Cincinnati Haunted Handbook

by Jeff Morris, Michael Morris

Overview

Hop In and Hang On for Cincinnati’s Grandest Ghost Hunt

The first book in the new Haunted Handbook line within the popular America's Haunted Road Trip series, Cincinnati Haunted Handbook offers a plethora of eerie spots in the Queen City. Authors Jeff and Michael Morris present each of the places in Cincinnati Haunted Handbook in a two-page spread that includes directions, a brief history, details about the paranormal activity, and advice on seeing it in person. Sites are organized into sections, including schoolhouses, roads and bridges, hotels and inns, and others. From the winding curves of the spooky Buffalo Ridge Road to the ghost of Music Hall, from the moans heard by the Miamitown bridge to the wispy form that flits through Spring Grove Cemetery, this book offers creepy hideaways that even Cincinnati natives don't know about. Equally suitable as a travel guide or as a diverting read for casual dipping, Cincinnati Haunted Handbook sorts out what creeps and crawls in the Ohio night.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781578604692
Publisher:	Clerisy Press
Publication date:	09/14/2010
Series:	America's Haunted Road Trip
Pages:	240
Sales rank:	667,667
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Jeff and Michael Morris have been heavily involved with the paranormal field since 2005, when they started writing their first book, Haunted Cincinnati and Southwest Ohio. At around the same time, they started a ghost tour in Miamitown, Ohio, called Miamitown Ghost Tours, where patrons can experience the haunted history of this small town in Southwestern Ohio. Jeff and Michael also host an online paranormal radio show called Miamitown Ghost Talk on ASPRN.com, on which they have the opportunity to speak with big names in the field and to just speak about ghosts in general. They also do a lot of paranormal investigation themselves. While researching this book, they went out to all of these places in an attempt to find the spirits who reside there, and beyond these trips, they are members of Cincinnati Paranormal, a paranormal investigation group. Jeff has his degree in English from the haunted Miami Universityin Oxford, Ohio. He lives in the Covedale suburb of Cincinnati with his wife and two children. Michael has a degree in graphic design and lives in Miamitown with his wife and their three children.

Read an Excerpt

Adath Israel Cemetery

1661 Sunset Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45238

Directions

Take I-75 to the Harrison Avenue exit. Follow the signs that direct you to Queen City Avenue. Follow Queen City Avenue a little more than a mile up the hill and turn left onto Sunset Avenue. Follow Sunset for less than a mile. Adath Israel will be on your left just after you pass the intersection with Guerley Road.

History

When the cholera epidemic hit Cincinnati in the 1840s, the only Jewish cemetery in the city filled up quickly. As a result, many Jewish communities throughout the area created more cemeteries. Adath Israel Cemetery in Price Hill was one of them.

This cemetery eventually was filled to capacity, and the congregation of the temple started another one elsewhere in the city and discontinued burials at the Price Hill location, but this is the one that is reputed to be haunted.

In 2008, a group vandalized several headstones, and the cemetery now is watched more closely by law enforcement and by concerned neighbors at night.

Ghost Story

Most of the ghost stories from this cemetery take place in the caretaker’s building. This red-brick building sits within the cemetery itself. The paranormal events tend to occur in the basement. A chair will move around all by itself. Lights in the basement will come on by themselves. Other times voices and figures will be seen and heard throughout the basement despite the fact that the building is empty. When curious onlookers gaze through the windows into the basement, sometimes they will see strange reflections of figures standing behind them. When these terrified witnesses turn around, no one is there.

The caretaker’s building, however, isn’t the only haunted location in this cemetery. People will often see figures walking among the headstones, especially at night. When people approach the area where they saw these figures, no one is found.

Visiting

It’s probably best to visit this cemetery during the day, when it is easier to look through the basement windows in the caretaker’s house and see how the basement is set up. Most of the stories involve things that happen during the day because that is when people are usually around. I have caught interesting EVPs at the cemetery during the day.

Recently, the caretakers and owners of the cemetery have posted warnings that the cemetery closes at nine p.m., meaning that it is illegal to enter the cemetery at night. Unfortunately, this limitation probably resulted from the vandals who uprooted several headstones—an example of how one group of insensitive people can end up ruining a place for the rest of us.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

SECTION I, Cemeteries

• Adath Israel Cemetery
• Beth Israel Cemetery
• Congress Green Cemetery
• Darby Lee Historic Cemetery
• Hopewell Cemetery
• Kings Island Cemetery
• Miamitown Cemetery
• Millville Cemetery
• Price Hill Potter’s Field
• Reily Cemeteries
• Rose Hill Cemetery
• Spring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum
• Wesleyan Cemetery
• Woodside Cemetery

SECTION II, Roads and Bridges

• Blome Road Bridge
• Miamitown Bridge
• Peaceful Valley
• The Screaming Bridge
• Spook Hollow Bridge
• Buell Road
• Buffalo Ridge Road
• Clermont County’s Dead Man’s Curve
• Harrison Avenue’s Dead Man’s Curve
• East Miami River Road
• Hamilton New London Road
• Highway to Heaven
• Lick Road
• Loveland Madeira Road
• Mount Healthy
• Narrows Road
• Oxford Milford Road
• Pond Run Road
• Princeton Road
• Spooky Hollow Road

SECTION III, Parks and Trails

• Butler County Fairgrounds
• Camp Dennison
• Cincinnati Zoo
• Coney Island
• Delhi Park
• Dunham Park
• Eden Park
• Harbin Park
• Heritage Village
• Kings Island
• Old Miamiville Train Tracks
• Rapid Run Park
• Sleeper’s Hill/Sedamsville Woods

SECTION IV, Museums and Theaters

• Cincinnati Art Museum
• Cincinnati Museum Center
• Glendower Mansion
• Loveland Castle
• Mt. Healthy Museum
• Promont House
• Taft Museum of Art
• 20th Century Theater
• Music Hall
• Rave Cinemas Western Hills
• Sorg Opera House
• Taft Theater
• Walton Creek Theater

SECTION V, Businesses

• Bigg’s at the Skytop Pavilion
• Bobby Mackey’s Music World
• Crow’s Nest
• Fairfield Bowling Lanes
• The Golden Lamb
• Habits Café
• Hyde Park Graeter’s Ice Cream Shop
• Latitudes
• McClung House
• Omni Netherland Plaza
• Peter’s Cartridge Company
• Reily Pizza
• Shimmers Ballroom and Tavern
• Smokin’ Monkey
• Southgate House
• U.S. Playing Card Company
• Vernon Manor Hotel
• Western Hills Country Club
• Western Woods Mall (Dillard’s)
• The White House Inn

SECTION VI, Schools and Public Buildings

• Anderson High School
• Grace E. Hunt School
• Miamitown Elementary School
• Mother of Mercy High School
• Mount Notre Dame High School
• Norwood Middle School
• Oak Hills High School
• Peabody Hall at Miami University
• Rapid Run Middle School
• Old Reily High School
• St. Xavier High School
• Taylor High School
• Western Hills High School
• Cincinnati Job Corps
• Hooven Firehouse
• Mt. Saint Joseph Motherhouse
• Satan’s Hollow
• Cincinnati Subway
• Westwood Town Hall

Appendix 1: Chapters Organized Geographically

Appendix 2: Daytripping (or in this case, Nighttripping)

Appendix 3: Paranormal Investigation Groups

About the Authors