The Cincinnati Art Museum has ghost stories?

What is with ghost stories about buildings? I remember in Bowling Green, there was this really ancient house - Potter House? Wasn't that what it was? I don't know, because I never went. But it's this big thing now... haunted buildings! I mean, even the Cincinnati Art Museum.

Apparently, the Cincinnati Art Museum not only features countless works of priceless art, it features bodiless voices, non-working clocks chiming, and subjects walking out of paintings. The Museum takes visitors on ghost walks, where visitors get to stay in the museum from 11 pm to 4 am and listen for the haunted portrait subjects.

Frankly, that doesn't interesting me quite as much as the Taft Museum of Art, also in Cincinnati. The Taft Museum, which was turned into a museum by President William Howard Taft's half-brother Charles Phelps Taft and his wife Annie. Supposedly, Annie haunts the museum and walks around in a long pink gown, listening to music. Apparently, there's also a male ghost - maybe David Sinton. Also, items fall off the gift shop shelves pretty regularly, people get tapped on the shoulder by invisible fingers, and a ghost baby cries. I'm way more tempted by the Taft Museum! I want to see items fall off shelves. That sounds way spooky.

Oh, and the Potter House burned down in 2003.... wooooo.... oh, wait, it didn't. It was torn down.

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