Seriously! Its nice to have tourists but its the city and the recovering addicts next door will tell you your dumb and to go away if you get too close. I was born and raised in cleveland and always took my friends to see the historical landmark.

No pictures have ghosts or orbs.

Its not open to the public and hasnt been in YEARS!

If anyone says that theyve been in it or “hung out” there, its almost definite its a lie.

Its a quaint neighborhood with lots of victorian houses and ghetto people. Its in the city and a very popular area “Ohio City” which is right by downtown where we all get drunk and people sell crack.

I dont doubt that its haunted but all the place is boarded and you cant see in any windows.

All you can do is wait and see if the owner is gonna do touring when the construction is done.

Personally knowing the current owner (I went to college with her) I was able to swing a 2 night stay in this house with another friend 6 or 7 years ago. This was a few months before it was seriously damaged by an arson. I make no claims on any happenings there during this house’s history, but I can say with certainty that for two days and nights not a thing happened. It was certainly spooky in the way that only a giant dark strange old house can be, but we witnessed no events of any kind.

As for now, the renovations have never been completed (it was an unlivable mess when I camped out there), the arson made it worse, and it’s sitting there in limbo on a pretty bad looking street. I felt more uncomfortable with the neighborhood I was staying in than with the haunted aspect of the house. This discomfort being proven when the arson broke in and torched the upper floors and roof.

The external fire damage was repaired but that’s about it.

Here’s a posting from a guy who trespassed and took pictures after the arson. I don’t agree with the illegality of his methods, but I can verify his reporting is accurate:
http://www.forgottenoh.com/Franklin/franklin.html

okay you guys ive been in the house me and my friends went in about a year ago we where in there for like an hour we went almost all throw this place it really freakey we did see lights coming from the upstairs then we heard what sounded like a woman screaming it was the worst sound ive ever heared we heard all kinds of things from foot steps 2 just off the wall stuff ever since then i wont even drive past that place

Reading many websites with stories of the Franklin Castle, most seem not to report about one of the previous owners, Michael DeVinko. Michael “Mickey” DeVinko lived, owned and operated a business out the Franklin Castle, which I was his administrative assistant for 10 years. I’ve spend countless hours over the years in the Franklin Castle and never experienced any paranormal experiences. The stories I can tell though are numerous during the DeVinko years.

If a graveyard had something to do with a paranormal haunting then wouldn’t their have to be paranormal hauntings almost everywhere? Irrelevant!

bullshit story my whole family grew up in cleveland, my grandpa even grew up a few blocks down on w44th, i live in a surburban area 15 minutes from the westside of cleveland, there had been tours occasionaly, im not sure inside tho, it is borded up you cant go inside, also near by the area is not to friendly…. many shootings/stabbings/robbings…. tho good hotdog place up the street called hot dog inn check it out lol

I was only going to comment on the on the murder/suicide…..which never happend…then I saw your little note about keeping the place looking classy. Well, when you post alot of known urban myths, class is out the window. I try to find something serious and “real” and this is what I usually find.

I’ve seen a little girl in black in the window before and if you dont believe me then go there you’ll see her!

Check out our page of factual information for anyone whom is interested in learning about the Franklin Castle and the truth behind the castle.

holy **** thats creepy I just looked it up… EEK

not ture

I went driving pass this house with my bestfriend and i dont get scared easily.When her mom did drive pass i just looked and laughed.It didnt scare me.And my bestfriend useally gets scared like crazy.I just got a feeling that someone was sitting in the seat next to me for a second.I was too afraid to look and julia said she felt something cold by her.So we did decide to go up to that house and we just stood there.i weigh like 95 pounds and the wind was not blowing what so ever but i got lifted off my feet and thrown.so i ran into the car and im tromitized by that house.But i still dont get scared easily

I live very near the Castle and have for years, and I admit, I am a bit of a Castle stalker. I know it is haunted. There is definitely “paranormal activity” there. For one, check out the video I caught inside the house a few years back. (link below) I have also seen figures in the windows over the years, mostly older and younger females. I have heard the babies crying in the night. Honestly, I did not really believe it was haunted when I was younger, but now I know it is.
As for recent events… I have seen some kind of filming going on and this past year and twice I’ve seen some sort of photo shot out front with what I think is the new owner. I heard from someone who says he knows him that they are going to film a new TV series about the restoration and the ghost. I also have had 4 people tell me they have reserved their membership for the Club that the owner announced a few years ago… So it seems some good might actually happen to the old place after all. I will keep everyone posted on what I see and hear.

OOOOpps, for got to put the link in. here is the video of a ghost I caught in the servants level of the Franklin Castle.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1X-ITwSisiI

**** this **** i don’t like that dammm ****** castle i go there everyday i hear a lot of noises like the baby toy and i seen a ghost from far away that was really cool seen a weird shadow wow interesting and i seen weird Gothic people prending to scare me wow that’s just funny as ****!!! im not scared of that place its so possessed i felt like that wen i came home but i don’t feel like that anymore

Seems like a lot of horse manure being spread around. Milsap is trying to gain money for the restoration project. The house is owned by an organization that will restore and care for the property over the next 100 years. The TV series may actually happen (I hope so!). There are so many rumors. No one was murdered. There were a few unpleasant deaths, one was a daughter who died of diabetes before there was any real treatment for the disease which left her virtually starving to death. No one was hung. There were some old bones found in the 1970’s but never identified as to who or what they belonged to. No babies were found there. I’ve been all through the place and did not see or find any secret passage way. There is a narrow staircase that goes from the first floor to the second floor landing at the front door. There is a pocket door that slides shut. It leads to the servants quarters on the first floor. It makes sense since the servants would have answered the front door! Duh! There was a dumbwaiter that went up all floors. There was a boiler room. There were several nooks and crannies that old houses have. I heard a story about a someone choking in a turret room. I don’t know how that could be since the only turret ‘rooms’ are little nooks off the main rooms that have windows in them. You couldn’t put more than a chair or table in them.

There is a website listed here by someone who is very uneducated about the current owner. One of the past owners (I believe it to be Mickey Devinko [Deans] who was married to Judy Garland at the time of her death) was the culprit who is suspected to have made and distributed pornography within the house. Not Charles Milsap. Milsap is a real estate developer. He gives tours of the house and is a very likable guy who seems to have a sincere passion for the house but lacks money to get it off the ground. This mansion will need millions to restore. It is currently in a ruined state.

As for ghosts? Well I did experience some strange popping and cracking noises while I was down on the first floor photographing the dumbwaiter area. And I had a funny photo where some of the people with me were peeking down into the ’secret’ passage way (servants stairs) and everything below the waist of one woman was gone. But that could be caused by any number of things. I don’t know what caused the noises and I wasn’t the only one to hear it. It is however a beautiful old house that deserves a second chance at grandeur, no matter what it takes. I believe the house should be saved! If it is there is a real possibility that the surrounding neighborhood may follow suit.

I was in Franklin Castle a few years ago and had a personal experience. My husband and I were on a Haunted Cleveland bus tour and the last stop was Franklin Castle. There were alot of people so we were split into two groups, one had dinner in the carriage house and two went on a tour of the house. As you stand outside of the house, you feel like you are being watched. Inside, I felt a woman was following use around, making sure we didn’t do anything to the house. I got a feworbs but it was really dusty and dirty in the house so I don’t think they are anything paranormal. When our tour was over, we went to the carriage house for dinner. Mr. Milsap was living in the carriage house, upstairs. When we walked past the “bar” and dessert table, I took a cookie and broke it in half. My husband told me I should wait until after we ate dinner. I started to eat it anyway. As I walked past a row of pictures hanging on the wall, one of the pictures came off of the wall(I wasn’t near the wall) and landed face up at my feet. The nail was still in the wall. A couple of people rushed over to me to see if I was ok, I was fine and laughed. I guess I shouldn’t have eaten the cookie.