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The Village of Indian Hill is a Cincinnati-area bedroom community with sprawling mansions and picturesque bridle trails nestled among rolling hills and leafy woods. It’s the home of the area’s wealthiest movers and shakers and celebrities, such as rocker Peter Frampton.

But Indian Hill may also be home to ghosts. How else can we explain the road named Spooky Hollow Road? An unlighted two-lane road that twists and turns downhill, Spooky Hollow Road is indeed spooky, if you drive it too fast or under the influence of spirits from a bottle.

I checked with the Indian Hill Historical Society to see how the road received its name. In the eighteenth century a man named Eli Dusky operated a sugar camp in the area where he made maple sugar. The story goes that one night, after perhaps imbibing some of the aforementioned spirits, Eli decided to check on his sugar vats and walked through the dark woods to the camp, located in a hollow. When he got there, he saw “hobgoblins” dancing round the vats. Scared out of his wits, Eli ran back to town, raving about the spirits in the hollow. Of course, no one believed him.

No one knows whether or not poor Eli ever returned to his sugar camp, but his story became notorious enough for the road to be named after his adventure.

And no one knows if the hobgoblins continue to dance in Spooky Hollow.