Did you know that
Music Hall is one of the most haunted landmarks in America?
During
the 1820s, a hospital and lunatic asylum were located across the street
from Music Hall, where the present day
CET building resides. Around
this time, a cholera epidemic struck Cincinnati resulting in a large
number of orphans. The Music Hall property became the
Orphan Asylum and a
structure used to isolate people with infectious diseases. The land was
also used as a paupers' graveyard, to bury those who died in the
hospital (or asylums) without any known relatives. As this area was
considered to be the outskirts of the city, the deceased were not buried
in coffins but instead bundled up and dropped into the ground.
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Not sure what I captured here. I was the first in our group to enter the empty ballroom.
Does anyone else see the figure on the left behind the tables? |
Hauntings
have been recorded as far back as 1876 when the facility served as an
Exhibition Hall. Bodies were unearthed during construction of an
elevator, which were promptly reburied back underneath the building upon
completion of the project. A century later in the 1980s, repairs were
being made on the same elevator and the bones were dug up again. The
remains of over 63 unidentified people were found beneath the elevator
shaft.
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| Inside the haunted elevator shaft. |
Are you spooked? Intrigued? Then you definitely need to
take this tour to find out more.
Led
by Scott Santangelo, the Music Hall Director of Operations, and Judy, founder of
Cincinnati Research & Paranormal Studies, guests get a tour filled
with historical knowledge of Music Hall and stories backed with evidence
from ghostly encounters that Judy and her team have experienced.
There
are also security guards and retired personnel on hand to tell of their
first-hand encounters with the paranormal activity happening after
hours.
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| Security guards have reported seeing an apparition at the top of the north stairwell. |
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| One of these box seats is reported to be haunted by a deceased patron. |
From chandeliers crashing, to the sounds of a full-on brawl, to
sightings of a dark shrouded mist traveling through the prop room;
Cincinnati's classical music venue is easily one of the most frightening
places you'll cross at night.
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| The prop room, where an eerie mist travels through. |
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| Sounds of chandeliers crashing can be heard throughout Music Hall. |
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| View from the balcony, lights on. |
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| Same balcony view, lights off. |
