AN UNWANTED DONATION

In the early 1930s when you signed up for a driver\'s license, there was no box to check saying if you wanted your organs or body donated to science. Your generosity was decided for you. On rare occasions, your loved ones would unknowingly be burying an empty coffin, but most of the time Universities depended on the work of grave robbers to supply them with the specimens needed for their syllabus.
In 1932 in Boston, a woman by the name of Edith Yarn found out that she was two weeks pregnant and didn’t know who the father of her child was. Suffering from severe depression and the stress of an unwanted pregnancy, Yarn took her own life by stabbing herself four times in the stomach before drowning in her own blood. Her parents buried her body at Hope Cemetery on Oakley Road. She rest there for only two days before grave robbers dug her body up and carried her to Boston University, where she was illegally sold to the medical sciences department for a mere $40. That fall semester, students used Yarn’s body for research and educational purposes. Yarn did not approve.
Within the first week after the school had discarded of Yarn’s disassembled body, the two students who were assigned to her cadaver that semester reported incidents with the young woman they had recently dissected.
The first report came from first-year medical student, Beverly Young. Miss Young stated that while urinating in the lavatory of Hyde Hall, a pair of bloody bare feet walked past on the other side of the stall door. When Young emerged from the toilet, she saw Yarn standing at the sink staring with wide eyes at her before vanishing.
Two weeks later, Gareth Davis was closing a window of the third floor anatomy lab when it slammed onto his hand, breaking every bone. A reflection of Yarn’s face in the glass stared at him as he screamed in pain. He would later admit to copping feels of Yarn’s breasts and vaginal area during and after classes.
Similar incidents to these continued to occur over the next 37 years. Yarn became known all over the campus as she made more than frequent appearances in the Reynolds Dormitory and Hyde Hall. She was known for her banshee-like screams late at night while the dorm students slept. Several students reported on several occasions seeing her holding a tiny baby, presumably her unborn child.
In 1969, the school destroyed and rebuilt several old buildings on the campus, including Hyde Hall, Smythe Hall, and Reynolds Dormitory; the three buildings where Yarn’s ghost had been sighted. The visual hauntings halted after the new buildings went up, but to this day, on rare occasions one can still hear the painful screams of Yarn’s body being mutilated.