Re: Univ of Ga. AGD House
 

This was always the story I heard too about the AGD house, I think she hung herself in that upstairs room that houses several girls. They swear it's haunted, but I think she's a nice ghost!

This isn't Greek nor ghost related, but at Auburn, they supposedly chained off all of the outside stairs of the Haley Center leading up to the fourth floor because too many people would jump off the side of the stairs to their death.

keep em comin!:)
 

these stories are sooo creepy, but you can't help read more!
keep on posting yall!

did some research
 

ok..so i was snooping around online, and i found some pretty cool stuff.

apparently, almost every university in Ohio is haunted somehow:P
http://www.forgottenoh.com/Haunts/colleges.html

also, olemiss supposidly has some hauntings too, and i found an article on that.
http://www.thedmonline.com/vnews/dis.../3fa2251895b84

and in the olemiss article they mention st charles community college, so i looked that up:) and this is what i found.
http://www.lionden.com/ghost.htm

i'm gonna keep on searching, but thought i'd scare some of yall now:)

Re: Michigan Murders
 

yea, i was going to talk about this. one of my sisters did a big report on this for a history class i think and the house that they were murdered in is the green one on the corner of college place and emmit. i dont recall any sorority girls being murdered during this, but i do know that the house is right behind mine and there is a theta chi in the cement on the sidewalk right by the house. wierd.

I dunno about that, but I know that's the reason it's so hard to get a key to outside the Eagle's Nest (the top of Haley around the 10th story, kind of like a balcony). At least that's what our guide told us at a campus tour session when it took him 10 minutes to get a key to the doors.

i checked out the ohio link that isubabe put up and i have to say that the miami ones are a bit off. yes we had a fisher hall and it was haunted, but not by the judge. and the story of the student who went missing happened in the 1930's not the 50's. fisher hall itself was not haunted. they found out when they went to demolish the building that it was a fraternity hazing "thing" to have the pledges go in to the students old room and put your letters on the wall. when the building was demolished they found this out and it explained a lot of the noises staff would hear in the building late at night.
the biggest thing about the hauntings at the now conference center is that the ghost used to run through the gardens singing many years ago. i guess that stopped shortly after the conference center was completed. but i know from personal experience it is haunted. i've encountered the ghost in the garden. i posted that story a while ago.
as for the murders and such, don't know if that's all that accurate either. i'd have to check the school records. wilson hall though is true. i've heard that it was used as an asylum years before it was a tb hospital. it's now an all boys hall, but definatley haunted.
ok, that's my two cents.

shelley j
sigma k

i didn't think they were all accurate, i just thought the site was interesting and thought i'd share it with everyone.
oh, it's LSUbabe by the way.:)

SORRY lsubabe, that is not the way it is posted on your left side fact listing!

So evidently you screwed up and you are being listed as such.

That is why people are addressing you as such!;)

it says louisiana under location:P

yeah they are cool sites. good post. i'm just verifying the miami info since i went there.
sorry about the L. i also thought it was an I. stupid lower case letters!!! j/k.

shelley j
sigma k

lol@shelly.
i was just suprised that there was soo much that was haunted there!
it makes sense, i've just never really paid attention!

just a quick correction - AOII is not banned at FSU... and most of the facts in the quote, although interesting, are untrue... but the stories seem to be fun for most to tell.... and I too am proud to be a Florida Gator and AOII!!!

it's pretty fun around halloween at miami. dr. shriver (former dean or something) tells tales of miami hauntings at shriver center (yes, named after him). i went my freshman year and i thought it was pretty cool.
now one story that isn't on campus, but in oxford is the story of the motorcycle ghost. if you go out this country road past the football stadium, you will come to this bend in the road. you are suppose to park your car on the side of the road, turn off your head lights, wait 1 minute and then honk your horn three times in a row. then you wait for about 5 minutes and you are suppose to be able to see the ghost of a guy who died in a motorcycle accident on that road. supposedly you see him drive right through your car and into a corn field. i tried this probably 6 times throughout my 4yrs at miami and never once did i see squat. but it's a fun story and we did scare ourselves silly trying it. lol

shelley j
sigma k

I don't know whether or not they're "true", but the Fisher Hall stories on the website are similar to those that were published in the first Haunted Ohio.

As for the stories at BG...I tried, and tried over my 4 years there to experience some sort of paranormal activity at the Chi O house. I spent the night with friends there probably 20 times, hoping to catch a peek at Amanda, the house ghost. Unfortunately, all I got was a sore back from sleeping on the floor :)

you're supposed to flash your brights three times, not honk your horn.

found this interesting article
 

this is about the "Wedding cake" house

Sorority house haunted by heartbroken bride

By ANNA FERGUSON
Published , October 24, 2003, 06:00:01 AM EDT
The Carithers House, a historic landmark located on the corner of Milledge Avenue and Baxter Street, is rumored to be haunted. The house is now occupied by the sisters of Alpha Gamma Delta. (Renee Brock * The Red & Black)

There are two kinds of spirits that flow freely down Milledge Avenue.

Students need to be 21 to enjoy the first, but the second resides at the Alpha Gamma Delta sorority house on the corner of Milledge Avenue and Baxter Street.

Before the house was overrun by sorority sisters, it was home to several prestigious Athens families.

According to the documentation of the Historic Houses of Athens (Charlotte Thomas Machal, 1987), the southern mansion was built by William Winstead Thomas in 1896.

Thomas built the house, which is often called the "wedding cake house," as an engagement gift for his daughter, Isabel, and her fiance, Richard W. Johnson.

However, when Johnson stood up his bride-to-be at the altar, she hung herself in one of the rooms.

When the home's original owner died in 1904, the house was sold to George Henry Hulme. It was later bought in 1913 by James Carither, but after his death it was purchased by a local sorority chapter.

Despite the many individuals who have come and gone from the house, legend has it one individual stays put -- the tortured spirit of Isabel, the bride-never-to-be.

"I personally have never seen the ghost, but I know a lot of girls who have," said Amanda Ellis, a sophomore from Lake Arrowhead, Calif., who currently resides in the house. "I really hope to encounter her one day before I graduate."

Girls at the house who have seen the ghost report many different occurrences of Isabel sightings.

Some report that faucets have started running on their own, lights have turned on and off by themselves, doors have swung open without anyone near them and faces have appeared in windows.

"The door to my bedroom and my roommate's closet door randomly swing open on their own," said Sarah Reiser, a sophomore from Winchester, Va., who is an occupant of the room where Isabel allegedly hung herself. "I swear that the ghost who lives here is doing it. It really freaks me out."

The room is appropriately nicknamed "Engagement."

According to the Athens-Clarke County Information homepage, (www.acc.gov), the house, officially called the Thomas-Carithers House, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and was locally designated as a Historic Landmark on Jan. 8, 1991.

oh yeah it is your brights isn't it. i couldn't remember exactly, but i knew it was something like that three times. it's been about three years since i did it so grandma's memory is a lil off.

shelley j
sigma k

The Akron ones did include this one.....

Someone hung themselves in the Boiler Room of the old Sigma Nu house. The guys claim that it is haunted or something because none of them ever would go inside the boiler room on their own....

The TKE and Hower House stories are fairly accurate. I've seen the TKE tombstone before.....its right behind the house. The Lambda Chi's have a random tombstone right by their back door also.

we recently moved into the old TKE house and realized that there was a headstone in the back yard. we just figured it was a prank and someone had stolen it and put it there. when we were going through recruitment we would talk about it to the girls...about how we had just assumed it was a joke. but when we were planning on getting it moved, our house corp director told us that we couldn't do anything because it was a real person's grave there. this guy was a TKE and apparantly had given a large sum of $$$ to the university, and his request was to be burried there. so we were all kinda freaked out since that's where we do all kinds of activities!

another one
 

OK, this isn’t really a sorority story but close enough. I largely copied it off www.marylandghosts.com:

A Girl Scout camp is built on the Bell Plantation, which was part of the Underground Railroad, in Conowingo, Maryland. The house (Bell Manor) has a deep sub-basement and the story goes that slaves died hiding from the Southerners. Unusual events take place in the house, lights going off and on by themselves, the radio turning on and changing channels. There is also a large chimney left over from another home that was burned down by soldiers because the women occupying it was friends with the both the North and South. The women hid her children in the chimney when she heard the soldiers surrounding her home. They came into the house and took her out and set it on fire. The children all died in the house. The story goes that on moonlit nights the children can be heard crying in the chimney.

Now, keep in mind that I am one of the most down-to-earth people you will ever meet and I never believed in ghosts but there is something so creepy about this place that, when I worked at this camp over a decade ago, I hated walking by Bell Manor, let alone the chimney, by myself at night. I would always run as fast as I could, especially that one night when there was a full moon. I never heard anything, but then, I always made sure I had my ears covered.

Go ahead, call me a chicken!

I don't know if these stories are true but there certainly is something weird about the place. I have travelled quite a bit, have visited a lot of so-called haunted places (Ireland comes to mind) but this was the only place that actually ever felt weird and haunted to me! Or maybe it was because this place is not too far from where the Blair Witch supposedly lives (oh wait, this was years before that movie)

I am not sure if this is the same thing but about 4 years ago, there was a guy called the "RailWay Killer" and he would hop trains, get off somewhere, kill someone, and then hop back on the next train. Well, Elon(where I went to school) is right by a set of active train tracks and some of the sorority and fraternity off campus houses have letters on them and are RIGHT BY the train tracks and were ordered by the police to take the letters off because they feared a repeat of Ted Bundy by the railway killer.
It was during the summer, which is kind of quiet at Elon and I know my roomate and I were freaking out till the guy was caught.

apparently, almost every university in Ohio is haunted somehow:P
http://www.forgottenoh.com/Haunts/colleges.html


Too funny! I graduated from ONU and I noticed that they have a "fact" that the fraternity at 5up killed a girl playing Donkey Kong with pledges.

1. They did play Donkey Kong with kegs - I was there that night.
2. It was past Fall Recruitment time so it wasn't pledges playing - activites were too. (And no, I don't believe that makes it any better!)
3. No one was killed. That would have certainly made the news of the 500 person town sans college students.

Becareful what you believe. :D

Thank you hun! I think this thead is all in good fun until you get slammed. ;(

Crazy things happenin in blacksburg
 

well the first thing i have isnt about my sorority but about this old theatre downtown( which is basically part of the university)
http://www.furrs.org/writing/ghosts.htm

if you have ever been inside the lyric, you can easily see why ghosts would be visiting, its set up sorta like an opera house where you can sit up top and look down.


my other story has to do with my sorority. Now this was told to me and my pledge sisters, while we toured the house. One of our sisters a few years back was tragically killed while crossing one of the busy streets on campus( washington street for anyone who knows VT's campus). Well apparently the sister( jessica i think her name is) haunts the Pi Phi house. She has been known to keep everyone in line. Apparently once a frat boy came in to the house and was carrying a beer and "jessica" appeared and told him it wasn't allowed. Thinking nothing of it, he went to see the sister he knew and told her about it. She asked who teh sister was and he described her. It was no one in the house, but was the description of Jessica. She also taps on her composite picture when she wants to get your attention. Besides that she likes to turn off lights and what not.


I'm living in the house for the first time this year, I wonder if I'll encounter her....


:eek:

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Re: not creepy or scary but I'll tell it anyway

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Originally posted by Leslie Anne
I wonder if the legend of Alma is still going on at UMD.
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The legend of Alma lives on...my CDC was from University of Maryland and told us all the stories when she was visiting our chapter. Some of it sounds pretty creepy...


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Im living across the street from the KD house and the story of Alma is still going.....

Here are article about the ghost that live in KD and AOII and
some of are buildings are also haunted like Morill Hall where they use to house cadavers in the basement ..

Haunted Buildings

Haunted Sorority Girls

Haunted Buildings

I want to hear some more fun stories :D

yea for anyone farmililar with EMU the house that the michigan murders took place at is at college place and emmit, but i also found that the man who did it was a mentally retarted or something like that, but it didnt say anything about being a theta chi

OK I dont like to talk much about this because its a very sad story and scary too, but this happened at the university of Akron to two of my sorority sisters of Alpha Delta Pi back in 1986. It made all the newspapers and sometimes we have got calls from reporters about it still but we dont answer any questions.

Two boys murdered two ADPis in Akron and one was supposed to get executed in 2003. I havent heard anything about why he hasnt yet, but its been held up.

Here is an article about it if you want to read more.
ADPi Murders

Ted Bundy went to my school (University of Utah) and during the olympics here in Salt Lake City, everyone had to move into the old dorms that are now condemed (b.c. our newer dorms were the olympic village) and they filled up all of the old dorm rooms except Bundy's which they left empty. I also heard about him getting into the Chi-O house in Utah, but that easily could have been FSU i'm getting mixed up. He just went to school here. Oh...but supposidly there's a ghost in our sorority house. Girls have seen her....i havent ...yet ha!

pi phi love,
...colleen*

Oh! and we've had an old naked pervert man stalking the sororities. He's uing our door bell numerous times and he snuck onto the Kappa roof naked to look into their windows! Use the BUDDY SYSTEM!!!!

pi phi love,
...colleen*

Okay no...Ted Bundy went to the University of Washington i just looked it up! ha! i guess that's a myth...my bad sorry!!

pi phi love,
...colleen*

Re: To the AOPI AT UF THAT SAID THE FSU STORY WAS UNTRUE
 

The article says they were banned because of the witchcraft but they never proved the murder. If this really is true, it is ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTING that FSU would continue a ban that was based on a conflict of religion. If I EVER met a Wiccan Soror, I would love her unconditionally, as I love ALL my Sorors!!!

I LOVE my Theta Nu!

ETA: This rant is not directed at OrmondBeachGirl. It's specifically for FSU and that's all good because I'm a Georgia BULLDOG!

He was a student at EMU at the time and was a sociopath, but he wasn't mentally retarded. He was in a fraternity. You can read some bits and pieces about him on this site:

John Norman Collins

I've read as much as I can about this guy...

ormandbeach girl
 

you are wrong. my senior year at fsu(1979) i was a rush counselor and a o pi participated in formal recruitment. they were trying to recolonize after being off campus for a few years. they were on campus in the early 70's when my cousin, an a d pi, was there. she lived in the a o pi house for a quarter(we were on the quarter system then) until a spot came open at the a d pi house.

AND i believe alpha omicron pi was one of the sororities invited to make a presentation this past spring to fsu panhellenic, although sigma delta tau was invited to colonize.

also, i am not sure that florida state college for women had an a o pi chapter at the time stated in the story. can any a o pi sisters back me up? what was the first founding date of the a o pi chapter at florida state college for women, now florida state university?

i just investigated the a o pi website . the sorority was founded in 1897, so could not possibly have had a chapter in the fsu campus in 1889!

i have - my brother is a student there and AOII was chosen as one of the three finalists to present on that campus just recently.. although AOII turned down the opportunity to present due to other reasons...

Additionally, the story says the house was being cleaned in 1889 - AOII was not even founded until 1897...

that article has been circulating for years... i have been to that house... which now belongs to the university...

additionally, the pineapple was not the symbol of AOII. The pinapple is the symbol of hospitality used since the civil war times in the south... and was used on many building to express hospitality, in fact it is the lapel pin symbol of the Hospitality Industry...

I hope this will clear up some of the misconceptions....

additionally, if you look at teh rest of the stories on the page, i think it will clarify that this is as true as the rest of the stories on the seminole star page.... in case you don't want to look, some of the titles are "Fraternity Returns Pregnant "t Was In The Water", "seminole princess" - a story about a FSU student who will marry Prince William in Nov. 2002,
http://writing.fsu.edu/cwc/fa00/cloweb/public_html

AND if you go back farther to
http://writing.fsu.edu you will see it is a creative writing class website.....

I love a good story as anyone.... but this one is unfortunately untrue!!

I appreciate the help of every greek member who has posted here and tried to dispel the rumors of AOII and FSU. Although people believe what they wish to believe and sometimes don't care to hear the truth, I am sure I speak for other AOII GC members when I say we appreciate your efforts.
This subject has been recently discussed and (I thought) was put to rest at that time. It would be great if everyone could realize that just because you found a "story" on the internet does not mean it happened.

Great authoritative source, ormondbeachgirl. /sarcasm Perhaps you can get an internship with Alexandra Robbins.

Not only are your source's "sources" unverifiable and extremely weak, but she's outright wrong on a number of easily identifiable issues. For instance, if you know so many SigEps at FSU, perhaps they could tell you that their house is nowhere close to being a hundred years old. Furthermore, as a KD you should know that KD was the first sorority established at FSU (then FSCW) in 1904, which provides further verification that there were no AOPis on campus in 1889, much less any that were practicing witchcraft. Finally, if you had in fact called FSU Panhellenic or even checked its website, you would know that not only has AOPi not been "banned," they were one of the three finalists for recolonization this year.

Maybe it's just the UF-FSU rivalry kicking in, but you should save your heated comments for football season, and not unfairly bash another panhellenic organization.