What you'll learn

• 1 (01:09) **Introduction: The Power of Place Names** - Aaron Mankey introduces the episode by discussing how place names like "New England" and "Ohio" evoke specific images, and how Ohio's heartland has a dark counterpart of forgotten spirits and memories.
• 2 (03:07) **The Majestic Theater in Chillicothe** - The story begins with the Majestic Theater, built in 1802 as a bank, later a Masonic Lodge, opera house, and movie theater, before becoming a morgue during the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic.
• 3 (05:47) **Ghosts of the Majestic: The Soldier and Abigail** - After the epidemic, the theater's spirits remained, including a soldier in a WWI uniform lying on the stage where bodies were prepped, and a little girl named Abigail who died in a basement fire.
• 4 (08:43) **The Republic Train Wreck of 1887** - A freight train and an express train were on a collision course near Republic, Ohio, due to a miscalculation by the freight conductor.
• 5 (12:07) **The Lady in White with the Red Lantern** - Two months after the crash, an engineer saw a woman in white holding a red lantern on the tracks, causing him to brake just where the wreck had occurred.
• 6 (13:22) **Franklin Castle in Cleveland** - Twins Jimmy and Dee Dee Romano grew up in a dark, turreted house where strange events occurred, including blankets being pulled off beds, unseen hands turning pages, and an imaginary friend that both twins could see.
• 7 (18:31) **Debunking the Franklin Castle Myths** - Examining the foundation of the Franklin Castle legends reveals cracks: Hannes Tiedeman was likely not a murderer, his daughter Emma died of diabetes before the house was built, and the "three children dying on the same day" was a reburial on the same date.

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