![]() PINK’s team members have spent thousands of dollars on audio and video recording equipment for their investigations over the years. "This has been a place of learning for many years and I think these spirits choose to come back and help us learn more about the afterlife." "I think that maybe they’re here to teach us something," Trump said. But she, too, thinks the spirits of children are lurking about. She said she doesn’t believe there’s anything evil hiding in the shadows. Lisa Trump, one of PINK’s members, isn’t afraid to confess that once the lights go out at Poasttown, "things get creepy."ĭuring her second visit, Trump said, she became ill and had to leave the building. "It’s very rare for our instruments to simultaneously go off and do so on command," he said. He said he’s not like a lot of "ghost hunters" in that he doesn’t like to use the word "haunted." But for him, there’s no question: There’s something otherworldly going on at Poasttown Elementary School. Palmer founded the Paranormal Investigators of Northern Kentucky - also known as PINK - in 2005 and has since completed more than 200 cases involving homes, businesses and schools. Paranormal investigator Mike Palmer has visited Poasttown with his team of investigators two times in the last year. To me, that makes more sense." Inspecting the other side "And a lot of children were happiest at the elementary school. "The paranormal teams have told me, when you pass away, sometimes if you don’t cross over, you go where you were the happiest," Whisman said. Some historians say the land that later became Poasttown's school was used as an emergency triage area for the train crash victims, Whisman said.Īs spooky as that story is, Whisman said he doesn’t totally buy it being the cause of his "paranormal" woes. The impact killed 24 people and injured at least 35, according to Middletown Historical Society records. The 1910 crash, considered the worst railroad crash in Butler County’s history, involved the head-on collision of a passenger train and a freight train. There were two train crashes about a mile away from the property, one in 1895 and the other in 1910. Whisman said no one has ever died in the school as far as he knows, but he has a few theories about what’s causing those eerie sounds and tense encounters. Today, the area is considered Madison Township. Poasttown built its elementary school in 1937. The area was originally known as West Liberty, according to records from the Middletown Historical Society. Inside butler county how to#"But there’s so much activity in here, they don’t know how to explain it."Ī man named Peter Post laid out the community of Poasttown in 1818. "I’ve had so many skeptics that come here that don’t believe in anything," Whisman said. That’s what led to Poasttown Elementary’s official motto: "When you leave, you believe." School board members pose during Poasttown Elementary School's opening.Īnd everyone who visits tends to go home with a new understanding of the word "haunted," according to Whisman. The two had a laugh but decided to call in a local paranormal group. Whisman later told his wife - also a former Poasttown Elementary School student - about the ordeal. “I thought maybe a dog or possum got inside. He can’t catch his breath and he’s saying, ‘There’s something up there,'" Whisman said. Then one of his friends, a man he describes as "big and tough," let out a shriek while doing some construction work on the top floor. He thought that meant evil clowns, chainsaws and walls closing in on you. When he bought the building in 2004, five years after the school was abandoned and closed, he didn’t even know what a haunted house was. "I’ve heard voices with my own ears when nobody is here but me and my wife. We’ll hear little kids’ footsteps," Whisman said. "We’ll hear a desk being drug across the floor above us. And according to him, some of the kids are still there, too. More than five decades later, he’s still walking the halls, sipping from the drinking fountain and cleaning the chalk boards.Įxcept now, the former Madison Township school is his home. The 59-year-old started attending classes at Poasttown Elementary School in 1963. MADISON TOWNSHIP, Ohio – When Darrell Whisman says his school haunts him, he’s not being figurative. For more real-life stories of the "paranormal," go to /haunted. WCPO originally published this story in 2016 and has brought it back as part of our special coverage of local legends leading up to Halloween. ![]()
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