Pottery Festival Day 3

 I am fairly tired so this is short.  Day three of the Pottery Festival was great!  Met awesome people, which includes a pair of ladies known as the Paranormal Grannies.  They showed me several pictures they had taken with possible evidence in them and their enthusiasm was wonderful. 

 There were plenty of crew members out to help and they were ALL newbies!

 Amanda gave tours today and she did so great, it was like she had been doing it all along!  She handled it amazingly!

 Jeremy, one of our newest crew members (in the gray shirt) assisted with the tours this weekend and was invaluable!  We are lucky to have him.  Stories on both of them are coming soon! 

 Dennis and Jon handled the booth today as well as Dennis helping out with the tours.  When we interviewed him back in March, everyone instantly like him and with good reason.  He is an awesome crew member and I see him going places, not just with us, but in the paranormal community as a whole. 

David and Tracy also showed up to help out and I am grateful for all they do to help out!  We were an awesome team at this years Pottery Festival  and look forward to future events working together.  Future events for us include working on videos and investigations!  G12P is going strong and getting better and better. 
Our next event is August 12 at Gretchen's Lock. 

Pottery Festival Day 2

 The weather was amazing!  The Crowd was so much better!  We got to see lots of old friends and made so many new ones! 

 We had a full crew for a short while today!  While everyone is going in different  directions now, it was awesome to get together today and see everyone one! 

 New crew members, Amanda and Jeremy (along with Peanut!) did such great work today you would think they had been on the crew for years!  Amanda is interested in helping with tours and I am grateful for that!  We had two tour groups today.  Jeremy, Amanda and I took one...

Jon and Dennis took the other.  Everyone had a good time!  It was a long time since Jon did a tour and Dennis is new this year, so his experience was limited, but like I said, these guys were like they had years of experience!  I loved it and know I made great choices asking them on the crew! Jon has this way with people and they just love him so I knew he couldn't go wrong! 

 We also had Peanut working the crowd tonight, walking around like our little sandwich dude, telling people about the tour!  I said he is hired and will be out tomorrow night doing this again! 

Lots more people tonight and a great show with the Hamburg eating contest, and Idol.
Tomorrow is the last day and I will be sorry it ends.  Come down and visit us!  Tell us your ghost stories!

DAY ONE OF THE 2013 EAST LIVERPOOL POTTERY FESTIVAL--WINDY AND WET

Here is my poor little worn out canopy.  Set up at East Liverpool Pottery Festival, you know what I love about it?  It is all mine.  No one but me decides when I get to use it. I don't have sides for it, but I have a tarp to help with the wind.  It will do for now.   This is what it looked like yesterday.  I have no clue what it will evolve into, today.

The weather was not friendly yesterday.  It was down right beautiful, as I love storms,  but not comfortable.  During the time of my pictures, Liverpool Idol was going on.  There was some awesome talent performing there last night.  I loved it.

 The whole time the show was going on, it just got darker and darker.    Note that no one is set up for the festival, by the way.  I hope more come out today and tomorrow.  With the weather outlook, however, I am not holding my breath.

For East Liverpool, the Pottery Festival is a wonderful event that everyone looks forward to.  Even in the rain.  I am glad to be a part of it.  We

are there again today, with free tours tonight at 7pm.  Meeting by the Masonic Temple.  Just look for a sign around the temple entrance for where to meet! 

If it is raining, this tour will be canceled.                                         

We Are At The Pottery Festival Today Thru Saturday

We will have a booth set up today at the Pottery Festival in East Liverpool with our usual line of history and ghosts. 
Stop by and meet some of our new crew members like Tracy or Anna....

 Dennis and Amanda, both new this year also.  They will be manning  our booth at different times over the next three days.  They are great ghost hunters and they look forward to talking to you about their favorite subject:  GHOSTS!

 Laura is back with us this year.  She will be at our booth Friday!  She went with me to Mansfield and you can get her view of that awesome adventure!

 And you can visit with some of our regular crew members like David, who is learning about Taro Cards to see if he can do some readings with those.  He and Tracy are both looking into that and are getting quite good at it.  They have a regular set of Taro cards and an angel set. 

and Jon!  Jon will be helping with the tours Friday and Saturday night as a tour guide.  He is awesome with people, so look for a good time on his tours!
And I will be there all three days, morning to night, like always.  We look forward to seeing you!

A ghost on the wall in the Chapel at Mansfield Prison- Caught by the trail camera.

 In our Mansfield Investigation, we used the trail camera and got some interesting results once more.  We put it in the Chapel and left it there for 4 hours.  In that time it took over 700 pictures.  There were people in and out of the Chapel all evening (we went with 18 other people), so we have shots of them all.  However, there are also anomalies in the pics that need some explaining.  In these pictures, on the right side you see a light colored mist that moves slightly between the two pictures.  I am not sure yet what this is.  It looks like an apparition of some sort caught flying across the back of the room. 

For now it is in the unexplained file until such time as I get back there to check it out.  I am also looking to see who I can contact about it at Mansfield.   If you know, please let me know!

MANSFIELD--$80 WELL SPENT!

 Mansfield Prison was amazing!  Yes, it costs $80 per person to go, but it was well worth it.  I have a total of about $115 wrapped up in the whole trip, including gas and good.  (They feed you pizza, pop, and coffee while you are there.)
This is Brian.  He is one of the tour guides at Mansfield.

This is Laura and another tour guide named Scott.  He was funny and knew his stuff.  Both men stayed the whole night. 

 Here is Laura, standing in front of Mansfield. 

 The gate that was once what you drove through to enter.  It is intimidating!

 In Shawshank Redemtion, this is the halfway house that Brooks and Red both end up in after they get out of jail.

 The very spooky chapel.  When the church was no longer used, this became a free-time room full of weights and death. There were many murders here.

 Our tour guides telling us about the warden's wife, who was accidently shot by the warden's own gun while cleaning out the closet.  She now haunts this part of the building.  Well, something does...

 This is what the cells look like today.  Some blocks are 6 stories tall.  We went to the top and it was breathtaking, literally!

 And this is the lovely Laura showing you the tuberculosis room!  It was once a ward for patients with TB.  We got an EVP up here that was amazing.  We asked if anyone had died here and the answer: "All of them.  Every day"

 This is Laura, inside a Solitary Confinement cell with our new friends, Jen, and Chris!  We met them here, and spent the whole evening chasing ghosts together.

 They are awesome ghost hunters.  It was great working with them and we hope to someday do so again.

 Laura, Jen, and Chris in a cell that would hold up to 8 men. 

 Chris and Jen going into one of the many weird shaped doors inside Mansfield Prison.

 This was called the chair room.   See the chair?  We got nothing in here, however.

 Heading to the Chapel, Chris, Jen, and Laura (and me) going up the steps.  In this area, Laura and I got an EVP that said "You two.  OUT."

 Another cell block shot.  From the floor, it was no problem.  Try the 6th floor!

This cell with the red walks and the gold toilet is where Lil Wayne shot his video "Go DJ"

We  had a great time and truly look forward to doing this again!  We highly recommend a night at Mansfield Prison!

The Alliance Swamp Witch?

THIS STORY COMES FROM MIKE, MY FORMER HUSBAND, WHO LIVED IN THE ALLIANCE AREA MOST OF HIS LIFE.  There is also a story about it in the book Weird Ohio.
This swampy area may have the ghost of a witch guarding its realm.  The story, as I have it, says that an old woman lived out here for many years by herself.  No one bothered her because she was believed by many to be a witch.  One night, a group of drunkards went looking for her and hanged her.  She now haunts the area.  If you go in, some say you never come out.  I am looking for more information on this story.  ghosting12@yahoo.com

The Haunted Jewish Cemetery Near Alliance

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 I HEARD THIS STORY FROM MIKE, BUT ALSO SEVERAL OTHER PEOPLE.  It is also on a web site called STARK COUNTY OHIO EXPLORATION SOCIETY
The haunted Jewish Cemetery, located near Alliance, sure looks spooky enough.   From what I understand it is one of the most haunted areas in Alliance.   It was easy enough to find (since I haven't been here in 11 or 12 years) and shocking to behold. The whole little cemetery is locked up tight, though there is a phone number to call on the gate if you want to make arrangements to enter.   

Once it was surrounded by an iron fence.  I love finding these.  They are also creepy looking and very fitting around an old cemetery.  This one is broken in places and a chain link fence now encompasses the grave yard as well. 

Inside, the grass is about 4 feet high and hides most of the stones.  While I am not sure how many people are buried here, you can't even see ten head stones. 










Eerily, there are remains of barbed wire, used to keep people out.  It just does not seem right that is should be here.  It is sad that there was apparently a need for it at one time.  It just adds to the creepy essence of the place.

I would love to see this poor little cemetery get some love.  I am also interested in hearing any ghost stories about it.  By the looks of this place, it has every right to be haunted. 
ghosting12@yahoo.com

Free Tour At Gretchen's Lock August 12, 2013

Our new Jake the Night Watchman!

Our next Gretchen's Lock Ghost Walk is August 12, 2013.  It is both the birthday of Gretchen, and the wedding anniversary for Esther Hale.  This will be the third year we will be at Gretchen's Lock on this date, giving a free tour of the area.  We tell 15 stories about ghosts, locks, the creek and historic events surrounding Gretchen's Lock.  Did I mention FREE?  Please come and join us for a spooky time! And remember, if you see Esther Hale, don't let her touch you.....

Alliance, OH Has a Cry Baby Bridge

 THIS STORY COMES FROM MIKE, MY FORMER HUSBAND, WHO LIVED IN THE ALLIANCE AREA MOST OF HIS LIFE. YOU CAN ALSO FIND IT ON THE STARK COUNTY OHIO EXPLORATION SOCIETY PAGE.
I spent the day in Alliance, Ohio yesterday and had a great time there! 

This bridge is on Webb Avenue, but I do not know yet what little river it is spanning.  The waters look deep and muddy. 

 The story Mike told me was that a young girl threw her baby off the side of the bridge when she didn't want it anymore.  You now can hear the cries of the infant coming from under the bridge if you stand on it at midnight.  I am sure there is more detail to this story, so if you have any information or know a different story, please let me know!  ghosting12@yahoo.com