How many children die at that age? If we had one person die a year in my high school (before I went to private online) of 1000, that was a lot. Yes life expectency was less 100 years ago, but if you survived past being a small child you usually lived a decently long life.

They expect to find many more bodies.

Certainly some are newer, most will be older. Once they figure out causes of death we can know and not have to speculate. The majority of these have to be from murder and not natural. And just the fact that there are already more bodies discovered than those that were reported dead shows there were unreported "deaths"/murders

also this

I feel kind of bad that I had zero knowledge of this place until this thread.

This https://www.rjionline.org/sites/defa...t_marianna.pdf

was a bad thing to read before going to bed.

Being sent to an institution like that as a minor in the early to mid 1900s wasn't simply a matter of facing a juvenile detention center. These were horrible places for societies undesirables. In some cases you probably only had to be mildly retarded or even eccentric to be sent there.

And, thinking of a horrible operation like that, I'm sure that deaths were not terribly uncommon. In the case of a state institution having no one to claim the body (children were often sent here because their parents didn't want them - as well as orphans) where did they bury them?

It wouldn't be uncommon for a giant institution like this being around for over a 100 years to have a graveyard. And it also wouldn't have been terribly uncommon for a new addition to be built on top of an old unused graveyard.

Music Hall in cincy is built on a potter's field of an old institution. It's just part of the legend, not an atrocity.

I"m not trying to downplay the horrendous-ness of the scene at all, however, nothing I read specified how old these graves were. This isn't even a question of murder.

holy smokes

yeah that's the place we're talking about here it's not some kind of understandable thing, it's a monstrous crime against humanity

i guess i just assume all places like this have unmarked graves somewhere on the grounds

i've seen the movie poltergeist i'm practically an expert

That just about ruined my day. I hate to run from the truth, but I had to stop halfway through because it was genuinely upsetting.

this is a local school, we'll have no trouble here

I read it, but I have read and heard a lot of terrible abuse stories and already knew a bit about this place.

Slunken, some of the deaths were legitimate I'm sure, but many more were probably not. We will know the answer at least for some, because they are trying to determine cause of death for all the people in those graves.

Regardless, this was a place of malevolence - where people suffered at the hands of sadists for absolutely no reason. I mean, leg irons are bad enough, but who the fuck thinks it's okay to hogtie kids for weeks?! Like even remotely okay? Stuff like that only happens because the person in charge gets a thrill out of it. It's disgusting.

The boys. The town. We're very proud.

i have decided that this horrible little town is america's royston vasey

It is possible that some of these kids had fatal nut allergies. There seem to be a lot of kids with those nowadays that we were not aware of at the time these graves were dug.

yeah its probably what all those are, good call

isn't there significant scientific doubt about "fatal nut allergies"

i mean tbh if you're going to drop dead from a peanut, maybe you should.

same with gluten

oh you can't eat bread? you should probably die before you breed.

food allergies were probably less widespread in the past before hyper-cleanliness and antibacterial soap made kids unable to sit at the same table as a peanut butter sandwich

they must have been i don't get it