Old Medical College
Built in 1835 as a Greek Revival temple of learning, the Old Medical College of Georgia trained physicians until 1913, but its instruction depended on a darker labor: Grandison Harris, an enslaved man bought by the faculty in 1852 and later kept on as a paid employee, was the college's "Resurrection Man," exhuming bodies from Augusta's Cedar Grove Cemetery for dissection. In 1989 a renovation crew tore into the basement and unearthed the remains of hundreds of people, the discarded subjects whose graves Harris had robbed decades before. Visitors and tour guides now report a sudden icy chill that settles over the basement, disembodied voices that seem to call from empty rooms, and shadowy figures captured in photographs. Many say the restless dead linger where their bones were dumped, and that Harris himself is still glimpsed by moonlight at Cedar Grove, spade in hand, working a job that death never let him finish.
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