An abandoned institution that’s rumored to be haunted and a militant school where wayward boys were trained to be Civil War soldiers. Dani and Jenn discuss the dark history of The Abigail and the Michigan State Reform School.
Cases: The Abigail, Michigan State Reform School
Produced by: Dave Fairman
Theme Song: "Crowd Hammer" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
To learn more about the effort to memorialize the lost boys buried at Mt. Hope Cemetery, visit this Facebook page: Lansing Cemeteries.
RESOURCES
The Abigail- lansingmi.gov, odd-fellows.org, michmarkers.com, Wikipedia
Boys Training School- Lansing State Journal (11/30/1916, Vikki Dozier- 11/14/2018), City Pulse (Todd Heywood, 5/3/2018), Michigan Historical Review (Dennis Thavenet, Spring 1987)