{"id":584,"date":"2008-10-26T04:30:47","date_gmt":"2008-10-26T02:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spookymarion.com\/?p=584"},"modified":"2021-04-03T16:35:21","modified_gmt":"2021-04-03T14:35:21","slug":"the-old-downtown-ymca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spookymarion.com\/?p=584","title":{"rendered":"The Old Downtown YMCA"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Is Marion\u2019s now defunct downtown YMCA haunted? Given the terrible and senseless crime that took place there in the 70s, it certainly seems to be a possibility. Even more tantalizing, in early 2011 the now-defunct ghost hunting group Eerie Paranormal spent that night there and gathered some compelling evidence to support this rumor. Read all about it in Haunted Marion, Ohio<\/span><\/a><\/em>!<\/p>\n

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Update<\/strong>: In April of 2012, another local ghost hunting group, Spirit Hunters of Ohio<\/span><\/a><\/span>, investigated the downtown YMCA. Of the many photos they took, two stand out:<\/p>\n

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An ethereal shape hovers over the track on the third floor – the floor where a murder took place 1974.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Group member Kathy Miers says that everyone in her group was accounted for when she took this picture of what appears to be a shadowy figure in the far corner.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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This is the same photo as above but with the brightness and contrast adjusted. Here the figure is much better defined.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Is Marion\u2019s now defunct downtown YMCA haunted? Given the terrible and senseless crime that took place there in the 70s, it certainly seems to be a possibility. Even more tantalizing, in early 2011 the now-defunct ghost hunting group Eerie Paranormal spent that night there and gathered some compelling evidence to support this rumor. Read all […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-ghosts-and-hauntings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spookymarion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spookymarion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spookymarion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spookymarion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spookymarion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=584"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/www.spookymarion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2822,"href":"https:\/\/www.spookymarion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions\/2822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spookymarion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spookymarion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spookymarion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}