Franklin Castle

Franklin Castle (also known as the Hannes Tiedemann House) is a historical house located at 4308 Franklin Boulevard in Cleveland's Ohio City neighborhood. The building has four stories and more than twenty rooms. It is purported to be the most haunted house in Ohio. On March 15, 1982, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. The house was built in 1865 by architects Cudell & Richardson for Hannes Tiedemann, a German immigrant. On January 16, 1881, Tiedemann's fifteen-year-old daughter Emma succumbed to diabetes. The house saw its second death not long afterwards when Tiedemann's elderly mother, Wiebeka, died. During the next three years the Tiedemanns would bury three more children, giving rise to speculation that there...