Ghosthunting Ohio: On the Road Again. John B. Kachuba

looked around the dining room. Early in the day yet, there were no patrons. It was a pleasant place and it was difficult for me to visualize such a heinous crime taking place there. It was difficult to imagine the screams of poor Olive as her husband hacked her to death. But Jerry is certain that the strange events taking place at Jenna’s are caused by the restless spirits caught up in that crime so long ago. And Jerry is not alone in that belief.

      He told me that he once had a waitress who had gone into the ladies’ room. It was 3:30 in the afternoon. Suddenly, he heard what sounded like three loud gunshots. At the same time, the waitress in the ladies’ room saw the lock on the door turn, the door opened by itself, and then slammed shut; two other doors in the hallway where the ladies’ room is located also slammed shut. Jerry said that the terrified waitress came running out to the kitchen “with her pants around her knees.” She quit and has never been back to Jenna’s since that day.

      Jerry said that people often feel breezes blowing through the hallway by the ladies’ room, even when all the doors are closed. I examined the hallway and went inside the bathroom to check the lock and the door. They both worked fine. I could see no way that the lock would turn by itself or that the door would open or close without human intervention. The hallway exits at the rear of the restaurant where there is another door to the outside, and I thought the slamming doors might have been caused by air pressure from the outside door but again, examining that door, I could not see how that would be possible.

      There are other paranormal occurrences at Jenna’s. Jerry said that when he was first renovating the restaurant, he heard music coming out of the walls. “It was old saloon kind of music,” he said. “That’s exactly what it sounded like.”

      Jerry once felt a presence standing near him and heard someone clearing his throat; he was alone at the time. He has also heard footsteps running up and down the hallway and the sound of giggling children. He has heard those same sounds in the basement as well.