Ghost Walks
Main Subject: Mansfield Reformatory (Mansfield, Ohio) – –
Daniel loves personal experiences! This time, going to a small town, in a small business. The original owner and boss reaching out from beyond the grave.
Then one of the most haunted places on the planet. Mansfield Reformatory, the site of much violence and tragedy. Dark history around the murderer Robert Daniels, and his moronic cohort West.
Main Subject: Mansfield Reformatory Prison (Ohio, USA) – –
The return of Edgar Mills, storyteller extraordinaire. With a personal ghost story from a woman getting a ghostly message through her daughter.
Then intent and ghost stories of Mansfield Reformatory. Considered one of the most haunted locations in the world, definitely in the United States.
And imagine walking into the room and finding your dog staring intently at an empty couch. Daniel’s doesn’t need to imagine… he’s living it!
This week is on History Saved by Ghosts with Mansfield Reformatory —
Daniel discusses the phenomenon of ghosts saving historic buildings. Getting in the value of opening an abandoned building. The beautiful energy of real history. Then using a prime example, Mansfield Reformatory, aka the Shawshank Prison. With 2 of his favorite ghost stories.
Directly across the road from the Ohio State Reformatory once stood a wood farmhouse. Locals remember the lilacs and a beautiful lily pond owned by Phoebe Wise.
It’s the late 1800’s. The townsfolk think she’s insane.
Negative energy rarely has a name. Not here! Elmo the Elemental isn’t a Mansfield Reformatory ghost once human. It’s known as an elemental. In other words, a build-up of energy appearing in photography taken by guests.
Not your normal ghost photo!
Ghosts come from history but also can be part of it. Over the years many inmates told guards they were really scared at night. Making Mansfield Reformatory ghosts different.
Said they’d wake to invisible hands grabbing at the bed sheets. Pulling them tight and loose as if a ghost was “tucking them in”.
The Administration Wing of Mansfield Reformatory. Location of the Warden’s office and family apartment. This is where both Arthur and Helen Glattke began their journey into death.
And where some say they remain.
Why would any free men want to return to town where they served time? Robert Daniels and John West came back to the town in 1948. Bringing with them the darkest event in the Mansfield, Ohio’s history.
Daniels was called a “psychopathic personality”. West called a moron. They became friends in a Mansfield Reformatory cell through the shared enjoyment of crime and chaos.
It’s one thing to face the darkness of the prison as an inmate. Try as a Mansfield Reformatory guard. As Dr. Phil says, “No matter how flat you make a pancake, there are two sides!”
The inmates had their stories of tragedy and death. But being a in this position wasn’t easy either. These examples make me hope they had decent salaries.
Ghost Guide Daniel – – No matter how see it today, this building was designed around the idea of hope (by architect Levi Scofield). Makes you think it’d be great to be a Mansfield Reformatory inmate.
Designed for spiritual uplift. Hence being called a Reformatory… for reform. They wanted the men to become better members of society.
Proving, “…the road to hell is paved with good intentions…”