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Built between 1896 and 1910, the Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield served as a detention center for young, petty criminals. The first inmates were admitted in 1896, and they helped construct the Romanesque Revival building. The reformatory closed in 1990 and was used most famously in the filming of The Shawshank Redemption (1994). Today it…
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Beneath the glowing artificial night sky of the Akron Civic Theatre linger stories of restless spirits tied to the building’s long and colorful past. From a protective ghostly janitor named Fred to a grieving woman along the old canal and a mysterious man in the balcony, the Civic has earned a reputation as one of…
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Visitors to Cleveland’s Franklin Boulevard are likely to shudder when walking past this quintessential haunted house, even if they’ve never heard the stories. If you ask about a haunted house in Cleveland, you are likely to get one response: “Franklin Castle.” That is because this High Victorian style stone house is one of the most…
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A headless horse is among the phantoms said to haunt this formerly rough-and-tumble holler near Doylestown, Ohio. Rogues Hollow is a geologic depression and former town located south of the village of Doylestown in northeastern Ohio, a few miles southwest of Akron. Though long defunct, the road and bridge of the same name has long…
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A fairy tale gatehouse has become a charming addition to a public park in suburban Cleveland, but some visitors claim otherworldly residents flicker through its empty halls. The hollowed-out shell of Squire’s Castle sits deep in the woods off River Road in the northeastern suburbs of Cleveland. This romantic, medieval-looking stone structure once served as…
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