Franklin Castle, Cleveland, Ohio. This place had a fascination for me as I'm sure it did for many others and not just cos of the stories behind it, but the feel and look of the place. However this episode has shed a very different light on it, or rather darkness. Firstly here we go again with the negativity attached to a place. Whether it is cursed or not is all hearsay really, after all who can account for people and their perceptions, or stories that get passed down, as well as other factors or superstitions. There is only so much we can see/experience through what is obtained through research or attained through spirits and such responses. As for the curse and whether it was on the Tiedemann family, how it was placed, or whether it was on the building itself or the land is all assumption. The Castle is said to have been built over another house which was razed.
Zak interviewed firsthand author and resident historian Bill Krecji outside of the building on the grounds, whilst Billy and Aaron investigated inside in most of the main rooms as the place is massive. Zak referring to "unbiased evidence" they would gather cos spirits never lie. Bill told him about the family and what he was able to find out to write and once again I stress no book on a person or place is definitive and will always be subjective in content in many respects. He talked of how he didn't believe that Tiedemann was 'evil' and that he actually murdered one of his illegitimate daughters. That the medium who lived there claimed he was and also to have gotten responses from him. As she is deceased there isn't any way of knowing what she encountered or didn't. Also was she a true bona fide medium, there certainly are charlatans out there as we are all aware. He refers to bones being inside the wall, that doesn't mean he, Hannes Tiedemann actually put them there, he wasn't the one doing the construction. Perhaps that was the onset of the curse and that could have been how the family was cursed. Suppositions carry no weight without concrete proof.
Zak having doubts about what Bill told him as this place was affecting him since he lives there in the Winter months. Sure a place can affect someone but those things are just again assumptions since there is no evidence either way on what the family was like or Tiedemann himself. And you know what, reputation dies with the person cos if he was around today they would have definitely sued for defamation, he does have descendants. Six of his children passed here. His first wife, Louisa, also passed in the house. Bill saying the curse began by the medium in the 1980's when she lived here.
He also interviewed Helen who lived there with her husband and moved out when her son was born. They recorded voices in the closet of a woman being slapped by a man and screaming and heard babies crying and she said she was pushed down the stairs several times. However Zak says her being pushed was not a warning as she put it; probably something more sinister. Helen would see an older woman in black (See below.)
Which Zak showed when he felt he was being dragged down with a rope on the stairs too and Billy stopped him from maybe falling almost. Ha. I wrote about Zak and stairs six years ago, how close did that come now. Anyway when he said rope around him I thought of Most Haunted and the ep in 30 East Drive, Pontefract where one of them was pushed down the stairs tied with a rope! As for the handprint that appeared on the IR camera which was debunked as being one of theirs, was it so difficult to remember if any of them had touched the wall and surely there must have been some sort of footage on any of their cameras.
Zak's interviewing this ep was very leading, as if he was trying to put words in their mouths and get them to answer what he wanted to hear. Such as Hannes being a murderer and placing the bones here in the house. Referring to the 39 year old man, Carl Tiedemann committing suicide. His death being referred to as, "peculiar nervous tension" is a general term and can refer to almost anything. Again implying that he was cursed and 'died suspiciously.' Carl was August's son. August was a surviving child of Tiedemann. Zak does refer to the arsonist who set fire to the building in 1999 but not in any detail.
He interviews Zac who lived there in Summer 2018. He dreamed of an old lady questioning him about someone who was murdered in the house. Again leading question as to whether he thought she she was "in tune with the house." Why ask it that way.
Aaron and Billy's investigation of the castle turned up knocking sounds which they attributed to stomping, not to banging or doors closing. Maybe someone was tap dancing which is what it sounds like. Aaron feels cold upstairs but hot in the second floor parlour. Zak saying he likes playing evidence in the room where it was received isn't something he's done much of as he says he likes doing it quite a lot. He feels the energy is strong on the third floor. Where they feel hot and Aaron gets goosebumps. Aaron mentions the nightmares he had where a psychic woman was telling him about the house. Why does Zak refer to it as a "dream that occurs to selective people" after speaking to just one person. As well as later getting an EVP "die."
Billy used the Direct Link asking "who are you?" and gets the response "six" perhaps in reference to six children. On the Geophone "large - general - spirits" Zak asks the spirit to do something for him and he gets a tap. Aaron recalls saying "STFU" which he says was in his head and was told to say it. The EVP they remark says "kill you."
They hear a banging sound on the stairs which Zak alludes to in the commentary, but in the ep he just continues upstairs without listening or giving a second thought to what Aaron was saying...Of course Tiedemann would be upset if he was being maligned without being able to defend himself! On the Polterpod they get "Richard" coming through twice. A woman saying "help Richard". But the help sounds like something else. There are 17 spirits here. The spirit doesn't say "anybody" it says "entity or Emily." Then again could this be an allusion to Emily??
"Lester" comes through or is it "Ester"?? There's a light anomaly that is seen at the bottom left on around 28.04 seconds which goes into the wall when Aaron reacts to something. See blue marking in second pic.
That shadow figure outside of the window when Billy was in the basement I saw ages ago passing by and looks to raise a hand and point forwards towards the left in front of herself. In the below marked yellow she faces and looks inside the window, before moving on and appears to be wearing a flowing dress, marked red in second pic. (Sorry not good quality.)
It looks like a woman with her hair up in her bun and to me it was possibly Mrs Tiedemann as their have been reports of her wandering the house and I have mo idea why this wasn't alluded to in the show. Also I thought of Mrs Danvers from Daphne Du Maurier's Rebecca. Remember when they used to place a camera outside of the building when they were filming before they entered, well they don't do that anymore. So why didn't he place one there if Zak saw three figures outside of the window. I felt that this figure could have been residual but 'it' appeared to be looking right at Billy, or if residual then would've been peering from outside the window, then again the gap outside between the window makes you think of whether it was residual.
The house was purchased in 1968 by the Romano family and they coincidentally also had six children. It has been stated that there were human bones found in the closet of the house in 1975 and was actually a scam, planted there by the owner Sam Muscatello, to garner publicity for the house.
On Paranormal Lockdown John Tenney mentions the story of the illegitimate daughter and how his feelings were being affected; seeing a figure. Dee and John Romano featured on this and recall seeing a little girl in a white dress and playing with her.
https://mila255.blogspot.com/2016/03/paranormal-lockdown-13-franklin-castle.html
Also this post from Facebook by Erratic Thinking is very informative and interesting and makes reference to an Emielie, as I said I hear 'Emily'. The psychic is also mentioned as Eleanora Bernstein who came up with the story of Hannes being a monster.
https://www.facebook.com/ErraticThinking/posts/165022706971724:0
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