Courtesy of David Barnes

Researcher David Barnes, who is an associate professor of history and sociology of science, first encountered ghost hunters while working to restore the Lazaretto quarantine station. The study on ghosts as a cultural phenomena has brought researchers from different departments across Penn together.

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Students in a School of Design course have been researching the history of Lazaretto, the oldest quarantine station in the Western Hemisphere.