Thanks to Julie for submitting this story and
the photo of what may be an apparition (circled in purple)
in the window of College Hall at Lake Erie College. Julie and her boyfriend Dave
investigated this old building, which is supposedly haunted by a ghost named
Stephanie, as described on the Lake County page of
our Hauntings Section. Their investigation yielded some results including the
photo below, which was featured on Action 19 News. If you have any comments on
the photo, please email us at . IN MEMORY OF JULIET MARIE KELLER (06/14/1975-09/08/2010)
My boyfriend, Dave, and I call ourselves the Spirit Stalkers. We go around Ohio checking on all accounts of ghostly activity. Last year after looking through many websites and reading many books we stumbled upon Lake Erie College on the OES website. Dave and I decided to check out the activity at the Morley Music Hall and College Hall. While we could not account for an claims of paranormal activity at the Morley Music hall, we did find hauntings at the College Hall. Dave and I arrived during the daytime on a Saturday and found College Hall to be open. We brought in our equipment and began investigating, calling on the spirit of Stephanie as we went throughout the building. We found the social parlor locked but could see through the crack in the mirror that Stephanie is suppose to use as a portal.
As we approached the 3rd floor, we found that the stairs to the forth floor had been locked with doors blocking the entry to the doors. We did manage to find the fire escape on the outside of the building and Dave climbed up to the outside of the fourth floor doors only to find that they had been boarded shut. So, we managed to complete an investigation from the basement up the 3rd floor. We had tried many attempts calling upon Stephanie to make herself know. We spent about 2 hours going throughout the building, taking many pictures, using our voice recorders and EMF detector. At this point in time I was not feeling any connection happening with hopes of making contact. Dave and I decided to leave and go back over all of our documentation and get our film developed and listen to our recordings...hoping to pick up an EVP.
As we were leaving Dave and I thanked Stephanie for her time and told her that we would be back. At that time Dave turned to snap one last picture of the outside of College Hall. Behold the picture that we are sending you in. It looks as if we did get Stephanie after all. She is seen in the 4th floor (mind you it was closed off...no entry to anyone) next to the belfry peering out at us. It looks like the bottom part of her gown even hangs in the 3rd floor window below. I do believe we made a successful connection after all.
