Henry: The Ghost that Shacked up on Marion's Tenth Street

On Monday, Curt Strutz discussed his involvement on the TV Show "Paranormal Generation" and a few of the 25 , all of which he's visited, during a presentation at the .

Only one of those sites was in Iowa, the town of Villisca, which is a nearly four and a half hour drive away. But what about Marion? Where's our ghost story?

Marna Rehage, director of the , discovered a Marion ghost story right as it was happening. At the time, she was aiding Makenzie Schultz, the owner of , to get to the bottom of a man who was mischievously haunting the storefront studio.

Depending on where you fall on the great debate over the "realness" of ghosts, it can be hard to take these stories seriously. That's why we'll be posting a poll later on for your voice to be heard.

But in the meantime, take in this is the story of the ghost that supposedly haunted the Kenzi Photography studio in the summer of 2010, as told by Schultz.

Don't worry, you won't get nightmares.

"We had a new employee start working here.

Then we just had a bunch of weird stuff happening. The radio would suddenly tun off and pictures would fall out of the window when there wasn’t any wind.

We a have a friend who is healer and psychic. She said there was a guy that used to work in this or a nearby building. He had something to do with shoemaking. Sometime in the 1900s a fire started and all the buildings burned down except for this one, because it is brick.

He felt closest to our building, since the rest are new.

The reason that he came was that the new employee is in-tune with ghosts. He felt comfortable with her.

He was a nice ghost. [The psychic] said he just wanted to make us laugh. Once I knew he was a nice ghost it was fine with me, as long as he wouldn’t do something scary.

I think we named him Henry.

But he'd been around for months.

We went and looked at the historical books at the Marion Historical Society in the downtown area. We found out that he did leather specifically, and would fit shoes, that's what he did.

He left. 

Then we did see the psychic. (She said) he had moved on.

She said they can be living if they are still hung up on life. He wanted to be noticed.

At that point, maybe he got what he wanted. People could see who he was as a person."