The Greater Columbus antique mall
Columbus Ohio
The greater Columbus antique mall as it's known today was built in 1889 at the end
of the Victoria era for George Janton who was a soap manufacturer and dealer in
laundry supplies. It was built in the second empire style which was popular at the
time, with a mansard tower, butternut woodwork,  slate mantles and a large brick
carriage barn. When George Janton died it was passed on to his widow  and to
Georges son. At this time it became the J.L. Hughes and I.  Woodyard  funeral home.
After about a year I. Woodyard left and it became J.L.Hughes solely.

In the late 1930's it once again changed hands. This time it becameJ.J.Simons and
son funeral home in whose hands it remained until the late 1940's at which time it
was sold to the Elks lodge. The Elks made many changes to the structure, tearing
down the old carriage barn and building a large block addition containing a
restaurant, ballroom,dance floors,stages and secondary meeting places. A large
complex for it's time and is as you see it today.

The complex was then sold to Wendys Int. in 1977. Wendys made a sisters restaurant
on what once was the south parking lot and sold the house and north parking lot. At
this time in 1979 it assumed it's current use known then as the South High antique
mall, the first antique mall in Columbus Ohio. Later the name was changed to the
Greater Columbus antique mall.

With special thanks to Fred and Pat Altevogt The owners, The COPRG was allowed
four investigations of this Beautiful old building. We captured an overwhelming
number of evp's plus many personal experiences as well as some video. We present
to you here just a small portion of that evidence. In our opinion The greater
Columbus antique mall is a very active and haunted building.
Please turn your speakers
up!.
In this evp that was captured in the
auditorium, you hear a lady say "Can't
see".
Scott is telling Rick that there was a
temperature reading of 666 behind him.
Rick repeats the reading and then a
mans voice says "don't do that".
In this evp Ricks camera  was
dead and Scott says he put it in
here somewhere when you hear
a man say "don't see it".
This evp was captured by
Danny that night of a man
saying "he doesn't know
Atonya , Scott and Dan were
doing evp work in the
auditorium when they all heard a
young girl cry out for help!. This
was captured on Dans recorder
Nancy and Atonya were working
in the auditorium when Nancy
asked how many spirits are
here?. In a very soft voice  a
woman says " I know, 19".
Scott asking the spirits to knock
again. In response to his
question he heard this
One of the many questions we
often ask is can you see us?.
Without asking this lady tells
us"I can see you!".
In our first investigation we
caught what sounded like a
Parrot on the second floor of the
building. In this evp we hear
again what sounds like a parrot
saying "time is".
Once again Atonya , Dan and
Scott are in the auditorium when
Scott asks can you tell us the
colour of your hair?. All three
investigators heard the response
of what sounds like a little girl
saying " I don't know".
Danny and Shawn were doing evp
auditorium . They were using a K2
meter and Shawn asks them to
Danny and Shawn were doing evp
light up the lights on the meter
when a man responds with "you
can't catch me!".
One of the owners Pat joined in on
the investigation, and while with her
and her two nieces Andrea and
Heather were using  a K2 meter. Pat
trying to get some response puts the
K2 meter on the floor and caught this
breath from the spirit.
one on the lower left was caught by investigator Andrea , and the second lower right,
was captured by Rick in the attic. You'll hear a man softly saying yeah at first, then
the moan.
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