Case file · Haunting
Franklin Castle, Cleveland
The stone house built for Hannes Tiedemann on Franklin Boulevard, Cleveland, in the 1880s gained a reputation as Ohio's most haunted house after a family who moved in in the late 1960s told of ghosts.
1968 CE · 41.49, -81.72 · status: legend
The account
Several Tiedemann children died young, which fuelled stories of murders, secret passages and a woman in black.
The sceptical view
The family deaths are recorded; the murders and most ghost stories are unverified and grew with each owner.