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Originally posted by alphaiota
after the murder/suicide at ohio u, they stopped using the room for a while and then started using it again. but there were a lot of hauntings so they stopped using it again and started using it as a storage room.
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Not sure if this is what you're talking about, but Athens, home of Ohio University is alleged to be one of the most haunted places in the world:
"Even outside of Mt. Nebo and the Mental Hospital, there are other ghosts in Athens and a number of stories are connected to the Ohio University campus. One such haunted spot is the Zeta Tau Alpha house. This is one of the oldest houses in town and legend has it that during the years of the Civil War, it was used as a hiding place along the Underground Railroad, the secret route that led escaped slaves out of the south. Apparently, Confederate soldiers once raided the house and shot and killed an runaway slave named Nicodemus, who was hiding in the basement. The place has been reported to be haunted by his ghost ever since. Residents of the house have reported hearing scratching and whining sounds behind the wall where the slaves once hid, creaking noises and footsteps, the unlocking of doors and even the apparition of a man in tattered clothing.
This is not the only building on campus that is said to be haunted either. Another is Wilson Hall, which is home to the ghost of a student who died mysteriously there in the 1970's. The student died in room 428 and for years after, residents of the room claimed to hear footsteps and strange sounds and witnessed objects moving about the room on their own. The room has since been closed off and it is not given out to new students anymore.
Strangely, Wilson Hall is said to rest in the very center of one of Athens’ most enduring legends. The building apparently falls in the middle of a huge pentagram that is made up by five of the area’s cemeteries. The graveyards are located in the Peach Ridge area and allegedly, when the positions of each are plotted on a map, they actually do form the shape of a pentagram, the occult symbol of magic and power. The stories say that an Ohio University student once computed the actual distances to create the pentagram and found that the distance of the side actually matched up to within less than one-quarter mile of each other. Could this be why the area seems to have attracted so many tales of the unknown?"
As a Freshman, I lived in Irvine Hall which is immediately next door to Wilson, but that was before this event.
For more info on Athens, you can check out:
http://www.prairieghosts.com/oh-athen.html
At one time, I read a story about a haunting at the O.U. Delt House which involved a seance involving one of my pledge brothers who was killed in an automobile accident, but I haven't been able to find it since the first time I read it on the web.
This is all I can find:
"During another seance in 1970, the spirit of David Tischman, a deceased Ohio University student was supposedly contacted by a group of his friends."
The "friends" were actually Delt brothers according to what I read.