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This is definatly the wrong time of night to be reading these posts. Guess i'm gonna have to just try and make it to morning.... But keep postin em, y'all Kitso KS 361 |
Wow these are some spooky stories! Glad I am not reading them at night. I haven't heard anything like this about our house (but who knows I was part of the new member class spring 2002). But at my school lots of crazy stuff has happened. Recently this past semester, a guy on Douglass/Cook campus (rutgers) hung himself in the woods right outside my friends dorm! He wasn't a student but his exgirlfriend was and rumor has it he was trying to get her back but when he saw she had someone else he flipped and killed himself. Then my freshman year 2 students died. One died during spring break jumping off some balcony at the hotel into the pool. He did it three times before he fell on the ground and died, he was only 19. Then a boy was found dead in his room he had some kind of disease and his best friend found him after he hadn't heard from him in a couple of days. Greek wise there was a guy who was drunk and when he got to his faternity house he went to the basement, fell down the stairs and died. That house has since had their letters taken away I believe. Thank god my house to my knowledge has never had an experience like this.
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Wow, all of these stories are really creepy. I can't believe some of them. They make our ghost not seem bad at all. Here at Indiana State only one sorority has a house, but they still follow on campus rules and stuff. They are the Sigma Kappas. All of the other sororities live in dorms called the quads or stairwells. Each sorority has one. A while back we moved into the Sigma Kappas after they got thier house. Our alumni told us that one of the Sigma Kappa sisters was murdered and found later in a trunk of a car in a close parking lot. I guess she was murdered by her ex boyfriend over a holiday when no one else was there. She tried to get away from him but couldnt. He eventually caught up to her in one of rooms. The rumor is the Sigma Kappas know that her ghost is still thre so they held some kind of ritual or sayonce (cant spell it) to take her away from us and to their new house. Well, one problem....she didnt go. We have gotten to the point we call her by name and talk to her. She's not a bad ghost by any means. She just likes to take things from us every now and then.
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Here at Butler University (in Indianapois) we have a few very true scary stories that I have read in old yearbooks and learned about in my Urban Legends class. First of all, it is a known fact that a ghost named Lydia haunts our TKE house, which used to be the old ZTA house. A ZTA was raped in 1964 at a fraternity house and that night hung herself in the cold dorm of her house. For over thirty years, the west wing of the house (where Lydia's ghost lives) has been boarded shut and will reopen for the first time this year. Odd things have been happening in the house this summer because supposedly Lydia is upset that her space is being invaded.
An interesting story from Butler happened in my residence hall freshman year. A girl was found bound and gagged and unconscious under her bed. Our small, private campus was on every news station and was on high alert for a week or so. Since a female student had been attacked in the neghborhood a week earlier, police were suspicious of another Ted Bundy type copycat. It turns out that the girl had actually done this to HERSELF for attention. Lastly, I know that the DG house at University of Colorado-Boulder is an old asylum. VERY scary, supernatural occurances have been documented. Does anyne go to Boulder and know about this? Keep the posts coming!:eek: |
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There was a running joke in our chapter that one of our original founders (Martha Footcrowe) of the International fraternity haunted the downstairs bathroom (i think it was devised to freak out new members because that area of the house is pretty creepy).
Anyway, a couple years back a group of us were all up late one night during our exec. retreat and hanging out in the chapter room. We were joking around about the story when one of the girls (a new member) noticed that one of the lights in the chapter room was doing weird things. She pointed it out to us and we all stared at it, seeing nothing. After about 30 seconds one of the girls goes 'Hey Martha, you there?' and the light distinctly blinked twice. That was enough to freak all us out!! Who knows if someone or something is there.... but it was pretty creepy. Our house is almost 50 years old and Isla Vista has seen some crazy stuff since then. Random info that isn't scary - When they built our chapter house, they made the staircase in the Foyer in the shape of an 'A', and we had a fountain the shape of a 'F' right underneath it. Needless to say, the fountain only made it until the mid 80's when it had to be removed becaues to many frats. made it ground zero for a number of pranks.... :cool: |
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i hear that the alpha phi house on my campus is haunted by a girl named jenny. she turns on radios and turns off alarm clocks.... she once turned on a stereo... cd only, no radio.... to the middle of some song that says something like "her name was jenny" that was on a cd... wierd
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The Alpha Phi house is supposed to be haunted by a former house boy (a concept that went out a long time ago) who hung himself in the basement in what's now the laundry room. Macky Auditorum is also supposedly haunted by a girl who was murdered there over winter break in the 60's. People claim she paces back and forth between the two front towers. |
At least two of our houses at Auburn University (Alabama) had unexplained occurrences. The house on Ann St. was by far the worst. A large, two story house, the rear of the great room was a wall of windows that overlooked the pool we had. Over the years many brothers have been sitting in the great room watching TV when they heard a woman's scream coming from the pool. They would of course rush out but find nobody there, even as the screams continued, then abruptly stop. The house was old and we never knew of any drownings that took place at the house, but who knows. The bigger problem with the house was upstairs in the residence area. Very respected, level headed brothers not known for making up wild stories or even exaggerating reported a string of bizarre occurrences. The most chilling was the brother who was asleep in his room very late one night who heard his door creek open. He opened his eyes and saw a hand and forearm reach in and lock his door from the inside then close the door behind it. Thinking a brother was messing with him (boy, that would never happen!), he leaped out of bed and opened the door, looked down the hall and saw nothing. Not a sound, not a bit of motion and he had opened the door is a short enough time that any brother would have been seen running back to his room. Another room in the house was empty and locked with a key only a few officers had. Oftentimes loud music would be heard coming from the room, then when the door was opened, the music would abruptly stop. One of the creepiest occurrences happened to a small group of brothers at the start of Christmas break. Finals and graduation were over, campus was abandoned and they were staying at the house one last night before flying home the next morning. They were watching a movie downstairs in the great room (with the big windows behind you, creepy) when they heard footsteps upstairs. Everyone was accounted for, downstairs. Figuring some local kids had snuck in, the brothers thoroughly searched the house and found nothing, then went back to watching the movie. No sooner had they sat down than they heard more footsteps and running upstairs. Tired of this game and still thinking it was local kids, they called the Auburn Police Department which sent out a couple of officers who searched the house with the brothers and again found nothing. The brothers, who by now were a little unnerved, went back to the great room. Finally, after the police left the footsteps were heard again, this time the big metal firedoor upstairs slammed shut and the steps were heard coming down the metal stairs. Before the footsteps got to the bottom of the stairs, the brothers ran from the house and didn't return till morning to get their things. No sign of any intruder was ever found, nothing was taken. We later moved into a house on Lakeshore Dr. where the occurrences continued, the most eerie of which happened to one of my pledge brothers. One night over Thanksgiving break he was staying in the house alone. Before going to bed for the night he locked all the doors/windows and shut all the blinds. He was awoken the next morning by the rising sun, every blind in the house was wide open, all of the doors were still locked. My wife hated that house and refused to be alone in a room in it.
While not on Auburn's campus, a brother and I saw what we think was one of the ghosts of Sloss Furnaces. Sloss is a steel mill that operated from the 1800s to 1971 and has been preserved as a museum/landmark of the American Industrial Revolution. An oral history project at the University of West Alabama records part of the history of the ghosts of Sloss at http://facstaff.uwa.edu/ab/sloss.htm. An estimated 50 people died at Sloss during its operation. My brother and I went to Sloss and went down into the tunnel that runs under the railroad tracks where coal, iron ore and limestone was dumped from rail cars and then feed into the furnaces by a conveyor belt. This brick lined tunnel is dark and creepy. An old shuttle car is still in the tunnel and we walked toward it to get a better look. As we approached it, a white, translucent figure of a man materialized out of the darkness beyond the car and begin to silently approach (note that I didn't say walk) us. We scrambled up the ladder and out of that tunnel so fast that we actually leapt off the top rung of the ladder. I have never been so scared in my life! Pratt Hall at Huntington College in nearby Montgomery, Ala has a ghost that is so well known that it appears on the school's website :D http://www.huntingdon.edu/traditions/redlady.html I've judged a debate tournament on that floor of Pratt Hall and got a definite uneasy feeling. Note that the places where she is sighted are now the sorority chapter rooms! Great stories! I'm going to go turn on all the lights in my house and lock my door now...... :eek: |
well, anyone who goes to miami university in ohio would know most of the usual stories of the university.
first we have the story of the student who in the 30's came up missing. nobody ever found out what happened. most think he was killed and haunted the dorm for years. the room that was his was never occupied after he came up missing. people claimed they heard things in the room afterwards. others say they would see him in the gardens by the dorm at night singing. (he was a member of the glee club and band) after many years the building was changed from a dorm to a dining hall to a theatre. finally they closed the doors and didn't use it at all. they were trying to have it torn down, but so many people were against it. at night you could see and hear things from the building, but it was suppose to be closed down. finally when they did the permit to tear it down, they found the letters of all of the fraternities in the infamous room on the third floor. it had become a rite of passage for all frat pledges to break in and go to the room and post their letters. i can say from personal experience that i think the formal gardens that were next to the dorm are still haunted to this day. over christmas break one year while i was in school, i decided to go over to the gardens to take some pics since nobody was around and there was a fresh cover of snow. so i went over, parked, and got out. as soon as i got out of my car i felt like i was being watched. i looked around, but nobody was there. so i proceeded to go around taking pics. i started to get back into my car, but i decided to go take some more pics. well, as soon as i turned around to go back towards the gardens, i saw the sides of the greenhouse billow like there was wind, but the air wasn't moving. i started to go again and it happened again, but bigger this time. i stopped in my tracks. out loud i said, "okay, i'm leaving now." and it stopped as soon as i said that. i ran back to my car and left. about a year later or so some friends of mine and i were out ghost hunting. i told them my story so we went back over to the gardens. when we went up to the greenhouse i noticed that it was made of hard plastic that couldn't billow in the wind. freaky! shelley j sigma k |
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LOVE the scary stories! At my alma mater, there was a girl who dropped dead in her dorm room in between classes... just laid down on her bed and died. It turns out that she had a brain aneurysm. There were also the occasional stories about guys slipping GHB or rohpnyl (sp?) into a girl's drink either at a bar or at a fraternity party and then raping her, but I don't know if those stories are true or not, I suspect not. Actually, I spent one semester working for the campus police, and I got to see how dull campus crime life actually was! Lol! It was pretty boring, although on one really slow night, an officer took me on a tour of some underground tunnels that connected some of the old buildings on campus. That was pretty cool! I guess they'd been closed off for decades and then were reopened for maintenance purposes and they found all sorts of nifty things like old coins and school items and stuff. There are plenty of ghost stories at my alma mater, ranging from hospital patients at the University Hospital escaping to terrorize student to ghosts haunting greek houses or old academic buildings, but I personally never experienced anything that led me to believe in any of the stories. ;) M&M |
two other stories from miami - really fast, i swear.
first one of the dorms, wilson hall, was an asylum back in the day. now it's an all boys dorm. each year they have a haunted house tour there. second is the ghost of peabody hall. mrs. peabody oversaw the dorm back in the day when it was an all girls dorm. she would take care of the girls when they got sick. after she died, the building caught fire and had to be rebuild. to this day students who live in that dorm feel a warm presence and sometimes see her when they are sick. she doesn't like mens so she supposedly tries to scare them out of the building. she has been seen walking down the halls, but ony half of her. see, when the building was rebuilt, the floors ended up being about 3ft above where the old ones were. so they see only half of her b/c she is still walking on the old floors. shelley j sigma k |
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I can't believe no one has told the story of the SAE's at Mizzou... I might not have these exactly right, but this is what I've heard-
The house used to be war hospital during the Civil War. As a result, many people died in the house and there is a mortuary in the basement. EVERYONE claims the house is haunted. One night, all the boys were in the kitchen having dinner, when one who was facing the window looked up and went pale. Outside (in the middle of the night) was a cavalry of horses and soldiers parading up the lawn. This is totally true, it was even on Unsolved Mysteries!! Also, every year the president takes the pledges in the basement for a night in the mortuary. One night, the guys went down there and locked themselves in for the night. The next morning no one could find the president or the pledges. An active found out later that that morning, the president and all pledges had gone to Greek Life and quit the house. To this day, no one knows what they saw. Each year, SAE holds a 'haunted house' philanthropy that plays into the idea that everyone's scared of their house! :eek: |
its 2 am and now i have to turn all the lights on and pretend that i'm just "studying" :( SO SCARED!!! (and love it ;) )
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I am an FSU grad and my daughter attended FSU as well.
The Chi O house is the same, but it was renovated extensively after the murders. Not sure about the bars on the windows, but then again all the houses now have incredible security. Back then (78) the building next door was a bar and campus hangout. Bundy went in on a Saturday night, saw the three girls and attempted to talk to them. When he failed to hook up with any of the three, he followed them next door, and apparently watched as they went upstairs and turned on the lights in their rooms. He found a way to get into the house after picking up a large piece of firewood from the pile on their patio, and murdered the girls in their beds. I am almost positive that there was another sister who survived. The bar was torn down and a private dorm was built on the site. My daughter lived there her freshman year, and her room overlooked the Chi O's patio. You can imagine how yucky I felt when we opened the door to her room, and saw that view. The dorm was very full and there was no chance of getting another, so she had to stick it out. Bundy also spent time in Ypsilanti Michigan and murdered some young women there as well. I cannot recall if that is where W. Mich or E. Mich is located. He was possibly the most heinous serial killer in US history. The ChiO chapter at FSU has remained very strong and came through that unspeakable event with such dignity! |
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When I was a new young professor, I lived on campus. Several professors helped me move in and commented that I'd probably enjoy living in that area although "Old Man Hoge" often got it into his head to play his violin in the middle of the night--the Music Building was a bit down the road.
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was just looking at some of the old stuff on here and wanted to bump up this thread again...
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Alright, I'll share the NCSU story.
A little background first: Here at NCSU, we have railroad tracks that go through the middle of the campus. There are bridges and tunnels that let people get from one side of the campus to the other - so you don't have to actually cross the tracks. The other background info that is important is we have a building on campus called the 1911 building. It was not built in 1911. Alright, so here is the story of how the building became the 1911 building. In 1911, the building was a dormatory and housed many of the students at NCSU. Hazing was still in full swing involving fraternities and pledges. A popular act of hazing was tying pledges to one of the railroad tracks. Well, only one set of tracks was opperational at the time - so the brothers would tie the pledge to the non-opporational track....and they would hear a train comming and get scared (naturally)...well the train would pass on the track right beside them and then the brothers would all laugh and untie the poor pledge...WELL, in 1911, the brothers did this and the pledge died. Not from being hit by the train, but of a heart attack because he really though he was going to be hit. The dorm that the boy lived in was renamed the 1911 building shortly thereafter when hazing was outlawed for any and every reason here at NCSU. Now, I don't know if this is 100% true, but that is the story that is passed around campus. I do know that the 1911 building was NOT built in 1911, so that is not the reason it is named as such... |
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~But at my school lots of crazy stuff has happened. Recently this past semester, a guy on Douglass/Cook campus (rutgers) hung himself in the woods right outside my friends dorm! He wasn't a student but his exgirlfriend was and rumor has it he was trying to get her back but when he saw she had someone else he flipped and killed himself~
To let u know, my roomate was a volunteer with teh campus police , he was called there that day and had to assist with the removal, he was posted nearby to deter onlookers and such, he was very freaked out!! (if i rememebr he sawthe guy hanging as well) |
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Was looking over these and thought they were creepy, does anybody have any more? i have one about my school that's kinda Greek-related...the first head of the Theater dept. was Miss Althea Hunt and she was an Alpha Chi...she worked at the school for about forty-fifty years before she retired and then died in the late 1960s...she's said to haunt the theater and the classrooms around the hall that houses the main, studio and lab theaters...my Stagecraft instructor told us the story of a girl who was in his class and saw her! She was in the lighting lab working on a project really late at night and heard the stairway door open and someone walking up the stairs, but she didn't hear the lab door open. She went back to doing her work and glanced up at the window that looks out onto the theater and saw the reflection of an older woman in the glass. With her mouth open. Screaming a silent scream. She turned around and the woman wasn't there. She turned back and SHE WAS STILL IN THE GLASS SCREAMING! The girl bolted from the lab and they found her the next morning on the field outside of the theater hall, scared to go back in the building to get her keys but she couldn't go home either. My instructor also told us some weird experiences he had with Miss Althea...it's also well known that she hangs out in the main theater and if one of the seats go down while you're onstage performing or rehearsing, that's Miss Althea coming to watch you and be entertained Another Greek-related story, a friend of mine whose chapter used to/maybe still has initiation outside told me that before the ceremony started, they saw the ghost of the Running Indian boy that runs through campus on certain nights....but the section of campus that he runs through used to be on a higher terrain, so his ghost runs nine feet in the air! All of these stories have been written about in LB Taylor's books, The Ghosts of Williamsburg and The Ghosts of Virginia series... |
First, my interesting fact about Ted Bundy: I just learned about a year ago that my boss's cousin was one of Ted Bundy's victims out west: Roberta Parks.
The Kappa house at Iowa State used to be a Baptist Student center before we purchased it and took over. Rumor has it that in the late 1910s a young women, called Annie, died there (whether from murder or natural causes is unclear) and she still haunts the chapter house to this day, especially room 14. There have been numerous Annie sightings in hallways and one by a former roommate where Annie was hovering over my own (blood) sleeping sister! Annie usually just makes a lot of mischief such as turning radios and tvs off and on in the middle of the night, turning on hair dryers, opening closet doors and making books fall off shelves. One year some girls got together and bought a ouija board for room 14. The fall of my sophomore year two other girls and I came back from a party and got the brilliant idea to contact Annie with the ouija board. We sat down on the floor, shut the lights and blinds and lit some candles (oops, fire hazard!) and proceeded with our mission. We did get "something" who "talked to us" and claimed she was Annie. She said had been killed by a man named Wesley but didn't mean us any harm. The freakiest thing was about 5 minutes into our session, the flames on the candles went really low (but not out) and stayed that way--no flickering or anything, even when we moved--until we said goodbye to Annie. They then went back up to normal. I know I wasn't moving the little triangle piece and the other two girls swore they weren't moving it either (though I'm not so sure about that) but the candle thing was enough to freak me out! |
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Supposedly back before we lived in our house and before AGD's lived there, a wealthy family resided there and had a maid who lived in the basement. The area where she lived we refer to as catacombs (it's where our art room is located and there are storage closets).
Anyway the family was gone on vacation around Christmas time and the maid was up on the third floor and supposedly tripped down the back staircase. (It's a staircase that is no longer there. The door is still there, but the staircase has been gone for years.) It must have been a pretty steep staircase because it went all the way to the basement. She broke her neck, died and the family found her upon her return. She's a nice ghost though - she helps members find things from time to time when they lose items. I lived in the house for four years and never saw her, but other people claim they have. |
both of these are stories with no truth to them, but that being said, they are often circulated just the same.
A Chi Omega hung herself in her closet for reasons unknown. People who live in the room of that house (now occupied by another, non-glo group) claim to have heard strange noises at night, but I myself am rather skeptical knowing the truth of the story (no Chi Omega ever hung herself in that house...don't know what happened to the sisters later in their lives, but there are no records of Chi-O sisters dying in the house) The oft-told tale that a freshman jumped off Hoover Tower in 1941, heartbroken because no sorority would take her, is another Stanford myth in need of debunking. A freshman killed herself in the spring of 1941, and she was indeed heartbroken. But it had nothing to do with sororities, and she didn’t leap from Hoover Tower. She was a lovely, shy girl—the daughter of a very old father by his young, second wife. They lived in Atherton and also had a ranch. She fell in love with one of the cowboys on the ranch and was planning to elope with him. Her father found out and was outraged. He refused to let her marry the lad—in fact, he fired him and told her she must never see him again. It was because of this that she drove into the Foothills and shot herself. there is a story about a young man who didn't make grades and commited suicide by jumping from the same tower, but I have no records confirming or denying. Edited to include full story of the heartbroken girl who commited suicide. |
The sororities at my school (Jax State) don't have houses, but we each have our own floor in Sparkman, an all-women's dorm. The 2nd-6th floors are sorority floors, and independents live on the 1st and 7th-9th floors. We live on the 6th floor.
Our chapter was chartered in March of 1977; this incident happened shortly thereafter, but I'm not sure of the exact date or anything. One of our charter members, whose first name was Christy, was a long-distance runner who got up at 6:00 every morning to run. One morning, she got up at her usual time to go run. It was a foggy morning, and sometime between 6:00, when she left, and 8:00, when she was found, she was hit by a car. It was a hit-and-run, and no one knows if she was killed instantly, or if she could've been saved had the driver stopped and called for help. Even after an extensive investigation, the driver was never found. Anyway, all the sisters who have lived on the hall (I haven't yet) swear that Christy roams our hall wearing her white initiation dress. They also claim that the typical ghostly things happen from time to time--doors slamming, footsteps when no one is there, etc. Nothing "bad" has ever really happened to any of the girls who have lived on the hall since then, so we've all pretty much decided that Christy simply watches over us. I've never seen her, but I'll be living on the hall this fall and spring, so I guess I'll just have to see what happens. Edited for clarity. |
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This is a great thread! Here is my contribution....
I'm a Sigma Kappa here at the U of Arizona-we are in the process of moving out of our current house and moving into a brand new one. Anyways, the house we are leaving used to be owned by a sorority (they are no longer on campus) and they left quite a few things behind when they moved out! Their name was etched into a sliding glass door that goes onto our patio which you can only see from an angle. However, you can't feel the etching because it is on the inside of the glass. Its very creepy! They also left a giant log of wood that had a VERY creppy face painted on one side with "property of XYZ ritual department-DO NOT remove from house" on the other side. We find their letters scratched into the most random things throughout the house all the time! To top it off, rumor has it that one of their girls was walking home from a party one nite and as she was running across the street to the house, she was hit by a car and killed. To this day, the girls who live in are convinced she (we call her Zeke) is haunting our house. TONS of things have happened-TVS turning on and off, clocks resetting themselves and flashing 2:30, doors randomly locking (this happened MANY times in my room), showers turning on and off, and books falling off the shelves. There was even one time when our house manager had just come downstairs after locking all the upstairs rooms and heard all the doors above her open and then slam shut one at a time, starting on one side of the house and making its way around to the other side! I have so many more stories but it would take forever to tell them all, so I'll stop! Needless to say, as much as I will miss the house, I'm kinda glad to be getting away from the ghost! AZSigKap |
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The SIGEP house at FSU use to be the old AOPI house... They killed a sister for some wierd reason everyone says they are witches!! and the house is haunted.. I should know I went to Bessie's Ball and man Bessie haunts that house... AOPI is banned forever at FSU because of that.. There is a tunnel that leads from sigep to her grave sight... Which btw faces WEST not EAST like all the others.... Freaky!!!! ---I am proud to be a FL Gator---
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