And Ohio Haunt. I'm Jason Horton. I'm Rebecca Leib. And this is Ghost Town.

Franklin and Vine Street in the southwest area of Cleveland is a four-bedroom limestone looking

house shrouded in trees historic yet nondescript from the vantage point of the sidewalk but to Ohioans

it's a terrifying haunted house. But even more than that the house has ties to Nazism, Communism,

Yahoo.com, Arsene, online hoaxes, and Judy Garland. Today we're covering the Franklin Castle,

the Titanium residence or what many refer to as quote the most haunted house in Ohio. The

Titanium house a high Victorian eclectic style stone house has been on Cleveland's west side for

over 125 years but a taunting started before the first person ever moved in. It was built in

the years 1881, 1882, and 1883 by Hans Titanman, a German immigrant who found his fortune first as

a grocer and then as a banker. He wanted the best so he hired the best, commissioning the most

famous and successful architectural firm of Cadillan Richardson to create a house on one of if not

the wealthiest streets in the city. Franklin Boulevard. Hence, Franklin House, you get it.

Titanman wanted his home to be a safe haven for German immigrants, impressing on them the

opportunities he had earned in America so it had to be grand. The house that was currently in the

lot just would not do. Who knows what memories Titanman destroyed when he raised the initial house?

We will never know, but in any case, the Titanman house would replace an earlier house on the

property out with the old and with the new. But I digress the hauntings, the ones I teased,

happened before the Titans even moved in. I shouldn't say hauntings at first before ghosts came

the deaths, too close and painful ones that the Titanman family experienced. In January 15th, 1881,

Titanman's 15-year-old daughter Emma got diabetes and died. Not long after, Han's

Titanman's elderly mother, Waibeka, also passed away. During the next three years, the Titanman's

would bury three more of their young children, giving rise to speculation that the house brought

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