Mudhouse Mansion

Mudhouse Mansion is located outside of Lancaster, Ohio and is said to be haunted. The current owner will not let in visitors for fear they won't come back out.

The story begins in the 1800's after the Civil War, when a government official built the house for his family. He still kept slaves and hid them in an outhouse on the grounds where the conditions were so bad that one began to dig a tunnel underneath the wall to escape. When he was finally able to, he crept out at night, slipped into the house, and killed the whole family. He and the other slaves escaped and no one was ever apprehended for the crime. The house is said to be haunted by the family's spirits.

Eventually one family moved in, a man and his wife an three children. The neighbors saw them move in and get settled, but never saw them again. When gossip arose, one neighbor looked out her window and saw, in a second-floor window of the Mudhouse Mansion, the figure of a woman dressed in white. She stood there staring at her, never moving. The neighbor dismissed this at first. But then she saw the woman the next day, still just standing and staring. The neighbor didn't know what to make of it. Every time she checked, the woman was still there, just looking back at her.

Ten days later, authorities were called to investigate. What they found was horrifying.

The woman in white was the mother, and she was still at the window...hanging from the ceiling with the rest of the family. It appeared they had taken their lives and had been hanging, rather than standing, there for the past ten days.