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Posted on 10/30/2003 8:23:40 PM PST by chance33_98

In total there were roughly two thousand people interred in the Athens State Hospital burialgrounds before 1972, when the burials ended with Female #847 and Male #1117. Since men and women were numbered separately, there are two gravestones for each number through 847.

Apparently Ohio University also buried the cadavers used in its medical classes here.

The Ridges asylum cemetery is also definitely reputed to be haunted. Most of the stories center around the weird circle of graves which takes up one corner of an otherwise military-style tombstone layout. Maybe there was a center stone at one time, but now it's just a barely-distinguishable ring of graves. The legends say that witches use this as a circle of power (or something like that) to hold seances in.

Camp Chase Prison

Until Nov. 1861, Camp Chase, named for Sec. of the Treasury and former Ohio governor Salmon P. Chase, was a training camp for Union volunteers, housing a few political and military prisoners from Kentucky and western Virginia. Built on the western outskirts of Columbus, Ohio, the camp received its first large influx of captured Confederates from western campaigns, including enlisted men, officers, and a few of the latter's black servants. On oath of honor, Confederate officers were permitted to wander through Columbus, register in hotels, and receive gifts of money and food; a few attended sessions of the state senate. The public paid for camp tours, and Chase became a tourist attraction. Complaints over such lax discipline and the camp's state administration provoked investigation, and the situation changed.

Food supplies of poor quality resulted in the commissary officer's dismissal from service. After an influx of captured officers from Island No. 10, officers' privileges were cut, then officers were transferred to the Johnson's Island prison on Lake Erie. The camp's state volunteers and the camp commander were found to have "scant acquaintance" with military practice and were transferred, the camp passing into Federal government control. Under the new administration, rules were tightened, visitors prohibited, and mail censored. Prisoners were allowed limited amounts of money to supplement supplies with purchases from approved vendors and sutlers, the latter further restricted when they were discovered to be smuggling liquor to the inmates.

As the war wore on, conditions became worse. Shoddy barracks, low muddy ground, open latrines, aboveground open cisterns, and a brief smallpox outbreak excited U.S. Sanitary Commission agents who were already demanding reform. Original facilities for 3,500-4,000 men were jammed with close to 7,000. Since parole strictures prohibited service against the Confederacy, many Federals had surrendered believing they would be paroled and sent home.

Some parolees, assigned to guard duty at Federal prison camps, were bitter, and rumors increased of maltreatment of prisoners at Camp Chase and elsewhere.

Before the end of hostilities, Union parolee guards were transferred to service in the Indian Wars, some sewage modifications were made, and prisoners were put to work improving barracks and facilities. Prisoner laborers also built larger, stronger fences for their own confinement, a questionable assignment under international law governing prisoners of war.

Barracks rebuilt for 7,000 soon overflowed, and crowding and health conditions were never resolved. As many s 10,000 prisoners were reputedly confined there by the time of the Confederate surrender.

Source: "Historical Times Encyclopedia of the Civil War

2260 Confederate prisoners of war were buried at Camp Chase Cemetery. A melancholy ghost haunts the rows at Camp Chase Confederate Cemetery, 2900 Sullivant Avenue, on Columbus's west side. Her name, according to some, is Louisiana Rainsburgh Briggs, but she's better known as the Lady in Grey. She weeps quietly over the grave of one Benjamin F. Allen, a private in the 50th Tennessee Regiment, Company D. Allen's grave is number 233 out of 2,260 Confederate soldiers laid to rest in this two-acre plot in the capital city of a very Northern state.

The Buxton Inn in Granville, Ohio was built in 1812 by Orrin Granger, founder of Granville. He had originally lived in Granville, Massachusetts. The building was originally used as a post office and stagecoach stop, and it is currently Ohio's oldest operating inn still using its original building. Major Buxton operated it as an inn from 1865-1905, and that is for whom it is named.

Orrin Granger's ghost was the earliest documented sighting. Sometime in the late 1920's, a son of one of the owner's encountered Orrin in the kitchen and caught him eating the last piece of pie. Orrin's ghost has been seen many times since then, especially sitting by the fire. He is almost always described as a gray-haired man wearing knee britches.

Major Buxton's ghost is described as being a shadowy figure. He has been seen all throughout the house, but he seems to be seen mostly in the dining room. He is easily identified by the guests because a big portrait of him hangs in the Inn.

In 1972 Orville and Audrey Orr, who began to restore the building, purchased the inn. This seems to have stirred the spirit of yet another former owner, Ethel "Bonnie" Bounell. She was the innkeeper from 1934 to 1960. The workers were startled one day by a ghostly woman in blue, who then began appearing regularly at 6:00 p.m. After the renovated inn opened in 1974, and right up to today, she has been seen in numerous places. She has been encountered on the upper balcony, in the ballroom, and on the stairway. The best places to see her, though, seem to be room 7 and in room 9, which is the room in which she died. She startled a cook in the late 1970's by occupying the bed in room 7 when he went to go to sleep. In 1991 she appeared in room 9. A nurse was awakened to find a woman sitting on the foot of her bed. The woman asked, "Are you sleeping well?" The nurse replied the only way anyone could, "No, I'm not!"

The woman then vanished. The nurse approached the staff about the incident, and when showed a photo, she identified the woman as Bonnie Bounell.

The inn also has the typical markings of a haunted building: footsteps, doors and windows that open by themselves, the feelings of unseen presences. Guests have also seen disembodied hands warming themselves by the fire.

The Buxton Inn is one of Ohio's most famous haunted hot spots!


Click the banner below to visit our website chronicling the hauntings of our civil war era home.



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To: LadyShallott
I have to dig it out of the picture drawer, which sounds a lot easier than it is. There is a bit of ...... disarray.
21 posted on 10/30/2003 9:53:41 PM PST by Chancellor Palpatine (Dr. Hasslein was the only human character who had any sense in the "Apes" series)
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To: Chancellor Palpatine
We have one of those drawers in disarray as well! LOL. I completely understand.

LadyShallott
22 posted on 10/30/2003 9:56:50 PM PST by LadyShallott
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To: LadyShallott
In fact, it is so bad that there are baby pics mingled with vacation pics mingled with my high school pics.....

The kids get in it, and really jumble them. On the good side, we have all these albums which we've had for 10 years, and really intend to get those shots organized.

23 posted on 10/30/2003 9:57:13 PM PST by Chancellor Palpatine (Dr. Hasslein was the only human character who had any sense in the "Apes" series)
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To: Chancellor Palpatine
We have hundreds of photos, mingled with everything. We sorted them once, but then our toddler discovered that she could reach them....the rest is history.
24 posted on 10/30/2003 10:00:17 PM PST by LadyShallott
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To: LadyShallott
I had to wrestle a priceless vacation shot from the hand of an 8 year old who wanted to cut it up for a school project....
25 posted on 10/30/2003 10:02:00 PM PST by Chancellor Palpatine (Dr. Hasslein was the only human character who had any sense in the "Apes" series)
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To: wardaddy

Annie Palmer Lives!

26 posted on 10/30/2003 10:03:11 PM PST by lorrainer (Who's your duppy?)
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To: chance33_98
My husband is not, in any sense, a mystical person.

But, almost casually, says that he lived in a haunted house.

He was a bachelor and wanted to rent a small house instead of living in an apartment. So, he looked at a small furnished two bedroom house in our small town. He liked it, signed the lease, and moved in.

The house had a tub in the bathroom upstairs and a shower in the basement, so he chose to use the shower. From day one, everytime he got in the shower, he would hear noises upstairs. He would turn off the water and the noises would stop. Again and again this would happen.

About a month after his moving into this house, he came home about midnight and got out some records to play while relaxing in the living room. For the first time, he moved one of the chairs so that he could put his feet on the coffee table. He went to bed and left the albums out in disarray.

The next morning, he found all the albums put away neatly and the chair moved back into its original position. This would occur regularly.

After about six months, he met a neighbor across the street. Through casual conversation, he learned that the owner of the house, a widow, had died in the house. She was not found for many days after her death.

My husband lived out the lease quite happily. He says "she didn't bother me and I didn't bother her, much"








27 posted on 10/30/2003 10:03:15 PM PST by Conservababe
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To: Conservababe
Free housekeeping - who can beat that? Wonder if a ghost grumbles as they put away your stuff?
28 posted on 10/30/2003 10:07:23 PM PST by Chancellor Palpatine (Dr. Hasslein was the only human character who had any sense in the "Apes" series)
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To: chance33_98

29 posted on 10/30/2003 10:10:30 PM PST by oyez
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To: Chancellor Palpatine
Oh, I'm sure she grumbled as she straighted up. But, it is strange that she did not straighten or organize in any other room but the living room.
30 posted on 10/30/2003 10:12:57 PM PST by Conservababe
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To: oyez
That is one scary building. What IS that?!
31 posted on 10/30/2003 10:16:38 PM PST by Moonmad27
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To: chance33_98
There have been reports of a ghostly figure seen in the vicinity of the World Trade Center site.


Live webcam

32 posted on 10/30/2003 10:17:26 PM PST by uglybiker (Founding member of the Freerepublic Beer Drinking Team)
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To: oyez
I would like to know where and what that building is as well. Very cool!

LadyShallott
33 posted on 10/30/2003 10:31:26 PM PST by LadyShallott
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To: chance33_98

The Winchester Mystery House Story

In 1884, a wealthy widow named Sarah L. Winchester began a construction project of such magnitude that it was to occupy the lives of carpenters and craftsmen until her death thirty-eight years later. The Victorian mansion, designed and built by the Winchester Rifle heiress, is filled with so

many unexplained oddities, that it has come to be known as the Winchester Mystery House. Sarah Winchester built a home that is an architectural marvel. Unlike most homes of its era, this 160-room Victorian mansion had modern heating and sewer systems, gas lights that operated by pressing a button, three working elevators, and 47 fireplaces. From rambling roofs and exquisite hand inlaid parquet floors to the gold and silver chandeliers and Tiffany art glass windows, you will be impressed by the staggering amount of creativity, energy, and expense poured into each and every detail.

These stairs that lead to the ceiling are just one of the many
bizarre features that Mrs. Winchester designed and had built.

For Halloween, special entertainment and Trick-or-Treating in the gardens provide "spirited" fun for the whole family.

MANSION TOUR

Tour through 110 of the 160 rooms and look for the bizarre phenomena that gave the mansion its name; a window built into the floor, staircases leading to nowhere, a chimney that rises four floors, doors that open onto blank walls, and upside down posts! No one has been able to explain the mysteries that exist within the Winchester Mansion, or why Sarah Winchester kept the carpenters' hammers pounding 24 hours a day for 38 years. It is believed that after the untimely deaths of her baby daughter and husband, son of the Winchester Rifle manufacturer, Mrs. Winchester was convinced by a medium that continuous building would appease the evil spirits of those killed by the famous "Gun that Won the West" and help her attain eternal life. Certainly her $20,000,000 inheritance was sufficient to support her obsession until her death at 82!

Photo (above): The largest cabinet in the mansion goes straight through to the back thirty rooms of the mansion.

 

 

 

 


http://www.winchestermysteryhouse.com
34 posted on 10/30/2003 10:34:27 PM PST by Cultural Jihad
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To: Pro-Bush
Doh! You beat me to it!
35 posted on 10/30/2003 10:35:43 PM PST by Cultural Jihad
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To: lorrainer
Annie Palmer

The fourth child of William and Annie Palmer, John, died. Mrs. Matilda Bradshaw, their cleaning lady, ran in to the Bell public house next door swearing that she would never go into Palmer's house again and that he'd 'done away' with another child. When she was asked how he'd done it she said that she had been upstairs with baby John when Palmer had come in and said that he would look after his son. She said she had gone down stairs when she suddenly heard Baby John screaming. After rushing upstairs she found the baby dead. She maintained that Palmer poisoned his children because he was heard to say that a growing family was too expensive for his slender purse and that he couldn't altogether blame providence for his children's deaths. Mrs. Bradshaw said he murdered them by dipping his finger in poison and then in honey and would make them suck his finger. She was asked if she had ever seen him do it and replied, "No, but I know it in my heart to be true". The death of Annie palmer is still a mystery as well. Suicide due to her husbands debt? Or cholera? She died at the age of 27 after giving birth to five children, four of which died.

36 posted on 10/30/2003 10:44:28 PM PST by LadyShallott
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To: Cultural Jihad



37 posted on 10/30/2003 10:46:23 PM PST by Pro-Bush (Homeland Security + Tom Ridge = Open Borders --> Demand Change!)
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To: Cultural Jihad
But you have better pictures...
38 posted on 10/30/2003 10:47:45 PM PST by Pro-Bush (Homeland Security + Tom Ridge = Open Borders --> Demand Change!)
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To: Pro-Bush
In interesting article on the subject of perception:
Santa Cruz "Mystery Spot" Explained
39 posted on 10/30/2003 10:54:19 PM PST by Cultural Jihad
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To: LadyShallott; Moonmad27
I would like to know where and what that building is as well. Very cool!

I checked the properties, did a search and got this.

40 posted on 10/30/2003 10:56:29 PM PST by #3Fan
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