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We don't have many fun rumors but we have a few:
We have a statue of our founder in the middle of campus and supposedly it is good luck to rub his head before a test. Now this one I know for sure is true! They say that the fourth floor of the freshman girl's dorm, Porter, is haunted by the ghost of a girl who did not get a bid from a sorority she wanted (it was either ADPi or Phi Mu) so she hung herself on bid night in their suite like 10 years ago. The only thing up there is the old ADPi and Phi Mu suites and some storage. But everything is deadbolted. The suites haven't been used in a long long time. They say that she haunts people who go into the suites. I know this is true because I went with a bunch of friends on bid night into the ADPi suite which was mysteriously unlocked!!!! And then a few weeks later I went into the Phi Mu suite. Both are normally deadbolted like crazy but the bolts were literally still locked and pulled away from the door. ANYWAY, to make a long story short, apparently me and one of my pledge sisters were the only ones to go into the room where "Pearl" was murdered and were haunted by her all fall semester. (We both moved spring semester and Pearl didnt follow thankfully) I was locked in a bathroom stall, saw mysterious shadows, doors opening when I passed them, and heard mysterious bumps all aroundthe pipes in my room. My friend had little pictures drawn on her ceiling and 5 red streaks like finger prints mysteriously show up on her wall. Yeah, scary as hell. Being haunted is NOT fun. (We both moved spring semester and Pearl didnt follow thankfully and the weird thing was that all the stuff that was around from Pearl haunting us disappeared, like the pictures, streaks,and weird bathroom occurences )Pearl also haunted a few of my other friends who went up there another time and did things like turn on things that were unplugged and tear down showercurtains (not the rod just the curtain would fall down). People who lived on 3rd Porter would also always here footsteps like someone pacing and then rafters creaking like something was swinging and moans like someone was being hurt. SOOO creepy. SO, future Mercer students, don't let curiousity overtake you and stay off of 4th Porter!!! |
i just remembered a rumor that i was actually told by a tour guide when i went on my college visit to OU. He said that if you step on the Great Seal of Ohio by the gates at Union Street and College Street you will never graduate from Ohio University. I see people carefully sidestepping that seal all the time just in case. I personally always avoid it.
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My tour guide at Princeton told me of a rumor regarding a certain gate. The gate has a large central opening and two small side openings. At commencement, the graduating class processes out through the center... the rumor is that if you ever walk through the center before graduation, you will not graduate. Everyone uses the side openings instead.
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that is a typo. it is definately the delta zeta sundial. i went there for four years and passed it nearly everyday my sophmore year. it just makes sense. delta zeta, turtles. i'm not trying to be rude, but i know this for a fact.
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well, you're right. i was wrong, but evidently we both checked with miami to find out. i just called and asked and they said someone else had just called asking the same thing.
wow, i feel really stupid figuring i went there all four years and never knew it was tridelt. everyone i knew would always refer to it as the DZ sundial. so at least i wasn't alone in thinking that. i know sigma kappa had/has a fire circle over at the park next to campus. i can't remember how to spell it out. since we aren't there anymore we can't keep it up so it probably looks like sh**. what does agd have at miami? pm me sometime. i love to talk to other miami greeks. shelley j sigma k |
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Wow, we don't have anything half as cool as other schools. Maybe its because my school isn't old enough. But we do have a lot of true stories about whent he hippies ran stuff. But I digress, this is campus rumors...
Rumor #1- The typical 'my college was rated in playboy." Playboy did the list once, i can't remember where I found the site, but I know my school wasn't on there. There were 10...and thats it. Rumor#2- The reason why we can't have sorority housing is because more then 5 girls in a house is considered by law a brothel. I don't know, this might hold some truth, since my school is less then 10miles from Atlantic City :confused: edited to add: Rumor #3 either the school was supposed to be a prison for boys or an airport if the college failed. |
actually, i do believe that the law about 5 or more girls in a house being a brothel is true. my bestfriend had issues with this at her school (cal u of pa) when her chapter moved into a new house. they were told they weren't allowed to put up their letters on the new house b/c of this law that was put into place back in the 80's or something. their house was there w/ letters up before the law was in place so they were allowed to keep them up, but not on the new house.
stupid stuff, but not just a rumor. shelley j sigma k |
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What gets me about my school is that they're trying to start a tradition. we have a Pegasus seal on the floor of the Student Union, and every now and then (the first few weeks of school or whenever there's an orientation) It's roped off and their are signs up proclaiming "a new UCF tradition!" They explain that anyone who walks across the seal won't graduate. Of course, this has aggravated my contrary streak. I now go out of my way to detour across the seal. I swear I'm going to tap dance on it when I graduate! http://www.handykult.de/plaudersmili...ows/slider.gif |
I was looking at the webpage for our Colorado Chapter of the Ohio University Alumni Association webpage and discovered links to several stories about "haunted Athens/OU." One includes a number of pictures of "The Ridges" which some of us mentioned earlier.
If you have any interest, go to http://rockymtnbobcats.com and then click on the "helpful links" button. The ghost links are toward the bottom of the page. |
Here's a rumor i heard about LSU.
I've heard that when the drinking age in louisiana was changed from 18 to 21 that enrollment at LSU dropped by 40%. Any of you tigers know if that's true or not? Kitso KS 361 times i wouldn't have went to LSU if the drinking age was 18, but i'd have done some major "Smokey and the Bandit" bootleggin on weekends |
UGA Legends
The biggest legend at UGA is if a freshman walks under The Arch, then they will never graduate. I've heard variations that if ANY undergrad walks under it, they will never graduate.
A building on North campus has a stairwell that leads to a brick wall(or maybe a locked door?). I think the story is that it used to be a dorm and someone killed themselves on the 5th floor and still haunts it. Apparently there was a lot of blood that could never be cleaned? Not sure. But there is a stairwell that leads to a dead end. The bulldog statue in front of memorial hall. One year, LSU fans coated it with vaseline. Apparently, there still is some in...private areas of the dog. Also, my sorority house has a resident ghost, Donna. I think she was killed on Milledge in a wreck. She didn't want to leave DG, apparently! my sisters who live in the house(I lived in the dorms this year) say she sticks around the 3rd floor a lot(which is where I'll be next year!) or the founders room. Some people say if you are studying at night in the founder's room, she'll come by. She is supposedly very friendly. My sister Mary said she turned off her light to go to bed(she was alone in the room) and someone said "Good night, Mary". I can't wait to try and run into Donna this fall!!! Edited to add a few more i found: The iron Arch structure has stood on Broad Street at the end of College Avenue since before the Civil War, and the story was once told told that underclassmen who pass under the Arch will never graduate; another version is that freshmen must not pass under it, risking discipline by upperclassmen. The story nowadays is that underclassmen who walk under the Arch will have a life of sterility -- a story that's told in different versions on many college campuses nowadays. A similar story goes around about the bulldog statue outside Tate Student Center, which is said to bark at student virgins who walk past -- but hasn't barked since 1966. This story also shows up all over the United States, altered to fit different college campuses -- collegiate kinds of urban folk tales Those are from excursia.com |
i go to Elon, in NC, and there aren't too many rumors and whatnot....but i've heard a few
~there is an all girls dorm, Carolina Hall, and supposedly the singer James Taylor wrote the song "Carolina in my mind" about the dorm because that's where his gf lived (this one isn't true, but i like it bc i like that song!) ~the oldest building on campus is an all-girls dorm called West Hall. Apparently it is haunted by a ghost....I didn't live there so I don't know, but people swear that they hear stuff ~yet *another* all girls dorm story, ha: North Hall, this crappy one story dorm by the stadium, used to be a storage facility during WWII for weapons....or something....they actually just tore down North last year bc it had rats and was deemed "unlivable" ~there is a fountain in the middle of campus, which is a popular gathering spot for students; if you are caught swimming in it or doing stuff to it, you get fined $500 (don't know if this is true but i have DEFINITELY seen people in there) ~in the basement of the science building, McMichael, there is a morgue. i remember they told me this on my tour of Elon and i was kinda freaked out. the anatomy classes have to go down there but no one else knows how to get there! thats all i can think of....if there is anyone from elon feel free to add! :) |
clarion univerisy rumours/hauntings
at clarion we don't have any virgin or walk here never graduate rumours (or if we do, in the 6 years that i have been there i've never heard them)
1. hart chaple- it's a theater and rumour has it the guy it's names after was producing a play, but no one liked it so he hung him self in the corner of the balcony. you can, suposidly, see him there when the lights are out, also in the window when you are standing on wood st. Kappa Kappa Psi brothers were practiceing for a recital and the one sitting in the balcony, listening to the other play (they were the only two there) looked over and saw a man sitting there. Also during tbs ritual we have heard what sounds like heavy pounding foot steps comming from the stairs while waiting for the new members( who come in the elevator at the opposite side of the building) 2. we used to have a kissing bench rumour, it was like if the girl kisses the guy first they will get married. but they tore that out, which is a shame cause it was a cute little place. 3. One of the ghetto dorms has a room that is painted a different color because there was a fire in that room and the person that lived there was killed. it's a different color because the color of all the other rooms wouldn't cover up the damage. (i think the color is a blue, and all the other rooms are yellow or pink) 4. in becht (an all girls dorm) there is a servive elevator/dumb waiter thing and some one (drunk i think) looked into it one night and it was comming down, and they lost thier head. 5. AngelPhiSig and i are heading to the bar if there is ever nuclear war/bombs in clarion. why? because the Loomis (local bar) is a fall out shelter.... 6. that chris kirpatric from n'sync is from clarion....no people he is not. his grandparents live here, but he is from oil city. my friend steve is the choir director there and he replaced the guy that was chirs;s choir director. i think that's it. if any one else here is from clarion and know's more, let me know, i like this kind of stuff. Ps. if there are any stupid typos i'm sorry i'm tired... |
AggieSigmaNu-Here's a rumor i heard about LSU.I've heard that when the drinking age in louisiana was changed from 18 to 21 that enrollment at LSU dropped by 40%.
LOL!!! I never heard that one, but it has a real feel about it!:D I might believe it if they said it happened the year they ended the draft! |
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Supposedly a girl hung herself in Givan (an all girls dorm) and still hants the dorm. All I have to say is that when I had a single there my tv would turn on and off in the middle of the night when the remote was across the room. Things would mysteriously relocate and one time I found my mug (which I kept on a shelf) in the bathroom with milk left in the bottom (I don't drink milk, I lived by myself, and I kept my room locked). Also, After locking my room for the night and double checking the door sometimes the door would swing open in the middle of the night. It was freaky. |
Furman University
DeltAlum you totally freaked me out with that website! I'm sorry I looked at it now! LOL UGAnchora I had no idea about the DG house! And I stayed there! We have to have more convos about this. For about a year at my school we all believed Leonardo Dicaprio would be attending. We heard it on the radio and everything. The news for my town contacted his publicist (sp?) and they laughed and said he would not be attending! LOL We were so disapointed. Not surprising though b/c our drama department was lacking...
also at the univ of s. carolina i was told the Longstreet theater was haunted b/c they used to store bodies there during the civil war and of course there were unground tunnels and some type of silver man was seen there before they were closed off... |
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quote: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Originally posted by SAIPrincess 5. AngelPhiSig and i are heading to the bar if there is ever nuclear war/bombs in clarion. why? because the Loomis (local bar) is a fall out shelter.... yes but you can't drink (leagally) in givan ;-) |
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Buffalo State's next door neighbor is a close down psychiatric centre. So rumor has it that at night when you walk around the ground, you can hear screams and chains and other weird sounds. So me and a few friend decided that we're going to break in there. Rumors are true cause when we were in there, we herd noises and it was creepy.
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Lets See
Lets see we have:
Manzanita Hall is the dorm with the highest number of students with STDs in the nation. The Safeway supermarket is the best place to pick up girls as rated by playboy... |
My freshman year at MTSU, I heard a rumor that a little store just off campus that offered the "coldest beer in town" was acutally the center of the universe. The story says that some cult group came through town in the 1960's and declared it the center of the knwon universe. I've also heard they have a hellmouth in the back beer freezer.
Anyways, all who enter the store are doomed to die in Murfreesboro. Supposedly, the only way to break the curse is to urinate on the marker at the center of the state--it's only about three blocks down the road. There are other rumors, of course, but this one is my favorite. :) |
my school is relatively boring, being that it is in oklahoma but we have a few rumors
our president hastily resigned earlier in the year... there were rumors of imbezzeling. we also have a mental health facility right next to campus, right down the street from the dorms, they have patients that escape every now and then and I have heard of classes being interrupted by fugitives.. the sig taus have tons of furniture stored above the ceiling in their room in the su. this is true but I am not sure how much furniture, I know there are some desks and a couch, but I dont know what else besides their porn tapes.. |
My school has been known for:
Being the party school of the East with the most STD's and Rape It is also rumored that Linda Tripps daugher goes there and that she is a lesbo! And Lastly that there is more alcholol consumed in one weekend (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday) Thats considered a weekend here, than there is water consumed in a whole school year! Can you guess where I once attended?!.....RADFORD BABY! Party School :p |
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That the NCAA gave U of L at Monroe a THREE touchdown lead to start their game against LSU tonight
Unfortunately, I *think* this one might be true...can't find any info either way |
That we are the AIDS capital of the U.S.
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Because I have nothing better to do and I don't want to work:
At Iowa State: * If you walk around Lake LaVerne (small man-made pond by our Memorial Union) three times holding hands with your sweetie and don't talk, you'll be together forever. * A brick will fall if you kiss a virgin under the Campanile at midnight (hmmm, nothing fallen yet) and you're not officially an ISU stuent until you go campaniling * If you walk on the Zodiac on the north entrance to the MU, you'll fail your next exam, but you can counteract it by throwing a penny in the Fountain of the Four Seasons. Funny, though, the designer actually wanted students to walk over it to wear down the brass design. * Supposedly, before VEISHEA went dry, it was the largest amount of alcohol consumed in a single weekend. * The Kappa house had a resident ghost--Annie. She would cause electronics to turn off and on, doors to open and shut and books to fall or mysteriously be moved. If you told her to knock it off, though, she would. Before we purchased our house, it was supposedly a funeral home (not sure abot this) and a Baptist Student center (it was, the church is still up the street) and she died in it in the 1920s. * The Phi Delt house (which was formerly the APhi house) used to be a church. Nothing scary, but it is a little strange to see where the altar and things used to be in their living room. That's all I can think of right now. . . |
Some more IU rumors:
-If a virgin graduates from IU, the fish in Showalter Fountain will swim away. -The main library is sinking. -Ballantine Hall is shaped like a toothbrush because it was paid for by Procter & Gamble (they bought the rights to Crest toothpaste, invented at IU). -You are not a true IU coed until you are kissed at the stroke of midnight at the Well House. -The third floor bathroom of Ballantine Hall is a big cruising spot for gays. -If your roommate dies during the school year, you get a 4.0 GPA. |
Some University of Miami (FL) rumors:
-one of the sororities that got in trouble for hazing supposedly at one point made girls swallow goldfish to "earn their gold." -one of the frats had half of their pledges (8- originally had 16 pledges) drop on their first day of pledging this past semester because they made them do lines of coke. -the palm trees on campus cost $30,000 (approx. one student's tuition) -the fake palm trees in the Wellness Center where I work cost $20,000 each (there are 4 of them in the atrium inside). -there's an alligator in our lake on campus (this is actually true, I've seen it... but for a long time, no one knew). -this one kid (who was a Kappa Sigma pledge in 2001) drowned in the lake while swimming in it during a hurricane and while drunk... that's all true, but some have said that one of the reasons he drowned was because one of the filters at the bottom had suction and pulled him under. Oh, and this isn't my school, but I heard that 3 out of 4 students at FSU have an STD. I doubt that's true though :) |
The Eastern Michigan "virgin" rumor... There is a large water tower which is pretty phallic right across from campus. If a virgin ever graduates, it is supposed to crumble.
There are some rumors of hauntings too, in the oldest building on campus (Starkweather Hall) particularly. I volunteered in that building for a while though and never saw any ghosts.. just some bats! Dee |
my school:
supposedly has the highest percentage of homosexual students. supposedly has a haunted theater as well...there was a fire one night and some of the slaves that were seated in the upper balcony couldn't get out. now, if you're ever the last one to leave the stage you have to wave to the balcony before you leave or they get mad. is supposedly the 4th most UN-diverse school in the country...or something. is way over-priced. (that one's NOT a rumor. our tuition is crazy.) also, administration LOVES to tell incoming freshman about our famous alumni (jay leno, henry winkler, etc) but they don't tell you that they both dropped out and never graduated. (henry winkler, however, is a HUGE beneficiary of the school and is actually a really cool guy. and- he's a greek. he was a member of a local fraternity on our campus.) other famous alumni: Kevin Bright and Max Mutchnick (emmy award winning producers of "Friends") Mario Cantone ("Sex & The City) Dorothy Aufiero (producer of "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy") Scott Whitman (co-wrote the lyrics to the broadway show "Hairspray") rumored (some are proven) to be in attendance right now: mark summers' daughter steven spielberg's son chevvy chase's daughter CEO of MTV's son christopher sarandon's daughter what a school. |
Mississippi State rumors:
If you touch the statue of General Lee (not Robert E. but Stephen D. our University's first President) in the middle of the drill field, you will make an A. Worked in Gen. Chem. for me!!!! Some say that the Pike house is haunted, because someone fell off the roof. Ditto for the old infirmary, because 19 students died there of typhoid fever. It is creepy! And now Some true info!!!: A magazine (maybe Sports Illustrated???) named Starkville as the nation's WORST college town! This was recently! Gee, I'm so proud!! |
It will be helpful if we know what school we're talking about here ... :)
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