Athens State College
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This is thought by some to be a guardian angel on film! As the victims of this horrific crash walked away in perfect health without so much as a graze or scratch! This photograph was taken by a professional police photographer who, when he reviewed his developed pictures, was stunned by this particular one. Thinking it was a mere misfunction of his camera and/or film, he tested both and both revealed no problems at all!
A beautiful young woman with blonde hair called Abigail Lylia Burns was studying to sing opera at Athens State College. She had a lovely soprano voice and had big plans to become a professional opera singer.
However, one tragic night in 1914, her life came to a sudden halt on the 3rd floor of McCadnless Hall. Witnesses claim to have seen her ghost in the white formal dress that she wore the night she died. Hundreds of people still attend her memorial concert at the Huntsville Opera Theater in Alabama, in an attempt to view this phenomenon first hand.
The one glitch in all of this is that even though, her ghost is seen at McCandless Hall, an investigation has shown that she was never there between the years of 1908 and 1922. So the real mystery is, who's ghost is it?
There are supposebly other ghosts that walk the halls of Athens State College, an example of one of these is Madam Childs. She is said to patrol the woman's dormitories, haunting girls who stay up past curfew, but that of Abigail Burns is the most famous.
Despite all this, Athens State College is still known as a peaceful, quiet campus.
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