Where War Widows Still Get Treatment

What: Madison Seminary

Where: 6769 Middle Ridge Road
Madison, OH 44057

When: Saturday, May 1st from 9 PM to 4 AM

Cost: $40 per person (which does include pizza/soda)

We call this a pay for play investigation. Alot of people have experienced things at this location. It was a home for war widows for nearly 80 years, and after that housed mentally handicapped and prison halfway house women.

We're excited to see what this location has to offer.

New Upcoming Investigation: Bissman Building Mansfield

We are now booked for an investigation at the Bissman Building in Mansfield on August 8th.

Fee for this investigation is $55 per person.

I spoke to the man who runs the building, and he confirmed it is EXTREMELY haunted.

Here's a brief history of the building....

The Bissman Building was the site of the Brewer Hotel where Brooks, actor James Whitmore, went to stay and hung himself soon after being paroled from The Shawshank Prison.
The building was also utilized in the film as the front office of the building for the set of the Portland Daily Bugle.

The structure was built in 1886 where Peter Bissman's expanded wholesale grocery still stands today, but not in operation. In the early 1930s the twenty smokestacks on the north and south sides of the Bissman's filled the early morning air with the rich aroma of coffee, as its own brands Red Ban Java Blend, Steel Cut and Acme were prepared fresh each day. Downtown residents would wake to the scent of roasting coffee beans and return home at workday's end to the fragrance of roasting peanuts.

The building has an early Romantic Gothic styling and shares a haunting similarity with the Historic Ohio State Reformatory since they were both built in the same year by the same architect.

In 2007 the building was leased to a major film production company, the Midnight Syndicate, for the production of The Dead Matter, a vampire movie to be released in October of 2008.

The Bissman building, nicknamed as Dead Souls Studio, has a long history of haunted activities and has hosted ghost hunters from all directions including a recent visit from English ghost hunter Ellis Byrd of Gussethunters Paranormal.

This building is on private property and is not available for tours. Visitors can take photos of the outside of the building. * borrowed from Mansfield website

Investigational tour - Farnam Manor 10-25-08

The tour of Farnam Manor was an interesting adventure.

In the carriage house before the tour even began, Evie detected a child running around. She was later identified by her and Natasha as Emily. During the tour the guide did reveal that Emily is the name of the child.

In the parlor, Evie detected and informed the tour guide of a gentleman sitting in a chair by the fireplace. She later revealed that indeed, there was a male ghost who seemed to enjoy that chair by the fire.

Bill was caught up in a spirit of his own from the time they entered the solarium. It was a woman who had been a whore at the estate when it was a speakeasy and brothel for the local police back in the 1920's. She had a child with one of the policemen, who then took it away from her and killed it. She died not long after, but has not been reunited with her infant.

Here are some photos Bill captured during the tour. Look for the orbs in them.

Last, but not least, the WRP team had their picture taken with the original Ghost Whisperer herself, MaryAnn Winkowski. Notice the orb in front of Bill's pants and the small orb in front of Evie.