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Boo's Bulletin

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December 31, 2008

Happy Holidays!

CAPER would like to take this moment to thank you for all your support this year. We have been very blessed this year.

This newsletter will not follow our normal format. We will be telling some holiday stories. So sit back with your hot chocolate and enjoy!

Again, we thank you for your support and wish you the merriest Holiday Season and a bright and joyous New Year!

  • Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park haunted?

    Every December Playhouse in the Park puts on the play “A Christmas Carol” but did you know that the playhouse is haunted?

     

    In the late 90’s during the playhouses expansion project a seamstress was working late and thought she saw someone out of the corner of her eye in the doorway. She turns and sees no one. She gets up and moves toward the door seeing a shadow going down the hall she calls out to it… no answer. This has happened many times to many people at the theatre. For many years the playhouse has had problems with the lights going on and off in the under-stage tunnels. Electricians have been called in to check that lighting and can find no problems. Have actors or stage hands past, come back? Maybe that’s why they keep a light burning at center stage after the audience and all the actors have left.

     


  • Haunted Gazebo

    While you’re in the Eden Park area you may want to take a drive to Kron Conservatory and take in the live nativity scene. As you drive past the gazebo by Mirror Lake slow down and take a careful look. You may just see a fleeting glance of the lady in black. Who’s this lady that haunts the gazebo? Imogene Remus.

    Imogene was married to George Remus a notable bootlegger in Cincinnati in the 1920’s. In 1924 George was arrested, convicted and sent to federal prison for bootlegging. During his time in prison Imogene had fallen in love with Frank Dodge the prohibition agent who had sent her husband to prison. Imogene filed for divorce and on October 6, 1927 a few weeks after George’s release from prison he was to meet Imogene for their divorce hearing. Instead he followed her in a chauffeured Cadillac forcing her taxi cab off the road in Eden Park. Fearing for her life Imogene fled from the cab and ran towards the gazebo. George followed her and shot his wife dead.

     

    He soon, turned himself in to the police, claimed it was a matter of “morally justifiable homicide”. Later at his trial he was found “not guilty” by reason of insanity. He was sent to Lima State Hospital for 6 months and was later released.

     

    Many people claim to see Imogene’s ghost haunting the gazebo in Eden Park, wearing her black silk dress. It is said that this haunting is a result to the injustice towards her murder and the quick release of her killer, George Remus.

     


  • Farm has ghost of Christmas past?

    Does the Niederman Farm have the ghost of Christmas past? Some say that they have seen an older gentleman tinkering with the lights and when someone approaches to ask a question he disappears or they see him off in the distance and then he dissipates before their eyes.

    Who is this man? When Mr. Niederman started his Christmas Walk back in 2000 on his 200 acre farm located in Liberty Township, just off State Route 4 in Butler County, he purchased about a third of his lights from an auction at The Rudds Christmas farm. Mr. Rudd opened his property for 36 years out in Adams County with a million lights. People came from all over the state to see his free holiday light display. Due to health problems in 1999 Mr. Rudd shut down his farm and all the items went to sale at auction. Some say that the man who dissipates is Mr. Rudd checking on his lights. All in all what these two families have brought together has and will continue to have a wonderful holiday outlook for many families. Thanks to the Niederman Family this family tradition will live on.

     


  • Happy New Year!

    Have a great holiday and a wonderful new year!
    Hold your loved ones close and let them know that they are loved.
    Peace, hope and love in the new year from everyone at CAPER.

     


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