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I think I posted this a while back, but I'm not sure...

My chapter house is an "unofficial" house, which means that it's not sponsored by National HQ or recognized by the school. It's an old home, probably built in the 30s or 40s, and is owned by a local businessman who rents it out to the chapter.

Anyway, the house used to be rented by a fraternity before us. This was many years ago in the 70s. There is a ghost story (which I'm sure is completely fabricated) that states that a girl died in the basement of the house during her initiation as a little sister to the fraternity, and that her ghost still haunts the house.

Well, although I don't buy the little sister story, I do know that there are some pretty strange things that go on in the house, and that I personally always felt uneasy in it by myself -- particularly near the basement.

Sisters, including myself, have heard odd noises from the basement late at night. Since the basement only has one entrance, which is a stairway leading up into the study room of the house, we know that no one could have gotten into the basement to scare us without us seeing him/her go down the stairs.

None of us have ever gone down there by ourselves. When I was in school, we kept our Rush stuff down there, and always went in packs to get things when we needed them -- and always during the day. Whenever we'd hear noises at night from the basement (and sometimes even during the day), we'd run to the Pike house and have some of the guys come in to check out the suspicious noises. They never found anything -- no sign of anyone being down there at all. :confused:

I've been told that the girls living there currently have called the campus police out a few times to check out the noises, and they couldn't find anything either. It's become the joke with the Greeks that the campus cops double as "ghostbusters" for the DZ girls. :D

There are also things that have happened in other parts of the house. When I was a collegiate, the house manager was a petite, dark-haired senior who lived on the first floor of the house. Several sisters who lived there at the same time she did reported seeing a dark-haired girl in a nightgown going from the second floor staircase to the first floor bathroom at different times during the night. The sisters were in the TV room, which had a direct view to the bathroom door and the staircase and saw the girl pass by. Thinking that the girl was the house manager, the sisters called out hello to her, but she never responded or even turned to acknowledge their presence. Later, the sisters found that the house manager wasn't even in the house that night -- she had been at her boyfriend's apartment all evening! No one else in the house fit the girl's description, so who could the sisters have seen -- unless it was the ghost! :eek:

Another sister who lived upstairs was staying in the house over Spring Break while nearly everyone else was out of town for vacation. Only she and another sister (her roommate) were staying in the house that week. The sister became angry with her roommate one night because she had gone to bed before her roommate (the roomie was downstairs watching TV) and kept hearing someone knocking at her bedroom door. No one was standing there when she opened the door, so she went back to bed. As soon as she got settled in, the knock came again. This happened several times and she finally stomped down the stairs to tell her roommate to stop playing practical jokes. However, when she got to the TV room, she noticed that her roomie wasn't there. Checking further, she found that the girl's car was gone!

The roommate appeared a few minutes later through the front door. She had gone to get a late night dinner from a fast food place and hadn't even been in the house when the other sister was hearing the knocks on her bedroom door! :eek: She also pointed out that if someone had been knocking on the door then the sister would have heard her coming up the stairs and onto the second floor landing-- the wooden stairs always squeaked terribly, as did the wooden floors throughout the house, and the landlord (who to this day never fixes ANYTHING) had refused to repair them. So, who was doing the knocking???