True Ghost Stories from Ohio

Dark Figure's first DVD release is "True Ghost Stories from Ohio with Richard Crawford." This DVD covers such Ohio hauntings in south east ohio as The Faceless Hitchhiker, the Hookman of Pond Run Road, the Promont House, Utopia, and Smyrna Cemetary. Local Historian Richard Crawford gives up all the truth about Ohio's Haunted History. Mr. Crawford has released two books on the ghosts of clermont county ohio "Uneasy Spirits 13 Ghost Stories from Clermont County, Ohio" and "A Haunted History of Clermont County." He used to give haunted tours year round. The DVD has been featured in over 7 publications since it's release on sept. 25, 2006 and is available in Border's Books Eastgate, H&M Delia(Amelia), Border's Books (Springdale), Border's Books (Colerein), Joesph Beth Book Stores (Cincinnati), on filmbaby.com and in March at Chris Woodyard's site www.invink.com, and amazon.com. >
Produced by Andy Crosier and Richard Shane Reinert.

Reviews
Volume 1

Clermont Sun

"Deliciously creepy!"

Clermont Journal

"A good scare is closer to home than one might think"

HelloGhost.com

"Overall I give it an A."

Mike Weaver Myspace.com

"It really freaked me out."

Beyond the Reel TV

"It will have you reaching for a blanket (to hide)."

Dark Figure Productions had so much fun doing it the first time they came back for more. True Ghost Stories from Ohio volume 2 goes deeper and further into Ohio's hauntings. We traveled to Cincinnati, Columbus, Lancaster, Yellow Springs and once again to Clermont County in search of Ohio's true ghost stories. For those of you who asked for: reenactments you got it, first hand accounts.. done, more action less talk.. it's for real.
Available at Border's Books (Ohio), Joseph Beth Bookstores(Ohio), Barnes and Noble(Ohio)amazon.com,
invink.com and filmbaby.com
Produced by Andy Crosier and Richard Shane Reinert.

Reviews
Volume 2

"I loved the Cinematography and the lighting."

Director Bob host of My Awesome Talk Show

"True Ghost Stories from Ohio Volume 2" is a pleasure for friends and family to gather around the tv or campire and enjoy. Pick up this DVD statewide in Border's Books and Music locations.

Sean Paul Cincinnati Enquirer

I actually had the chance to meet Shane at an appearance here in Columbus on Tuesday and was able to watch all of Volume 2, this is some good stuff people, even if you do not live in Ohio you will enjoy this video.

Southern Ohio Paranormal Radio

SEE IT: LOCAL GHOST STORIES The truth is scarier than fiction. That's the premise behind "True Ghost Stories from Ohio, Volume 2," a 60-minute documentary that includes Cincinnati sites by Andy Crosier of East Walnut Hills and Richard Shane Reinert of Goshen.

Cincinnati Enquirer Life Section

Featured on The Today Show 10/30/08

WHERE IT'S LOCATED:

An 1850 Victorian mansion, now known as the Cornell Place Apartments, is in an old money area of Cincinnati. Old Cincinnati was built on seven hills, just like Rome.

Address: 3517 Cornell Place, Cincinnati, OH 45220.

These are private apartments. Tours are not given. Photography is not encouraged. The privacy of the occupants, both corporal and spiritual, should be respected.

IN THE BEGINNING:

Dutch families were the principal founders of old Cincinnati. This Victorian mansion was built in 1850, as a private dwelling. It turns out that in 1880 a young man committed suicide in the house. When his family left, the house remained vacant for years.

It later became Ealy School, a school for girls, in 1900. Legend has it that a young school girl hung herself upstairs, and another girl, a daughter of a doctor was found, murdered on the stairway.

After World War 2, this Victorian mansion was subdivided into apartments.

GHOSTLY OCCURRENCES AND INCIDENTS:

At one time the Stenton family occupied one of the apartments in the mansion. Soon after the Stenton's moved in, odd incidents began occurring. Phantom footsteps were heard walking in the hall, but no one was there.

Two weeks after they moved in, and at precisely 2:10 A.M., they heard the heavy thump of something heavy hitting the floor. The incident repeated itself, always at 2:10 A.M. They found out that the young man had killed himself in the room above their apartment.

Other tenants have had their supernatural experiences, including phantom footsteps following them around, disembodied voices heard in the halls and the sounds of things hitting the floor. One of the tenant's dogs refused to go into rooms where spirit presences were manifesting, baying in alarm!

Still Haunted?

Yes indeed!

Apartment residents hear and experience various manifestations still to this day.

Clues to some of the hauntings in Zoar are portrayed in The Ghosts of Zoar, Ohio by Ann Sawin and Betty O'Neill-Roderick. This book details many of the tragedies that took place in this town, including that of Lorenz Fritz. Near Christmas of 1888, Lorenz took the train to Massillon to buy Christmas candy for his three children. He never returned home from the trip. His wife assumed he had decided to remain in town to drink with friends, since it wasn't the first time this had happened. However, she was awakened in the middle of the night by her son, Eugene, who insisted that daddy was standing in the corner of the bedroom, dripping wet, but would not speak to him. By the spring of 1889, once the snows melted, authorities discovered Lorenz's body in the river by the train tracks.