Haunted Ohio House-Hocking Hills Homestead

A Haunted House-A story as told by the owner of Hocking Hills Homestead. . .

"After my father-in-law passed away in 1979, my dear mother-in-law never got over losing her beloved husband of 66 years and she would set in the living room with the lights off and cry for hours.  One night she was sitting in his chair crying when she looked up at the blank TV screen and saw the face of her beloved husband smiling at her.  Though she never got over losing him, she was better able to bear living without him.  When my mother-in-law could no longer stay by herself, my husband and I took over the farm.  After trying renting the "Homestead" by the month we decided that we would rent to guest visiting the Hocking Hills. "

 

"While working to restore the "Homestead", I spent many, many hours in the house by myself with total silence except for the sounds that I was making while I worked.  One day as I was working in the living room,  I heard someone walking in the bedroom upstairs. I went up the stairs and without even thinking of what I was saying, I called out and ask my father-in-law what he was doing.  Finding no one, I went back to what I was doing and it wasn't until a few minutes later that I realized what had just happened.  It dawned on me, my father-in-law had been gone for 7 years. Why did I think it was him that was walking around upstairs?  Did I really hear someone walking up there?  I know I heard someone up there and I was convinced that it was him.  I even had some guests years later who told me that they heard someone walking around in the upstairs and they were so enthralled by the spirits that they felt in the "Homestead" and in the surrounding woods that they asked to stay for 3 more days.  That was 27 years ago and to this day I still listen for the for those footsteps. No one will ever convince me that I didn't hear my beloved father-in-law walking around."