Urban legends swirled for decades around the abandoned Ladd School in Exeter, Rhode Island — secret tunnels, hidden experiments, wild farm plots, and stories of people still living deep inside the ruins. But where did these rumors come from? And how close were they to the truth?

This episode follows the strange overlap between myth and fact, as history reveals something even more unsettling: a real discovery inside a long-abandoned building in 2001, so bizarre it defies explanation... and still hasn’t been forgotten.

Based on original research from the Ladd School Historical Society and Archives.

Music: “Endless Nightmare” by Oliver Garcia, licensed via Motion Array.