Miamisburg Mound:

“You have to see the Miamisburg Mound!” my good friend Amy told me with an intriguing smile on her face. “It’s a very spiritual place and not far away. Plus, I’ve heard it may be haunted!”

So, of course, I had to go see for myself! As you drive up to the mound it extends far and wide. The mound sits atop a huge 100-foot-high hill above our famous Miami River. The mound is one of two largest conical (cone-shaped) points in the United States – an impressive 65 feet tall and 800 feet wide.

Excavations conducted in 1869 proved the Adena culture that lived from 800 B.C. to A.D. 100 built the mound in several overlapping stages – like the shingles on the roof of your house. The overlapping is 24 feet deep.

The large mound’s history is interesting! For example, monuments like Miamisburg Mound served as cemeteries and may have been markers or possible boundary lines for tribal territories a long time ago. Researchers also believe that artifacts are buried along with the dead inside the mounds.   

Researchers estimate there once were 10,000 mounds in our Ohio Valley, however due to land and property exchanges throughout the years and construction of homes, villages and cities, there are now only a whopping 1,000 left! The surviving mounds are thought to have been created between 2800 and 2000 B.C.  According to research, the Adena culture gradually transformed into what we know today at the Hopewell people around A.D. 400. 

When visiting the mound, you can clearly see why its massive size makes it such a popular public attraction. You can’t help but have a good time while watching children climb to the top and then roll down its side as they laugh with their friends. Nearly everyone has a smile on his or her face!

As soon as you step onto the grounds, you can feel an earthly energy and lightness, as well as a peaceful presence when walking toward the Miamisburg Mound. As you get closer to the mound, its energy is strong and fluent!

Amy and I walked to the right side of the mound that was relatively empty of visitors and began to ask questions using my EMF reader as well as my voice recorder. We asked questions like, What Tribe are you from? How old are you? Who is buried in this mound? and so forth.  The EMF reader did spike after each question, but we did not identify any disembodied, voiced answers from a spirit.

Was I bummed out? Yes, but we still had spikes on the EMF reader so I took that as a good sign!  During our visit-investigation, we both walked around the mound and could clearly see there was absolutely NO electricity that could have caused the EMF spikes. We looked for boxes, breakers and so forth around the area of the mound and found nothing. So we concluded the spikes we received must have come from a spirit or the mound itself.

Would I recommend visiting the Miamisburg Mound? Definitely!  It is an impressive sight and if you are close to Dayton or just happen to be traveling through southwest Ohio, it’s only minutes from Interstate 75!

Go and see it! Try your own investigation and decided for yourself! You can even bring your kids and have a picnic or play at the wonderful little park and playground near the mound. You will love this place!  

©Rosella C. Rowe

Visiting Information for the Miamisburg Mound: https://www.ohiohistory.org/visit/museum-and-site-locator/miamisburg-mound