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North, Wittenberg, Urbana University: Haunted?
With Oct. 31 fast approaching, I went looking last night for haunted locales in Clark and Champaign County. In the tales I found, I wasn’t surprised to see that there were a few schools: North High School, Myers Hall at Wittenberg University and Brown Hall at Urbana University.
I don’t know why but it seems like schools always get the haunted reputation. The middle school I attended was purported by many an adolescent to be haunted by a former gym teacher.
And I am an Ohio University grad, which is well-known for its ghosts (and, yes, it’s Halloween party). An episode of Scariest Places on Earth was filmed at OU shortly before I attended and there was even a course called “Haunted Athens,” though I’m told the instructor heavily disputed many of the show’s claims. I lived on the reportedly haunted fourth floor of Wilson Hall (perhaps the most famous of OU’s several dorms reported to be haunted) my sophomore year and I have been to The Ridges, formerly the Athens Mental Health Hospital. I have no ghostly tales to tell from any of those experiences, however.
Though North High School is gone, it’s still haunted by the rumor that it was built on the site of a children’s graveyard. The story goes that the cemetery was moved when the school was built but a couple graves were “lost” and those children haunted the school’s auditorium.
The Rockway School on Route 40 is supposed to be haunted by the ghost of a young boy who died in a fire there.
Wittenberg’s Myers Hall is supposed to be haunted by a horse who died in the building when it was a Civil War hospital.
And a female ghost with a flowery perfume is said to call Urbana’s Brown Hall home.
Any alumni have tales to share about these schools? What’s your favorite spooky Clark or Champaign county locale?
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By Nick
May 13, 2010 9:03 PM | Link to this
I go to Rockway school-there is one thing you have wrong. The boy (I can’t remember his name) did not die in a fire. He wandered into the basement after school and got burnt in the boiler room. (Our school is 80 years old. Yeah.)