Athens

Class was out at 3:00 and the light was amazing around campus. Andrew encouraged a small "photo adventure" in order to take advantage of the light and the scenery off campus. We ended up walking past some fantastically interesting (yet nearly abandoned) houses and ended up in one of Athens County's many cemeteries.


It is a well known fact by the people living in this area of Ohio that Athens is extremely haunted. A student on campus can experience ghosts in their dorm rooms and creeping eyes at the Asylum (more on that later). What I think is most interesting about Athens hauntings is not the ghosts and the buildings they haunt themselves, but what surrounds those buildings. It is said that the five largest cemeteries in Athens form a perfect pentagram. In the middle of the pentagram is a dorm building, Wilson Hall. One room in particular in Wilson Hall has been closed off by University officials due to its "inhabitable nature". Students who have lived in this room have claimed that books would fly off the shelves and doors would open and close frequently. These phenomenon happened after a girl violently committed suicide in the same room years before after believing that a spirit was haunting her (or so the story goes). If you go to the room today, it is said that you can see a demon's face within the woodwork of the door.

I'm too much of a chicken to look.

Want more information about the Athens Pentagram? Check out this site...
http://www.forgottenoh.com/OU/ou.html

Photo One: Along the walk to the cemetery, I came across this beautiful house. It appears that nobody lives there, even though it is surrounded by houses that are not vacant. I liked how the setting light peaked right out from behind the roof. I'm sure, at one point, this was a very charming house.

Photo Two: While walking through the cemetery, I found this tombstone. Unlike all of the other tombstones, this one appeared to still have visitors as it was not empty of flowers or other ornaments. Unfortunately its ornament was damaged (most likely due to the heavy snow and ice).