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What Happened in Room 428? Inside Ohio University’s Haunting Mystery
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On the fourth floor of Wilson Hall at Ohio University sits a sealed dorm room no one has lived in for decades — Room 428. Students have whispered about it for years: pacing footsteps behind a locked door, lights flicking on in the middle of the night, and the story of a student whose experience inside the room changed everything.
In this mini-episode, we explore the legend as it’s been told for generations — the strange behavior, the escalating disturbances, and the night of the scream — before stepping back to see what we can actually confirm. Is Room 428 truly haunted? Or did a series of unsettling experiences grow into one of the most persistent campus mysteries in the Midwest?
This is the story of the room Ohio University quietly locked… and never reopened.
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Chapters
1. A Dorm That Won’t Sleep (00:00:00)
2. Mini Episode Setup (00:02:21)
3. The Student In 428 (00:03:26)
4. Phenomena Escalate (00:06:31)
5. The Night Of The Scream (00:10:00)
6. Successive Residents Report Activity (00:13:45)
7. The Quiet Closure Of 428 (00:18:20)
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