Ohio Paranormal Investigation Team

07/06/2025

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07/06/2025

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07/06/2025

MANSFIELD — One more experience awaits for summer travelers to experience the in-demand Paranormal Institute, Ghost Hunts and Ghost Walks at what is widely recognized as one of America’s most haunted places. The infamous Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield reports that just a few dates remain fo...

02/23/2025

A chilling Canadian legend of suspicion, secrets, and the unknown

02/23/2025

I've told this story twice: once in Haunted Ohio II: More Ghostly Tales from the Buckeye State and this version, from Spooky Ohio: 13 Traditional Tales, with illustrations by Jessica Wiesel.
THE BRIDE AT THE BRIDGE
On the morning of August 12, 1837, Esther Hale hummed happily to herself as she put on her white dress and veil. It was her wedding day. The cake was in the kitchen, covered in cheesecloth to keep off the flies. The guests were beginning to arrive. The wedding was set for ten in the morning.
But by half past ten the groom had not arrived and the guests and the parson were beginning to fidget. At half past twelve, they climbed into their wagons and drove away. The messenger Esther sent could find no trace of her bridegroom. His cabin was deserted, said the man, and the ashes in the stove were cold.
When Esther's friends tried to help her to bed, Esther shook her head, the tears running down her face. Finally they left her sitting alone in the dark by the window of the parlor. When they returned the next morning, the curtains had been drawn, as if for a funeral. They were never again opened in Esther Hale's lifetime.
All summer Esther moved like a ghost through the house. In the kitchen, beetles tunneled through the cake. The wedding flowers withered under the spiders' veils in the parlor. Esther's friends coaxed her to eat and drink a little, but when they tried to get her to change her dress or remove the wedding decorations, she flew at them with claw like fingers. Finally they left her alone.
Broken hearts kill slowly. Four months later a neighbor noticed that the door to Esther's house was open, banging back and forth in the December wind. He told the sheriff and the doctor who took a party of men to the dark house. Snow had drifted throughout the rooms like a white shroud.
Esther was slumped over the parlor window sill, her veil over her face. Someone held up a lantern. The doctor drew back the shredded lace. Esther had been dead for several weeks. When they saw the horror beneath, they silently covered her over again. She was buried so, shrouded in her wedding clothes.
But burial did not put an end to Esther Hale. It is said by the locals that you can still see her, dressed in white, looking for her bridegroom on the bridge over Beaver Creek in Columbiana County. She waits there every year on August 12, a hideous figure in tattered white satin and lace. And if she touches you, she will become young and beautiful again but you will die.
So if you are in the area in early August, drive through quickly with your windows rolled up. And keep a sharp lookout for a skeletal woman in a wedding dress stained by the grave. For she will lunge at your car, her bony fingers scrabbling at your windows, desperate as Death to touch and claim your living flesh for her own.

02/23/2025

If death history is your thing, there's a fantastic lineup of presenters at the virtual Symbols of Mortality Conference 22 February, 2025!
I'll be speaking on mourning crape as a token of death. Hope to see you there!

http://www.lorraineevans.com/documents/symbols-of-mortality-conference-programme.pdf

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11/01/2024

Have a safe and Happy Halloween

03/29/2024

Happy Easter to everyone still following our nearly dead page. Lol
We actually have more planned so keep tuning in .

01/22/2024

Lets see em

10/02/2023

I've agreed to be a speaker at this event.
A few tears ago , my OPIT team was the first to be permitted to investigate the property where the murder of Barbara Davidson ( The Pig Lady ) accured . This event , very much like our annual Gretchen's lock event , is a celebration of the Appalachian legends, folk lore , and ghost stories surrounding the Beaver Creek area.

I gotta say 😊 he makes me and OPIT sound pretty interesting 👻 lol.
I want to see all of my FAMILY and friends there.
October 14th !!! Mark your calendar
There are directions in the link

This is a family friendly event with lots of stuff for the kids to do .

October 14, 2023 Home About Activities Storytellers & Guests Directions Past Celebrations Folklore Library Storytellers & Guests A Musical Conversation with Tony Sorce Appalachian Folk Musi…