Cleveland’s Franklin Castle is located in Cleveland, Ohio.
Franklin Castle (also known as the Tiedemann House) is a Victorian stone house, built in the American Queen Anne style, located at 4308 Franklin Boulevard in Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood. The building has four stories and more than twenty rooms and eighty windows. In the late nineteenth century, when it was built, Franklin Boulevard was one of the most prestigious residential avenues in Cleveland. It is reported to be the most haunted house in Ohio.
Franklin Castle is so rife with creepy legends that everyone from local media personalities to national TV spook-seekers such as Paranormal Lockdown have approached the 1881-built home’s wrought-iron gates in Ohio City, repeating tales of a spectral woman appearing in windows, ghostly children roaming the halls and the murderous original owner of the Victorian mansion, Hannes Tiedemann, looming about.
Hannes Tiedemann and his wife Louise, suffered through the deaths of four children.
Hannes was a banker and co-founder of Union Banking & Savings Co. in Cleveland. He built the infamous home in 1881 and named it after the road it was on — Franklin Castle.
It’s also known as the Hannes Tiedemann House and makes nearly every list of most haunted places in America.
Tiedemann’s mother died, and then his wife passed away at 57.
After so much death surrounded him, eyebrows were raised and suspicions surfaced about Hannes Tiedemann.
But, Krejci says any dark rumors about Hannes Tiedemann were completely unfounded.
“They were very kind people. Mr. Tiedemann was a benefactor of the community. He was a generous man. He gave often to various charities. He was not the monster that has been made out in all these stories about the castle. There’s just no truth to that,” said Krejci.
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