Mystery in St. Francisville, Lousiana

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This time i want to tell you about one of the famous hotel in California...

The Myrtle House......

Do you know it???
maybe, you ever hear it....
this building is very beautiful, but many mystery make this building more interesting.....
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ghost at The Myrtle House and Plantation

First, i tell you about History of The Myrtle Plantation....

     The myrtle plantation is located in St.Francisville, Lousiana, near Baton Rouge. This house listed on the National Register of Historic Places. This place offers history tours and mistery tours. 

     The Myrtle plantation was built in 1796 by general David bradford and called Laurel Grove this time. In Pennsylivia Bradford lived for several years, but at 1799 rebellion happened there.President Washington told this guard to killed him. Then he moved with his wife, Elizabeth and their children to myrtle house. One of Bradford's students, Clark Woodruff married with his daughter named  Sara Mathilda at 1817. On 1808, David was die. And then, the House was managed by Clark and Sara. They had 3 children. They are Cornelia Gale, Yakobus, dan Maria Octavia.

    When David's wife was die,1930, Clark and his daughter moved to Covington Lousiana. they left one a guard to keep the home and their plantation beside their home. In 1834, Woodruff sold the plantation, the land, and its slaves to Ruffin Gray Stirling. Woodruff eventually in New orleans in 1851. Stirling and his wife, Mary Catherine Cobb, renovated the home bacause the home damaged. When it was completed, the new house was nearly double the size of the former building , its name was changed to The Myrtles. They began imported fancy furniture from Europe. Stirling had 9 children, but five of them died . Stirling died in 1854 and left the home and plantation to his wife.
       In 1865, Mary Cobb hired William Drew Winter to help managed the plantation as her lawyer and agent. then, he was married by Mary Cobb's daughter, Sarah Stirling in winter. Sarah and William Winter lived at the Myrtles and had 6 children, one of whom (Kate Winter) died beacuse typoid on 3. in 1686, winter's family  were forced to sell the plantation, but they were able to buy it back two years later. 
         In 1871, William Winter was shot by a suspected man named ES Webber on the porch of the house and within minutes died. Sarah remained at the Myrtles with her mother and siblings until 1878, when her mother died there.  Mary Cobb died in 1880, and the plantation passed to one of her sons, Stephen.  The plantation was heavily in debt. However, and Stephen sold it in 1886 to Oran D. Brooks.  Brooks sold it in 1889, and the house changed hands several times until 1891, when it was purchased by Harrison Milton Williams. 

This place was provided generation to generation....
and when it was managed by Harrison Milton Williams, strange incident began happened.....
What actually happened..? 

next...
this is the story....
  
The legend of Chloe.....   
          According to the story, the troubles that led to the haunting began in 1817 when Sarah Mathilda married Clark Woodruff.  Sara Matilda born 3 child and carryed a third child, when an event the place haunted them.
       Woodruff, had a reputation in the region for integrity with men and with the law, but was also known for being promiscuous. While his wife was pregnant with their third child, he intimated  relationship with one of his slaves. This girl, whose name was Chloe, was a household servant , while she hated being forced to give serve  to Woodruff's sexual demands. she realized if she didn't it, she could be sent to work in the platantion, which was the most brutal of the slave's work.
       Eventually, Woodruff  tired forced Chloe and chose another girl with whom to carry on. Chloe feared the worst, sure that she was going to be sent to the fields, and she began eavesdropping on the Woodruff family's private conversations, dreading the mention of her name. One day, the Judge caught her at this and ordered that one of her ears be cut off to teach her a lesson and to put her in her place. After that time, she always wore a green turban around her head to hide the ugly scar that the knife had left behind.
      What actually happened next is still unclear.  Some claim that what occurred was done so that the family would just get sick and then Chloe could nurse them back to health and earn the Judge's gratitude. In this way, she would be safe from ever being returned to the fields.  Others say that her motives were not so pure though and that what she did was for one reason only - revenge Woodruff!!!!!!        For whatever reason, Chloe put a small amount of poison into a birthday cake that was made in honor of the Woodruff's oldest daughter. In with the flour and sugar went a handful of crushed oleander flowers. . The two children and Sarah Mathilda, each had slices of the poisoned cake but Woodruff didn't eat one of it.  Before the end of the day, all of them were very sick.Chloe patiently attended to their needs, never realizing (if it was an accident) that she had given them too much poison.  In a matter of hours, all three of them were dead.
     The other slaves, perhaps afraid that their owner would punish them also, dragged Chloe from her room and hanged her from a nearby tree. Her body was later cut down, weighted with rocks and thrown into the river.  Woodruff closed off the children's dining room, where the party was held, and never allowed it to be used again as long as he lived. Tragically, his life was cut short a few years later by a murderer.  To this day, the room where the children were poisoned has never again been used for dining.
       Since her death, the ghost of Chloe has been reported at the Myrtles and was even accidentally photographed by a past owner. The plantation still sells picture postcards today with the cloudy image of what is purported to be Chloe standing between two of the buildings.  The former slave is thought to be the most frequently encountered ghost at the Myrtles. She has often been seen in her green turban, wandering the place at night. Sometimes the cries of little children accompany her appearances and at other times, those who are sleeping are startled awake by her face, peering at them from the side of the bed.
    
MORE MURDERS!
   Turn out,  In addition to the deaths of Sarah Mathilda, her daughters and Chloe, it was alleged that as many as six other people had also been killed in the house. One of them, Lewis Stirling, the oldest son of Ruffin Grey Stirling, was claimed to have been stabbed to death in the house over a gambling debt. However, burial records in St. Francisville state that he died at the age of 23 in October 1854 from yellow fever.
 

According to legend, three Union soldiers were killed in the house after they broke in and attempted to loot the place. They were allegedly shot to death in the gentlemen's parlor, leaving bloodstains on the floor that refused to be wiped away. Once fanciful account has it that years later,  after the Myrtles was opened as an inn, a maid was mopping the floor and came to a spot that, no matter how hard she pushed, she was unable to reach. Supposedly, the spot was the same size as a human body and this was said to have been where one of the Union soldiers fell. The strange phenomenon was said to have lasted for a month and has not occurred since. The only problem with this story is that no soldiers were ever killed in the house. There are no records or evidence to say that there were and in fact, surviving family members denied the story was true. If the ghostly incident occurred, then it must have been caused by something else. Another murder allegedly occurred in 1927, when a caretaker at the house was killed during a robbery. Once again, no record exists of this crime and something as recent as this would have been widely reported. The only event even close to this, which may have spawned this part of the story, occurred when the brother of Fannie Williams, Eddie Haralson, was living in a small house on the property. He was killed while being robbed but this did not occur in the main house, as the story states.

The only verifiable murder to occur at the Myrtles was that of William Drew Winter and it differs wildly from the legends that have been told. . As described previously, Winter was lured out of the house by a rider, who shot him to death on the side porch.  It is here where the stories take a turn for the worse.  In the legend, Winter was shot and then mortally wounded, staggered back into the house, passed through the gentlemen's parlor and the ladies parlor and onto the staircase that rises from the central hallway. Then managed to climb just high enough to die in his beloved's arms on exactly the 17th step. It has since been claimed that ghostly footsteps have been heard coming into the house, walking to the stairs and then climbing to the 17th step where they, of course, come to an end.
     While dramatic, this event never happened either. Winter was indeed murdered on the front porch by an unknown assailant but after being shot, he immediately fell down and died. His bloody trip through the house never took place  that was easily found in historical records.

The house mirror where the spectral images of the Myrtles' “murder victims” are said to manifest.

    Another "haunted highlight" of the Myrtles is a large mirror that, according to some of the owners, is said to hold the spirits of some of those who have died in the house. Those who photograph the mirror will often find that the developed picture holds the images of handprints of a number of people, seemingly inside of the glass. When these spectral images first appeared, the mirror was thoroughly cleaned but the prints remained. Perplexed, the owners then tried replacing the glass, thinking that perhaps they were flaws in the mirror itself. Strangely though, the handprints returned! 

    Those who studied the mirror have suggested that perhaps the handprints (or images like them) are in the wood behind the mirror and not in the glass at all. In this way, lights (like a camera flash) pass through the glass and pick up the marks on the wood. This would cause the "handprints" to appear in every mirror that hangs in this location, no matter what glass is used. 

    Believers disagree though and not surprisingly, so do the tour guides. And while the subject is certainly open for debate, I believe that the "weird" images belong not in the category of ghostly phenomena but rather in that of the imagination instead. 

a lot of mysterious happenings in the house and its surroundings. from unpleasant odors, noises to apparitions that have been seen by people ynag visit the place.
But the mystery in this house is not caused by another family ...... 
but because his own family ......
but some people will not believe it ....
because in fact they never saw the apparition as told by others to them.....

and...
this is my story about  The Myrtle house and platantion....
thank you for your attention.....

 
  

The Franklin Castle

            The Franklin castle is located in west of Franklin Boulevard, Ohio. Franklin Castle was built in 1865 for a German immigrant, Hannes Tiedemann Cudell & Richardson were the architects of this architectural wonder.This castle is known to be one of scariest building at America. The historical building was found in the gothic architectural style. Franklin castle is very popular, but this building save a lot story of mistery there.....

     

        This time....

        I have any mistery story in The franklin castle....

        lets...

        follow the story........ 

     

          Over the years, the mistery story in the Franklin castle become a headlines. The mystery of ghost sightings  is hidden in the walls and corridors of this magnificent castle....

The cries of small children is heard inside the walls.........

Mysterious death Hannes Tiedemann family

       Hannes Tiedemann had a large family and many servants at the castle and it is believed that he was sexually involved with many women in the castle which included servants. He is believed to be responsible for a number of deaths that took place in the Franklin castle and is believed to have hung, strangulated and hacked his victims.He is believed to be responsible for a number of deaths that took place in the Franklin castle and believed to have hung, strangulated and hacked his victims.

       However, death of Hannes is known because he was illness. But, other evidence claimed several murders happened in the castle and the researchers believed that. First, Tiedemann's daughter, Emma, 15, she was death because she was diabetes. During the next few years three more of his children died which led to the belief that the hidden truth about these mysterious deaths was lurking within the castle.

       Many researchers are convinced that the birth and death of babies in the castle wasn't revealed  and is believed that Tiedemann hanged his niece with the help of an exposed rafter in one of the secret tunnels.

Ghosts Sightings in The castle

      The ghosts here are numerous. In a small room at of thecastle  a pile of baby skeletons was founded, supposedly the victims of some inept doctor. today, babies can be heard crying the walls. There are rumors of an axe murder in the front tower room, the victim of which is occasionally seen standing in the windows. The secret passageways around the ballroom are said to be where Tiedemann hung his illegitimate daughter Karen. Karen's ghost is the main one seen in the castle, usually in a third floor room known as "the cold room" because it stays ten degrees colder than the rest of the house at all times. Karen may have lost her life in a fight between her father and her boyfriend and then been hung from a rafter to make the death appear self-inflicted. She was just thirteen, but her ghost is often described as a woman, garbed in black, tall and thin and eerie, and often seen by people in the neighborhood.

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Most haunted building in America

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 Bowling Green State University,Ohio

          Bowling Green State University is located at Bowling State, northeast ohio, America. This building is found at 1910. The Bowling Green is oldest college there. 9 years after this states was found, the college is home to more than 200 students..

and not only that...
Some ghosts also occupies the rooms there...

           The ghost which visited there. she is "Alice". Many people often see Alice with her flowing hair visited there since 1920's. but, Alice wasn't afraid but the ghost always become a tradition to be invited the teather. many people to prevent any bad circumstances from occurring during the show. 
This is a unique....
            According to witness of several people, Alice was a actress at the college, bit she died when a heavy object fell on her during a show. However, any people said, she died because she was car accident.
Her death is believed to have taken place around the 1920's due to the clothing her apparition is most often seen wearing.
              Before teather, a manager always prepare one boarding chair for special guest "Alice".

maybe, you not believe about this story. But this is reality. Even, when this tradition wasn't followed, the strange events occured. The lights off during the show, the set may fall completely apart, objects fall over, orand worse. Ghost of Alice was seen during theater. She is very pale with long flowing hair and 1920's red clothes.
       The last few years, Henry IV played in the theater Bowling Green State University. Something , presumably Alice, knocked down several props, knocking out the box office computers on opening night and injuring two of the actors in the process .Two actors were lucky to make it out without medical assistance.   According to one staff member, some of the actors were speaking ill of Alice during rehearsal, and this is why Alice's ghost wreaked havoc on the set. Alice's Ghost is said to haunt both of the theaters at the University, Joe E. Brown Theater and Eva Marie Saint Theater
        Another ghost reportedly haunts the Chi Omega sorority house at BGSU.  The legend tells of a young girl named Amanda who was desperate to join the sorority.  She accomplished all she needed to accomplish to be permitted into the group, but on the very night she was to be made a sister, Amanda was killed by a train. 

       They say that the ghost of Amanda did not give up on her sisterhood, and remains a part of the sorority to this day.  There is even a room in the Chi Omega House called “Amanda's Room”.  Within this room, pictures and objects tend to fall from the walls, the lights turn on and off and the door locks and unlocks by itself.
      The ghost even has its own closet, dubbed “Amanda's Closet”; a simple utility closet where things that go missing tend to turn up a short time later. Evidence of her continued presence in the Chi Omega House is the 1986-87 annual photograph of the sorority girls. Each year a picture is taken, and a seat is always left open for Amanda. On this year, no seat was left open, and it is this particular photo that is regularly falling from the wall of the house.

        It seems most universities carry legend of one ghost or another, but Bowling Green State University has a long history of haunting – and remember Alice and Amanda are just the most famous of numerous ghost stories at BGSU – that it's hard to discount the prevalence of these tales.

 
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Ohio university, Athens

Ohio University......Do you know this university????

Maybe you don't now about this university, even you never hear that....

therefore....

I will to give you information about this university and the scary story there......

First.... 

I will to tell you about history of Ohio University...

   At 1786... 11 men gathered of Grapes Tavern in Boston. They  planned about ohio river development and  allegheny mountains..  This plan was led by Mannes Cutler and ruffush putnam. and a next few years, it was decided that there will be more settlements and schools.

    Twenty-four years after its founding, in 1828, another achievement is shown again.  Ohio University conferred an AB degree on John Newton Templeton, its first black graduate and only the third black man to graduate from a college in the United States.  In 1873, Margaret Boyd received her BA degree and became the first woman to graduate from the University. Soon after, the institution graduated it first international alumnus, Saki Taro Murayama of Japan, in 1895.

   

Most unique and interesting part of this building..... 

The  Green College in Ohio....

     The College Green is the center of Ohio University's Athens campus. With its brick walkways and shade trees, it has provided a quiet respite to Ohio University students for over 190 years.  The three oldest buildings on campus are located on the College Green. Cutler, which currently houses the administrative offices of the president and others, was built in 1816 and has been designated a National Historic Landmark.
       Also on the College Green is Templeton-Blackburn Alumni Auditorium. The west portico of the auditorium faces the center of the Green and is the site of a series of plaques honoring famous individuals who have spoken on campus, including Teddy Roosevelt, Warren Harding, Eleanor Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson, and John Kennedy.
      The Campus Gate is located at the northwest corner of the Green. At the corner of Court and Union Streets, it is where Ohio University and the City of Athens meet.                                        The gate greets all who enter with an inscription that reads:

   "SO ENTER THAT DAILY THOU MAYEST GROW SO ENTER
IN KNOWLEDGE WISDOM AND LOVE"

For those departing, another inscription reads:

"SO DEPART THAT DAILY THOU MAYEST BETTER SERVE SO

THY FELLOWMEN THY COUNTRY AND THY GOD THY "

    Facing Cutler Hall, on the north side of the Green, is a second gate, the Class Gateway, also inscribed with a passage from the Ordinance of 1787 that reads: “Religion, morality, and knowledge being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged.” The gate was an alumni gift and commemorates the graduation of 1815, the first in the Old Northwest Territory.
     Located between the two College Green gates is the Athens County Soldiers and Sailors Monument. It was erected in 1893 to honor the 2,610 citizens of Athens County who served during the Civil War.  The brick and stone plaza was added to the monument in recent years. 

 

green and white became the color of university.....

     The green and white colors of Ohio University date back to 1896.  Before that time, the University's unofficial colors were blue and white. However, it soon became apparent that these colors would be unacceptable for the new football team to wear. Ohio's newly hired football coach, Samuel McMillen, suggested that Ohio adopt as its colors olive green and white, which were worn at McMillen's alma mater, Dartmouth College. The proposal was put before the student body for a vote, and green and white became the colors of the school's uniforms in the fall of 1896.Down through the years, the olive green has evolved into a lighter “Hunter” green color. As a side note, McMillen never coached a game for Ohio University, as personal problems kept him from arriving in Athens in the fall of 1896.

The Ceremonial Mace

     For centuries the mace has been used as a symbol of authority.  Early maces were actually weapons of war similar to a club, and were often used by ecclesiastics who were forbidden to use other kinds of weapons. . In the early days of Cambridge and Oxford, religious and/or educational officials use maces to shepherd unruly students. Today, the use of the mace is a representation of authority for royalty, legislatures, and universities around the world.
      The late David R. Klahn, professor of art, designed the Ohio University Ceremonial Mace. It is modeled after one of the balustrades of an original stairway of Cutler Hall, the University's main administration building. Cast in bronze, the mace is 46" long and weighs 16 pounds, and features the University seal and a stylized representation of the Cutler Hall cupola.
      The mace is carried and displayed at official University ceremonies including Commencement.

The Ring....

Symbol of graduation... 

      The University ring is features the Seal of the University in oval form. Students who have earned junior status are eligible to purchase and wear the ring. Prior to graduation, the ring is worn with the rising sun pointing away from the wearer, representing a guiding light on the path to graduation. After graduation, the ring is worn with the rising sun pointing toward the wearer, warming the heart and illuminating the accomplishment of graduating from Ohio University.

The Fight Song....

Ohio University's fight song, entitled “Stand Up and Cheer,” has been sung as an “athletic song” since the early 1900s. The song's words and theme were adapted from a previous melody, the author of which is unknown.

This is a song lyrics:
STAND UP AND CHEER
Stand up and cheer Berdiri dan menghibur
Cheer loud and long for old Ohio
For today we raise
The Green and White above the rest
Our team is fighting,
And we are bound to win the fray
We've got the team,
We've got the steam,
For this is old Ohio's day!
Rah! Rah! Rah! Rah! Rah! Rah!

           

    Ohio University’s alma mater, entitled, “Alma Mater, Ohio,” was also created by a special contest. In 1915, Kenneth S. Clark, a graduate of Princeton University, entered the contest to create an “alma mater song” for Ohio University and won the $150 first prize. Entries for this contest were received from all parts of the United States.

    ALMA MATER, OHIO

    When e’er we take our book of mem’ries
    And scan its pages through and through
    We’ll find no days that glow so brightly
    As those we spent at old O.U.
    Within our Alma Mater’s portals
    We meet her children hand to hand
    And when there comes the day of parting,
    Still firm and loyal we will stand

    Our Alma Mater calls us ever,
    And love of country has its claim,
    The one but makes us prize the other,
    And thus we cherish both the same.
    When Alma Mater sends us forward,
    And in her name we stand in line,
    Then we will serve the nation better,
    For having gathered at her shrine.

    Chorus
    Alma Mater, Ohio,
    Alma Mater, brave and fair!
    Alma Mater, we hail thee,
    For we own thy kindly care.

    Alma Mater, Ohio,
    When we read thy story o’er,
    We revere thee and cheer thee
    As we sing thy praise once more.

 

The Mascot

     Until 1925, or 29 years after the school colors changed from blue and white, the Ohio University athletic teams were called the "Green and White." At that time, however, the school's athletic board decided the teams needed a nickname and a campus-wide contest was initiated. Many animal nicknames were proposed but after great debate, the Bobcat won for its reputation as a sly, wily, scrappy animal.

   Former student Hal H. Rowland of Athens earned the $10 first prize for proposing the winning entry. The new nickname was passed by the board on Dec. 7, 1925, and was officially adopted by President E.B. Bryan.

     The Bobcat mascot first appeared at Ohio's Homecoming game against Miami on Oct. 22, 1960. Smartly clad in a bright green sweater and a baseball cap on top of its paper mache head, the Bobcat was a gift to all of Ohio University from the men of Lincoln Hall.

    That day, the Ohio football squad smashed archrival Miami 21-0 and went on to arguably the university's greatest football season ever. The Bobcats finished 10-0 that year and were voted the NCAA National College Division Champion. 

   Dan Nichols, class of '63, was the first Bobcat mascot and set a precedent for several decades that the person donning the costume must live in Lincoln Hall. The Campus Affairs Committee decided that the Bobcat mascot would be a permanent member of the cheerleading squad and would cheer at all football and basketball games.

   The Bobcat mascot has changed its appearance many times since 1960 but remains a beloved representative of Ohio Athletics. Nowadays, the Bobcat can be seen at numerous varsity athletic events and visits countless special events in the community.

 

The Marching 110

     One of the finest marching bands in the country, the Marching 110 represents Ohio University at athletic events, parades and festivals around the nation. 

 In 1923, an Ohio University student by the name of Homer Baird decided that Ohio needed a marching band. He organized the first meeting about such a group at Ewing Hall where over 40 musicians were in attendance. At this meeting, Baird was elected president and made arrangements with a local instrumental teacher named Raymond Connett to direct the band for free.

     Gene Thrailkill took control of the marching band in 1966 and made drastic changes including the adoption of the athletic marching style, playing the popular music of the day and originating the "Diamond Ohio" formation to give the band its own trademark.  

      The name "Marching 110" originally referred to the number of band members in 1967 but the band has since expanded. The 110 now stands for the 110% effort expected of all members at all times.

      In 1968, sophomore drum major David Fowler began the tradition of dancing to the new and popular rock tunes of the time. The first dance piece used by the entire band was called "Ain't Been Good" and the 110 still performs the song. 

      The band's history also includes being the first marching band ever to perform in New York's Carnegie Hall (October 28, 1976) and playing at the Presidential Inaugural Parade and Ball in 1993.

      Under the current direction of Richard Suk, the 110 opened for First Lady Hillary Clinton's speech at Baker Center in October 1996. "The Most Exciting Band in the Land!" marched in the 2000 and the 2005 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parades and has performed in numerous college and professional football stadiums.

 

Bobcat Athletics Traditions

      As Ohio’s first and finest institution of higher learning, Ohio University’s athletic tradition is rich and storied.  Ohio University currently fields 20 teams, the most recent additions being women’s lacrosse (1999), women’s soccer (1997) and women’s golf (1996).  Ohio University was a charter member of the Mid-American Conference, which began in 1946. Other first-year members included Butler, Cincinnati, Wayne State and Western Reserve. Ohio’s primary rival, the Miami RedHawks, joined the following year. The MAC is the sixth oldest NCAA Division I conference. 

 

 

It is about the history of the ohio and everything in it ...
but ....
Other than that I still had a story of mystery in it ... 

Lets...
follow the stories of the interviewees cited .....

 

 

         as my information, Ohio University in Athens was founded in 1804 and was the first institution west of the Appalachian Mountains dedicated to higher learning. With a rich history that spans over 200 years, it is not unreasonable to assume that there may be paranormal activity around some of the buildings on campus. It seems though in this case it is hard to find a building not associated with paranormal activity making Ohio University one of the most haunted places in America.
        There have been quite a few ghost stories that come from the buildings and houses associated with Ohio State. Stories of former slaves associated with the Underground Railroad, an old insane asylum now being renovated by the University, former students who have died on campus and a loving old lady who seems to not have left her home are all a part of the allure that has gotten the campus nicknamed the most haunted school in the world.
        What could be the most notable building on campus is the old State Mental Hospital, or more familiarly named “The Ridges”. It is being renovated by the campus and is now the Lin Hall and houses the Kennedy Museum of Art. Margaret Schilling is reported to still walk the halls of this building. Margaret was a patient in the hospital when she disappeared in December 1978.
The authorities look for the woman but didn’t find her. A maintenance man discovered her body a month later on the top floor of a ward that had been closed off for several years. She had been dead for a few weeks. Before she died she apparently took off all her clothes and folded them neatly beside her. To this day there is a stain in the floor that is an outline of her body. It is reported that Margaret still wonders the floors of the old ward at night.
      The Alpha Omicron Phi sorority house was once a stop in the Underground Railroad. Apparently the town people heard of the home harboring slaves and not wanting it to be the source of trouble for the whole town, stormed the home only to discover one slave in the home, Nicodemus. As Nicodemus tried to run from the mob, he was shot dead in the back. This house has been the home of a few sororities and fraternities and all of them have reported strange noises and paranormal activity in the house.
The most famed haunted place on the campus is Wilson Hall. There are several reasons given for the high paranormal events that happen at the building. One is that could be built on one of the Athens Mental Health Center cemeteries and the other is that if you connect five haunted cemeteries in the area it forms a pentagram with Wilson Hall in the center. Neither of these can be proven.
        Wilson Hall is one of the oldest buildings on the campus of Ohio University in Athens, and surprisingly, not a single report of unexplained phenomena have been reported from there, however, there may be an explanation as to why. The five major cemeteries of Athens, where the cults held rituals, form a pentagram. Pentagrams, according to the pagan traditions, create safe zones that are free from paranormal activity, especially so in the center of this pentagram which is exactly the spot where Wilson Hall was built and stands today. One of the most famous Wilson Hall stories is that of room 428. It is told that a girl who practiced the occult died violently in the room. Since then, students have reported items coming of walls and smashing into walls, footsteps and strange sounds in the rooms, furniture being rearranged and reports of an actual apparition of the girl. According to the Athens County Ohio web site, the University has sealed the room and it is not used anymore.
      There are several more buildings within the campus as well as cemeteries surrounding the campus that have great ghost stories attached to them. We will have to write about them another time. For now enjoy this interesting home ghost video from “The Ridges”.

      Residents of Jefferson Hall, in 1996, found more than they bargained for one day when they decided to go looking around their dorm. While walking around upstairs they came across a room that as far as they knew was unused, but the door was wide open. Looking into the room, they noticed a woman, dressed rather conservatively, sitting at an old desk in a dark corner of the room. The residents later said that she looked like an elementary school teacher. The students greeted her and then realized what they were really seeing. The residents noticed that the woman was not only transparent, but was also floating a couple of inches above her chair. Upon seeing this, they freaked out, and ran to their RA (residential assistant). When they returned to where they had seen the woman, the door was not only closed, but locked as well with no signs of anyone having been there. It is believed that the woman is a former caretaker of the hall and is just continuing to do her job even in the afterlife.
        Other phenomena from the top floors of Jefferson Hall reported by students include the sounds of voices in the halls that cannot be explained and the sounds of marbles dropping hundreds of times on the floor above you, even if the floor above you is the attic which no one but the administration have access to.
       Washington Hall is said to be haunted by a female basketball team that had died in a bus crash after returning from a basketball camp that they attended during the summer at Ohio University. Residents have reported hearing basketballs being dribbled, laughing, and talking in the hallways, especially in the arch that connects Washington and Read Hall.
Another hall that is prone to unexplained phenomena is Bush Hall. Aside from the sounds of marbles dropping (as heard in Washington Hall, and as you will see others as well), footsteps in the halls, water fountains turning on and off at will, and doors opening are commonly reported strange occurrences in the hall.
        A resident in Shively Hall in the 70's was drawn to specific parts of rooms and the building itself by a force that pulled her where it wanted. After numerous incidents of this, her friends plot a line of where the source might be coming from or where it might be taking her. The line that was plotted, when matched with a map, lead directly to one of the cemeteries in Athens. At the time, cults were known to be performing rituals in the cemeteries of Athens. The five major cemeteries of Athens form the points of a pentagram.

On April 11, 1993, a student by the name of Laura Bensek was sitting on her window on the fourth floor of her dorm in Crawford Hall. She lost her balance and fell to her death. The following Spring of '94, residents began experiencing problems; lights would turn on and off by themselves, items would disappear and reappear several days later, then things got worse. One evening, one of the residents lay down to take a nap. It was early Spring, and the soft light from the fading sun barely illuminated the room. Knowing that his roommate would be returning, the resident left the door cracked and turned off the lights. He drifted off to sleep, but after a while he was awakened by the door opening and the light from the hall poured into the room. A female stood in the doorway, silhouetted by the lights. She entered the room, and calmly sat next to the resident on the bed. She spoke, saying, "I'm sorry, I've woken you". The resident tried to assure her that it was OK, but she wasn't listening to him, almost as if she wasn't even aware of him. She got up, left the room, and closed the door behind her. The resident was somewhat confused, since he was sure he knew everyone in his complex, and he had never seen this woman before. Not sure if he had dreamed the whole incident, he went to talk with his RA. He swore again that he had never seen the woman before, but that he felt perfectly calm when she was near. As he described his visitor, and the clothing she was wearing, the RA began to become alarmed, her room marked the exact spot where Laura had landed exactly one year before.   
       Besides the events already explained, unexplained sounds such as foot steps and marbles dropping have been reported along with electric disturbances and doors opening and closing without reason in several other dorms including: Truedly, Tiffin, Sargeant, Ryors, MacKinnon, and Lincoln Halls.
 

of much of the information is retrieved, it can be concluded that many of the mystery that kept this building ....
several people died and some have not known for certain the cause ....
and may not exist among you who are interested to investigate ....
but ....
Not all stories like this make you afraid ...
but there is also what makes you curious to know the story ....
therefore .....
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