Welcome to WHO Lies Beneath: The Asylum. This podcast is about restoring dignity and respect by giving a voice to the voiceless. On the old Athens Lunatic Asylum grounds in southeast Ohio, you ...

The former teacher from Ireland was admitted to the Athens Lunatic Asylum as patient number 150 from Adams County, nearly two months after it opened in February 1874. She was buried on January ...

Tours of the former Athens insane asylum, The Ridges, will be taking place from Saturday, Oct. 10, ... The Athens Lunatic Asylum was a mental hospital that operated in Athens from 1874 to 1993.

The facility opened as the Athens Lunatic Asylum in 1874 and operated as a hospital until 1993. More than 1,900 people were buried in the property's three cemeteries.

After years of debate and discussion, the historic Athens Lunatic Asylum could soon be reimagined into a $220 million mixed-use development project under a new plan proposed by Ohio University.

Jul. 5—ATHENS — WOUB Public Media is preparing to launch a new podcast that will shed light on some of the mystery surrounding the cemeteries at the old Athens Lunatic Asylum in southeast Ohio ...