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WHO Lies Beneath : Season 2 wrap-up and looking ahead to Season 3
This is the last episode of season 2, and we are going to introduce you to some people in upstate New York, partially inspired by what they heard on this… Read More
WHO Lies Beneath : Episode 6 – Jane Galford Johnson
Jane Johnson is a pretty common name. So common in fact that there are two people buried on the asylum grounds with that name.
WHO Lies Beneath – Episode 5 : Prudence Parkinson Kincade
Prudence Parkinson Kincade’s story was a mystery to her descendants until they discovered that she was buried at the Athens Asylum and reached out to us to help put some… Read More
WHO Lies Beneath – Episode 4 : James Douglas and William Black
Sometimes people ended up at the Athens Asylum because none of the other ways society dealt with those who were deemed difficult seemed to work. James Douglas and William Black… Read More
WHO Lies Beneath – Episode 3 : Ruth Close & Baby Close
According to the Old Athens Lunatic Asylum gravebook, there were three babies who died at the Asylum and weren’t claimed by their families. One of them who was buried in… Read More
Season 2 Premiere of ‘WHO Lies Beneath – The Asylum’
As we begin season 2 of the WHO Lies Beneath podcast, Cheri and Doug look at the history of the Athens Asylum and what was originally intended for the patients… Read More
WOUB is getting ready to start releasing season two of the “WHO Lies Beneath: The Asylum” podcast
Episodes one and two will be released November 1 ATHENS, OH – WOUB Public Media is preparing to launch the second season of its limited-series podcast that sheds light on… Read More
Episode 4 : Eli Stevens and Israel Johnson
With the help of voice-actors Roger Jones and Dan Hauser, Eli Stevens and Israel Johnson tell their own life stories and how the two Civil War veterans, one who fought… Read More
“WHO Lies Beneath: The Asylum” Episode 3: Adam Kern
https://ohio.streamguys1.com/WhoLiesBeneath/mp3/EP003_MIX_220324.mp3 With the help of voice-actor Chad Kopenski, Adam Kern tells his own story as a German immigrant who came to America and then fought in the Civil War. He… Read More
“WHO Lies Beneath: The Asylum” Episode 2: Viola Rapp
https://ohio.streamguys1.com/WhoLiesBeneath/mp3/EP002_MIX_220301.mp3 With the help of voice-actor Jan Hodson, Viola Rapp tells her own story as a young mother in the late 1920s when she admitted to The Old Athens Lunatic… Read More
Bringing respect and dignity to the forgotten: “Who Lies Beneath: The Asylum”
https://ohio.streamguys1.com/Spectrum/mp3/CheriRussoWHO_220728.mp3 A new limited podcast series has been released by WOUB Public Media. “Who Lies Beneath: The Asylum” tells the true-life stories of people who were buried in numbered graves… Read More
Connecting Names with the Numbers
http://ohio.streamguys1.com/WhoLiesBeneath/mp3/EP001_MIX_220216.mp3 In this episode, Cheri Russo and Doug McCabe talk about why people who died at the old Athens Lunatic Asylum and other institutions across the country, and were not… Read More
WOUB is releasing a new limited series podcast about the people buried at the old Athens Lunatic Asylum
Episode one will be released July 28 ATHENS, OH – WOUB Public Media is preparing to launch a new podcast that will shed light on some of the mystery surrounding… Read More