S2 Ep42: Beneath the Haunted Dorm

In tonight's dead letter, we're back in Athens, Ohio, with our listener Evan, who was a sophomore engineering student at Ohio University around 2015. He was thrilled to get room 328 in Wilson Hall, directly below room 428, the "haunted room" we asked about at the end of Dead Letter Office episode 52. He thought bunking below that haunted room would be fun. Maybe it was, but there was a price to pay.
Relevant Prior Episodes
Ep 338: Your True Halloween Stories IV, Part 3
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Ep 50: Mothman Part 1
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Ep 3: Greyfriars Kirkyard Halloween Special
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Ep 117: The Black Monk of Pontefract Part 1
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Ep 123: The Sallie House: Ghost in the Machine Part 1
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Ep 2: Queen Mary & The Haunted Valentine
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Ep 85: The Bell Witch Part 1
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Links and Further Reading
Dead Letter Office S1 Ep 52: The Little Old Man (Audioboom)
Histories of hOUme: A skeptical vacancy in Wilson Hall room 428, by Bri Shaniuk (The Post, October 2015)
Note: We call the paper the Athens Post in the episode. It's The Post, in Athens, Ohio.
Ghost stories, urban legends haunt college campuses (The Columbus Dispatch, via PressReader)
Five Athens cemeteries form lopsided square (The Post)
History of The Ridges (Ohio University)
Kennedy Museum of Art, 100 Ridges Circle (Ohio University)
More than 1,900 unidentified people are buried in Athens, Ohio (WOUB Public Media, October 2025)
Jim Harold's Campfire
Hotel Monte Vista, Flagstaff, Arizona
Tesseract (Wikipedia)
Sleep Paralysis and Anomalous Experience (Psi Encyclopedia)
Night hag (Wikipedia)
Benedictine College
The Shining, the 1980 film (Wikipedia)
Ring, the 1998 film released in North America as Ringu (Wikipedia)
New Orleans murder-suicide rivets city; couple had met amid Katrina (Associated Press, via The Seattle Times, October 2006)
Bloody Mary's Tours and Haunted Museum, New Orleans

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