Psychic Sonya, who runs Cleveland's Haunted Tours, has mentioned the Haserot angel when discussing some of the more haunted places in Cleveland. Mike LaRiche, coordinator of Cleveland's Paranormal Roundtable, has visited the angel several times. In Mike's opinion, "there is definitely something paranormal about that statue. I could feel the hairs raising on my arms as I approached it, and when I touched it, my hand came away tingling. It was truly an eerie encounter!" Another psychic who has experienced the spirit of the grim monument is the young Sarah Davis. While attending the College of Wooster, Davis led ghost tours in Wayne County, considered by many to be the most haunted county in Ohio. When the Haserot Angel was brought to her attention, Davis identified the statue as no ordinary haunting. Rather than perceiving a human spirit, Davis felt that an entity had come to inhabit the statue itself. This spirit-being, in her opinion, was definitely not human, although she did not feel that it was evil. "He's beautiful!" she said of the spirit in the statue, "But so sad."

The angel was commissioned by Francis Henry Haserot (1860-1953) to watch over the grave of his wife, Sarah, who had died in 1920. Sarah was very dear to Francis, and he remained a widower until his own death more than 30 years later. If Davis is correct and neither Francis nor his wife linger in spirit at the grave, what manner of being haunts the somber-faced statue? The massive bronze angel remains silent and impassive as it guards the Haserot family graves as well as its own dark secrets.