评论
打印
8. Athens, Ohio
Athens, Ohio is a small town that is home to the Ohio University as well as some downright strange ghost stories. This small, otherwise peaceful community has inspired stories of hauntings that include everything from a headless train conductor to pagan cults and the violent murders of livestock. Many claim that when plotted on a map, the city’s five major graveyards form the symbol of a pentagram, and strange rituals are at the center of many of Athens’ most famous ghost tales. A lot of these stories date back over a hundred years, when the town became associated with the Spiritualist movement of the 1800s. The most famous tells of Jonathan Koons, a poor farmer who was instructed by ghosts to build a “spirit room” in which apparitions would then manifest and communicate with him from beyond the grave.
八、阿森斯县，俄亥俄州
俄亥俄州的阿森斯县是一座拥有俄亥俄大学以及许多怪异至极的鬼故事的小城。这个其他方面都很祥和的小城，激发了各种各样的鬼故事，包括无头列车长，异教徒以及家畜残杀者等。许多人称在地图上绘出城市的五个主要墓地，就会形成一个五角星符号，而怪异的宗教仪式总是在阿森斯最著名的神鬼传说中发挥重要的作用，这些故事多可往前追溯一百多年，从那时起，小城便开始与十九世纪的巫师运动联系在一起。有个最著名传说讲一个贫穷农夫乔纳森·坤斯，受到鬼魂的指使修建了一个‘灵室’，在这里鬼魂会从地底下显灵并与他交流。
Most Haunted Place: Athens Lunatic Asylum
There’s nothing creepier than a good old-fashioned insane asylum, and Athens has one of the most famous in the form of the Athens Lunatic Asylum, which operated from 1874 until 1993. The hospital held many violent patients, and is notorious for being the site of hundreds of lobotomies. Since closing, the hospital has been the at the center of numerous ghost stories, most of which are kept alive by the students at the university, which now owns the asylum grounds. The most famous of these concerns Margaret, a deaf-mute patient who supposedly escaped from her room, accidentally became trapped in an abandoned ward, and eventually died of exposure. Her decomposing body was found weeks later, and supposedly the stain that was left on the floor of the ward can still be seen today.
最恐怖之地：阿森斯精神病院
再没有比旧式疯人院更令人毛骨悚然的东西了，而阿森斯就有一座最出名的旧式疯人院，那就是阿森斯精神病院。医院在1847到1993年运营，曾住过许多暴力的病人，并因实施过成百上千例脑叶切除术而臭名昭著。从关门之日起，医院就成了许多鬼故事的中心，俄亥俄大学现在拥有医院的土地产权，学生们把这些鬼故事传得栩栩如生。其中最著名的一则讲述了一个叫玛格·丽特的聋哑病人，传说她在从病房里逃跑过程中，意外地困在了一间废弃的病房里，并最终因日光曝晒而死。几周后，她已分解的尸体被发现，直到今天，仍能看见她的尸体留在病房地板上的痕迹。
