The Toledo Ohio Ghost Hunters Society has investigated several locations in downtown Sylvania, Ohio. These Haunted locations could be linked to the murder of Olive Ward, she was the wife of Ohio’s first known serial Killer Return Johnathon Meigs Ward. Stay tuned for the entire story! Share it with your friends!

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This hotel dates back to 1926, but has had several names – “Martha Washington Hotel,” “Heritage Hotel,” and now, most recently, “Hotel Indigo”. A 1987 renovation seems to have led to the appearance of a ghostly little girl, seen skipping around on the third-floor landing. Later, the figures of an older man and a woman in a wheelchair were seen in the lobby.
One visitor has said that his daughter befriended the ghost girl during their vacation, and that he saw the dead girl in his daughter’s room for a month following their stay. The ghost reappeared back at the hotel once the man commanded she leave his daughter alone. TOGHS members Harold & Becky had a chance to spend a night in the Haunted Indigo this past week, Although we didn’t encounter any paranormal activity during our stay, we did have a pleasant stay and wanted to share some of our photo’s.
If you’ve had a paranormal experience here, or have any additional information about this location, please let us know!
Some of the information found on Hauntedplaces.org

The Haunted Florida Renaissance Vinoy Resort in St. Petersburg. Stories have become so legendary that even some skeptics have started to scratch their heads.” TOGHS members Harold & Becky had the opportunity to stop by the Vinoy while in St. Pete’s. Hope you enjoy some of the pictures we took while visiting.
The Haunted Florida Renaissance Vinoy Resort located in the City of St. Petersburg is rumored to be one of the largest portals for paranormal activity in the region. Throughout the history of the structure, it has been known by many names. The two most popular are the “Vinoy Park Hotel” and simply, “Vinoy Hotel”. Constructed in the popular architectural style known as “Mediterranean Revival”, this historic location was officially added to the register known as the “U.S National Register of Historic Places” on the 11th day of September in the year of 1978. Many notable individuals have lodged at this haunted Florida hotel. Examples of these individuals include Marilyn Monroe, Calvin Coolidge and a wide assortment of sport players such as Babe Ruth. Throughout this guide, you will learn important facts about this haunted Florida structure and why it is considered to be one of the most intriguing of all haunted places to go in the Sunshine State.
If you want to hear more about all the haunting’

s within the Vinoy please visit our friends at Haunted Places. http://www.haunted-places-to-go.com/haunted-florida.html

TONY PACKO’S CAFE

Toledo, Ohio

One of the perks of running the Haunted Toledo page, apart from collecting strange tales and unusual experiences from all over Ohio, is the all-access opportunity to explore the very locations where these stories are said to take place. Last Saturday, March 11, I had just such an opportunity.

Tony Packo’s Cafe has been a Toledo tradition for most of its existence, and long before Jamie Farr made the restaurant world-famous through frequent mentions on the popular TV comedy, M*A*S*H.

Tony Packo started on the journey towards success in 1932 with a $100 loan from his family. What started as a sandwich and ice cream shop quickly grew into the iconic restaurant we know today. But, few realize Packo’s may have more to offer its guests than just one of their popular Hungarian hot dogs. You might also have a chance encounter with one of the many spirits which are said to wander the building.

Over the years, employees have reported witnessing fleeting apparitions of black, shadowy form and figures. These mysterious entities are most often seen in and around the gift shop. In fact, their appearance is so realistic that one employee thought he saw someone browsing the gift shop. When he hurried over to take care of the customer, he found there was no one there.

The same types of shadowy figures have also been spotted in the basement, near the gift shop’s stock room. One evening, while working in the stock room, an employee caught a quick glimpse of a dark form standing just outside the stock room door. It looked as if it was peeking around the corner watching him.

Shadowy figures aren’t the only ethereal guests inside this historic restaurant. Some twenty years ago, another employee claimed to have seen the phantom of a young girl playing in the basement. Who she was, no one knows.

At this time it’s not fully known how or when the tales of supernatural activity got their start here. There was a murder, an intense crime of passion, on the second-floor long before Packo’s expanded into that part of the building. Are all these entities somehow tied in to that tragedy?

A few years ago, the restaurant was investigated by Fringe Paranormal. According to an article published on their website, they didn’t walk away with much of anything that could be considered evidence of the paranormal. I had hoped a new investigation might uncover something.

Last Saturday, I teamed up with the Toledo Ohio Ghost Hunters Society and the 222 Paranormal Podcast to see what we could dig up.

As we waited for the last remaining customers to filter out and the employees to finish closing up the restaurant for the night, we all sat and talked with Jim Beard. Jim runs the gift shop and on more than one occasion has been witness to whatever may be haunting the restaurant. Mr. Beard is steadfast in his claims and I fully believe him when he describes the types of things he has witnessed.

Investigative sessions were conducted throughout the night in various areas of the restaurant with the primary focus being on the gift shop and basement. The entire dining area, the gift shop, as well as the basement were covered by IR cams, laser grids, and other types of detection equipment while investigative teams led by 222 and TOGHS attempted to make contact and record EVP.

At this time, several gigabytes of audio and media files are still being reviewed and scrutinized. I’ll post what we find as it comes in.

Story written by Haunted Toledo’s Chris Tillman

TOGHS visited this old abandoned home on our way to the Moonville Tunnel. It sits on the side of the road outside of Zaleski State forest. Nothing paranormal to report, But would you stay the night here?

Lake Hope Furnace

Quietly nestled within Lake Hope State Park are the remains of an old iron furnace. The crumbling walls of the furnace are evidence to the structure having long been out of service. But still stories abound of a lonely watchman who still shows up for work on dark, stormy evenings.

Simply standing in front of the Lake Hope Furnace brings back images of times long since past. The furnace was in operation from 1854 until sometime in 1874 during a time when the Industrial Revolution was in full swing. A quick survey of local maps from this time period show an abundance of these types of furnaces, as well as many small towns that sprung up nearby. As time went by, however, these furnaces become obsolete and were closed down, turning the surrounding towns into ghost towns. However, the area is still rich with stories of the spirits of workers who never abandoned their posts (see Moonville Tunnel). Legend has it that one of these workers still makes his rounds at the Lake Hope Furnace.

The purpose of the Lake Hope Furnace was to process the iron ore that was gathered from the area’s sandstone bedrock. The furnace operated 24-hours a day and records show that at the height of its operation, the Lake Hope Furnace was churning out close to 15 tons of cast iron a day. In order to ensure the furnace continued operating at night, watchmen were employed to tend the furnace fires. These watchmen were also responsible for keeping an eye on the engine house and to also protect against people falling into the furnace. It is said that at night, these watchmen would light lanterns to aid them in making their rounds, which often took them up along a platform at the top of the furnace.

Regarding the fateful night in question, there are several versions of what actually happened. One version says that the night was particularly rainy and stormy. The watchman, while walking along the platform with his lantern, slipped in the darkness and fell into the bubbling ore inside the furnace. Another version has the man being frightened by a bolt of lightning, causing him to fall. But perhaps the best-known version of the story, and the most romanticized, has the worker battling his way through a fierce storm in order to make his rounds. The watchman refused to be kept from his rounds and wouldn’t wait for the impending storm to pass over. As he made his rounds, lightning flashed around him, creeping closer with each strike. As the story goes, the watchman was finally struck by a bolt of lightning and then fell into the furnace. While it is impossible to determine if the man was killed by the bolt of lightning or the ensuing fall, all concerned agree that not even death has been able to keep this watchman from making his rounds.

It is said that on particularly stormy nights, the ghostly watchman returns to make his rounds. There have been dozens of reports of a dark figure carrying a lantern walking along the top of Lake Hope Furnace. Some have said that the figure continues pacing back and forth across the furnace until lightning strikes close by, which causes the figure to disappear… until the next stormy night

Information from our friends at:

The Ghost of Ohio http://www.ghostsofohio.org/lore/ohio_lore_38.html

Moonville Cemetery

The Ghosts, The Legends, The Town

The Moonville Cemetery is on a hillside just past the iron bridge. There are at least 13 known graves remaining at the cemetery. Many more have been lost to time – only gentle indentations in the soil remain, if anything. This is an early cemetery. Some of the area residents were located between Hope and Moonville and were buried in the Keeton Cemetery near the town of Hope and the town of Hope Furnace were once located. Others, like many of the Ferguson (also spelled Furgison in census records), were buried in a family plot near Uncle Buck’s stables up the road. Those who were Catholic may have been buried in a Catholic cemetery in Zaleski. Keeton Cemetery is near the Lake Hope State Park campground just a few miles away. Moonville Cemetery graves: Many of the stones are long gone. Unfortunately, an old custom in some areas was to take old cemetery stones and use them for porch walkways and steps. Many graveyards in southern Ohio have been desecrated by this act. Others were mere wooden or homemade stone markers that rotted away with the harsh Ohio winds, snow and rain. Information taken from ours friends at: http://www.moonvilletunnel.net/The_Moonville_Cemetery.htm