Today on the grave talks, haunted Randolph County and saving the old properties, a conversation

about saving and preserving the history and the hauntings of historic buildings in East Central Indiana.

Dan and Richard Allen started the non-profit saving the old properties to instill an appreciation of history through the

acquisition, restoration, and preservation of endangered historical buildings with

architectural significance in the state of Indiana

before they're destroyed by time or developers.

Several of these properties remain occupied by their previous inhabitants, ghosts. Not only do they offer historical

tours in several of their properties, but they are also open for paranormal

investigations.

I'm Carol Hughes and on this episode of the Grave Talks,

we'll continue talking about the hauntings

of the Randolph County Asylum as well as the Stone Mansion, with

Richard Allen with saving the old properties,

Kate Thornburg General Manager,

and Ted Martin, historian.

You have seen something since then though. I think you said you'd seen something down in the kitchen Ted? Yeah down in the kitchen there was a lady that worked here and cook for 70 years her name

was Doris Addington and she was actually left here by her older sisters.

And all three of the girls wanted to be adopted because their parents were killed in a car accident and they were young enough that they wanted to be adopted. And so the youngest girl, her name is Doris,

Addington, had a speech impediment.

In other words, she stuttered.

And this was in the early 1920s,

and to be quite honestly, they didn't think

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