41 Most Haunted Travel Destinations For Brave Adventurers

39. The Ridges (formerly Athens Lunatic Asylum), Ohio, USA: The Stain of Despair

This former psychiatric hospital, with its imposing Victorian Gothic architecture, operated from 1874 to 1993. The Ridges in Athens, Ohio, housed thousands, and its history includes tales of archaic treatments and patient suffering. Its most famous haunting centers on Margaret Schilling, a patient who disappeared in 1978 and whose body was found weeks later in an abandoned ward. An indelible stain, said to be the outline of her decomposing body, remains on the floor, and her restless spirit is often reported. The extensive grounds and old cemeteries add to its profoundly eerie aura.