Comments on: Old Zane Mansion

By: Lynn

Lynn — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 16:22:14 +0000

Everyone and Anyone…….PLease send me your Pics Of The House Especially if the pics have faces in the windows..I am the person who submitted this true haunt too the website

here is my email address
lipstikk_n_Leather@hotmail.com

Thank You
Lynn

By: Anissa

Anissa — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 06:43:06 +0000

Well, my husband and I are living in France, but I am from Ferry. We went to visit for a few weeks and ended up in the haunted house with my cousin and his wife.
We videotaped the whole experience. I did not feel any entities there…but something very strange did happen. When we were all about to go upstairs to follow my cousin who was already up the stairs, we noticed (all four of us) that we were covered with fleas! I mean COVERED! Did this happen to anyone else?? It was strange because how do the fleas live if there are no hosts in the house? We left in a hurry and discovered ourselves bit up everywhere. We found it hilarious, but then again it was strange to have so many fleas all over us so quickly.
I am not about to return because of the fleas – we thought maybe it was normal because there was one dead cat in the basement or maybe the ghosts didn’t want us there or to go upstairs. What do you guys think? Email me at nissadance@yahoo.com

By: carol myers

carol myers — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:29:44 +0000

I used to live in Martins Ferry years ago, but never heard about this house. Betty Zane is my 5th greatgrand mother. Mary Staley is also a cousin of mine. I would really appreciate it if anyone would send me pics of this house please. thank you very much, Carol

By: Melissa

Melissa — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 01:49:53 +0000

I just got back from visiting family in Martin’s Ferry. I am very interested in hauntings and ghosts, so I knew I wanted to see Moundsville prison and Zanes Mansion while I was in the area. My mother and I had no problem finding the mansion, although we could find no visible address on the curb or building. We asked the elderly couple next door if we were in the right place, they said we were and even told us some stories about other people showing up to take pictures and such.The man we talked to said he has lived next door for 37 years and has never experienced anything out of the ordinary. We did take some pictures from the outside but didn’t want to trespass into the house. Some of our pictures seem to have strange things or faces in the windows. The place has ivy growing over alot of it and alot of the windows are boarded up or just not there, the front door is also just a piece of plywood.

By: Tammy

Tammy — Thu, 28 May 2009 22:14:36 +0000

Opps, I’m sorry, I forgot to give you the myspace URL http://www.myspace.com/whisperedtalesov

By: Tammy

Tammy — Thu, 28 May 2009 22:11:28 +0000

If you go to my myspace and look at my photo album titled “Haunted places and abandoned buildings”, you will find a couple pics of the mansion. Also if you look at the “Photos that make you go hmmmmm from the Ohio Valley” album, you will find a couple of pics, one that looks like a small child looking out the window.

Michael, where did you find the information about the cemetery being orginally on the hill? I’ve done a lot of research on the history and cemeteries of Martins Ferry but have never seen this. Lee, you are correct about the Zanes being moved from Wheeling to Walnut Grove Cemetery but this cemetery is not the site the mansion is on and apparently isn’t the same cemetery at all but as I mentioned, I’ve found nothing to indicate there was ever a cemetery on this land and this land surely didn’t flood as the original story mentions. Even with some of the largest floods the valley has had, it was NEVER that high.

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 16 May 2009 08:58:14 +0000

After reading some of these posts i am inclined to post again, when Martins Ferry was founded it was down by the river. Their graveyard was on the hill. When they decided to move the town up on the hill, they moved the graveyard, where this building/mansion sits is upon the old graveyard. (Researce it, it is hard to find but, i did so it it there to find) The origional post of this house is based on me and my experiences there. If I knew how to contact the others that lived there when i did they could tell you also (although most where scared to talk about it). I have heard the place has a new owner now, good for them, i hope they restore it as the sister house on the island was. This place is not a joke or a hoax, if you can still get into there go with an open mind and a lot of film, they are all around you there. I lived in apt 6 and then 4 and then took the wall out between them and ocupied both apartments. you can go there in daylight and see them or at night…I am just happpy to hear someone is taking care of the place….i have a piece of it still today (from apt 4). Respect them all, except the one in black!!!!!!!! he will hurt you if he can….. (no i am not mental or anything you may think, just lived there and know)

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 16 May 2009 08:34:22 +0000

I am the one that lived there for years….this is for real, you all wanna know where it is…i have kept it a secret pretty much till now but, you all wanna know 210 s. 3rd st martins ferry,ohio…do not disrespect them!!!!!they are my friends!!!!!!!!!! Respect thant please!!!!!!!!!

By: Kam

Kam — Fri, 08 May 2009 20:20:56 +0000

hey its kam and i used to live on 3rd street and i was wondering if that is the house that made me get goose bumbs every time i passed by it….
i wish i knew cause that was a really w!3rD place my mom got freaked out and told me not to walk by it but i still dont know why she never told me why….

By: lee doughty

lee doughty — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 12:56:31 +0000

Would someone tell me exactly where this so called mansion stood on third street. According to some readers it was suppose to be still standing in 1995. The zane burial grounds never had a mansion standing on it. The city used it for burial. It was part of an walnut grove. The zanes were orginally buried in Wheeling Wv. And were reburied in what was the Martin’s burial plots. The graves have a wall built around them. I have lived in Martins Ferry all my life and this is the first time I have ever heard about Hannah Zane living in a house that was once a cathouse or a mansion. I think the home people are talking about was the Haines House that sat on third street. It was torn down last year, the people who bought it let it fall in.