The story
The Wood County Museum outside Bowling Green, Ohio, preserves the county infirmary of 1868-69 — the 'poor farm' where Wood County housed its destitute, elderly, orphaned and mentally ill residents for over a century, hundreds living and dying within its brick wards and working farm; the county cemetery on the grounds holds many in graves once marked only by numbers, and the museum that now fills the building tells their history deliberately and with dignity, its exhibits on pauper care, patent medicine and county life among Ohio's most thoughtful. The museum acknowledges its ghost stories carefully, hosting occasional evening programmes: staff and visitors describe footsteps in the empty wards, voices, doors and lights misbehaving, a woman's figure on the stairs, and unease in the former hospital wing — telling the museum frames, rightly, as secondary to the real residents it commemorates. The record should do the same: history and dignity first, the reports as visitor accounts, hedged. Museum hours and programme details should be confirmed from official pages before publishing.