Ravine Park Cemetery can be found on Ravine Road in Sylvania, Ohio. Ravine Cemetery is the final resting place to eighty-one Civil War Veterans.
There is a legend of a wandering bride who is said to be unhappy with where she was buried. She was married three times and her family could not decide whom to bury her near. Some say she was buried alone. The Orion Group has posted several "orb" photos on their website which were taken at Ravine Cemetery.
In the summer of 2001 a mother and daughter "staked out" the cemetery at midnight to try and capture a ghost photo for a school project. As they were sitting near the ravine they saw a mist moving through the cemetery and were able to capture it on film. Needless to say they were frightened and immediately left the cemetery.
In August of 2002 my wife and I and a friend visited Ravine Park Cemetery. Initially we walked the eastern section of the cemetery to determine if we could feel anything out of the ordinary. Thirty minutes had passed before I began to be drawn to the southeastern section of the cemetery on the other side of the ravine. There was a small group of three trees along the ravine edge that I felt the need to investigate.
We then crossed to the eastern side of the ravine and stood near the group of trees. The three of us immediately felt uneasy and I had the desire to walk to a section of the cemetery near a line of trees about sixty yards away. As I walked among the gravestones I knew that I didn't want to be there. There was such a sense of uneasiness and fear that I returned to the comfort of the others. Shortly thereafter as we were looking across the ravine to the western side of the cemetery I saw a figure move between the headstones. Our friend said she also saw the movement in the headstones. Within seconds the black humanoid figure again moved between the headstones very clearly. The three of us decided that we were close enough to what we just witnessed and decided to walk in the area where I had felt strange earlier in the evening. My wife had no intention of walking there, as she did not like the feeling she had about it.
As our friend was walking along a road she noticed a small red light and stopped to watch it. Just then she felt a breeze pass by her right side and she hurried back to us. She said it felt as if a person passed by very closely to her side but did not touch her. The three of us decided to investigate the red light and found it to be a candle on a headstone. This did not explain the breeze that our friend felt and we were all beginning to feel uneasy. After returning to the group of trees my wife noticed a gray figure rising from the ground and becoming still. The figure was in the same area as the black figure we had seen earlier. My wife then looked behind her and when she looked back the gray figure was gone.
The three of us then became fixated on the southern section of the cemetery and had a sense of something evil in that area. I then noticed a small reddish glow maybe 2-3 feet high that lasted for only 3 or 4 seconds. By this time we had all become a bit nervous and did not care for the sensations we had picked up on. We all decided that we were being requested to leave by our hosts so we obliged.
