Dayton, OH area ghosts?
shanihn
area? I've been sentenced to spend 3 weeks there starting
Monday, and am looking for something to fill my weekends.
shanihn
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Pyiwackett
<smullina...@sprynet.com.invalid> writes:
>Anyone have any info on ghosts/hauntings in the Dayton, OH
>area? I've been sentenced to spend 3 weeks there starting
>Monday, and am looking for something to fill my weekends.
Shanihn,
Off the top of my head these places have had reports about them - the
Maimisburg Library park, Woodlawn Cemetary and the Air Force Museum. Most of
the informtion I have about them is from the Haunted OH books by Chris
Woodyard. I have heard the most about Woodlawn Cemetary and the Air Force
Museum. These two supposedly have a lot going on. I am sure there are more
that I am not remembering - will try to look a few more up.
Lived in Dayton all my life and the only thing I have ever expereienced was in
my husband's old cottage, which unfornately is no longer there. this was
mainly just people talking and the sounds of a party going on. Scared me half
to death and when I told him - he said "Oh yeah they visit a lot". Wished he
would have told me ahead of time about them.
If you would like more information just email me and I will try to help if I
can.
Laura
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Guntle
I have talked with a woman who lived across the street from Library Park in the
early 1900s. Her father was the owner of the Cress Hotel. (The building is now
occupied by a locksmith.) This lovely woman is now in her 90s and is a most
interesting person to visit with.
I asked her to tell me about the ghost in the park. She told me that the town's
first cemetery had been at a site on First Street and that in 1850 the persons
buried in the First Street cemetery were moved to a second location so as to
make way for the Miami and Erie Canal.
At some point in the 1880s it was decided that the town cemetery should be
moved again and the location made into a city park. Workers entered the
cemetery and dug up burial sites...some of the remains were being moved for a
second time...and all of the remains that were located were placed in what is
now known as Hill Grove Cemetery farther up Central Avenue.
While moving these remains a coffin was found that had a glass viewing window
in it. People came from all over town to peer into that window and the site of
the remains scared some of them silly.
Now some said that the combination of moving the dead twice and the fact that
some of the dead may not have been moved and so may have been seperated from a
loved one, caused unrest of the spirits and a ghost roamed the new city park.
Some have said that the combination of these two influences AND the viewing of
the remains in the windowed coffin stirred up the imaginations of certain
people and the ghost was pure imagination.
My friend said that as a child she would sneak over to her window at night and
look out over the park half hoping to see a ghost and half scared that she
would actually see a ghost. On one occassion she thought she did see the ghost
of a woman walking through the park but decided that it was just her
imagination and that she had better get back into bed because her mother
wouldn't approve of such behavior as getting out of bed in the middle of the
night and seeing ghosts. :o)
I myself have spent many hours in Library Park and I'm sad to say that I have
never so much as had a creepy feeling there, not even after dark and I haven't
heard of any recent sitings of a ghost in the park. But maybe you will have
better luck than I.
If you would like directions to get to the park or to Hill Grove Cemetery email
me. Maybe we could meet in the park and walk down to the Hamburger Wagon to
grab a burger.
Guntle :o)
Porch Nosey Neighbor
LITTLEPJoo
PJ
Guntle
>PJ
Well thank you PJ.
I can't believe that I finaly had something to say that was on topic...Its such
a rare thing for me. :o)
Guntle
Porch Nosey Neighbor
LITTLEPJoo
PJ
dawwgg
all the above info relative to Miamisburg and the Woodlawn
cemetary. A friend of mine lived within 50 ft. of Woodlawn for
a couple years and spent most of the time terrified of the
place. Something about strange interference on the phone lines
and just a general "creepy vibe" from the area.
About the Miamisburg area tho.. I don't know much about
sightings in/around the park itself (tho I've heard the ones
described) the old Carnegie Library that still stands there is
creepy enough).
Speaking of Miamisburg cemetaries, there are a few
interesting burial sites in Miamisburg. If you head east on
Central Ave (as if leaving the library park @ 5th/Central, go to
Gebhardt Church Rd and turn right (@ the Sera Chevrolet).. go
down about 1 mile and there is a really nice frontier-era
cemetary with some of the fouders of Miamisburg buried there
(c.1800-1890). There's open access to the area and a church
parking lot across the street. Very interesting place.
If you're in Miamisburg, you CANNOT pass up the most famous
burial site, the Miamisburg Mound. From the library park, head
south on 5th St., turn left on Mound Ave. and follow it up the
hill. It's a 90 ft. tall earthen "cone" built by the Athenas
(c. 4000-3000 BC?). Excavations in the 1880's revealed burials
at different locations within the mound (middle and below ground
level). Anyways, theres' a nice observation post at the top
(overlooking a DOE facility).
Of all the sightings in/around Miamisburg I've heard, the
only one I have had experience with occurred at "The Peerless
Mill Inn" (from library park go west on Central Ave to Second
St., turn left. Peerless Mill is about 1/2mile down on the
right). In 1990, a bartender that worked there disappeared.
Within a few weeks he shows up a snapshot taken of the bar
area. He showed up as a very light "double-exposure" on the
print.
(btw-- Esther Light wrote *the* definitive book on Miamisburg
history "Miamisburg, the First 150 Years" (available at the
Miamisburg library).
Guntle
I have never heard the story about the Peerless Mill Inn before. Thanks for
posting it. I just answered an email request for a fellow who was asking for
information about Stetler Church and its cemetery, on Union Road. This is the
oldest Lutheran cemetery in the Burg. Have you ever heard any stories connected
with this cemetery? Love to hear it if you have.
And I was just at a historical society meeting where Dr. Philip Shriver (Miami
University, Oxford) gave a lecture about the Miami Indians. He mentioned
something about the Mound that I have never heard before. He described the
mound as an "American pyramid" and reasoned that the person buried there must
have been an "American Pharo". Very interesting lecture.
Guntle
Porch Nosey Neighbor
shanihn
visit any of the places. :( I was so busy with work while I was
there that I just wanted to crash during the week. The first
weekend I was there it snowed, and the second weekend I ended up
in Cincinnati with some friends. I'm going to hang on to these
stories, though, because I have a sneaking suspicion I'll be back
there some time in the future.