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Hilton
Netherland Plaza
35
West 5th Street, Cincinnati, Ohio (513)
421-9100
 If
you ever happen upon the sweet little town,
er, city of Cincinnati (aka: Porkopolis),
please do stay at its Hilton Netherland
Plaza and you might catch a glimpse of
The Lady in Green - not to be
mistaken for a flying pink pig - the
cherished symbol of the city of Cincinnati.
Legend has it that a ghost they call The
Lady in Green haunts the halls at
the Netherland Plaza. The Lady in
Green is a sad, story of a wife’s
eternal allegiance to her husband
prematurely killed in an accident. She is
said to walk the Hall of Mirrors
(below) and the Mezzanine level of the
Netherland Plaza. Several construction
workers have reported seeing her during the
hotel's 1983 renovation. But, her story
really dates all the way back to 1930, when
her husband, a hotel laborer, was killed in
the construction of the hotel that year. His
body was never found and his wife, The
Lady in Green continues to search for
him in the afterlife.
Please use the following link for the
Hilton Netherland Plaza to learn
more about the home of the Lady in Green:
Hilton Netherland Plaza
 And
for those curious, to answer the burning
question why Cincinnati is associated
with a flying pig, see the following link:
Flying Pig & Cincinnati -
Why?
The Golden
Lamb Inn
27 South Broadway St., Lebanon, Ohio (513)
932-5065
 The
historic and charming Golden Lamb Inn,
located in Lebanon (NE of Cincinnati) was
founded in 1803 which makes it Ohio’s oldest
inn. It has been visited by many famous
people such as Charles Dickens, Mark Twain,
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry Clay and twelve
presidents! Each one of their rooms is named
after one of its famous guests. You will
also find there is one room named Sarah,
who happens to be one of The Golden Lamb’s
resident ghosts.
 There
is rumored to be two ghosts at
The Golden Lamb. One of them
is the aforementioned Sarah, who was
the young niece of the Inn’s manager at the
time, Isaac Stubbs. Oddly, since the
ghost seems to be of a young girl, the
real Sarah actually grew up to a ripe old
age. We are not sure why it is thought to be
Sarah’s ghost. Some think it can be another
child, while speculate that it is the ghost
of a girl named Eliza Clay, daughter of
Henry Clay. Eliza had died in the hotel from
a high fever in 1825. Perhaps we will never
know for certain whom the ghost really is.
However, the ghostly activity is mainly
located in Sarah’s Room. The
ghost appears as a young girl in a white
nightgown and has been known to knock
pictures off the walls and make noise and
feet stomping.
 The
second ghost of the Golden Lamb is believed
to be Charles R. Sherman, an Ohio
Supreme Court Justice who died at the inn in
1829. The ghost is described as a "gaunt,
gray man" who appears in the hallways. You
can even smell his cigar smoke, although the
Golden Lamb is a non-smoking establishment.
 The
following about Sarah’s Room appears
on the Golden Lamb’s website:
“Sarah's room is located on
the fourth floor of Ohio's Oldest Inn. Sarah
Stubbs was the daughter of Albert and Eunice
Stubbs. When Albert died, Eunice and her
children moved to The Golden Lamb where
Isaac Stubbs Jr. (Sarah's uncle) was the
manager. Sarah grew to be an adult, but some
say her ghost remains in the building.
This recreation of a little
girl's bedroom has been named in her honor.
The rocking chair was given to Sarah by her
aunt and bedside table was family treasure
given to her grandmother as wedding present
in 1834.”
Please use the following link
for The Golden Lamb to learn more
about this charming haunted inn:
http://www.goldenlamb.com
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