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Old 10-21-2008, 05:22 PM
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At Ohio State, the old ADPi (now FIJI) house was supposedly haunted. Here is an excerpt from Haunted Ohio:

"This sorority house is one of Columbus's better-known haunts. It is certainly famous as haunted, but by whom? Many say it's the ghost of a girl who killed herself in the building before the sorority moved in. Today she is spotted roaming the halls, looking out windows, and in mirrors. Chandeliers are known to move for no apparent reason because of her. Others have attributed the activity in the house to an autistic boy who died there at the age of six. He may have been associated with the family of Professor Hagerty sometime in the early 1900s, but firm historical evidence is lacking.

K., a former president of the OSU chapter of the Alpha Delta Pi sorority, has this to say about her experiences there:
"What I can say is that many unexplainable things happened in the house while I lived there, and that these things were as mischievous as they were mysterious. Personal items would be 'stolen' from locked rooms and then found in highly unusual places, like way up on shelves buried beneath hats and gloves or very neatly stacked underneath beds. On one occasion, a small Halloween candle was found to be lit spontaneously in a locked bedroom after both roommates returned from class. A glass fixture fell suddenly on a sorority member in the basement chapter room (of course, maybe our house was just literally falling apart in that instance!).
"While I never personally saw an apparition, there were a few instances in which a ghostly form seemed to have been witnessed in the house. Two women, including the house mother (a practical person who only gingerly admitted to this experience), experienced someone sitting down on the edge of their beds and felt and saw the beds sink beneath the weight of this unseen person. One woman saw the door of her bedroom open late at night and heard footsteps walk across the room and up the ladder to the top bunk. She assumed it was her roommate until the roommate, my closest college friend, came home an hour later and saw that there was obviously no one in the top bunk. I experienced a sudden uneasy feeling once on the third floor landing when I ran down the stairs to answer the front door. It is hard to explain, but it was a feeling like I had been doing that exact thing over and over and over and over, much stronger than a deja vu experience, yet I had not even moved into the house yet. It was actually kind of creepy living there, and I never had a good night's sleep in that house."
K. goes on to relate another possible encounter with the "other side" at the sorority house: "The only story related to the apparition of a woman in the ADPi house involved a sorority sister named N. who actually did pass away tragically in a car accident in early 1994. Two residents of the house say that they saw N. come around the corner of the third floor hallway and disappear." The witnesses in this case were still grieving, K. reminds us, but they did both see the same thing. Visit the sorority's official website here and take a virtual tour of the house, which is located at 94 East 15th Avenue. (Note: In 2004 the house was sold to the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, which now occupies it. Members of this fraternity have apparently seen plenty of weird things there, if e-mails I've received are any indication.)"
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