Randolph County Asylum / Infirmary

Investigation accounts archived by Haunted Rooms America, American Hauntings, and Lost in the States describe the Randolph County Infirmary as a consistently active site. Reports concentrate on three areas: the second-floor wards, the attic, and the basement, with the on-site cemetery generating its own set of cemetery-walk accounts during dusk and dawn investigations.

The most-named entity in the property's published lore is a judge said in folklore to have held hearings inside the building's attic. Investigators describe a gruff, angry male voice captured on audio recordings made in that space; the same voice has been documented across multiple visiting groups. Whether the figure corresponds to any specific individual in the documented institutional record is uncertain; the name is preserved in the property's tour narration as folklore rather than as confirmed history.

Documented deaths on site include tuberculosis cases — the dominant institutional cause of death across decades — as well as suicides, falls, and at least one accounting of a man who died after being pushed from a second-story window. Investigators report shadow figures along the second-floor corridors and intelligent responses on EVP recordings made near the documented patient rooms. The basement is the heaviest-feeling area in most published accounts; the attic is where audio yields the most consistent results.

The site's preservation is unusual for Indiana county asylums. Most were demolished or repurposed during the twentieth century; the Randolph building remains substantially intact, including original interior surfaces, doors, and woodwork. That preservation is itself a documentary asset — the building offers an example of a complete county-poorhouse environment in a state that has lost most of its peers.