And the History tells the story of the story of the world and of our lives. Sometimes that history goes bump in the night.

Broadcasting from the center of Oddity and the supernatural in Central Florida,

it's the History Goes Bump, podcast.

Hello, you spook-a people,

welcome to History Goes Bump Reducks.

I am your host Diane.

And this is Kelly.

Kelly, on this Reducks, we're going back

to the Ohio State Reformatory.

Looking forward to this one, there's all kinds of hauntings going on here.

Very excited.

Are you ready to go back?

I'm ready. The Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield was originally meant to help wayward young men get back on the right

road. The beautiful Gothic reformatory built of iron and limestone is so picturesque that it was

used as a location in the movie The Shashank Redemption.

What happened to many of the residents of this building was anything but beautiful, and

certainly was not about truly reforming young men.

Stories that include torture, beatings, and other misdeeds are numerous.

And wherever strong emotions are built up, we usually find some kind of unexplained phenomenon.

Join us as we explore the history and hauntings of the Ohio State Reformatory. So, The state of Ohio was once known as the Northwest Territory until it was officially admitted to the Union in 1803.

General James Hedges would lay out the initial area of what would become Mansfield, Ohio in 1807.

There were no settlers here at the time, but within a year a man named Jacob Newman had built

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