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Walhalla Road
Walhalla Road ends off of High Street in Columbus, north of the OSU campus, between North Broadway and Weber. To get to it, turn north on Indianola and left onto Walhalla past Studio 53. The houses on the road are upscale but the surrounding area seems like a backwoods Kentucky Hollow; because the road is in a riverbed that has been paved, and it winds quite a bit, the road seems strangely out of place in the capital of Ohio.
It is a one way narrow road, leading from Indianola to High Street and it is said to be haunted. In the 1950's, a resident of Walhalla, Mr. (or Professor) Mooney chopped up his wife and daughter(s) with an axe. If you drive down the road at night, you are supposed to be able to see the reflections of the heinous act in the window of Mooney Mansion on the date that the occured.
The only problem is, no one has been able to establish the exact location of the mansion, although most state it is the mansion at the corner of Indianola and Walhalla. Another problem is trying to find an exact date on which the occurred.
The legend goes, after the slayings, the husband/father hung himself from the bridge, presumably the bridge on Calumet, and if you drive under it at night, you should be able to see the apparition of the killer swinging from his rope, OR depending on the legend, the corpses of the 3 victims; another legend is that after the triple homicide, the professor hung their bodies from one of the bridges.
Still yet, another legend states that the mansion glows a bluish light from all of the windows at night; a lion statue in front or in back of the house bleeds from its eyes; a statue of a woman in back of the house bleeds; the killer, after chpooing off his wife's heas, throws her head down the hill. You are supposed to be able to see the ghostly head rolling down the hill by the mansion every night/only the night that the s took place/the night that the s took place, but only at midnight.
We took pictures of the road, some houses and the bridge ar Calumet, and although it was in the daytime, we didn't feel or see anything. I asked a worker that was removing brush from one of the properties if he had heard anything about Walhalla. He had not, but he added that he was not a resident.
The only thing that seemed out of place, but only because of the difference in the surrounding architecture, is this building designated as the Franklin County Division of Sewage...I think.
Most of the houses on Walhalla Road are all occupied as of this writing, so be careful.
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