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This video – “Haunted Cemetery – Ghastly Sounds…” – isn’t a “ghost” video, but a tour and history of an Ohio cemetery that’s worth investigating.
We need more videos like that, to help ghost hunters find worthwhile sites.
However, I didn’t see or hear anything especially scary in this video. Most of the night video quality is poor – weak sound and blurry camerawork – but that’s not what I was watching for. In general, this video provided some good history and ghost stories, and I’m confident this is an active (ghostly) cemetery.
There’s a certain mix of sounds and silences, images and shadows… it adds up to a “gut feeling” about some locations. Almost invariably, they turn out to be haunted. I’m pretty sure this is one of those sites. If I were in Ohio, near this cemetery, I’d visit it regularly for research.
In the video, the woman mentions some spooky sounds. Maybe I missed them; the soundtrack isn’t great.
What I did hear – between normal, rural night noises – sounded like footsteps. If the woman filming the video was alone, or her companions weren’t moving around while she was standing still… yes, those sounds are kind of spooky.
The mausoleum is creepy. It has that sterile/tragic combination that often marks a site that seems to attract shadow people. I have no idea why. It’s as if they need to fill in the void with their forms… but maybe I’m putting the cart before the horse.
All in all, this video got me interested in this cemetery, enough to compile some useful links if you’re investigating that site. And then, I discovered another haunted cemetery with the same name, also in Ohio.
Resources if you’re investigating Otterbein Cemetery in Franklin Co.
- Otterbein Cemetery – Westerville, Blendon Township, Franklin County, Ohio (a Genealogy Bug webpage).
- Otterbein Cemetery, Westerville, OH (This was at GraveAddiction.com/otterwest but it seems to have vanished, as of July 2018).
- City of Westerville, OH: Cemeteries
Another haunted Otterbein Cemetery, in Perry County, OH
- Otterbein Cemetery (This was another GraveAddiction.com webpage, not online as of July 2018) – According to that website, Hanna Westall’s gravestone has a pulse.
- Otterbein Cemetery – Bloody Horseshoe Grave (The Ghosts of Ohio).
- Ohio’s Most Haunted – Otterbein Cemetery and the Horseshoe Grave (Yahoo! Voices).
- The Horseshoe Gravestone of Otterbein Cemetery (Forgotten Ohio webpage, with at least one not-safe-for-the-office word).
- Otterbein Cemetery (Ohio Exploration Society) – Includes notes about “no trespassing” signs and security cameras covering the area.
There’s also an Otterbein Cemetery in Darke County and one in Marion County, Ohio.
Originality – The person who filmed this didn’t let her video skills hold her back. Though the quality isn’t great, the information and the impressions I got from this video made it intriguing. It’s also thought-provoking because I’m trying to understand why I feel so certain that the site is haunted… and has shadow people.
Credibility (Doesn’t apply. This is mostly a “this is the cemetery and what’s known about its ghosts” video.)
