Blood Alley gets it's name from a story 100 years old. During World War I the city of Chillicothe, Ohio became a training town for soldiers. Camp Sherman was constructed and played home to thousands of soldiers soon to see battle. But the real battle was right at home as a flu epidemic began to infect and kill soldiers in the thousands. The small city didn't have the capacity to hospitalize such large numbers of sick and dying. Eventually dead bodies were stored in public locations such as the Majestic Theater. It was said that the embalming process involved the blood of the dead to be poured into the alley next to the theater...soon to be known as blood alley.