Purchases you make through our links may earn us and our publishing partners a commission. There are scarier things in this world than ghosts. "The Reformatory" (Saga Press, 576 pp., ★★★★ out of four) ...

Sadly, Morgan Freeman does not narrate the self-guided tours at the Ohio State Reformatory. "A good chunk of the audio guide narration is just me," said Ashleigh Ramey, program director at the ...

Ohio State University alumni are invited to an evening of storytelling and cinematic history at the Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield. According to an announcement, the event is set for 6 p.m. to 8 ...

MANSFIELD, Ohio — Do you believe in ghosts? The Ohio State Reformatory – better known as the Mansfield Reformatory or "Shawshank Prison" – has been labeled as the most haunted location in the entire ...

MANSFIELD, Ohio -- Something wicked is happening inside Mansfield's “Shawshank Prison." A Hollywood horror mastermind is bringing his macabre madness to the infamously eerie Mansfield Reformatory.

The 2025 Blood Prison Christmas Incarceration will be open Dec. 5-6 and 12-13 at the historic Ohio State Reformatory.

When things go bump in the night, they’re often rampant figments birthed from the minds of young children. The belief in the supernatural and fantastical in horror—ghosts, boogiemen, vampires, and ...

MANSFIELD, Ohio (WJW)– We’ve all seen the movie. Now, it’s time to experience “The Shawshank Redemption” where it was filmed: the Mansfield Reformatory. The prison was completed in 1896 after 10 years ...

Reformatory is set in Jim Crow Florida. The main character is Robert Stephens, Jr., a twelve-year-old whose father, Robert Sr., tried to organize a union of Black workers. The white community framed ...

If those walls could talk, the bricks of the former Lorton Reformatory would likely express surprise. What was once an overcrowded, violent penitentiary for prisoners from the District is now a ...