Titles in the America’s Haunted Road Trip Series:
Ghosthunting Florida
Ghosthunting Kentucky
Ghosthunting Illinois
Ghosthunting Maryland
Ghosthunting New Jersey
Ghosthunting New York City
Ghosthunting North Carolina
Ghosthunting Ohio
Ghosthunting Pennsylvania
Ghosthunting Southern New England
Ghosthunting Texas
Ghosthunting Virginia
Cincinnati Haunted Handbook
Nashville Haunted Handbook
Haunted Hoosier Trails
More Haunted Hoosier Trails
Spooked in Seattle
Ghosthunting Ohio: On the Road Again
COPYRIGHT © 2011 by John Kachuba
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. No portion of this book may be reproduced in any fashion, print, facsimile, or electronic, or by any method yet to be developed, without express permission of the copyright holder.
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Clerisy Press
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Kachuba, John B.
Ghosthunting Ohio: on the road again/by John Kachuba.—1st ed.
p. cm.—(America’s haunted road trip)
ISBN-13: 978-1-57860-491-3
ISBN-10: 1-57860-491-5
1. Haunted places—Ohio. 2. Ghosts—Ohio. I. Title. II. Series.
BF1472.U6K34 2011
133.109771—dc23
2011022285
Distributed by Publishers Group West
Printed in the United States of America
First edition, first printing
Editor: Andy Sloan
Cover design: Scott McGrew
Cover and interior photos provided by the author unless otherwise noted
For Bree and Corrine
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
SOUTHWEST
CHAPTER 1 Chateau Laroche Loveland
Spotlight On: Spiritual H.O.P.E.
What’s in a Name? Spooky Hollow Road Indian Hill
CHAPTER 2 Cincinnati Observatory Cincinnati
Spotlight On: Ascension Paranormal
CHAPTER 3 Ross Gowdy House New Richmond
Legendary Ghosts: Enos Kay
Spotlight On: The Ghost of Englewood Dam
CHAPTER 4 Snow Hill Country Club New Vienna
Spotlight On: D.O.G.S.
CHAPTER 5 Promont House Museum Milford
Spotlight On: The Ghosts of Utopia
NORTHWEST
CHAPTER 6 Jenna’s Mediterranean Restaurant Sylvania
What’s in a Name? Crybaby Bridge
CHAPTER 7 Oliver House Toledo
Spotlight On: Toledo Ghost Hunters Society
Legendary Ghosts: The Elmore Rider
Ohio’s Haunted Hotels
CHAPTER 8 Wood County Historical Center & Museum Bowling Green
CHAPTER 9 Thomas Edison Birthplace Milan
CENTRAL
CHAPTER 10 Kelton House Columbus
Spotlight On: Ohio’s Confederate Ghosts
CHAPTER 11 Thurber House Columbus
Academic Ghosts
CHAPTER 12 Central Ohio Fire Museum & Learning Center Columbus
Legendary Ghosts: The Blue Flame Ghost
Spotlight On: Ohio Exploration Society
CHAPTER 13 Ohio State Reformatory Mansfield
CHAPTER 14 Malabar Farm Lucas
Legendary Ghosts: Phoebe Wise
NORTHEAST
CHAPTER 15 Franklin Castle Cleveland
CHAPTER 16 Cuyahoga County Archives Building Cleveland
Spotlight On: Holiday Inn Express Cleveland
CHAPTER 17 Local Heroes Bar & Grill Cleveland
Legendary Ghosts: Joc-O-Sot
CHAPTER 18 Agora Theater Cleveland
Spotlight On: Psychic Sonya’s Haunted Cleveland Tours
CHAPTER 19 Lawnfield Mentor
Spotlight On: Willoughby Ghost Walk
CHAPTER 20 Punderson Manor Newbury
Spotlight On: PRO
Legendary Ghosts: Esther Hale
CHAPTER 21 Stone Garden Farm & Museum Richfield
Spotlight On: O.P.I.N.
Spotlight On: The Haunted Housewife
Spotlight On: The Real Ghost Whisperer
CHAPTER 22 Ghosts of the Ashtabula Train Disaster Ashtabula
SOUTHEAST
CHAPTER 23 The Ridges Athens
CHAPTER 24 Moonville Tunnel Vinton County
Spotlight On: Hope Furnace
CHAPTER 25 Mystery Farmhouse Somewhere in Southeast Ohio
Spotlight On: Haunted Heartland Tours
CHAPTER 26 Briggs-Lawrence County Public Library Ironton
Ohio Haunted Road Trip Travel Guide
Visiting Haunted Sites
Further Reading
About the Author
Introduction
HEY, GHOSTHUNTER, when are you going to tell us about more haunted places in Ohio? If I had a nickel for every time someone asked me that question, I would be a rich man today. Almost immediately after Ghosthunting Ohio was published in 2004, people began asking me why I didn’t include this haunted place or that one in the book. It seemed that every time I was a guest on some paranormal radio show, or speaking at a library or university, I would be asked that question. Who knew that there were so many haunted locations in Ohio? I did eventually listen to what my fans and readers were telling me, and this is the result: Ghosthunting Ohio: On the Road Again.
As all the books in the America’s Haunted Road Trip series, this