Ashtabula County Medical Center
The history of Ashtabula Regional Medical Center began because the community saw a lack of medical care when it was needed most.
Hospitals or nursing homes are often thought to be haunted because they are places where people frequently experience extreme pain, suffering, and death. These experiences can be believed to leave behind lingering spirits or energies that may manifest as paranormal activity. Essentially, the high concentration of significant life events, particularly tragic ones, could create an environment where some people believe ghosts are more likely to appear. Some believe that hospitals or nursing homes would be a type of location, much like battlefields, where thousands of lives were lost in a small concentrated area, creating portals for souls to be transported to the other realm.
The history of Ashtabula Regional Medical Center began because the community saw a lack of medical care when it was needed most.
UHHS Heather Hill was founded in 1939 by a Cleveland social worker, Mabel Woodruff. The original 150-acre estate included 60 acres of timber, five natural springs, several homes, a carriage house, granery and barn.
The Joseph H. Ladd Center is an abandoned mental institution on a 331 acre parcel. It was purportedly started as a school for misfits or mentally handicapped individuals in 1908.
An old Tuberculosis Hospital that is now closed and abandoned.
Mather Mansion was built in 1910 for Samuel Livingston Mather, a wealthy industrialist whose fortune came from iron ore shipping and steel production on the Great Lakes.
Molly Stark Sanatorium in Louisville, Ohio, was established in the early twentieth century as a tuberculosis treatment facility serving Stark County and surrounding communities.
The Palestine Memorial Hospital was built on this property in 1951
Pennhurst State School and Hospital, originally known as the Eastern Pennsylvania State Institution for the Feeble-Minded and Epileptic is positioned on the border between Chester County and Montgomery County in Pennsylvania.
The San Haven TB Hospital was closed in 1987. It served as a tuberculosis sanitarium in the early and mid 1900's. In the 197058329's it was converted into a state school for the mentally handicapped.
The St. Albans Lutheran Boys School was built in 1892, and quickly developed a reputation for being a rough and competitive school where bullying was not only condoned, it was encouraged.
The Athens Mental Health Center, in Athens County, is located on a hill across from the flowing Hocking River in Ohio.
The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, constructed between 1858 and 1881, is the largest hand-cut stone masonry building in North America, and is purportedly the second largest in the world, next to the Kremlin.
Waverly Hills Sanatorium sits on land that was originally purchased by Major Thomas H. Hays in 1883.
Yorktown Memorial Hospital was built in 1950 and closed in the late 1980s, but is yet still extremely active.