The haunted history of the Ohio State Reformatory
By: Sherri Brake
Publisher: History Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Charleston, SC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 156
ISBN-13: 9781596299351
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (P. [151]-156).
Table of contents: title: Mansfield, Ohio, blood on the frontier: formation and early history; title: The Civil War: Camp Mordecai Bartley, death and disease; title: Guilty!: the rope and the chair in Ohio history; title: The birth of the Ohio State Reformatory: architect Levi Scofield and the reformatory; title: Life on the inside: from prisoners and punishments to reform and rehabilitation; title: Escapes and escapades: desperate men and desperate measures; title: Spirits, ghosts, and shadowy encounters: they still walk the halls; title: and wait in cells; title: She walks Reformatory road: the ghost of Phoebe Wise; title: Stone walls were his home: memories of a superintendent's son; title: Exploring what lies beyond: psychics, sensitives and the entities they see.