Expedition Team: Dave Miller, Matt Miller
Date: April 2022 & April 14, 2025
Located at 2421 Princeton Road, this cemetery was established in 1929. The urban legend is that of a young woman in 1950’s clothing seen hitchhiking in front of the cemetery. She has been picked up but suddenly vanishes into thin air in the car. Others have reported that they passed by the hitchhiker, turned around immediately and came back but she had vanished. Another version has the girl going to the prom but was killed along the road on the way.
My son Matt, a nearby Police Sargeant, had a nighttime investigation at the cemetery back in April 2022 (Photo #2 – #5). Matt and a fellow officer that he was training drove through the cemetery around 10pm responding to a call. They found a door unlocked to the large mausoleum (a building that has above ground tombs, crypts and niches). With guns and flashlights trained forward they silently combed the mausoleum halls looking for a trespasser. Matt found another open door and they ascended down steps to a dark room where Matt saw a furnace looking device. He thought that was where bodies were cremated (the reduction of the body to ashes with extreme heat). His fellow officer was freaking out. Fortunately, they found no trespassers, homeless people or drug addicts in the building.
On April 14, 2025, my investigation began by going right to the source with my questions. I entered the cemetery office and spoke to the receptionist. She gave me a list of famous people buried there (such as former Cincinnati Red Joe Nuxhall) and said that the cemetery had almost 27,000 burials to date. She had not heard of the ghost but did say that they had a crematorium in the large mausoleum building but it is now inactive. She called two female managers to come talk to me. One lady was not aware of the claims, but the other lady had heard of the ghostly hitchhiker although none of them had any personal sighting or personal experiences to tell me.
So, naturally after talking to the cemetery staff, I headed to the mausoleum. The doors were unlocked so I toured the vacant mausoleum and its quiet hallways in daylight (Photo #6 – #8). It was quite unnerving.
I parked by the entrance for thirty minutes but had no visual sightings of a female ghost trying to hitch a ride. As for the legend of the ghost, I did not find any evidence that day but perhaps a return trip at night might be more appropriate.
