In 1962, a team of six paranormal experts stayed the night in Blackford Manor to record the psychic phenomenon said to occur there. After the terrible fate that befell these experts, Blackford fell into relative obscurity until 1985 when a young woman named Wilhemina Harker began investigating the history of the town. Fascinated by the town's troubled past and, particularly, Jonathan Blackford, Ms. Harker became an expert on the story of the hapless doctor and the small town that became his namesake. In the fall of 1987 she even published a book on the subject entitled Blackford: A Tragic History. Following the book's release, Ms. Harker embarked on a brief promotional tour in the counties surrounding Blackford. In early 1988, a small group of college students in the neighboring town of Sandburg began a movement to rename their school in honor of the late Jonathan Blackford. Arguing that the good doctor was unjustly villified and helped by the local popularity of the book, they soon gained wide support. The dean, hoping to boost his lagging enrollment, took up the cause as well.
In September of 1989 the school was officially renamed Blackford University. At long last a noble establishment was named in honor of the doctor. In celebration, students organized a Halloween horror movie festival in the old town of Blackford. A new projector was brought in and movies were shown in the old theater. The festival was a great success and raised a good deal of money for the school. Unfortunately, things didn't work out as well for the town of Blackford itself. The films shown gave the ghosts more than a few new ideas about things...
