hanging. These events have left the prison with plenty of possible ghostly residents. 998 men are said to have died within its' walls.
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West Virginia Penitentiary Moundsville September 9th 2009
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The old West Virginia State Penitentiary in Moundsville West Virginia operated from 1876 until 1995. The building was constructed using convict labor and the stone used in its' construction was hand quarried from local sandstone. The walls are 5 to 6 feet thick and 24 foot high. The building was designed to resemble a Gothic castle. The prison was the scene of numerous riots, some fires, a tuberculosis outbreak and numerous inmate suicides and 36 homicides. There state carried out 94 executions, nine of which were by electric chair with the rest by hanging. These events have left the prison with plenty of possible ghostly residents. 998 men are said to have died within its' walls.