A row of parked cars line Broad Street and models stand watch in shop windows. In the distance a siren wails, echoing through the empty streets and alleys of downtown Hillsdale. It is 9:30 p.m. and the damp atmosphere is broken only by the occasional passing car or cyclist streaking through the yellow-spotted blackness. (0) comments
Past the gate, down cement steps, through a latched door, and partially hidden under a bloodied muslin cloth, lies a corpse. David Griffiths, theater department technical director sat surprised in his office two floors above. "I thought we cannibalized the dead body a few years ago," Griffiths said. (0) comments
Deep underground and 80 yards south of Oak Grove Cemetery, a light glows in the basement of a building often assumed abandoned. There's no distinct ground floor and no roof - just a basement. It's an underground church, the Hillsdale Revival Center, and it's often ignored or used as an anonymous landmark between the college and cemetery. (0) comments