Haunted Northeast Ohio Road Trip

[Music] [Applause] [Music] welcome to a very special edition of new day Cleveland this is haunted Northeast Ohio and over the next hour we're exploring some of the local legends lures and ghost stories yes it is going to be a bit spooky you are about to meet several local historians and be introduced to those who see what we cannot hear what we don't and possibly even communicate with those who have passed we begin in the flesh where things aren't always well the area of the flats in Cleveland is notorious for haunting so much death I've been researching Cleveland for a long time and I've discovered that the Flatiron cafe in Cleveland right on Center Street is one of the most haunted places you'll find out in the flats it's been an Irish bar for a long time since 1910 before that it was a brothel and one of the ladies actually dropped a cigarette and burned the place halfway down and they were able to rebuild but they did lose some lives a few people died in the building and we believe it is her that haunts the place recently I had a woman on a tour who had walked up the stairs to the second level of the restaurant and she exclaimed that she didn't feel good and and I said in a joking manner Oh someone hold her hand and she exclaimed how'd you do that something's holding my hand and we got a really good photo of a skeleton hand covering her hand the dimes and the flat iron is well known most people you would think reaching inning out of their pockets for change you would find you know pennies and nickels and quarters we find always dydz dimes on the doorsteps dimes on the floors dying's on the the bar and they have a collection of them in a jar if you want to see them you want to see the Haunted dimes we believe that these spirits leave them here why they leave them I don't know so this is just one of the stops on my ghost tours that I show people around fact there's many other places in the flats here let's go for a walk not many people know that water could be haunted when you have disasters on the water the spirits can actually remain in the water in July 16th 1896 a boat was carrying people across the river another tugboat came around the corner and the wake toppled everybody a lot of people died they recovered 16 bodies it has said that this place the space if you look down into the water you can still people see the people they're still reaching up trying to be saved I've actually interviewed some people who were fishing off the pier right here and they said that they thought they saw something in the water trying to crawl up the ladders this is one of the creepiest spots on my tour but way do you see the next spot we got one more place to go to that's truly haunted we're at the Columbus Street Bridge was built in 1870 this place is haunted and it's because of the torso murder of the 1930s he stashed bodies here he hunted his victims on the roads here the woman whose body was was stashed here we believe she is the woman that walks back and forth over the bridge she'd be like a shadow figure in 1991 I used to drive horse and carriage and I actually witnessed a phantom jumper and this person was standing in the top of the bridge and I saw him jump but he never hit the water I never heard the splash and when I came around the corner and asked a guy on a boat nearby what happened to him he said oh that's the Phantom jumper he jumped over and over again and it's a classic example of what we call residual energy like a looping an x-ray of some trauma it usually happens right at Twilight right at dusk you know not all ghostly encounters will leave you with goose bumps there's a historic home it's in Akron where the spirits are said to be friendly so the fun thing about the house is when it was built in 1835 to 1837 it was one mile outside the city limits of Akron so general Perkins that you see here behind me actually founded the town in 1825 but he didn't live here so he sent his son 10 years later and they built this house it was a home to Colonel Simon Perkins and his wife Grace Colonel Perkins was our state senator that formed the county in 1840 and he and his wife had 11 children the interesting thing about starting here in 1999 is that I'd worked at a bunch of house museums and I always felt scared and this was the first place that I felt comfortable and so I was here 6 months and I was at the front door and why we were looking up the staircase this woman says to me they like you and I'm like I look up and I see nothing and I like I'm sorry what are you talking about she says well there's an older woman and a little boy and they like you so I'm like ok I am at this place I'm comfortable finally and there are people that are in the house and I'm the only one in here with an office so it was you know it was the beginning of what became a really fun time and so since 2006 then we have been giving paranormal tours of the house there are no smoke and mirrors it's just what other people have experienced we share to you so as we go to each room we tell you what people have seen there or what has happened to them whether it's being pulled their hair is pulled in the middle their head they've been poked they've been touched on the back of the leg because there might be a cat that wanders around here and it's just all types of people and things and so it's been really exciting to listen to people's observations of these things and to allow them to have that outlet it's for fun right so there's no judgement and we do this typically in the month of October but this year we're also going to do something in December so we'll see what happens I love working and at the mansion here because it is so incredibly spirited it has been one of the best places that I know of in Akron and that there's a lot of children here there's there's just a lot of activity laughter a lot of times you can feel the children brushing across here but one thing I've noticed here is I never felt anybody angry so it's just an amazing place to tap into spirit and have that experience I've been tapping into spirits since I was five years old one thing that I really enjoy doing here is called Rome to Rome and basically what it is is a spirit circle I'm tapping into the the participants going around the table and sharing with them what I'm picking up through their loved ones and it's interesting because we do end up having some anomalies happen with electricity often we'll get the lights flickering or dimming so we're in the pineapple bedroom which is one of my favorite rooms in the Perkins mansion I like it because there's a lot of children that seemed to enjoy playing in here right over here by the fireplace I usually when I come into the mansion I use dowsing rods because I want to see where the activity is and it is certainly pointing right over in the direction that I suspected they would be no matter what time of the year I come here it seems like there's a lot of activity in this area this particular area when I come into a room I'll say is there anybody here is there anybody here with us and it's saying yes clear is there any children in the mansion today with us so I'm hearing a little chattering right now in my mind I'm hearing two little boys like giggling laughing they're amused right now I think they're enjoying the the attention they're receiving it's an amazing house it's been in this Summit County Historical Society hands since 1945 and so we love to tell the story of the family and their influence on the city of Akron but in the same realm there are things going on here that we can't explain when we return we are heading into the dungeon dun dun dun [Music] if you've ever wondered what early jail life may have been like head west of Freemont and you'll find the historic Sandusky County Jail with dungeon dating back to the 1840s between the dungeon and the actual gallows used in hangings visitors and workers aren't the only ones believed to be making their way through those halls we're standing here today and Sandusky County historic jail this jail was built in 1892 and was used for just under 100 years up until 1989 and it was an area where all the Sandusky County lawbreakers were housed the first floor was used for the higher offenders because it was close to where the booking room was and the sheriff deputies were able to keep an eye on the inmates some of the claims of stuff happening down in the dungeon and people would see shadows you would hear voices especially of a woman in one area you would get touched people's hair would get pulled our equipment would just go crazy that area personal experiences that I've had in the dungeon I've heard footsteps I've heard whistling directly behind me turn around and no one will be there I've seen shadows creeping around through sub-blocks I've seen things that weren't there and like you're you're naked I couldn't see but if you had a camera or you have a video and you play things back you'll see things that appear I've heard things come across radios gentleman did hang himself in one of the cells there back in the 80s we managed to capture a mount our SLS connect we actually captured thus the person hanging that creates a stick figure and it showed him hanging there up in the attic where the Gallo stands we have captured voices we actually captured what we believe is John Radford the gentleman that got hung people hear people walking especially on the gallows well this building actually was closed for probably over a decade and it was almost to the point where it was going to be torn down so some historical grants were applied for and they were able to renovate it and give it a purpose so the purpose is today it's used for Commissioner's Office and some other court offices as well you know we encourage people come out because there's a lot of skeptics they want to witness it for themselves you know we we bring out all our equipment they get the opportunity to use it to see how it works and there's been a few that came through there were skeptics and left believing it was once considered one of the finest buildings in Cleveland now the variety theater on the rain' Avenue is a faded shadow of its former self and while many people have come through the doors of the majestic theatre some have never left this place opened as the variety theater it was opened as a vaudeville and movie house in November of 1927 it actually opened on Thanksgiving Day with a showing of Clara bows hula and for those of you who don't know who Clara bow is Clara bow was a the it girl of 1927 and the big deal was that she did a partial striptease and showed above her knee which was a huge deal in 1927 it was a first-run movie theater up through the 50s and 60s in the 1970s the COEs family bought this building mr. COEs had never owned or operated a movie theater in his life came in had both projectors was able to get the prints and so he did second run films for about a decade and when that started to wane then they entered into an agreement with what at that time was Belkin Productions which is gone now Clear Channel and Live Nation and all of the major acts of the 1980s played here including metallic u2 in the very early days Stevie Ray Vaughn Motorhead famously played here in 1984 and played so loud that they cracked the plaster in the ceiling and that was the impetus to get the place closed down for live music I can tell you since actually 2009 having walked in here the first thing was walking in and seeing people and I do mean people what I thought were people here standing in front of me about 30 feet away from the door and you know I I kind of you you blink and you think wait a minute I'm not seeing you know and and you see them or coming in and seeing people in what I thought were costumes but actually upon further reflection able to find that the you know somebody from the 1930s they were dressed in 1930s clothing also coming in and doing minor repairs or installing lights and things like that so that we can see in here having tools moved having my keys moved and I'm the only one in here absolutely I mean there's a there's a stuffed teddy bear on the stage which was left by one of the groups the ghost grips that have come through because they said that they felt the presence of a small girl and I came in here and that petty bear on the stage was over in the corner now it was in the middle of the stage when I came in and I was the only one here and I what is it so I went up and I moved it back over there and then it apparently moved again and so I just put it back and said okay I'm gonna leave it and if it gets moved again that's obviously where they wanted I've heard different stories about a figure being seen up on the balcony looks to be a male figure walking the balcony which you know is it an usher is it someone who's just trying to find their seats so you know it's kind of exciting I've heard that there is a spirit who's been seen by the first floor water fountain thirsty I don't know just bopping around and you've I've also heard stories about workmen you know hear sounds of construction may be coming from the stage and one of those people was maybe attributed to a worker who had fallen off a lighting scaffold and been killed in the theater so you know and you hear these stories and and you know that in a building with a history like this someone has died here or someone who was very close to it has perished and come back they're very friendly I liken it to more of a Casper type of ghost as opposed to a malevolent there are some darker forces here you know whether you believe in that stuff or not really to me I know what I I know what I see and I know what I I've felt here and if anything this is home to me so I don't I don't feel startled usually I can tell you that I've come in here several times and said look we're here to to do good and to make this place shine and we want to make you proud our tour of haunted Northeast Ohio continues right after this with an eerie visit to Zoar [Music] [Applause] [Music] a quick drive down 77 and you are transported back in time that's right the historic village of Zoar is known for its perfectly preserved buildings and also its paranormal activity [Music] flora was founded in 1817 they became a communal Society in 1819 they all work together for the greater good they lived that way until 1898 when they decided that they were going to dissolve today's or is a National Historic Landmark we have many museum buildings to tour since the village was founded in 1817 most of the buildings are original we have a lot of ghost stories and almost every tour we get somebody asked you know is it haunted so we decided to go ahead and do the haunted tours just to share all those stories and experiences that pass residents and even today's modern docents have experienced so the Soraa hotel was founded in 1833 as an overfill for the canal Tavern absorb it had many famous guests throughout the year including on President McKinley who often frequented the zuhr hotel so there's many many spirits many people involved in the hotel we think the one main spirit is a mother Mary roof who actually took care of the hotel for eight decades some of the things we have there's different things about pictures being turned over that were of a lady that she was not in favor of because the lady happened to wear red stockings which she did not approve of so her picture often got turned over and we are currently in the zohr hotel as you can see it is under construction but that adds to the hotel tourists because you can see the original construction methods of the separatist subs or we're currently going past the rooms that we think that president William McKinley would stay in he would always get two adjoining rooms and these are the best two rooms on the second floor because they are right next to the balcony so he could go out there and enjoy you know just some nice time away with Ida last year after we were doing one of the Ghost Tours and we were cleaning up for the evening so we were going through and getting all of our different lanterns and just kind of packing up for the night and someone had a phone out to record anything and we're just kind of asking is there anyone up here is there any kind of person we actually captured a recording that sounded like a lady whispering and German so there's definitely still paranormal activity going on here and or we are now in the magazine this is where a lot of the paranormal activity in sort takes place a lot of our tour guides actually will not be in this building by themselves even during the day for regular tours we did have that one tour guide that couldn't get any of the doors open and decided then that at that point she wasn't alone and she was going to go ahead and climb out the window there's also been kind of phantom footsteps in this building and there's just an overall chill that you get when you're in here typically a magazine is the storage house for military goods but since the society was a pacifist they used this for other household items such as tea sugar spices anything that can be distributed amongst the households each household and Zoar was given a number since they lived communally and then you were given your goods based on your household size in each place like the magazine the dairy the bakery you would have your different goods distributed to buy household number when it comes to go so I'm kind of a skeptic but even here in Zorah there's some things that have happened that I really can't quite ignore there's been a couple times when I've gone to armed the buildings at night that a motion sensor has been set off and I know I'm the only one in the building and there's no one else on the second floor so then we just kind of lock up pretty quickly and give the building to the ghost for the evening it's their turn to have the building and there's been a couple other times where you just kind of sense the presence you know especially if you're on this one floor by yourself and you just kind of turn the music up a little bit and for the most part I think they leave us alone you've likely heard the story of the crybaby bridge that is one of several legends that haunt rogues Hollow initially this area was founded in the 1820s and first settled at that point and it was actually named Pleasant Valley and at the time Sam Chidester came into town and put up this mill to supply a livelihood it was calm and pleasant by 1840 with the Ohio and Erie Canal and and a lot of traffic being able to what and move product and there's discovery of coal all of a sudden coal mines started to pop up everywhere and at one time there were over a hundred mines in operation which so by 1860s in the 70s this place was no longer a peaceful Valley you had to go through the hollow to get from Doylestown to Clinton or doylestown to Canal Fulton at that time and so often you were stopped and you needed to pay a toll or a toll was taken and and so it got a notorious reputation for that the legends and the lore is that that that you know came about one of them it's the headless horse that a low-hanging tree which was called the ghost oak tree was kind of its nickname was at the top of Clinton Road where it meets phrase that a low-hanging tree that on horseback or on carriage you had to duck to get under it on a regular basis and and that once one of the bigger horses in the area in 18 hand high at full gallop on an icy so the tree was a little bit lower than normal even ran into it and took its head off so for many years after it was supposedly seen a lot of the legend and lore of the ghost stories here at the mill it's told of one of the workers who slipped on the foundation by the waterwheel and was was killed and that he came back nightly to finish his work and so he was seen often one of the other myths in the areas about crybaby bridge that a young woman became pregnant and her boyfriend left after finding that out and so soon after the baby was born that she threw it over the bridge and it said that late night on certain evenings you can still hear the cry of the baby if you listen really closely but just to clarify the actual bridge that was crybaby bridge on silver creek was up about a mile and that washed out in the flood of 1913 and currently this is the bridge but there's still folks who say that the spirit of the baby exists here now and if you listen closely on the moonlit night you can hear the cries well this is a 24 acre nature preserve we have trails that are open during the daytime hours we close at dusk every day so you can enjoy a lot of the local nature and what we have the mill was restored in 1976 and currently has on display some memorabilia from the mining days as well as Chippewa Township and Doylestown artifacts we recently just restored and put a new waterwheel on the backside to replicate what was there originally it seems the midnight hour might be the time to hear and see a lot of the things that are our legend the park does close at dusk still to come marching back in time [Music] did you know that America's oldest independent armory is located right in downtown Cleveland and with all that history there's bound to be a few haunts we're headed inside the Cleveland Gray's armory Museum [Music] Cleveland Gray's armory museum first and foremost is the second home of the Cleveland Grays the Cleveland Gray's were the original protectors of Cleveland they were militia this is pre Civil War pre Mexican border campaign everything they were originally called up to just help out when there was crime happening throughout Cleveland when they first started up they originally called themselves the cleveland city garden because they picked a gray uniform people say here come the cleveland Gray's when they'd March and they changed their name they did turn navy blue for the Civil War because they did answer Lincoln's call the arms they went back to the traditional gray color once the Civil War ended they built this building in 1893 after the original armory burned as most armories did when you had gunpowder and you had gas light fixtures when those two things met there was a big explosion when they built this building they put in a lot of electricity so when there was a small fire it actually the rest of the building stayed standing it just blew the roof off of the drill hall we have been here for since 1893 and we actually still maintain the building through the work of the Cleveland Grays the support of the museum and the the membership some of the greatest things that people are going to see is actually Gray's armory itself because they get to come into a huge piece of Cleveland's history but the benefit that we give them is they get to hear about the ghosts and grays has quite a few that the staff has named which i think is nice you know keeps everybody in the family they have their ghosts Patrick who they believe is a spirit of one of the original workers who constructed the building it was mainly built by Irish immigrants so they felt naming him Patrick was a good plan and Patrick seems to have a problem with how they decorate things so sometimes he'll change things around for them they have a really interesting ghost who sometimes nobody sees him but they can tell he's there they had their original one of their original executive directors Maj Luke grocer who passed away unfortunately in the in the drill hall downstairs and Lou had a habit of smoking his pipe around armory and every so often the caretakers will smell somebody just kind of walking past him with a pipe going and it's a vanilla pipe tobacco that they're pretty sure loose so he pops in every now and again to make sure they're doing a good job we had one young lady who I honestly I thought she was getting ill I thought she was gonna pass out she was staring at the staircase just petrified and finally I went up to her and I'm like do you and I go outside you need some air and she's like I just saw somebody in uniform standing on the stairs and I'm like okay do you want to go outside and she's like no I kinda want to hang out and see if anything else happens so we head up to the second floor and she walks past where she saw what she said was a spirit knee uniform and I mean I broke out goosebumps she broke out in goosebumps we get to the second floor and she's like I swear he's at the back of the group and she said she felt like this through the whole tour so finally we were on the third floor and she started to get really tired I said you know let's go outside get some fresh air we went outside and she's like I just felt so drained for a little bit and I said well then apparently he was trying to make contact with you somehow and kind of just attached but it was really interesting because you can tell when someone's seeing something that maybe not everybody's seeing so what we try to do is make the most of the time we have with people get them in these buildings that are such a huge part of Cleveland that people don't know about you've walked past Gray's armory every night for weeks headed to Indians games you've seen it no idea what it is come on art or you'll get to come in and see what it is it's one of the most haunted spots in Ohio a place where you can walk the same halls as history's most infamous prisoners take a tour if you dare inside of the Ohio State Reformatory the history of the hosta reformatory opened up in 1896 it wasn't for hardcore felons it was mainly for guys who were between the ages of sixteen and thirty they were nonviolent first-time offenders so you had a lot of petty thieves on the air and all that they kept it as reformatory right until about 1970 right around that time period they turned it into maximum-security prison because it was needed I think one of the things that really brings people here is the architecture we have so many people that come here that look at it and go you know this doesn't look like a prison a lot of people call Dracula's castle a lot of the inmates actually call the trakula's castle the area we are now is where the warden and his family would have lived the wardens lived here from opening day 1896 until right about 1959 this would have been their dining room actually the last warden that lived here full-time his family lived here with him and one Sunday morning his wife was getting ready for church she reached up into the closet to get her jewelry box down she dislodged a 32 automatic pistol that belonged to her husband and it fell and shot her and left long she ended up passing away three days later at the local hospital but over the years people have reported seeing her and smelling her roaming the halls [Music] solitary confinement one of the most haunted areas of the prison one of the stories in here happened right around 1930 there's a corrections officer just doing as you know hourly rounds coupled boys broke out of their selves be able to death in here still to the state we see them it doesn't matter if it's day or night we see them there have also been tons of other murders and suicides in this area throughout the years and here you never know what you're going to get everything from full blown full-body apparitions to selbst or sliding close to camera failure equipment failure batteries going dead and you never know what you're gonna get I've been a paranormal investigator since oh geez had to be 1993 I actually started here in 1998 so I had a good solid foundation and knowledge of the paranormal even before I came to this building there's something about it there I don't think there's been a single day where I've not walked in here and had something happen it could be something as quick as you know the the quick smell of bacon and eggs near the warden's kitchen or it could be seen a cell door close by itself where it could be seen you know inmates walking down the tears when I know I'm the only one in here [Music] when we return we are heading east to the place where the spirits talk [Music] built in the 1800's this next location was a safe haven that housed the sick the Navy the abandoned and that was right here in Northeast Ohio today that building is a museum that gets visits from former residents [Music] we are inside the Lake County History Center in Paynesville Ohio the Lake County History Center was not always a History Center at one time this was the lake county poorhouse the poorhouse was called the infirmary for the county in 1852 the government decided they would be hands off on a welfare system and decided that the counties could handle their own indigent better than the government could so each county was charged with finding a house where everybody could stay the people who were in poverty were here people who were ill elderly mentally ill many people were dropped off here including unwed mothers so it was quite a place where we could keep the ills of society away from the good people it was kind of a sad system I don't I have never really read a lot of good stories about poor houses almost every place we've been in this building including the Attic where we're standing right now is very haunted up here in the Attic some of the things we've experienced includes we've had different shadow people up in this area they've even been filmed we've had experiences where a man was here and he felt like he was physically pushed back to the point where he almost felt like he was being attacked so we've had strange things happen up here as well as sounds like knocking or we've captured voices on recorders that don't really belong are you here I have never gotten your name could you please leave your name in this recorder [Music] okay the cellblocks in the basement here at the Lake County History Center were used to house the people that they could not control so there was no real way to designate who was down there who was and I said anyone could be down there anyone who misbehaved or someone who was criminally insane or my favorite story down there involves a woman named Lucy and Lucy was found running naked through the Painesville square so they assumed she needed help brought her here and she was housed in those cells for many many years but Lucy liked to escape so she would be found running naked through the streets of Painesville unfortunately she chose winter many times to escape and she ended up with frostbite over and over again after about eight years of living in residence here Lucy did die but Lucy as a spirit we experienced down in the south still to this day mrs. white was a matron here back in the early days when they first opened this place she was actually the wife of the superintendent of the building and her job as matron was to continually be checking to make sure the inmates as they were called were looked after that they were where they should be and weren't where they shouldn't be she would constantly walk the halls checking doors with her keys and she is still heard and seen in this building checking those doors and we've even experienced mrs. white pounding on the door more than one time but you can hear the sound of her jingling keys many times as you walk down the hallways at night throughout the year we offer lantern tours here in the evenings and it's a very ghostly fun time for anybody who'd like to attend we do walk around in the complete darkness led by a candlelight and we have experienced many different things on the Lantern tours they're available some nights you have to check the website to see when they're available not all year because the building can get a little cool in the winter and a little hot in the summer so we have to watch those times of year but most of the year you can finally Lantern to her sandusky known for fun spots like Cedar Point the city itself has a very rich history dating back to the Civil War and that history includes murders and mysteries that are believed to be the reason for paranormal activity in downtown Sandusky [Music] more the Maritime Museum is Sandusky with this location it was built in the early 2000s so it's not an old building but we have many old artifacts and a lot of history in this area and I believe that may have a part in some of my experiences here we've heard footsteps in the museum we've heard voices I've had my name called I've had someone to call out hello while they were coming in to see us and we were closed to the public at the time one Sunday afternoon young gentleman that works here with us was cleaning some of the display cases and he called out really excited come here quick look and in the planning material on the on the plastic on the display case it was the word prisoner we take a one-hour walking tour it's a couple blocks it's in the downtown send Sandusky area we have those on Sundays at 8 o'clock I describe it as a little bit exercise a little bit of history and some spookiness so we have some great stories from Underground Railroad to murders to train accidents to the prisoner war camp even some Cedar Point stories one of my favorite stories is the Johnson Islands story there was a group of Italian immigrants after the war that was working on the island and a storm came up and when the storm came up they seek shelter under some trees near the cemetery well the next day one of the Foreman's heard him singing his strange song and he thought well that's strange they that they can barely speak English where did they learn that so he asked one of the guys he said where'd you learn that song he said oh it was coming from the cemetery the song was Dixie so and the cemetery is the Confederate POWs Cemetery there is reports of a young boy that drowned many years ago that has been singing along the beach we have a rich history here and we also have a rich history of some spookiness too so if you're not a believer it takes that one experience that one moment when you're not expecting anything when something happens that you are just like what did I just experience what did I just see or hear and you're like okay maybe there is something else out it's that there's much more still to come [Music] this beacon on Lake Erie is known for its light but you might be surprised about the shadows at heights the Fairport lighthouse has very special ghost that roams the halls [Music] we're out at Fairport Harbor marine lighthouse and Museum really incredible spot out here on the lake it's beautiful this lighthouse is actually the second lighthouse that was in pretty much the same spot this light I believe first lit in August 1871 and that the lighthouse that's out there now replaced the original lighthouse in 1871 and that lighthouse was used until 1925 when they put into operation the lighthouse out in the breakwater and when you come to visit our museum you have of course can look at all the artifacts that we have here in the museum including the lens from the lighthouse and then you can also walk up to the top of the lighthouse which is unique because there are a lot of lighthouses on the south shore of Lake Erie that you can't get into we also have the pilot house from the steamer Frontenac which was a cleveland cliffs boat and it was built in 1923 and then they they remodeled the pilot house in the 1960s and we got the pilot house and attached it to our building here at the lighthouse one of the one of the really awesome stories that we have is about Captain Joseph Babcock he is the first lighthouse light keeper who lived out here with his family and his wife unfortunately was very ill when she became ill she became bedridden he brought her numerous cats to keep her company over the years the cats just kept coming and coming and coming one day when mrs. Babcock passed away all the cats disappeared except for one that can't hung around and he continues to hang around this was back in 1871 so we have to assume that mrs. Babcock's the last cat has left this mortal coil but when there was some work being done to do some air conditioning work and whatnot in the underneath of the lighthouse a worker was wiggling around on his back underneath and felt his head resting on something when he reached around to feel what it was it was a mummified cat so they think that Sentinel their ghost cat has been around since mrs. Babcock's time he has been seen by different curators in the museum he's been seen playing running around and he likes to jump in bed with whoever is the curator at the time if they're living on property I'm here a lot of times when nobody else is here I'm doing things maintenance or whatever and working in the building and very frequently you will hear noises that you're not sure where they came from and could be the cat don't know there are also stories out here at Fairport Harbor of a little ghost boy said to be one of the children of the Babcock family who passed away from a fever and he seems to be most active up at the top of the actual lighthouse itself he likes to close the door on people it just pranks nothing malicious nothing mean just likes people to know he's up there hanging around and that wraps up our tour of haunted Northeast Ohio but before you rush out the door to do some exploring of your own just know that some of these places that we feature on the show are closed to the public yeah so to see which ones offer those tours and to learn more about the paranormal experts that helped us with our show you can visit us on Fox sitcom just click on that new day tab I'm a very spooky Natale horrific today I'm David wasnae had a lot of fun and we'll see you in the next new day [Music] [Music] [Music]

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