Ghost Stories - The Wisterman Building

Rachel Mendell — Staff

While remod­el­ing the first floor of the old Wis­ter­man Build­ing on Hard­ing Way East, work­ers thought they heard the voices of small chil­dren play­ing in the base­ment. Part of the work­ers job was to pull out all the old plumb­ing in the base­ment. Some of that plumb­ing had been used for drain­ing blood from the bod­ies when the build­ing had housed a funeral parlor.

The crews con­tact the owner of the build­ing, Kent Gim­bel, say­ing they didn’t want to fin­ish the work because they were afraid of the eerie sounds. City Loan, how­ever, was wait­ing at that time for the work to be com­pleted so they could move in and the crew was under dead­line. They crew would have to work late in to the night to fin­ish the project.

They were ordered back to work.

Galion lore holds that long ago sev­eral chil­dren died in a house fire and their bod­ies were pre­pared for bur­ial by the funeral home that had once been in the Wis­ter­man Building.

This story was taken from the book Ghostly Galion. The Galion Inquirer would like to run your ghost sto­ries too! Please send them soon to rmendell@galioninquirer.com. (E-mail is preferable.)

Posted by Rachel Mendell on Oct 17 2011. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS Feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.