Jeff and Michael Morris have been heavily involved with the paranormal field since 2005, when they started writing their first book, Haunted Cincinnati and Southwest Ohio. At around the same time, they started a ghost tour in Miamitown, Ohio, called Miamitown Ghost Tours, where patrons can experience the haunted history of this small town in Southwestern Ohio. Jeff and Michael also host an online paranormal radio show called Miamitown Ghost Talk on ASPRN.com, on which they have the opportunity to speak with big names in the field and to just speak about ghosts in general. They also do a lot of paranormal investigation themselves. While researching this book, they went out to all of these places in an attempt to find the spirits who reside there, and beyond these trips, they are members of Cincinnati Paranormal, a paranormal investigation group. Jeff has his degree in English from the haunted Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He lives in the Covedale suburb of Cincinnati with his wife and two children. Michael has a degree in graphic design and lives in Miamitown with his wife and their three children.

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INTRODUCTION
My greatest two interests are the paranormal and history. I've placed these two fields of interest in this particular order because, essentially, this is the order that they struck my own interest. In 2005, I lived very near a road in Cincinnati that was reputed to be quite haunted. I can't explain with any great amount of detail why this excited me so much beyond the fact that it seemed to be something completely unexplored in my own mind. Ghosts had been only entities from horror movies and television shows. The fact that there was supposedly some real paranormal entity, not just within driving distance but within walking distance from my house was very exciting. I probably drove down that road hundreds of times hoping to experience something paranormal. Though I never did, I wasn't dissuaded from going back again. It did not matter that I had not seen anything. Other people had seen things, and so the possibility was there that I could.
As my interest in this road grew, I slowly began to learn that there were many haunted places like it all over the city. My brother Michael and I would often go on little paranormal road trips all throughout the night, visiting these haunted locations in hopes of somehow running into a ghost ourselves. As we explored throughout the city, we became more and more interested in the ghost stories themselves. The ghost stories were great, and the possibility that there was really a ghost at these places was exciting, but we decided that we would look deeper into the stories themselves. We wanted to see if there was any truth behind the stories--not so much in the ghosts themselves but through the history of what really happened at these locations and the reasons behind the belief that these places were haunted. This is how my interest in history was born. As my brother and I started to uncover the history of these haunted locations, the history of the city itself came to life for us. So I guess I owe the ghosts of Cincinnati for teaching me so much about this city's history.
The ghost stories and the histories of these locations make up a major part of this book. The ghost stories are more interesting with a historical background, and the reason that any of these locations are in this book to begin with is that they are haunted. That being said, this book also contains a couple of other facets that I have not seen in other ghost books--guidelines to help readers find and visit these locations.
When my brother and I were exploring the city in search of these haunted locations, we would have been thrilled to have a manual such as this to guide us. I cannot even estimate the number of hours we spent looking fruitlessly for a location. For those readers who are not gifted at following directions but who have a GPS unit, we have also included the address of the haunted location.
The other section in each chapter details how to visit these haunted locations. My brother and I had to learn the hard way which locations closed after dark and which ones the police frequented at night. This section in each chapter tells you the best way to visit these locations and gives you what we feel is the best chance of actually encountering one of these spirits.
Perhaps my personal favorite aspect of this book is the daunting number of locations in the book--one hundred!--that are close to any reader who lives near Greater Cincinnati. That area is large enough to encompass numerous haunted locations (and their fascinating stories) but is also small enough to let you visit any of the places. Some of them you no doubt know well already. We did our best to ensure that no two locations in the book were more than an hour apart.
Our goal was to create the quintessential handbook for hunting ghosts in the Greater Cincinnati area--for serious hunters as well as for armchair fans more interested in learning the stories than in visiting the places.
Enjoy.

Zusammenfassung
Hop In and Hang On for Cincinnati's Grandest Ghost Hunt The first book in the new Haunted Handbook line within the popular America's Haunted Road Trip series, Cincinnati Haunted Handbook offers a plethora of eerie spots in the Queen City. Authors Jeff and Michael Morris present each of the places in Cincinnati Haunted Handbook in a two-page spread that includes directions, a brief history, details about the paranormal activity, and advice on seeing it in person. Sites are organized into sections, including schoolhouses, roads and bridges, hotels and inns, and others. From the winding curves of the spooky Buffalo Ridge Road to the ghost of Music Hall, from the moans heard by the Miamitown bridge to the wispy form that flits through Spring Grove Cemetery, this book offers creepy hideaways that even Cincinnati natives don't know about. Equally suitable as a travel guide or as a diverting read for casual dipping, Cincinnati Haunted Handbook sorts out what creeps and crawls in the Ohio night.

Leseprobe
Adath Israel Cemetery 1661 Sunset Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45238 Directions Take I-75 to the Harrison Avenue exit. Follow the signs that direct you to Queen City Avenue. Follow Queen City Avenue a little more than a mile up the hill and turn left onto Sunset Avenue. Follow Sunset for less than a mile. Adath Israel will be on your left just after you pass the intersection with Guerley Road. History When the cholera epidemic hit Cincinnati in the 1840s, the only Jewish cemetery in the city filled up quickly. As a result, many Jewish communities throughout the area created more cemeteries. Adath Israel Cemetery in Price Hill was one of them. This cemetery eventually was filled to capacity, and the congregation of the temple started another one elsewhere in the city and discontinued burials at the Price Hill location, but this is the one that is reputed to be haunted. In 2008, a group vandalized several headstones, and the cemetery now is watched more closely by law enforcement and by concerned neighbors at night. Ghost Story Most of the ghost stories from this cemetery take place in the caretaker's building. This red-brick building sits within the cemetery itself. The paranormal events tend to occur in the basement. A chair will move around all by itself. Lights in the basement will come on by themselves. Other times voices and figures will be seen and heard throughout the basement despite the fact that the building is empty. When curious onlookers gaze through the windows into the basement, sometimes they will see strange reflections of figures standing behind them. When these terrified witnesses turn around, no one is there. The caretaker's building, however, isn't the only haunted location in this cemetery. People will often see figures walking among th…