Archbishop Hoban High School

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by on March 21, 2012 at 1:26 pm

Archbishop Hoban High School – In the new art rooms, tutoring center and admissions office, reports of ghostly men in dark priest robes walking the halls are frequent. These new rooms are in a remodeled section that used to be the old Brothers dormitory. The mysterious figures are never seen anywhere other than this section. The men’s locker room is believed to be haunted by a boy who may have played basketball for the school. He was killed in a car accident in the late 1980s.  History: In the early 1950s, Archbishop Edward F. Hoban invited the Brothers of Holy Cross to staff a new high school to be named in his honor.  The Brothers had taught him as a boy, and he knew their standard of excellence.  It would be the third Holy Cross high school in the Cleveland diocese, joining Gilmour Academy in Gates Mills and St. Edward High School in Lakewood.

Monsignor Richard Dowed, the pastor of Akron’s Annunciation parish, envisioned a comprehensive boys high school in his neighborhood.  The land he acquired, once the Sumner farm, would soon be cut by a new Interstate highway.  The result was a campus located near the central interchange of the expressway system, easily accessible to outlying areas.

An economic downturn in Akron in the mid 1970s brought about changes that would ultimately strengthen the school.  Hoban became coeducational; offices for advancement and admissions were started; the board of trustees was strengthened; and an endowment fund was launched. These steps would put Hoban on a strong footing and transform the school into the diverse educational community it is today.

In the 1990s Hoban’s board considered a range of options to guarantee the continued success of the school.  Inspired by Bishop Anthony Pilla’s initiative, “The Church in the City,” Hoban renewed its commitment to its urban location and launched the Hoban 2000 campaign, which physically transformed the campus.

In 1998, the U.S. Department of Education named Hoban a Blue Ribbon School of Excellence, affirming the opinion of students, parents and alumni.

Now, after over 50 years, Hoban can celebrate both its history, characterized by a unique tradition of excellence, and a future, brightened by new stars in the Hoban family.

Location: One Holy Cross Boulevard Akron, OH 44306

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Franklin Castle Update!

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by on March 21, 2012 at 1:13 pm

Well the news mill is circulating that the location of the old Franklin Castle in Cleveland will be the location of apartment buildings.  Please see the news article below:

http://www.newsnet5.com/dpp/news/local_news/cleveland_metro/haunted-franklin-castle-sale-pending-renovation-planned

 

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Lake View Cemetery Cleveland Ohio

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by on March 21, 2012 at 12:48 pm

Lake View Cemetery, located in the vibrant University Circle area, was organized in 1869. We are considered “Cleveland’s Outdoor Museum and Arboretum.” It’s Cleveland’s historical, horticultural, architectural, sculptural and geological gem. Our magnificent collection of trees, shrubs and plants make for an exceptional green space in an urban area. This “green space” provides a wonderful refuge for birds and small animals, as well as a showplace of extraordinary architectural and sculptural treasures.

As a non-sectarian cemetery, Lake View is open for burials of all races, religions and walks of life. The Cemetery is the final resting place of over 104,000 people. It is a place to celebrate the lives of those people, each with a story to tell. With nearly 70 acres remaining for future development, Lake View will continue to inter people for the next 100 years.

We encourage you to learn more about Lake View Cemetery through the links provided in this website. Our professional, caring staff is here to serve our families and visitors, and will be more than happy to answer any questions you might have. We hope that you will call or visit Lake View in the near future.

Gates are open from 7:30AM to 5:30PM. Office hours are Monday through Friday 8:30AM to 5:00PM, Saturday 8:30AM – 12:00PM, and Sunday by appointment.  12316 Euclid Ave  Cleveland, OH 44106

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The Houdini Séance

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by on March 20, 2012 at 10:04 am

The Houdini Séance

By , About.com Guide

It was the night of October 31, 1936. Halloween night. The men and women sat at the round table with joined hands. They awaited the message – the message they had hoped for every Halloween night for the past 10 years. But the message did not come.

Finally, one woman rose from the table and announced to the others – and to a listening radio audience – “Houdini did not come through,” she said. “My last hope is gone. I do not believe that Houdini can come back to me, or to anyone…The Houdini Shrine has burned for ten years. I now, reverently… turn out the light. It is finished. Good night, Harry!”

The woman was Bess Houdini, wife of the famed magician and escape artist. And this was the last séance she would participate in to try to contact her dead husband. But the séances themselves did not stop. Every October 31, from 1927 up to the present day, a séance has been conducted with hopes of contacting the spirit of Harry Houdini. So far, the great Houdini has not made his presence known.

The Houdini séance has been a Halloween tradition since the first anniversary of his death. The magician died at the age of 52 on October 31, 1926 from peritonitis – an internal infection – as the result of a ruptured appendix.

Shortly before his death, Houdini made a pact with Bess that if he could, he would return and make contact with her from the other side. They devised a coded message that only he and Bess knew; this would prove that it really was Houdini breaking through from the afterlife. But after 10 séances in 10 years, Bess had not received her beloved husband’s personal message.

Oddly enough, Harry Houdini did not necessarily believe that spirits of the dead could be contacted. Aside from his fame as a stage magician and astonishing escape artist, Houdini was just as well known – especially in the later part of his career – as a debunker of spirit mediums and phony séances. He felt, however, that if it were possible for anyone to come back, he would find a way to do it.

In the 1920s, spiritualism was at a new height in the US and Britain. There was a strong, popular belief in the notion that it was possible to communicate with the dead through séances and channeling psychics knows as mediums. The movement had begun in the mid-1800s, grew in popularity over 20 years, then slowly fizzled out toward the turn of the century as more and more mediums were exposed as frauds. But after World War I, there was a resurgence in the spiritualist movement as many families longed to contact those who had perished in battle.

And the mediums were right there to fill the need for a public so willing to believe. The best mediums were masterful tricksters and showpeople, and their séances were thrilling multimedia performances of spirit channeling, levitating tables, floating instruments that played themselves, written messages from the dead and spontaneous manifestations of ectoplasm. The performances were ingenious and succeeded in fooling many otherwise intelligent people. Houdini, being a magician and a rather ingenious fellow himself, knew that these séances were just clever hoaxes.

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What does Supernatural mean?

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by on March 20, 2012 at 9:42 am

The supernatural (Medieval Latin: supernātūrālis: supra “above” + naturalis “nature”, first used: 1520–30 AD)[1][2]is that which is not subject to the laws of nature, or more figuratively, that which is said to exist above and beyond nature. With neoplatonic and medieval scholastic origins, the metaphysical considerations can be difficult to approach as an exercise in philosophy or theology because any dependencies on its antithesis, the natural, will ultimately have to be inverted or rejected. In popular culture and fiction, the supernatural is whimsically associated with the paranormal and the occult, this differs from traditional concepts in some religions, such as Catholicism, where divine miracles are considered supernatural.  In Catholicism, while the meaning of the term and its antithesis vary, the “Supernatural Order” is the gratuitous production, by God, of the ensemble of miracles for the elevation of man to a state of grace, including the hypostatic union (Incarnation), the beatific vision, and the ministry of angels. Divine operation, “spiritual facts” and “voluntary determinations” are consistently referred to as “supernatural” by those who specifically preclude the “extrinsic concurrence” of God or by those espousing a materialist or determinist worldview that excludes immaterial beings or free will. Barring disingenuous intent, there is no objection to this manner of speaking.

Catholic theologians sometimes call supernatural the miraculous way in which certain effects, in themselves natural, are produced, or certain endowments (like man’s immunity from death, suffering, passion, and ignorance) that bring the lower class up to the higher though always within the limits of the created, but they are careful in qualifying the former as accidentally supernatural (supernaturale per accidens) and the latter as relatively supernatural (prœternaturale). For a concept of the substantially and absolutely supernatural, they start from a comprehensive view of the natural order taken, in its amplest acceptation, for the aggregate of all created entities and powers, including the highest natural endowments of which the rational creature is capable, and even such Divine operations as are demanded by the effective carrying out of the cosmic order. The supernatural order is then more than a miraculous way of producing natural effects, or a notion of relative superiority within the created world, or the necessary concurrence of God in the universe; it is an effect or series of effects substantially and absolutely above all nature and, as such, calls for an exceptional intervention and gratuitous bestowal of God and rises in a manner to the Divine order, the only one that transcends the whole created world… It is obvious also that this uplifting of the rational creature to the supernatural order cannot be by way of absorption of the created into the Divine or of fusion of both into a sort of monistic identity, but only by way of union or participation, the two terms remaining perfectly distinct.

— Joseph Sollier, The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 14., Supernatural Order

The term “supernatural” is often used interchangeably with paranormal or preternatural — the latter typically limited to an adjective for describing abilities which appear to exceed the bounds of possibility (see the nature of God in Western theology, anthropology of religion, and Biblical cosmology).[5]

Many supporters of supernatural explanations believe that past, present, and future complexities and mysteries of the universe cannot be explained solely by naturalistic means and argue that it is reasonable to assume that a non-natural entity or entities resolve the unexplained. Proponents of supernaturalism say that their belief system is more flexible, which allows more diversity in terms of intuition and epistemology.

Views on the “supernatural” include that it is:

  • indistinct from nature. From this perspective, some events occur according to the laws of nature, and others occur according to a separate set of principles external to known nature. For example, in Scholasticism, it was believed that God was capable of performing any miracle so long as it didn’t lead to a logical contradiction. As a pedagogical exercise, a physics university instructor might ask what the aftermath would be, as nature returns to normal, following a hypothetical miraculous intervention by God, similar to a modern thought experiment. Some religions posit immanent deities, however, and do not have a tradition analogous to the supernatural; some believe that everything anyone experiences occurs by the will (occasionalism), in the mind (neoplatonism), or as a part (nondualism) of a more fundamental divine reality (platonism).

incorrectly attributed to nature. Others believe that all events have natural and only natural causes. They believe that human beings ascribe supernatural attributes to purely natural events, such as lightning, rainbows, floods, and the origin of life.

 

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Franklin Castle Club? Don’t think so!

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by on March 20, 2012 at 9:34 am

Source of information: www.forgottenoh.com

As of 2006, Franklin Castle appears, on the surface, to have been fully restored and made headquarters of the Franklin Castle Club, an exclusive private meeting place for people too rich to associate with the lesser classes. They even claim to administer a Florida Beach House and yacht, as well as limousine service for members of the exclusive club, memberships to which cost $5,000 or so.

At first I assumed all of this was true; after all, I read it on the internet, and if that’s not rock-solid information I don’t know what is. However, it was deduced through conversation with an observant co-author of mine that the “Franklin Castle Club” appears to be an elaborate ruse. The club does not seem to actually exist yet (if it ever will), and the website is a fascinating exercise in wordplay and misdirection. The verb tenses constantly shift between present and future–for instance, answering the question, “How many memberships will be available in the club?” with, “The club is offering 400 memberships at this time.” (Emphasis mine.) The owner does go so far as to say that memberships have been sold, and “most people have found the cost to be well worth the added value to their lives.” Attempts to contact the proprietors on any topic, from general inquiries about the building to trying to secure one of these “memberships,” go universally unacknowledged and unanswered.

Furthermore, there’s nothing which indicates that the images of plush furniture along the top of the main page at FranklinCastleClub.com (shown above) really show the renovated interior of the building. The Interior Photos section exhibits nothing but close-ups of details in the woodwork and fixtures–mantels, doorframes, doorknobs, newel posts. Weirdest of all, whoever put this piece of fakery together stole several pictures from my website, including one sent to me by Matt which shows the glow-in-the-dark Halloween mask he hung in an upstairs window. Nothing on FranklinCastleClub.com gives proof of a completed renovation in any way.

Fake Renovations and Amateur Porn


Then Cleveland Plain Dealerreporters Michael O’Malley and Joan Mazzolini dug into the story, and the rumors I’d been hearing from NE Ohio website readers and my co-author James turned out to be correct–even the weirdest ones. The real deal at “Ohio’s most haunted house” is even more bizarre than some of the ghost stories.You might recall that Michelle Heimburger, the most recent owner, was being prosecuted back in 2000 over “the slow pace of repairs.” Michelle lives in Canada, according to the newspaper, and doesn’t seem to concern herself much with this piece of Cleveland property. Meanwhile, a guy named Charles Milsaps was left in charge of the place, living in the carriage house out back and paying the utility bills in exchange for overseeing renovations. Whether or not he actually planned to turn the building into an upscale club (some neighbors don’t like the idea), he was responsible for the pastiche of stolen pictures, half-truths, and outright lies that is the “Franklin Castle Club” hoax. (Read the article that brought everything to light here.)

No significant renovations have been done to the place, but Milsaps apparently had enough work done to default on his bills to two area contractors, resulting in liens being placed against the property. An interior designer took him to court over the $11,500 he’s owed, and the Cleveland Lumber Co. claims $1,650.

Milsaps has, however, found time to use the carriage house–and possibly the Castle itself–to make amateur pornography. His confusing profile/profiles and string of contacts on MySpace leave no doubt that he’s having fun up there, though not the kind of fun that other people in the neighborhood might approve of: his company, Voodoo Media Group, has produced at least two lesbian porn movies he sells online. But they’re not strictly girl-on-girl, as an apparently pseudonymous “talent scout” makes clear in his profile; he claims to handle “all of our gay, bi and straight male talent.” The same pseudonym left a public message on MySpace recently which said, “All the girls/guys say HI and of course we miss you around the Castle.”

Meanwhile, not a single membership to the “Franklin Castle Club” has been sold. The castle looks a lot like it did when I visited it less than a year after it was torched. It doesn’t even have running water.

Now (October 2006) the Plain Dealer reports that the Castle may end up on the Sheriff’s Department’s auction block, since Michelle Heimburger has $14,000 in unpaid property taxes and Chris Milsaps has accumulated about $13,000 in liens and judgments for unpaid construction bills.

A fake renovation…it’s really pretty fascinating, don’t you think? Somewhere between ballsy and unbelievably stupid. But in the end it looks like the whole thing is going to fall apart for the amateur pornographers and proprietors of the fake club.

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Niagara Falls, Canada: Nightmares Fear Factory

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by on March 19, 2012 at 8:45 pm

Nightmares Fear Factory is Niagara Falls scariest & best Haunted House. We guarantee spine tingling entertainment and family fun in Niagara Falls.  Two-time Niagara Falls Attraction of the Year and one of the most fun things to do in Niagara Falls Canada. Located in the Clifton Hill Tourist District close to many Niagara Falls Hotels and Attractions.

This is the site of the once industrious “Cataract Coffin Factory”. Story has it proprietor Abraham Mortimer dedicated every waking hour to surveying the progress of his domain.

At night he was tormented by young hooligans who taunted the eccentric old man. Abraham would chase the riff-raff from their pranks and dares. They always laughed at his threats, until one fateful night…

Abraham confronted a rowdy group of thrill-seekers. In the ensuing struggle, a stack of solid oak coffins overturned and Abraham was crushed to death! The guilty ran off and were never apprehended for their part in the gruesome murder.

Soon after the funeral Abraham Mortimer’s coffin was found unearthed and empty!

To this day it is said he walks the halls for revenge on those who dare trespass on his beloved and now abandoned factory…

Tell them Cleveland Ohio Paranormal Group Sent You!

Nightmares Fear Factory is located on Victoria Avenue in the
heart of beautiful Niagara Falls, Canada. Just minutes from
the Falls, Fallsview Casino, Casino Niagara, Fallsview Indoor
Waterpark, and only seconds past the Top of Clifton Hill.

Nightmares Fear Factory Official Website

 

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Burbank, IL: Frightmare Haunted House

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by on March 19, 2012 at 8:35 pm

Frightmare Haunted House and Haunted Trails Family Entertainment Park are both located at 7759 S. Harlem Ave. in Burbank, Illinois just 10 minutes South of the Stevenson
I-55 Expressway and East of I-294.  For more information, call the park directly at (708) 598-8580.

Frightmare Haunted House celebrates it’s 20th Anniversary of providing
Halloween “thrills and chills” to all those who dare enter “SCREAM SCENES CINEMA” where YOU are the screaming star of the scariest horror movies! Survive Frightmare’s two-story maze of terror or become a “permanent” castle member of the Unliving Dead Players! Frightmare represents one of Chicagoland’s favorite haunted houses situated in a year-round Halloween-themed family entertainment park!

Let them know the Cleveland Ohio Paranormal Group Sent You!

CONVENIENTLY LOCATED AT HAUNTED TRAILS FAMILY ENTERTAINMENT PARK IN BURBANK, ILLINOIS! 7759 S. Harlem Ave.  (708) 598-8580   www.hauntedtrailsfun.com

Official Website of Frightmare Haunted House

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Sandusky: Ghostly Manor Thrill Center

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by on March 19, 2012 at 8:23 pm

One of the top rated haunts in the US is now is bigger and better than ever! We’ve added more scares, expanded the haunt and kept our ticket price the same.

Ghostly Manor tickets are $11 for adults and $7 for children (under 10).

Brand new this year is Wizard’s Journey. Wizard’s Journey is a one of a kind 3D blacklight mini golf adventure.  It takes you on an interactive quest to slay the dragon though caves, waterfalls, a forest and much more.   Apprentices must make their way through the levels of the labyrinth to rescue their mentor the Wizard of Wimblebain.

See it! Hear it! Feel it! — Now with 4D effects!

  • 4D onscreen action with wind effects
  • Unbelievable surround sound
  • 100 movements a second
  • Up to 2 Gs acceleration

We’ve added a Fifth Movie!

Take a ride on the NEW Snow Ride! This 4D motion-simulated ride takes you on a trip down snowy, pine-covered mountainside, through icy frozen tunnels, and more. Snow Ride is available to riders more than 40″ tall. If you don’t already have chills just thinking about it, click on the movie poster image at right for a brief sample of Snow Ride!

Transcend time, space, and imagination…

You won’t soon forget the thrill of this 4D motion-simulated ride! Choose your favorite movie, or see them all, and see, hear, and feel the XD 4D experience!

The 4D theater is open year ’round, but our hours vary so be sure to check our schedule before you make your plans. Must be 40″ to ride.

 

Need directions to Ghostly Manor Thrill Center?

Ghostly Manor Thrill Center is easy to find! We’re just 2.2 miles north of State Route 2 on US Route 250 in Sandusky, Ohio. Take the US 250 North exit from either State Route 2 or the Ohio Turnpike (US 80/90), and you’re on your way!

 

Please visit there website and let them know Cleveland Ohio Paranormal Group sent you!

GHOSTLY MANOR THRILL CENTER OFFICIAL WEBSITE

 

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Video: Franklin Castle Cleveland Ohio

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by on March 18, 2012 at 11:04 pm

Various photos of the Franklin Castle on Franklin Ave Cleveland, Ohio.  Video created by CastleSeeker.  The castle is considered to be one of the most haunted locations in the entire USA.  4308 Franklin Boulevard in Cleveland, Ohio.

 

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