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directions

Take I-75 to the Harrison Avenue exit. Follow the signs that direct you to Queen City Avenue. Follow Queen City Avenue a little more than a mile up the hill and turn left onto Sunset Avenue. Follow Sunset for less than a mile. Adath Israel will be on your left just after you pass the intersection with Guerley Road.

history

When the cholera epidemic hit Cincinnati in the 1840s, the only Jewish cemetery in the city filled up quickly. As a result, many Jewish communities throughout the area created more cemeteries. Adath Israel Cemetery in Price Hill was one of them.

This cemetery eventually was filled to capacity, and the congregation of the temple started another one elsewhere in the city and discontinued burials at the Price Hill location, but this is the one that is reputed to be haunted.

In 2008, a group vandalized several headstones, and the cemetery now is watched more closely by law enforcement and by concerned neighbors at night.

ghost story

Most of the ghost stories from this cemetery take place in the caretaker’s building. This red-brick building sits within the cemetery itself. The paranormal events tend to occur in the basement. A chair will move around all by itself. Lights in the basement will come on by themselves. Other times voices and figures will be seen and heard throughout the basement despite the fact that the building is empty. When curious onlookers gaze through the windows into the basement, sometimes they will see strange reflections of figures standing behind them. When these terrified witnesses turn around, no one is there.

The caretaker’s building, however, isn’t the only haunted location in this cemetery. People will often see figures walking among the headstones, especially at night. When people approach the area where they saw these figures, no one is found.

visiting

It’s probably best to visit this cemetery during the day, when it is easier to look through the basement windows in the caretaker’s house and see how the basement is set up. Most of the stories involve things that happen during the day because that is when people are usually around. I have caught interesting EVPs at the cemetery during the day.

Recently, the caretakers and owners of the cemetery have posted warnings that the cemetery closes at nine p.m., meaning that it is illegal to enter the cemetery at night. Unfortunately, this limitation probably resulted from the vandals who uprooted several headstones—an example of how one group of insensitive people can end up ruining a place for the rest of us.