The USS Nightmare, Greater Cincinnati’s legendary haunted steamboat, will return for the 2025 season September 12, and this year, the horrors run deeper than ever.

Docked ominously on Riverboat Row, the infamous William S. Mitchell dredge will once again welcome victims – er, thrill-seekers — into the cursed bowels of darkness.

Once buried in logbooks and whispered through crew journals, a secret room has been resurrected: the Chapel. The hidden sanctuary, carved out by desperate crewmen, was a multi-denominational refuge and served as the last line of defense against the evil that plagued the Mitchell.

Now, passengers will step into this reconstructed space and meet Brother Caleb Ward, the ship’s ghostly chaplain whose sermons once held back the darkness — and may still echo through th

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