Re: does anyone know....
 

I think I saw that show, too. For some reason, I want to say it was a school in Alabama. Montevallo is the name that keeps popping in my mind, but I could be wrong.

I went to an Alabama storyteller's presentation when I was in college and this was one the stories that kind of stuck in my mind.

thanks!
 

i went and looked it up after i saw your post..and i think you hit it right on the money!
thanks so much!:D

That story also applies to Ohio U., the girl there was practicing witchcraft and every night a glow would emanate from her room and the other students would hear her moaning/chanting...then on Halloween night, they heard screaming and then it suddenly stopped...they found her dead in room surrounded by magic paraphenalia and conjuring materials, they said that she tried to contact Satan...and then people claimed after that they could see a demonic face in the wood grain of the door and no one would live there...it's now where the water heaters are and other equipment

katie
 

thanks...i did see an episode about that one too, but the one i'm thinking about i remember them specifically saying that her room had caught on fire because she was cooking fudge.
cluey hit it on the money. i went to go look it up earlier...didn't find alot about it, but this is a link to one site.

be warned..it only has a line or two about it:P

http://www.geocities.com/parapsyse_a...ed_s_list.html

thanks so much though! that one freaked me out too:P

did some more research earlier...
 

here's another article on the door with the face:

Main Residence Hall
(University of Montevallo)
By Dr. Frank McCoy

Condie Cunniham’s is a tragic story . The telling of it has all the elements of a Friday the 13th or one of the more recent horror movies. It seems that at the turn of the century, she was a student living in main Residence Hall. It was and still is today a female residence hall. She and some of the other girls were fixing a hot chocolate over a burner and it tipped over. Condie’s gown caught fire. As the fire marshal tells us, the worst thing you can do when you are on fire is run, and that is exactly what Condie did. She ran down the hall. Subsequently, she died at the local hospital.

The legend of Condie flows from that, and it becomes more bizarre as students began to see in the wood grain panel to the door to her room the image of a woman screaming. Her hair was on fire, and the flames were shooting up. There were maintenance people who claim that they have seen the image too. It wasn’t just students who saw her. A few years ago, somebody decided to put the door in storage to put the school at ease. What happened was, the ghost reappeared in the new door. So it’s a classic kind of story. Even today, you can talk to students who swear that Condie came into their room. She’s been known to go into the shower areas and scream her head off.

Some students have felt wind when the windows were closed. They have seen the carpet on the threshold of her room ripple as if someone walked into the room. Or they’ll tell the story of a door opening, and there won’t be anyone there. Now there is probably a rational explanation. It’s an old building, and it is probably settling. There are images in clouds called pseudo morphs, and if the brain is looking for something, it will see it. And another person comes along, and they believe you. The girls say when she roams the hall, she doesn’t do it quietly. She runs and screams through the halls as if she is still on fire. One student said Condie is coming back because she is trying to livie vicariously through the young students in the hall.

It’s a scary building if you approach it at night. According to everybody that’s seen it, the image is still on the door. I saw it twenty years ago. The girls often will hold initiations, and one part of it is you’ve got to go see Condie’s door, and it’s leaning against the wall in a storage closet. It happened in the central part of the building. The wings were added later. Nobody lives in that room now because of Condie. From the standpoint of fire hazards in the early 20th century, I would say yes. From my experience teaching in various colleges, I would have to say that most female dorms have ghosts. I’m not sure if there is any proof or not.

you can find this article and pictures(2 of the door, one of the actual building) at:

http://facstaff.uwa.edu/ab/mainresid.htm

you can see the image..but the face is hard to make out because the pics aren't close up, and the lighting kind of sucks. definetely freaky though!

yeah the ohio u witchcraft story has been featured on at least one documentary i've seen. beyond scary to me. any time you deal with witchcraft or satanic stuff, you're asking for trouble.

shelley j
sigma k

Our old sorority house was broken into (it was a four bedroom real house)

My sisters were in the kitchen when some homeless guy on crack walks up and kick boxes the door in. He turned around and ran. It was 7 am and 5 girls with no coffee or makeup. Its too much for a robber to handle.

oops

lmao! i guess i'd probably run too;) hehe

that's definetely scary though:(

My sorority house is one of the oldest houses in Morgantown. It's been a school house (waaaay back when), a funeral home, and eventually a residence for a woman. (One of my sisters wrote a paper on this and researched the whole subject). Anyways, apparently the woman, Mrs. Wells, had 10 kids who all passed away for one reason or another, then she hung herself in the closet of what is now our "yellow room."
We've had an addition put onto our house, but about 15 girls still live on the old side. The girls say all the time that they hear whispering and footsteps late at night. Also, we have a piano in our formal room, and girls have heard it being played before. Our house isn't airconditioned, and it can be boiling in August and September. One of the sisters was sleeping with a few fans on, and they kept turning off in the middle of the night. Finally she was like, "Mrs. Wells, I'm really hot, please stop." and the fans stayed on the rest of the night. They also say that when they all pack up to leave for breaks, they can hear a faint crying. Like Mrs. Wells considers the in-house girls to be her children, leaving her.

Freaky stuff.

I don't know of any hauntings in any of the fraternity houses (the sororities don't have housing of any sort). However, the building on my campus that houses the administration, financial aid, admissions, etc, is said to be haunted by history professors whom all died of cancer, as their offices were in that building and asbestos was abundent (still is). Also, we have railroad tracks in front of our school, and I think it was a chemisty professor was drunk and depressed and was hit by a train.

In terms of ghost stories:

I live in one of the oldest fraternity houses on campus, it was built in the 1920s, so it has a lot of history. Apparently its survived fires, seen several remodels and even a couple pets. As far as one ghost goes -- my room was apparently home to a cat. Occasionally you can hear a faint mewing and a low purr and then not hear it for a couple days before it comes back.

Also, some bros claim they see the ghosts of long dead alumni skulking the halls, shaking their heads disapprovingly if we pass something they would not approve or if the house is not clean enough. I'd believe it though, considering I was talking to an alumni today who was rather distraught over the wall panelling not being polished and saying how some of his deceased bros would be in a rage over it. The chapter wing of the house that burned down in the 60s also gets really hot and toxic, smoke-like fumes pour out of the vents for no reason at all, particularly in the room it started. We've checked them and there is no reason or logic for it. Nothing is wrong with the vents.

Fun facts:

We had an Abercrombie & Fitch shoot on our front porch and in some of our rooms back in 2000, and several scenes from the Graduate were shot in our house -- featuring many real bros at the time and our house dog... actually taking a dump.

In terms of Berkeley; the faculty club here is haunted by an elderly man -- but apparently his ghost is a gregarious, benevolent one.

LOL I didn't know that they were real brothers. It is amazing, tho. How about the A&F models, are they brothers as well? ;)

A porn movie was shot in one of our chapter houses. Campus Invasion #something random, I don't know. Also, some serial killer was a brother for a little bit but was asked to leave his chapter. This was before he was a serial killer.

we recently moved into an old house and our house is haunted. in the basement apartment, when the ghost doesnt like something that is sitting on top of the tv, she throws it across the room. usually they are candles and things like that. the other night, me, my roomate and another sister were sitting in my living room at 5am playing on the computer and all of a sudden our tv and cable box shut off, but everything else in the 6-way were still working.

another time we had some candles lit when we were quizzing our pledges, 2 of them were doing wonderful, but when the third one wasnt doing so hot, the candles got VERY dim. and it happened everytime we had the one pledge in the room. when she left the room, they got brighter again, and one of my sisters commented "something/someone around here doesnt like her" and another sister suggested that one of our dead sisters were in the room and didnt approve of her.