Two listeners pointed me toward Franklin Castle, one of Ohio’s most famous haunted houses and the center of decades of ghost stories and paranormal claims.

I expected to find another ghost story.

Instead, I found something far stranger.

In 1980, a woman living inside Franklin Castle claimed the spirit of the home’s original owner confessed to murder. The story spread across books, television, ghost tours, and the internet until it became part of the castle’s haunted history.

But where did that story actually come from?

This is the strange tale of one newspaper interview… and how a single extraordinary paranormal claim may have changed the reputation of Franklin Castle forever.

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