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| Cincinnati
Ghosts and Other Tri-State Haunts, Karen Laven, 2008, photos, line art,
bibliography, index, 256 pp $14.95 |
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| Stories from Ohio and Kentucky with some straying over into
Indiana. Ohio sites include Buffalo Ridge in Hamilton County, Dead Man's Curve in Clermont
County, Habits Cafe in Oakley, Hammel House Inn and other Waynesville haunts like the
Stetson House and Angel of the Garden Tea Room, Utopia, site of a utopian community washed
away by the Ohio River, Promont in Milford, Spring Grove Cemetery, Sorg Opera House in
Middletown, where the former owner has the best seat in the house, Westwood Town Hall in
Cincinnati, Tea Roses Tea Room in Mason--site of a horrific murder, 20th Century Theatre
in Cincinnati, Smyrna Cemetery in Felicity, haunted by a Native American woman, ,
Paramount's Kings Island and Kings Mills, Lucy's Run Creek near Amelia, EVP in a
Middletown house, Kentucky sites include Hayswood Hospital and the Washington Opera House
in Maysville, Phillips' Folly, a Kentucky stop on the Underground Railroad, Southgate
House in Newport, Big Bone Lick Park in Union, Bobby Mackey's Music World in Wilder. I was
a little surprised there were so few stories from Cincinnati itself--the hauntings at a
number of local museums, concert halls, hotels and restaurants are well-known. |
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| Cincinnati
Haunted Handbookl, Jeff and Michael Morris, 2010, photos, biblio, appendices,
240 pp $15.95 |
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book is jam-packed with 100 haunted locations and lots of excellent photos. You’ll
also find very useful advice and cautions about visiting the various locations since this
is meant as a guidebook for those who actually want to hunt ghosts on site or just drive
by locations reputed to be haunted. The stories go further afield than just Cincinnati,
covering sites in Clermont County, Butler County, Warren County, and Northern Kentucky.
Many of the
actual ghost stories are short—some just a paragraph or so and there is a bit of
repetition, particularly in the school ghosts. But there is some good historical
background and fun and helpful itineraries like The Paranormal Pub Crawl, Urban Legend
Trip, Demons of Southwest Ohio, Civil War ghosts, and Phantom Hitchhikers. The book is
divided into theme sections: Cemeteries, Roads, Parks and Trails, Museums and Theaters,
Businesses, Schools and public buildings. There is no index, but there is a list of
chapters organized geographically. In addition to the itineraries, there is a list of
Paranormal Investigation Groups who will investigate hauntings in Cincinnati and the
surrounding areas. Two quibbles: the lack of an index, and some rather amateurish
drawings, which seem unnecessary when the photos are so good. |
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| Cleveland
Ghosts, Nights of the Working Dead in the Modern Midwest, Charles Cassady, Jr.,
2008, photos, line art, bibliography, index, 224 pp $14.95 |
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| Starts with an intriguing premise that as Cleveland's
vigorous working world declined, people became more intrigued with ghosts as a way to
distract themselves from the real world. Or as the author puts it, "as unemployment
statistics rose, so did the dead. Or at least the stories about them." Many stories
from Cleveland proper, although some go as far afield as Medina, Cedar Point, Ashtabula,
and Warren. Stories about the infamous Franklin Castle, Squires Castle, Grays Armory, West
Side Market haunted by "Black Mary Ann", Sauk Chief Joc-O-Sott who haunts the
Erie Street Cemetery where he is buried, Renaissance Cleveland Hotel, Johnny Mango and
other Cleveland restaurants, Rider's 1812 Inn in Painesville, Rocky River's haunted Cinema
5 and various haunted theatres such as the famously haunted Playhouse Square. There is
also a nostalgic look at the vanished amusement park, Puritas Springs and the ghosts of
Geauga Lake Amusement Park. One chapter covers the extensive Melonheads legends so
pervasive in the area, particularly in Kirtland. And no book of ghost stories from this
area would be complete without the Legend of Gore Orphanage. Also covered are Hell Town,
Crybaby Bridge, Rogue's Hollow. Lake Erie also gets its due with stories of sea serpents,
ghost dogs, phantom ships, Johnson's Island Civil War prison camp, South Bass Island
lighthouse. There is a very entertaining chapter on local ghost tours and psychics
and another on local legends that aren't quite what they appear. |
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| Columbus Ghosts
II, More Central Ohio Haunts, Robin Smith, 2003, photos, biblio 96 pp $13.95
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meticulously researched book covering stories like The Perkins Observatory, the Lincoln
Funeral Train, Haunted Hilliard, the Central Ohio Fire Museum, and the Tina Resch
Poltergeist case. |
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| Dayton Ghosts,
Karen Laven, 2009, photos, list of websites for bibliography, index,
192 pp. $14.99 |
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of these stories deal with the adventures of the Dayton Ghost Hunters Society. Some of the
sites covered: The USAF Museum at Wright-Patterson AFB, which the author calls
(incorrectly) “The Wright-Patterson Air Force Museum” Stivers Middle School and
its haunted swimming pool. Blair Hall at Sinclair Community College, Amber Rose Restaurant,
The Old Courthouse. The Magma Mansion. Witch’s Tower, Patterson Homestead. A haunted
Arby’s in Miamisburg. Woodland Cemetery and the ghost of Johnny Morehouse and his
dog, perhaps inspired by the boy’s touching monument. Unfortunately the book has not
been well-proofed, which is distracting. It was also disconcerting to read a caption about
“the infamous” Wright brothers |
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| Devils, Ghosts,
and Witches: Occult Folklore of the Upper Ohio Valley, George
Swetnam, 1988, line art, 117 pp. $19.95 |
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| Stories like "The Millvale Apparition"--a ghostly
priest who startled an artist painting the church and "Slag Pile Annie" who
saved a young man's life in a Pittsburgh steel mill. Witches and warlocks and Indian
ghosts, oh my! Stories from Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, and Kentucky. |
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| Ghost Stories
of Ohio, Edrick
Thay, 2001, photos, 192 pp $11.95 |
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| Ghosts from the site of the horrific Ashtabula Bridge
railway disaster, spirits of the Mansfield Reformatory, Mothman, The Loveland Frog,
Serpent Mound, the deadly history of Franklin Castle, Athens’ many haunted
cemeteries, the friendly ghosts of the Buxton Inn. A
great compendium of haunts of various sorts all over the state: legendary tales to
interviews with eyewitnesses, mostly culled from the
other books in this Ohio section. |
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| Ghosthunting
Ohio, John
B. Kachuba, 2004, photos, websites, addresses of sites to visit, no index or bibliography,
256 pp $14.99 |
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| I was delighted to see this
book, which doesnąt revisit the same old stories, but delves into a number of new and
intriguing sites. Out of the 30 sites listed, 10 of them were new to me; Kachuba has
collected some fresh stories from the well-known places. The author has done his homework:
visiting and photographing the sites and interviewing witnesses. He amiably tries dowsing
for ghosts, visits with psychics and spirit mediums, hears tales of ouija board
communications, and finds orbs in his photos. The ghostly cat who played with a very real
ball of paper at The Old Tavern in Unionville, also haunted by a little boy with a
harmonica. The “corner ghost”, a lady in Victorian clothing seen only out of the
corner of witnessesą eyes at The Lofts Hotel in Columbus. Medina Steakhouse & Saloon haunted by “Anna”, a
female ghost who put out a fire and “Frank Curtis”, a handyman who hung himself
in the building. The “Lady in Green” at the Netherland Plaza Hotel in Cincinnati. If I have
a quibble, it is that there is no index, bibliography, attributions, or references, except
for a collection of websites, some of which contain the inevitable historically inaccurate
or sensational material found on the web. Several stories originated with other sources,
including myself, possibly collected from excerpts circulating on the internet. Overall, a
refreshing book from a curious yet skeptical “regular Joe.” |
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| Ghostly Tales
of Lake Erie, Jo
Lela Pope Kimber, 2005, line art, index, 187 pp $10.95 |
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| The subtitle reads: accounts
of ghosts, spirits, and spooks along the shores of Lake Erie. Actually a couple of the stories
stretch that definition a bit: Mansfield and Butler County are not anywhere close to the Lake.
Ghosts on Gore Orphanage Road, Kelley’s Island, an immigrant worker entombed under the
Lorain Lighthouse, a ghostly ticket taker at the Cedar Point carousel, a haunted winery at
Geneva, ghosthunting at the Mansfield Reformatory, the phantom sheriff of Cuyahoga County ,
poltergeists of Shaker Heights, The icy ghosts of Rattlesnake Island. Erie
Cemetery,
a spirit bride at a Cleveland
hotel, lost child of Ashtabula
County. |
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| Ghosts, Spirits
and Legends of Southeastern Ohio, Lawrence Everett, 2002, photos, line art,
map, 109 pp $14.95 |
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can’t tell you how happy I am that Everett
has written this book! He’s a native-born
Southeastern Ohioan and he was able to get the inside story on the many ghosts of the Athens
area. I find Athens
extremely creepy and no wonder—there are some 50 cemeteries that form a pentagram,
many of them with their own legends of spirits. There’s the notorious former lunatic
asylum (now an art center) where a young woman inmate died, trapped in a locked room,
leaving behind the stain of her body on the floor. There’s
also the eerie Moonville tunnel where a headless brakeman searches with a ghost lantern
for his head. The great thing about this book is these are first-hand accounts from real
people of their experiences in houses, hollows, and cemeteries. Good job, Lawrence!
I’m waiting for the sequel! |
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| Ghosts and
Legends of Southeastern Ohio and Beyond, Lawrence Everett, 2003, photos, line
art, map, 118 pp $14.95 |
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| This is the eagerly-awaited sequel to Everett’s first book [Item
900]. This book ventures farther afield to
Portsmouth, Point Pleasant (site of the Mothman story), and includes new stories about the
Ridges and many ghosthunting expeditions in cemeteries. |
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| The Ghosts Among Us, Darke, Randolph, & Preble
Counties, Rita Arnold, 2008., 75 pp, $7.95 |
| The “crying woods”, haunted by a Native American
woman grieving for her son. A house in New Madison haunted by a man in a 1950s suit and
hat. The disappearance of young Sarah Harter. An apparition of a man in old-fashioned
clothes who stands outside the door of a mausoleum in Greenville Cemetery, as if waiting
to be admitted. The ghost of a gangster, complete with a gun in his pocket, in Union City,
Indiana. A big-box store possibly built over a Native American burial ground where shoes
fly off the shelves and distant chanting is heard in the break room. The refined
“Miss Brown” who haunts the Lewisburg Library, former her home, and moves
objects she dislikes. |
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| Ghosts of Cincinnati, The Dark Side of the Queen City,
Teri Casper and Dan Smith, 2009, photos, biblio, 123 pp $19.99 |
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| Written by the owners of
“Ghosts of the Queen City” Tour, this book has an excellent focus on the history of Cincinnati
and surrounding areas as well as the hauntings connected with that history. You’ll meet
Captain Mary Greene of the steamboat Delta Queen,
the Lady in Green who roams Carew Tower, artists Lizzie and Frank Duveneck who reunite in
museum halls, the World War II soldier searching for a way home from Union Terminal. The many
ghosts of Music Hall—remnants of the unfortunates buried beneath the building. The murder
of Imogene Remus by her bootlegger husband. The book travels further afield with the ghosts at
Promont in Clermont County, the notorious Bobby Mackey’s Music World, and spirits at Lebanon’s
The Golden Lamb. The book includes some very interesting and rare historical photos. |
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