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GALION to cleveland Hunt on your own or washington rd. accompany a professional US 42 71 SR 39 ghost hunter at any one of the SR 314 six haunted sites. Spend a haunted night in s. main st. hanley rd. LUCAS Mansfield and leave with your own ghost stories. LEXINGTON SR 13 SR 603 SR 12 SR 97 pleasant valley rd. SR 39 SR 95 SR 3 SR 13 US 42 4 LOUDONVILLE possum run rd. to columbus BELLVILLE 71 SR 95 1 Ohio State Reformatory 3 Mansfield Fire Museum 5SR Renaissance 97 Theatre BUTLER 100 Reformatory Road, Mansfield 1265 W. Fourth Street, Mansfield 138 Park Avenue West, Mansfield SR 3 2 Haunted Bissman Building 4 Malabar Farm State Park 6 Gill House SR 97 14 193 North Main Street, Mansfield 4050 Bromfield Road, Lucas 342 Harding Way West, Galion HauntedMansfield.com Six of the most haunted sites! F H J L N Ohio State Reformatory Haunted Bissman Mansfield Fire Building Museum 100 Reformatory Road 193 North Main Street 1265 W. Fourth Street Mansfield, OH 44902 Mansfield, OH 44902 Mansfield, OH 44906 419-522-2644 • Molly Cabrera 419-295-5002 • Joe James 419-564-5531 • Bobby Shook [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] OhioStateReformatory.org HauntedBissmanBuilding.com MansfieldFireMuseum.com One of America’s most haunted prisons! Search the In 1886, the Bissman Building was designed by the Once known as a ‘hangout’ (lil’ Capone’s), this rows of stacked cells, solitary confinement, and creepy same architect who drew up plans for the Ohio State museum now is dedicated to collecting and corridors in this castle-like 1896 former prison. Ghost Reformatory and became a successful wholesale grocery preserving fire trucks, artifacts, history & traditions Hunts, Ghost Walks, classes and events, and private business. Experienced ghost hunters report that when of firefighting. paranormal investigations are known to document the company closed its doors, “Not all of the employees Perhaps it’s the artifacts that make the spirits come continuous activity. left the building.” Guides unveil its unique history, share alive. Both employees and visitors have experienced Used in a number of films including The Shawshank stories of movies and videos filmed on site, and reveal a fire truck side mirror that appears to move on its Redemption, Air Force One and Escape Plan 3: Devil’s chilling tales of black masses, shadow figures, cold spots own. Unexplained sounds when only one person Station. and ghostly spirits, including that of a former employee is in the building, lights that flicker, and shadowy decapitated in the elevator. Seen on the Travel Channel’s Ghost Adventures/2009 figures of unknown people have been reported and SyFy Channel’s Ghost Hunter’s Academy and Seen on SyFy Channel’s Ghost Hunters/2010, A&E’s during paranormal investigations. Ghost Hunters/2005 & 2010. My Ghost Story/June & Nov. 2011, Paranormal After Party Season 3/2014, and Destination America’s Ghost Asylum/2016. Malabar Farm State Park Renaissance Theatre Gill House 4050 Bromfield Road 138 Park Avenue West, 342 Harding Way West Lucas, OH 44843 Mansfield, OH 44902 GillGalion, House OH 44833 419-295-5002 • Joe James 419-295-5002 • Joe James 419-569-9032 • Brenda Treisch [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] MalabarFarm.org MansfieldTickets.com Facebook.com/gillhousegalion Experience America’s most famous farm, the The Renaissance Theatre opened as a movie palace Built in the first decade of the 20th century 900-acre country estate of Louis Bromfield who in 1928 and is now a showcase for performing by one of Galion’s founding families, the Gill was a Pulitzer Prize winning author, farmer, and arts & entertainment, but also known for ghostly House was designed by a nationally-recognized pioneer in innovative scientific farming concepts. encounters. Footsteps have been heard coming architect. The original owners of the 6,000 sq. ft. home, Bloomer and Nellie Gill, were associated Ghostly sightings have been reported by staff from the grand staircase, dark hallways, and balcony. with the early automobile industry and were and visitors alike at historic Malabar Farm’s Big Disembodied voices have been heard in the visited by family friends Thomas Alva Edison and House. Tales of flickering lights and appearances projection booth and whispering in the catacomb- Henry Ford. by the ghost of Louis Bromfield—and his beloved like rooms under the stage and lobby where a 1929 boxer dogs —intrigue ghost hunters. murder took place. Footsteps, laughter, physical contact, traveling shadows, and full body apparitions have been Seen on SyFy Channel’s Ghost Hunters/2014. Seen on A&E’s My Ghost Story/2011. witnessed by both visitors and volunteers from the around the US and Canada. .