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Downtown Toledo is about to get a chilling new addition, and we mean that in the best way possible. In the building that once housed Jed’s, a dark transformation is underway. Local entrepreneur Jessica Delgado is breathing eerie new life into the space with The Pale Horse, Toledo’s first horror-themed bar — a cocktail lounge that promises gothic elegance with a side of the supernatural.
Inspired by her lifelong love of horror films and gothic aesthetics, Delgado conceived the idea after visiting too many cookie-cutter bars that all seemed to blur together. “I thought, why not do something different—something that reflects my love of horror movies and gothic style?” she explains. That’s when The Pale Horse started to take shape.
A Bar That Feels Like a Story
Delgado wants patrons to feel as if they’ve stepped inside a gothic novel or a classic horror movie. “The goal is for people to feel a calm uneasiness,” she says, “like sitting in a beautiful old house where you can’t quite shake the feeling that someone’s watching from the next room.”…