An informative and good time was had by all.

Most of the residents of Moonville, Ohio were buried just west of town in Moonville Cemetery. This old cemetery sits on top of a hill just outside the ghost town of Moonville. Many of the town’s founding fathers are buried here, including members of the Coe family, who once owned much of the Zaleski forest in rural Vinton County where the cemetery and the haunted Moonville railroad tunnel are located.

There are at least thirteen known graves at the cemetery, many more have been lost to time. All that remains of the missing headstones are their imprints in the land.

If Moonville is haunted, there is a good chance the cemetery is haunted as well. The ghosts who continue to haunt Moonville are surely buried here. With help from our friends at Forgotten Ohio and Haunted Hocking we have posted some of the gravesite names for you. This cemetery is almost as creepy as the tunnel itself. Drive past the Moonville tunnels’ iron bridge and up the steep driveway to the right and you’ll find the cemetery; it’s well worth a visit.

Moonville Cemetery Gravestones:

Lovisa Coe  1843 – 1885 (Consumption)

Cliff Coe       1844-1899  (Heart Attack)

Preston Coe  Born: 1847 Died February 28 1865  Age 17

Jacob Coe    March 5, 1869 age 10 months

Wellington Coe

Benjamin Jones  May 22, 1832 – February 24, 1912

Rachel Stilwell Jones June 12, 1842 – April 1, 1914

Eber Jones     December 2, 1875  June 30, 1876

Ideliae Jones July 5, 1874 – July 15, 1874

Louzanna Jones   Died Sept 14, 1865 age 3 years

Matilda Stilwell  Died March 17, 1870 Age 73

William Stillwell    April 20, 1827 – May 5, 1876  age 49

Sarah Ann Lentner Stillwell   October 24, 1830 – August 21, 1905  Age 74

Unmarked Graves:

Charlie Ferguson Died 1912 (killed by train)

Joiner – Died 1903 Infant

Grace Mace Young Girl

James Mace Grandfather

Bessie Stilwell – Died 1910 Age 6 Hot cup of coffee spilled down back

Jerry Ross Died before 1880

Albert Stilwell Died 1900 -choked to death on 22  cartridge Age 4

Worthington Coe Died 1884 Age 85

Haunted Hocking  http://www.moonvilletunnel.net/index.htm

Forgotten Ohio  http://www.forgottenoh.com/moonville.html

Equipment Used:

1 Digital Audio recorders – Nothing Captured

1 Sony Digital still cameras – Nothing Captured

1 Cell Censor EMF machine – Nothing Captured

1 Panasonic hand held Video Recorder – Nothing Captured

1 K2 Meter – Nothing Captured

1 Panasonic video recorder – Nothing Captured

South Street

This case was brought to TOGHS by Case Manager Marie. During Marie’s interview, she learned that his side by side Duplex home on South Avenue was built in 1897. It has had many different owners over the past century. One of the former owner’s Wilton C Lyman had a very mysterious past. Wilton lived in the home from 1941 through 1954 along with whom we believe to be his wife Annie Mae. It looks as though he may have bought the home from his Father Louis A Lyman who owned the home previously. On December 24, 1954 Wilton came up missing. The newspaper reports stated that he was the pilot in a small two seated plane flying over Lake Michigan heading to Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The plane reportedly crashed en route. Authorities never recovered the plane or the bodies. After an extensive search of the lake, the only evidence found was a life jacket floating alone in open waters. We could not find an obituary for him in any newspaper. Could Wilton be the person or person’s said to be haunting this home? As we checked the history of the home further we came across another owner, His name was Robert Crooks and he lived in the duplex next door from 1951 through 1960. Robert did not pass away in the home, however his infant son Mark died at the residence on December 5, 1956.

The current owner Pat purchased the home in 2004. He and his wife bought the home for the purpose of renting it out and making extra income. It was during renovations that Pat began to hear noises coming from unoccupied rooms. He recalled an instance while working in the cellar. He heard what sounded like doors opening and closing, the door alarms went off, proving to Pat that someone or something had indeed entered the home uninvited. Pat kept a television and a radio in the home to keep him company while working alone. Each of these appliances would take turns coming on and going off by themselves. If this wasn’t spooky enough, the continued footsteps throughout the home day and night would surely scare someone. These reported paranormal occurrences are not what caused Pat to seek us out though. It got much worse! Two stories Pat shared with TOGHS made this case really interesting. The first was when Pat began to replace one of the furnaces in the cellar. While digging a platform to place the furnace, the cellar door which also led to the outside, began to slam over and over, hard enough that you would think someone was trying to break the door. When Pat ran to find who and why someone would do this, he realized the cellar door was locked and no one was there. Once he regained his composure and began to dig the platform again, he came across several bones. Even though Pat didn’t know what type of bones they could be, he did know that he had indeed unearthed something that intensified the paranormal activity throughout the home. TOGHS has learned over the years that everything created, be it human or animal is made of energy and has a soul. We’ve also learned that most souls do NOT like having their burial sites unearthed. Although Pat reburied the mysterious bones and closed the open grave, did he already release the spirit of this unseen energy? That’s when we took this case.

We arrived at the home close to 7:00PM on Friday April 21, 2010. Team members Butch, Mike Marie, Jeff, Amy and I would make up the group for this investigation. Marie and Amy took base line readings in each room including the cellar. They did not find anything paranormal in regards to temperature fluctuations or electro magnetic fields being giving off from the home. We shut down the furnace and unplugged all appliances regardless. After setting up 4 digital video night vision cameras in the reported hot spots, we broke into two groups. Butch would lead his group with Marie and Amy. I would work with Mike while Jeff worked the tech table keeping a watch on the 4 video monitor. Just as our investigation began, we began to witness strange occurrences; two of our DVR cameras that were set up in different rooms fell at exactly the same time. There didn’t seem to be a reason for either one to fall, after setting them up again we began our investigation a second time. We held 20 minute EVP sessions in each room of the duplex home while taking digital still photos and video recording each session with our handheld night vision cameras. As the evening wore on we experienced other strange phenomenon. While Butch’s group was investigating the attached home next door, Mike and I investigated the cellar. Each group carried a hand held 2way radio. Its purpose was to keep constant contact if needed. This is one of those times that it was needed. Mike and I decided to recreate the burial by opening the grave in the cellar. I began to dig first while Mike took digital photos of the event. After digging a couple feet down while provoking the reported spirits, Mike and I switched positions. While Mike began to dig further, I used a video recorder while holding an EVP communication session. While I was talking with the unseen member of our group, Jeff called down to let us know that one of the upstairs EMF machines sitting in front of a DVR camera had begun to flash and show high electro magnetic fields in the unoccupied living room. As we continued to dig further down, I that I thought I heard music being played somewhere in the cellar with the volume down very low. We finished this session and met the other group in the tech room. Once we shared our experiences we found that Butch, Marie and Amy had heard the same music being played at the exact time, but in the room next to them. After checking our EMF equipment, we could not come up with a valid reason for the huge fluctuation in EMF’s. We had shut off the furnace, appliances as well as the lights in the entire home. Maybe we captured several paranormal events simultaneously? Should we have left the grave alone? We continued our investigation taking more photos, recording audio and video the entire time. We ended our investigation with the entire group in the cellar. While Pat reburied the open grave under video surveillance, the entire group each held an EVP session. We talked with each and every soul that had lived in the home over the past 113 years since it was built. Some of us thought we heard faint voices, others thought they heard music being played again. We ended our investigation with a closing prayer and thanked our client for inviting us. Over the next several days we analyzed our findings. Some things we captured can be explained by normal reasoning, some things we just can’t explain. I have shared the video of Mike and I in the cellar alone. I recorded this video with a Panasonic hand held video camera. You hear me ask if there is anyone in the cellar with us. You’ll then hear our unseen guest answer ‘YES”

Equipment Used:

4 DVR night vision cameras – EMF equipment reacting to sudden high EMF’s

3 Digital Audio recorders – Nothing Captured

2 Sony Digital still cameras – Nothing Captured

1 Infar Red Thermometer – Nothing Captured

1 Cell Censor EMF machine – Flashing red at different times during the investigation

2 Panasonic hand held Video Cameras – Nothing Captured

1 Panasonic night vision hand held camera – A male voice answering ‘YES’

Personal Experiences – Several team members had heard music playing, voices and footsteps

Wolffinger Cemetery

TOGHS heard about this beautiful old home from case manager Marie. She works with a mutual friend of the owners. I will give you a short version of its history. The Casey Pomeroy house was built in 1870 by Theodore Casey, The home is now owned by Stu and Susan who have turned into a beautiful bed and breakfast. If you want to walk back into history while living or visiting in Toledo, you won’t be disappointed spending the night there. Theodore Casey and his wife Sarah had five children; four of them died during that period, I’m not sure if any of them died in the home, they are buried at a local cemetery. Theodore later remarried, we discovered this in a letter when Theodore’s second wife’s family contacted her in regard to having some of the Casey family china. The home then switched hands to the John Worthington family. John was a wealthy banker, a millionaire; he had one daughter, Hanna Matilda Worthington, who eventually married George Pomeroy Jr. She became the third owner of the home along with her husband. They had no children, George died around 1924. The catholic Diocese then took over the home. While the Diocese owned the home, it housed the nuns of St Ursula and then the nuns of St Francis. In addition to being a home for nuns; it was a school for troubled children. When the nuns left the house it sat empty for several years until Susan and Stu purchased it.

Interview and Tour of the home – TOGHS arrived at the Casey Pomroy home early on a Saturday morning, we were amazed by the structural beauty of this huge four story home. We met Sue at the back entranceway. Once inside we traveled along a short hallway with a staircase to the cellar on our right and ending in the huge remodeled kitchen. As we sat with Sue listening to her stories of the history of the home and some of the reported paranormal activity, I could hardly wait to take the tour. Our first visit would be another hallway linked to the first, where Sue had heard someone unseen tell her that ‘We need help’ then into a very long foyer with enormous rooms branching off on both sides. We passed through the library and what I would consider a sitting room. We then visited a beautiful chapel with stained glass windows and remnants of a ceiling painted in gold leaf still in place. It housed several rows of pews, the original alter and a statue of Mother Mary. This was a peaceful room where anyone would feel closer to our creator. We then entered the Parlor. This room is where guests were greeted when they visited the home. Only friends or family would be granted access to any other room. At the end of the hallway near the front entrance was the main staircase leading to the upper floors. Each staircase would lead up a flight of stairs and onto a landing, then would turn and continue up another flight onto the next floor. The second floor hallway was decorated with more beautiful antique furniture. This is also the floor where today’s guest would stay. We toured the St Francis room first. This is one of the smaller rooms, very peaceful and friendly. Then the Pomeroy room which is a bit larger and full of antique furniture including the bed, dresser and sitting chairs. This also the room where Sue was sleeping when she heard her name called just outside the door. We continued down a long hallway and into the Grand Suite. This room was very large and had all the amenities you could ask for in a honeymoon suite. It had a huge antique bed with a beautiful hardwood headboard, a separate bathroom with a bathtub from the late 1800’s along with a sitting area. This is the room where someone had captured a strange picture of a face in the headboard of the bed.

Back in the hallway we entered a smaller room. I listened as Sue told us the story of a time when the home was run by the Nuns and was a school for behaviorally challenged children. The room was used as a kind of time-out area and had been padded and then covered with carpeting, its windows were boarded up and an air vent was installed so the child locked into the room could breathe while being punished. The last thing a child would hear before being placed in this unfriendly room would be the closing of the heavy door that automatically locked once shut. This particular room made me very uneasy; feelings of sadness and despair filled me from head to toe. Other team members shared the same feelings that I experienced in this area of the home. One story shared with Sue by a Teaching Aid at that time and then with us, was of a young boy who was taken unwillingly to this unforsaken room, and while struggling to get out, has his finger severed by the slamming of the door. This same teaching aid shared other stories of children being mistreated, and the negative energy fills the room to this day. When we left this area we visited two more rooms at the end of the hallway which were being remodeled and were soon to be the Casey and Worthington guest rooms.

We climbed another set of stairs to the third floor. This floor was closed off to the public at the time and under heavy construction, it would soon be made into an apartment for the homes’ caretaker. This is the floor where the owner Stu had heard voices while he was working in the home alone. Although the floor was being changed to meet the caretaker’s needs you could still see the remnants of the original layout. We couldn’t wait to climb the last staircase up another floor to the tower that could be seen from three blocks away. The tower had large windows on all four sides, north, south, east and west. You could see downtown Toledo from one window, The Maumee River from another, Summit Street heading north and most of the east side from another. While in the tower we came upon our first ghost, he was hanging from the rafter in one corner of the tower along with a rubber bat. Although he was hand made from sheets, it was still kind of cool and a bit spooky.  When we finished our stay in the tower, the entire group made its way back down three floors down to the cellar. I have never investigated a home this large and the cellar was the biggest I’ve ever seen in a private home. Rooms branched off in every direction from a large main area. The main section was once a gymnasium for the kids to use in inclement weather. Every single room in the cellar seemed to hold its own story and was filled with energy both positive and negative.  One of the strangest things we came across in the cellar was a small room that had been bricked up and closed off. We only noticed this room because someone had removed a cement block from the wall itself. Looking through the opening, you could see what archways were once and bricked over tunnels that may have lead to secret underground places. We saw a very old shovel resting against one of the inner walls long after its use in this secret place. After touring the entire cellar, the group headed back up to the kitchen for coffee and conversation with Sue, our new friend and tour guide. We set a date for our overnight investigation and left exited about our next visit.

TOGHS team members Butch, Becky, Cody and I arrived early on Friday afternoon in order to set up our equipment. We covered the entire home, making sure we would have the reported paranormal hot spots covered with DVR cameras and digital audio recorders.  The rest of the group along with our invited guests would arrive that same evening at 6:00pm for a brief history of the home given by Stu, followed by a description and proper use of equipment by The Ohio Ghost Hunters founder Doctor Ken. We wrapped up our meeting while enjoying Sister Jordan’s stories and history of the paranormal. I have never met a person who could explain good energy verses bad energy better then Sister Jordan.  She is very knowledgeable and gives off the most peaceful karma I have ever experienced from anyone.  TOGHS has gone to her in the past for help and understanding during difficult cases.

We began our investigation around 8:30pm. This would be a very important investigation for many reasons. Butch was training two new members, Courtney and Adrienne. Kevin West, a past client from the Bernath Court case, and Amy would be assisting us along with Doctor Ken and Sister Jordan.

Other TOGHS team members included. Butch, Mike, Marie, Becky, Cody, Gina, Jeff,  John and Tracie. We broke up into three groups while Jeff and I worked the tech table.

Group 1 would be lead by Butch, Group two lead by Mike and group three lead by John. Each group would document every session using night vision video cameras and taking still digital photos. We began working 20 minute EVP sessions at different locations throughout the home. We continued our EVP sessions until every team member had held a session. We kept the hot spots under constant surveillance using our DVR night vision cameras. As the evening wore on, we would have the opportunity to switch group leaders, Gina would lead her own group session for the first time as well. We worked off and on throughout the night recording and documenting as much evidence as possible. We shared and discussed our personal experiences that we were had during the night and debunked as many noises and experiences as possible. TOGHS team members Butch, Becky, Sister Jordan, Jeff and I along with Doctor Ken worked the entire night. As night turned into morning we were greeted again by our host and client Sue. She thanked us for our investigation; we thanked her for allowing us to stay the night.  We then spent the next several days analyzing our findings. Although we all had a personal experience or two while staying in this beautiful historical home we did not capture the voices of the caretaker or any of the many children that lived in the home during its legendary past. We all agree that this home is full of positive energy as apposed to negative. We have also given the Casey Pomeroy Bed and Breakfast a five star rating for its friendliness, Amenities and historical value. If you’re ever in Toledo or just want to take a walk back in time. Consider staying at the Casey Pomeroy Historical home.Click to view slideshow.

http://www.casey-pomeroyhouse.com/

Casey – Pomeroy Becky scared

Equipment Used:

4 DVR night vision cameras – Nothing Captured

3 Digital Audio recorders – Nothing Captured

2 Sony Digital still cameras – Nothing Captured

1 Infar Red Thermometer – Nothing Captured

1 Cell Censor EMF machine – Nothing Captured

2 Panasonic hand held Video Cameras – Nothing Captured

1 Panasonic night vision hand held camera – Nothing Captured

Personal Experiences – Several team members had experienced personal feelings

We are keeping the names private to protect our client’s privacy. We will use first names only. TOGHS received a call in mid November 2009 by a Family that had just rented a home on Maumee Street in Toledo, Ohio.  The Family of four moved in on Friday and was to share the home with another couple. They called us within days after moving into the home.

TOGHS team member Becky took the call and documented their claims. Mindy reported that soon after settling into their new home they began to hear the sounds of doors closing, and noises in the attic. As the week turned into two weeks the activity had increased. The locked attic door would be unlocked and opened, the children’s toys would be tossed about and more shadowy figures were seen, even by the two children. One of the adult women heard growling in her bedroom. Becky had set up an interview time in the home with the Family.  We learned that between the times the interview was set up when we arrived two days later the activity had increased even more.  The children had now reported they had seen the shadowy figure in their bedroom with them, the little girl had been pushed onto her bed and had her hair pulled by someone or something unseen. The children said a mean man was yelling at them. We have always taken cases with children involved very seriously and this case would be no different. As Becky sat with the client, I was able to tour the home with Mindy’s husband Alan. I carried along my Sony Digital camera and the Olympus digital recorder. We began upstairs in the little girl’s room and moved from bedroom to bedroom taking photo’s and finishing the second floor in the bedroom of the couple that had moved in with Alan and Mindy. I didn’t notice anything paranormal while touring the second floor but listened to Alan’s claims while looking for clues to the mystery of this supposedly haunted home. We then came upon the locked attic door.  We unlocked the door and headed up to the attic. As I entered the room Alan began describing the paranormal activity that he was witnessing the past couple of weeks within this attic. I didn’t see anything that would lead me to believe that it was haunted but did feel a little strange, Maybe because Alan and his Family had been hearing noises nightly coming from this room. I decided to leave a digital recorder in the attic while Alan and I made our way down two floors to the cellar. On our way down to the second floor, we passed Becky and Mindy who had just finished the interview process. Becky could now see the reported haunted rooms that Mindy had claimed in her interview. Alan and I continued to the first floor and into the cellar. I was immediately taken aback by the cellar. There were rooms that branched off into other rooms. Some of the rooms seemed much older then others.  By the look of the bricks that were used in building the foundation the rooms were built at different times.  I knew by researching that the home was over 100 years old but some of the home must have been added on at a later time. What really caught my interest were the murals that were hand painted on the walls of the main cellar room. Although there were several, one in particular got my attention. It was a replica of the home itself right down to every window including the homes address.  The thing different about this painting was that it was painted to make the home seem very haunted. Cob webs in the windows, Skulls sitting on the front porch, Bats flying overhead and really strange writings on the signs that hung in the windows. One read ‘Boarders wanted with type A.B. blood’ and the other read ‘Due to the meat shortage there will only be 2 girls on duty’. I still don’t know their meanings. I took several more pictures and finished touring the basement. Alan and I went back upstairs to the first floor and talked further about the home and its unwanted guests. Becky and Mindy finished the attic and second floor then headed to the cellar. After Becky and I left the home we shared our thoughts in regard to this possible pending case.  Becky thought that some of the reports were really strange. They not only heard noises in the night but were hearing voices as well, And now the children were being affected, one child had been pushed down and her hair had been pulled. Becky also learned that both children were now sleeping in their parent’s bed at night because they were too afraid to sleep in their own bedrooms. As soon as I got home that night, I listened to the digital recorder that I had left in the attic before heading down to the cellar. I was amazed to find that we had picked up a girls voice whispering in the attic, she continued to whisper off and on for several minutes, I could not understand what she might have been saying but she was there on the digital recorder. I called Becky and told her what we had recorded. We called the group and explained that there wasn’t anyone else in the home at the time of the interview when the girl’s voice was recorded. We decided we would take the case and set up an investigation time.  Butch, Gina, John and Becky would lead the investigation and I would sit at the tech table. The team divided into two groups, Alan working with one group while Mindy helped with the other. Almost immediately after we began our investigation I notice Orb’s or dust particles passing in front of one of the DVR camera’s that was set up in the cellar. Both groups were on the top floors at the time and the cellar was sitting empty, I wasn’t sure what may have been causing this activity so I decided to visit the cellar and try and debunk it myself, I also thought I’d do an EVP session while I was down there. I stayed about 15 minutes and finished my session. The group continued to work twenty minute sessions throughout the night until we felt comfortable that we covered each room and the entire home from top to bottom.  Butch had debunked the Orb type activity that passed in front of the cellar camera as a drafty window; He also debunked high EMF readings on the stairway as coming from electrical wires running directly behind the stairway wall.  We didn’t seem to capture a ton of evidence on our equipment, although John and Becky had mentioned a personal experience in the attic. They both had felt like they were being pushed a tiny bit in the attic during an EVP session.  Once we analyzed all of our findings we had very little evidence to report.  Becky called our client and set up an appointment time to reveal our findings. Once again I went along with Becky to help explain that we had an EVP from our Interview but nothing paranormal to reveal from the investigation and to give copies of everything we documented. While visiting the home to reveal the evidence or lack of evidence we thought we’d set up another digital recorder in the locked attic. We let it run for an hour while we presented the DVD’s and copies of the Audio recordings from the investigation night. We explained that we could not say the home was haunted without evidence captured on Audio or video and that the personal experiences we encountered were not documented proof of a haunting. I explained again that although the girl’s voice that we captured earlier was odd and could even be paranormal, we did not have enough proof to pronounce the home as haunted let alone who may be haunting it.  Our clients seemed to be comfortable with our findings but still felt that the home was haunted due to their own personal experiences. When we arrived home we decided to listen to the digital recorder we set up in the attic during the reveal. Once again we captured what sounded like someone was in the attic moving objects around and walking up and down the attic staircase. We called Alan and Mindy to inform them of our findings, they informed us that the locked attic was full of activity that same night; they even awoke to an opened attic door the following morning.  As with every investigation, there are many things to learn, it seems to TOGHS that maybe the little girl in the attic or maybe the shadowy figure that lurked throughout the home on a nightly basis didn’t want to be known? Maybe the unseen entity that pushed the little girl down and pulled her hair was not brave enough to reveal himself at the time of the investigation. We have added the two EVP’s from the Interview and reveal times.

Equipment Used

4 DVR night vision cameras – Nothing Captured

3 Digital Audio recorders – Nothing Captured during Investigation – 2 EVP’s Interview & Reveal

2 Sony Digital still cameras – Nothing Captured

1 Infar Red Thermometer – Nothing Captured

1 Cell Censor EMF machine – Nothing Captured

2 Panasonic hand held Video Cameras – Nothing Captured

1 Panasonic night vision hand held camera – Nothing Captured

Maumee St reveal EVP web site

Here are a couple of pictures of TOGHS team members Becky and Jessica walking through the home after dark. We did capture what looked to be satanic symbols painted on the walls.

WTOL Toledo 11 and TOGHS Investigate Wolfinger

Wednesday & Thursday October 28th & 29th 2009

TOGHS was contacted by WTOL Toledo 11 News morning show in regards to having us on live at a local Haunted location. We decided to accommodate them and visited two recently TOGHS investigated locations.

Photo Album after the fold.

On Wednesday morning we went on the air live at 9:00am from the Lady in the Attic home on Toledo’s Eastside.  Mike, John, Becky and I arrived early at 8:00am to set up equipment. Once on the air, I was interviewed by Chris Vickers while the team worked an EVP session from the Attic, We did not capture anything paranormal but had fun working with WTOL 11 news. After the live broadcast we received tons of emails and blogs to our web site as well as requests for investigations. We kind of knew doing this Halloween telecast would bring out opinions and personal beliefs from our local audience. We agreed to set up another live show for the following morning.  Mike and I met Chris Vickers at one of our favorite legendary Haunted cemeteries, Wolfinger. The morning was very foggy and seemed perfect for an investigation and broadcast. We set up our equipment at two locations within the cemetery, the first set of headstones belonged to the three children that had died within a week of each other in the late 1800’s. Thomas, Rebecca and Ernest have been known to run along the fence line and throughout the cemetery, now they were being video taped and recorded during the entire broadcast as well as our longtime friend Eliza Ford, You might remember her name from one of my earlier investigations to this legendary haunted hot spot.  We shared air time between both locations but neither Eliza nor the children felt like being seen live on television during the broadcast.  I’ve included several pictures from Wolfinger cemetery that were taken during the broadcast. TOGHS would like to thank Rebecca Gilles, Chris Vickers and the entire staff at WTOL Toledo 11 news.

Below is a little more information that I’ve found online on Wolfinger Cemetery

Jacob Wolfinger built the first log house in an area that is now known as Secor Metropark in 1834. Two of the Wolfinger children were the first white people to be born and die in Richfield Township. The children were buried on the Wolfinger farm, which was the beginning of today’s cemetery. Wolfinger Cemetery is a small cemetery and is surrounded by woods on three sides. The graves of thirty-six Civil War Veterans can be found here.

Wolfinger Cemetery is located within Secor Metropark in Berkey Ohio, Lucas County. Secor Park was dedicated in 1953 and currently encompasses over six hundred acres of land including four hundred wooded acres. The park includes a visitor center and several hiking trails throughout the woods. Secor Park is located in Northwest Ohio about fifty miles south of Ann Arbor Michigan. From the I475/US23 Exit 13, go west on Central Avenue for six miles to the Secor Park entrance and turn left.  Follow the signs in the park to Wolfinger Cemetery

Legend has it that along one of the three wooded edges of the cemetery there are the graves of two adults and their three children. The children’s marker had no last name visible but their first names as well as birth and death dates could be clearly seen. The names were “Thomas” (8), “Rebeca” (10) and “Ernest” (6). All members of the family are said to have died within weeks of one another. The children have been seen playing in the cemetery near their graves. A girl of 10 or 12 in a blue dress with a white pinafore has been seen the most. I invested the Ford family resting spots as well; I feel that Eliza Ford is the woman that supposing haunts the cemetery too.

Kelsey Avenue Investigation

Photo Album after the fold

Kelsey Street Investigation: October 2009

I have been interested in this home since I read an article in the Toledo Blade newspaper in October 2008.  After talking with the owners Ron and Cyndi Schwartz about their personal experiences in the home we couldn’t wait to take on this case. The house sits on Kelsey Street in Toledo’s eastside. It was moved from its original location in the old Black Swamp area also known as Hobo Town. Interstate I-280 now runs north and south through Toledo where the home once sat. We’ve since uncovered some facts that lead us to believe the unattached garage may have been moved onto the property from Camp Perry. It may have been one of the old prison cabins. The history of this home and its legendary haunting go back to the early 1960’s.

Below is an article from the Toledo Blade that Ron had shared with us prior to our investigation.

Toledo Blade Newspaper:

Like others who’ve transformed this time of year into a $5 billion-plus annual seasonal bonanza, Ron and Cyndi Schwartz and their three daughters still living at home go all out, but the enter if you dare sign that hangs above the entrance door may be more a fair warning than a decoration. During the 17 years this family has lived in this story and a half home (longer for Cyndi whose childhood home this is), they’ve shared this home with “IT” or “Him” or “That”. A presence, they call it. A ghost if you will.

This Kelsey street home, its owners say, has had inexplicable noises and freaky happenings practically everyday they’ve lived there. All four daughters, ages 14 to 21 years old have had friends too wary to spend the night or, sometimes even set foot inside. For the Schwartz family, it was like a family parlor game the other afternoon, recalling the way ‘IT’ has made itself known.

We were all here in the front room once, ‘said Ron’ watching a movie, and all of a sudden the water in the kitchen was turned on and running full force, ‘Oh. And the lights! Chimed in 14 year old Haley, who said they often find lights burning where they’re sure the switch was turned off, and the television continues to go on and off in Haley’s bedroom by itself.

There was also the mysterious red liquid that seeped through the basement walls as Ron tried to paint. Plus the time Brittany’s electric curling iron turned itself on, despite not being plugged in. And then there’s Alex, the aging Labrador retriever who can suddenly become restless and pant frantically for no reason. But the most consistent tale was of footsteps the family hears almost daily, as if someone is walking across the upstairs floorboards – even when there’s only one person in the home.

The 18 year old twins, Brittany and Brandy, say they won’t sleep without closing the closet door in their upstairs bedroom. Their mother, meanwhile, is the opposite, ‘Oh, I have to keep my door open!’ Cyndi said, prompting Haley to blurt, ‘You’re crazy!’ For Cyndi, who moved here with her parents at age 4, the home’s oddities are a lifelong mystery. Like her daughters, she also had friends who wouldn’t enter.

Retired Toledo police detective Bob Poiry was called to this home in the mid-1960’s to stand by as its previous occupants moved out hastily. They were following the advice of a priest who investigated and blamed the relentless crazy incidents on poltergeist, warning the couple their place could burn down. Helping the family with its final sweep, the then young officer checked a back upstairs bedroom. Hearing a noise in the closet, he opened the door and was bowled over by an explosive flame that filled the home with smoke. Yesterday, Bob told me again how the state fire marshal never found a cause. Some four decades later, the man who ended his career solving homicides remains baffled by the inexplicable fire and is convinced something supernatural exists in the Kelsey street home. ‘You can ask any of the old-timers around here, ‘Cyndi said,’ they all know about this house.

Before starting our investigation we learned that another group from Defiance, Ohio had performed an investigation the previous year. Below is some of the information that was shared with us.  They called the dinning room a fear cage, this usually means that the room gives off very high EMF’s, and the home seems to come alive at this time of year. (Halloween)

Ron has heard a woman’s voice in the living room along with footsteps coming down the front staircase. At the bottom of the stairs there is a door; Ron has heard the door knob rattling on several occasions. The entire family continues to hear footsteps on the second floor while everyone is on the first floor. Haley’s television in her downstairs bedroom has continued to turn on and off during the last two weeks along with her curling iron being turned on again. Brittany reports hearing footsteps all the time throughout the home. Cyndi lost her back scratcher over a year ago, it fell from her closet shelf on her head, and she feels the ghost moves her belongings all the time.

Ron has also used an Ouija board in the home in the past but gave it away last year because he was told to do so by the Defiance, Ohio paranormal group. I feel the use of the board in itself could increase the activity in the home.

Once Marie finished the preliminary research and history of the home, the investigation time was set. TOGHS team members Butch, Becky, Gina, Dan, Jeff and I arrived at the home an hour before sunset. After setting up the equipment we split into two groups and began our investigation. Ron and his entire family helped with this particular investigation as well. We ran several hours of video on our four DVR night vision cameras and moved from room to room holding EVP sessions and taking still digital photos.  We also worked with dowsing rods throughout the entire home. After several hours we decided to hold a communication time in the first floor dining room. This is where we set members of our group in separate rooms while talking one on one with whatever spirit or entity that may reside in the home with the Schwartz family. We were hoping that something may happen in one of the occupied rooms. We ended the investigation in the cellar, holding a group EVP session including Ron and Cyndi. Although we didn’t capture anything paranormal during this investigation, TOGHS feels that this case and the homes legendary haunting are very real. We hope to be called again by Ron and Cyndi when the home awakens next Halloween and we are needed to return for another investigation.

Equipment Used

4 DVR night vision cameras – Nothing Captured

3 Digital Audio recorders – Nothing Captured

2 Sony Digital still cameras – Nothing Captured

1 Infar Red Thermometer – Nothing Captured

1 Cell Censor EMF machine – Nothing Captured

2 Panasonic hand held Video Cameras – Nothing Captured

1 Panasonic night vision hand held camera – Nothing Captured

Personal Experiences – Nothing Captured

Photo Album after the fold.