Prospect Place Estate

Prospect Place was a station on the "Underground Railroad" and was used to safely move escaped slaves to freedom.  The property is listed on the National Park Service,  National Register of Historic Places.

African American refugees who had escaped slavery in the South would be kept in the basement of the mansion.  They would be given food, lamps, blankets and whatever they lacked for their trip further north along the Underground Railroad.  Prospect Place was one of the largest stations on the Underground Railroad in the state of Ohio.  Bounty hunters from the south regularly roamed the Ohio countryside looking for runaway slaves, the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 made this legal, even though Ohio was a free state.  It was a very risky business to be involved in liberating these people.

Paranormal Claims

• The spirit of a little girl who lived at the estate in the 19th century who fell to her death from a balcony is said to been seen looking inside the windows of the building.
• The spirit of a bounty hunter who was killed in the estate's barn is said to still be haunting the barn, and he is not a very happy entity.
• The spirits of several people, victims of a train wreck, who died in the basement from their injuries in 1912 as said to still be within the building.
• The spirit of Anna Adams-Cox who inherited the estate and died lonely and impoverished at teh house is said to still roam the halls.
• The spirit of an escaped slave who died in the basement from injuries sustained in their escape is said to still be present in the basement.
• There are several spirits said to be in the "ballroom" since there was some cultist activity in the 1980s when the building was abandoned.

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