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Haunted Bissman Building

The structure was built in 1886 where Peter Bissman's expanded wholesale grocery still stands today, but not in operation. In the early 1930s the twenty smokestacks on the north and south sides of the Bissman's filled the early morning air with the rich aroma of coffee, as its own brands Red Ban Java Blend, Steel Cut and Acme were prepared fresh each day. Downtown residents would wake to the scent of roasting coffee beans and return home at workday's end to the fragrance of roasting peanuts.

The building has an early Romantic Gothic styling and shares a haunting similarity with the Historic Ohio State Reformatory since they were both built in the same year by the same architect.

The Haunted Bissman Building aired on the SyFy Channel during a Ghost Hunter's episode in 2010!

SHAWSHANK TRAIL

The Haunted Bissman Building was the site in the movie, Shawshank Redemption, of the Brewer Hotel where Brooks, actor James Whitmore, went to stay and hung himself soon after being paroled from The Shawshank Prison. The building was also utilized in the film as the front office of the building for the set of the Portland Daily Bugle.   All groups and individuals traveling The Shawshank Trail who are interested in tours of The Haunted Bissman Building must contact Ellis Byrd, co-founder of Gussethunters Paranormal, at 740-972-5400 or www.bissmanbuilding.com or goali41_2000@yahoo.com.  Stories from the movie Shawshank Redemption will be highlighted during the tour.

HAUNTED MANSFIELD OHIO 
In 2007 the building was leased to a major film production company, the Midnight Syndicate, for the production of The Dead Matter, a vampire movie that was released in October of 2008.
The Haunted Bissman Building, nicknamed as Dead Souls Studio, has a long history of haunted activities and has hosted ghost hunters from all directions including a recent visit from English ghost hunter Ellis Byrd of Gussethunters Paranormal.

All groups and individuals interested in paranormal investigations/tours of The Haunted Bissman Building can contact Ellis Byrd, Project Manager for Haunted Mansfield Ohio, at 740-972-5400 or www.bissmanbuilding.com or goali41_2000@yahoo.com.

See the Haunted Bissman Building on My Ghost Story below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=larrOd4gp8s&feature=related

View Haunted Bissman Building Website

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