{"id":291,"date":"2008-11-06T23:15:40","date_gmt":"2008-11-07T03:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/?p=291"},"modified":"2009-08-05T15:52:09","modified_gmt":"2009-08-05T19:52:09","slug":"its-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/its-real","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Real"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: double 3px #630; float: left; margin: 3px 6px 0 0;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/images\/2008\/11\/07\/1.jpg\" alt=\"The Stain\" \/>In case you ever doubted the legitimacy of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.forgottenoh.com\/Ridges\/ridgeshaunts.html\">The Stain<\/a>&#8221; inside the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/buildings\/athens\/\" title=\"Athens State Hospital\">Athens State Hospital<\/a> Kirkbride, Ohio University researcher Glen Jackson has found that it is indeed a remnant of Margaret Schilling&#8217;s decomposing body. You can read about Jackson&#8217;s findings in <em>The Athens News<\/em>: <a href=\"http:\/\/athensnews.com\/component\/content\/article\/1-local-news\/23910-forensics-tackles-athens-lore\">Forensics Tackles Athens Lore<\/a>. As the article explains, a residue of decomposed human tissue and a chemical cleaner mixed to cause the discoloration.<\/p>\n<p>While there really wasn&#8217;t much room for skepticism as to whether Schilling&#8217;s corpse caused the stain 30 years ago, there was a bit of mystery over what process actually left the mark. This study dispels most of that mystery, but as Jackson says, it&#8217;s still not clear how the stain took the form of a human body. If somebody had cleaned the floor the way you&#8217;d expect them to, the stain would have been much more irregular. It might be wrong to expect people to always do things the way you&#8217;d expect them to though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you ever doubted the legitimacy of &#8220;The Stain&#8221; inside the Athens State Hospital Kirkbride, Ohio University researcher Glen Jackson has found that it is indeed a remnant of Margaret Schilling&#8217;s decomposing body. You can read about Jackson&#8217;s findings in The Athens News: Forensics Tackles Athens Lore. As the article explains, a residue of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,5],"tags":[103,231],"class_list":["post-291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-news","tag-athens-state-hospital","tag-the-stain"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":607,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions\/607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}