Today on the Grave Talks haunted Randolph County in 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 nonprofit 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 was Doris, Addington, had a speech impediment.

In other words, she stuttered.

And this was in the early 1920s.

And to be quite honest with you, they didn't think because she had a speech impediment that she would get adopted.

So they thought maybe she'd be better off here.

But they didn't tell her that.

And so on a Sunday afternoon, they pulled up out front of the building out there.

And they all got out and sat on the front steps here

and they were all hugging and crying and carrying on so what they were doing they were breaking the

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