Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. She disappeared on December 2, 1978, and found just over a month later, on January 12, 1979. many patients who passed away in the asylum that they needed a private grave Ohio, Death Records, 1908-1932, 1938-2007 [database on-line]. Originally The Ridges was originally known as The Athens Mental Health Center. Staff members began to smell an odor emanating from the vicinity of abandoned ward N20. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{sourcecheck}} (last update: 15 July 2018). This Haunted Ohio University Building has a Secret Corpse Stain Where a Body Lay Dead for an Entire Month. ), Strong Women VS. Holmes: The Women Within the Cases, Sherlock’s Empty Hearse: An Appeal to the Public’s Sense of Humor, Benedict Cumberbatch as the Modern Sherlock Holmes, Waverly Hills Sanatorium, a place to visit, a place to never leave, The Hauntings of St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, Enhanced Sherlock: “The Adventure of the Speckled Band”. than they were able to keep up with, the asylum became very overcrowded and Ridges”,  located in Athens, Ohio Please note that we are asking you to estimate only the negative effects of the students' work. Accept Read More, Legend of the Miraculous Loretto Chapel Staircase, Dorothy Eady and the Reincarnation of Omm Sety. It’s worth pointing out that people with severe hypothermia, often strip naked, which is called paradoxical undressing. Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. Athens Ohio is a sleepy little community, and home to the phantom of a headless train conductor, the unexplained violent murders and mutilations of livestock, and not to mention pagan cults…but sitting at the heart of it all in a region known as The Ridges is the citadel of creepy locations, the Athens Lunatic Asylum. Formerly The Athens Lunatic Asylum. Change ). Since Margaret’s death and subsequent closure of the asylum, the building where her body was found has been renovated and now houses both the Kennedy Art Museum and student housing for The Ohio University. Margaret wasn’t a particularly troubled patient at the asylum, so she was given a certain amount of freedom to roam around the asylum and spent her days wandering the grounds, even going to town on her own from time to time. Several other strange things have happened at The Ridges, besides the cruel treatment applied to the patients. The hospital employees searched for weeks, but it wasn’t until over a month later – on January 12, 1979 – that she was discovered. “A Scandal in Bohemia” Portrayed in 7 Single Items, Cracking the Blue Carbuncle: An Annotated Story, The Home of the Woman Who Outsmarted Sherlock Holmes, “A Scandal in Bohemia” Mixed Media Project Explanation, Dark Tourism Site: St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, Top 6 Actors in the Role of the Iconic ‘Sherlock Holmes’, The Unseen text between Rachel and Burton, The Adventure of the Second Stain Annotation, The Top 4 Sherlock Holmes Stories Worth Reading, “THE GREAT ESCAPE ROOM, AN ESCAPE FROM THE ORDINARY.”, The Musgrove Screw Up, by Kenneth Sitkowski (K.C. is known as one of the most haunted places in the United States. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. can anyone help?Peppermintschnapps (talk) 23:38, 30 September 2009 (UTC), I've deleted the reference to the Society for Psychical Research (sic) - there is no such organisation as the "British Society for Psychical Research". This article has recently been edited by students as part of their course work for a university course. Therefore, enormous buildings needed to be built to house all the patients. To this day, some four decades later, the ghostly impression remains. The SPR has not said that this is the 13th most haunted place on earth for two reasons: The SPR does not compile such lists (how would you go about that? mentally disturbed quickly became an uncontrollable house of nightmares. In one of these rooms on the top floor of the hospital, remains the vestige of Margaret Schilling. ( Log Out /  August 5, 2016. The asylum that doubles as a center for torture; one of those places where the not so insane were admitted as insane; where women angry with their husbands were admitted for “menstrual derangements”; where these patients were tortured with the worst of discredited treatments. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. On January 12, 1979, has been missing for 42 days, her body was discovered in the abandoned top floor of ward N.20, by a maintenance man, surveying an unused ward formerly dedicated to patients with infectious illnesses. Even more, people walking past the asylum at night would report that they have seen the ghostly image of a woman staring down at them from the window where her body was found.