Haunted places in Ohio

Ohio's haunted places are an unusually mixed group. Camp Chase in Columbus survives only as a cemetery of some 2,200 Confederates, watched over, legend says, by a Lady in Gray. Cincinnati Music Hall, an 1878 Gothic concert hall, stands over a Potter's Field whose bones keep resurfacing, while Arnold's Bar and Grill, generally described as the city's oldest continuously operating bar, has its own staff stories.

Then there are the oddities. Chateau Laroche near Loveland is a medieval-style castle built largely by hand over more than 50 years by Harry Andrews, whose spirit, his scout knights say, still hides their things.

Ohio also shows how a reputation gets made. Franklin Castle in Cleveland is billed as the state's most haunted house, though its ghost lore can't be traced before the mid-to-late 1960s. The Wood County Museum, a former infirmary, goes the other way: ghost tales circulate, but the museum rejects them and bans ghost hunts.