TOGHS visited Athens again on Friday August 7, 2009 while on our road trip to Point Pleasant, W. Virginia. Jeff, Butch and I stopped to visit Sarah Thomas and see what changes if any were made to the Asylum cemetery and the Tuberculosis Ward. We noticed that the cemetery has had some improvements made. There [...]

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Butch had spent the weekend in Athens this past summer doing our follow up investigation; He had taken a few family members with him during this time. While investigating the State Asylum Cemetery, Butch was push down a four foot ravine while taking photo’s. We have added eight more photo’s with this follow up story. [...]

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My weekend at Ohio University, My son Nick and I had our Student / Parent Orientation and Registration weekend.  I stayed at the Ohio Univ. Inn and arrived on Friday evening at 8:30pm, as soon as I checked in I began to explore the Ridges, first was the cemetery where I spent about an hour [...]

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If there is any town that might qualify as the most haunted place in Ohio, it would probably be Athens, a sleepy community in the southeastern part of the state. Besides being home to the Ohio University, it is also nestled into the Appalachian Mountains, which for centuries has been considered a region of magic [...]

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