Nosfer said:

Interestingly enough there once was a link on the Thurber House site that talked about ghosts. The URL was:

http://thurberhouse.org/house/ghosts.html

Snippets of text on that page indicated that "You also can take a haunted tour of Thurber House and other ghostly Columbus…" That page is no longer there and defaults to their home page.

http://web.archive.org/web/20050313234047/http://www.thurberhouse.org/house/ghosts.html

Nosfer said:

Interesting, earlier this morning Google Cache and the Way Back Machine were coming up blank for that page. Has pages going up to 2008 now.

spooky  lol

Nosfer said:

The house seems to "qualify" as haunted mainly because of an incident that he (Thurber) later wrote about in one of his stories. He claims to have heard footsteps walking around and then running up stairs. In the history of the house there is the story of a man who killed himself after pacing and then ran up the stairs to do the deed. Was this literary embellishment or not?

"My own experience in this mysterious area came one night, about 1912, in a house my family lived in at 77 Jefferson Avenue in Columbus . . . . It consists of the heavy steps of a man walking for nearly a minute around our dining room table, while I was in the bathroom upstairs drying my face with a towel before going to bed. At the time I was a junior at college, studying journalism, and a non-believer in ghosts. In fact, the word ghost never crossed my mind that night. I thought a burglar or crazy man had got into the house. My father and younger brother were in Indianapolis and I knew that neither of them would talk silently around that table. I roused my older brother from sleep and brought him to the head of the back stairs that went down into the dining room. As soon as he reached my side, the steps ceased. Finally, in something like terror, he asked me, 'What's the matter with you?'

"I said, in a loud voice, 'There's someone down there,' and up the stairs, right at us, two at a time, came the heavy steps of a running man. Without a word, my brother ran into his bedroom and locked the door. I stood there until one more step would have brought the invisible thing into me and then, by a reflex, I slammed the door at the head of the steps. The next day I asked the corner druggist, who had been in business there for thirty years, if he had ever heard any strange stories about 77 Jefferson Avenue. He said, in surprise, 'Didn't you know about the steps that go around the dining room table and run up the stairs?' I then began a long research on the business, even slept downstairs several nights alone, at the proper hour on the proper night of the week, but never heard the steps again. It turned out that several families had previously moved out of the house because of the steps. I turned this into a comic story called 'The Night the Ghost Got In' nearly thirty years ago, but now I am telling it factually. . . .

"My careful researches, more than forty-five years ago, revealed the story of a man who had lived in that house, had walked around the dining room table, then ran up the stairs and shot himself in one of the second floor rooms. He left a note describing his final behavior, but it was destroyed by the family. I found out, and the police have never heard of it, and I promised I would not tell about the note. . . . A strange voice, anonymous, had telephoned him at his office one morning and told him that if he went home around ten A.M., entered the kitchen door, and stood quietly in the dining room, he would hear his wife making her daily assignation with her lover and this is precisely what happened."

http://www.forgottenoh.com/Counties/Franklin/thurber.html

I still don't see how they think that is a voice they caught when the floor boards are squeaking during the second investigation. They claim the floor is moving like someone is stomping on it and then they claim in the middle of the stomping you hear a voice. The only problem is when they replay the "voice" its just a squeaking noise created by the floor boards while their walking, I mean these are old floor boards and I am sure everyone has heard this noise at one time in their life. That could be in the top 5 worst excuses for having an EVP ever.