DON'T TOUCH ME, I'M ROYALTY

*2 hours later someone else starts the shower*

Franklin Castle

Cleveland’s Franklin Castle has the distinction of being known as Ohio’s most haunted house. It is a big, dark building with stone walls, a turret, and a six-foot wrought iron fence. 

Hans Tiedemann, a german immigrant who got rich from his barrel-making business and later the banking industry, built the house in the mid-1800’s. The house has been a clubhouse for a German Singing Society, home to a German Socialist organization, a doctor’s office, apartments, a party house, and even a home to bootleggers.

The ghosts here are numerous. In a small room at the rear of the house a pile of baby skeletons was found, supposedly the victims of some inept doctor; today, babies can be heard crying the walls. There was a mass murder when some of the Nazis were machine gunned to death in a political dispute; their discussions can be heard throughout the house. There are rumors of an axe murder in the front tower room, the victim of which is occasionally seen standing in the window. 

The secret passageways around the ballroom are said to be where Tiedemann hung his illegitimate daughter Karen. Karen’s ghost is the main one seen in the castle, usually in a third floor room known as “the cold room” because it stays ten degrees colder than the rest of the house at all times.

Karen may have lost her life in a fight between her father and her boyfriend and then been hung from a rafter to make the death appear self-inflicted. She was just thirteen, but her ghost is often described as a woman, garbed in black, tall and thin and eerie, and often seen by people in the neighborhood.

Tiedemann’s three babies died mysteriously in the house, as did his fifteen-year-old daughter Emma, of diabetes. His wife died from liver trouble here. A servant girl was supposedly killed in the servants’ quarters on her wedding day for refusing Tiedemann’s advances. He is said to have shot his mistress Rachel for wanting to marry another man; the choking sounds of her death can be heard in one of the rooms.

Emily’s Bridge: Stowe, Vermont

Vermont has more haunted inns that anywhere in New England –the Norwich Inn, Brass Lantern, and Old Stagecoach Inn are just a few examples –but Emily’s Bridge, in Stowe, is the best-known Vermont legend. The Gold Brook covered bridge was built in 1844, and it’s more commonly referred to as “Emily’s Bridge” due to a ghost named Emily who is believed to haunt it.