Episode 6 - Meet The Randalls (Finale)

Thomas Randall passed away at Oregon State Hospital in 1967. He had suffered from epilepsy since receiving a head injury in his youth, and in a last-ditch effort for treatment, had checked himself into OSH. Randall’s ashes were among those stored for decades in what became known as the “Room of Forgotten Souls”. Years later, his children Becky and Tim made a shocking discovery: they found three half-sisters: Sue, Pam, and Debbie. A decades-long journey ensued in their effort to make contact with their half-siblings. But that wasn’t the only revelation the Randall Family encountered. When the five siblings finally connected, they uncovered a shocking secret: the ashes initially delivered to the Randall family from OSH were not those of their biological father. At OSH, thousands of people died and were never claimed by their families. The Randalls thought they had received their father’s ashes, but the remains of Thomas Randall were rediscovered in the “Room of Forgotten Souls”. There had been a mistake, one that took 50 years to come to light. The wrong ashes had been sent to the Randall family, and Thomas's remains had been left unclaimed all along.  In this final episode of this season of Unclaimed, travel with the siblings as they gather for a family reunion in rural Oregon to finally claim their father, understand his tragic life with epilepsy, and find profound healing and closure. Listen to the siblings recount memories of their father—including the challenges his epilepsy presented at work and at home, learn about how epilepsy was seen as a mental illness back then, and look at OSH through the lens of that period in time. For some of the kids, the cremains present the first real opportunity for them to get to know each other, and their father.