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Kenyon College in Ohio (Paul Newman's Alma Mater)
Delta Kappa Epsilon

In 1905 Stuart Pierson was killed while pledging to this fraternity; he was struck by a train as he waited on a trestle over the Kokosing River. Whether or not a train was expected is not certain; there was some sort of miscalculation of the risk involved, and Stuart was killed before his pledge to DKE was ever completed. His father, also a DKE, was coming to town the next day to witness his son being inducted; when he found out about the accident, he refused to press charges, adapting instead a "boys will be boys" attitude which might have served to incense Stuart's ghost. Every year on October 28, that ghost is said to stare out of a window as the train passes. Whoever occupies his old room is made to vacate the room on this anniversary, so Stuart can reclaim it for one day. Confined to the fourth floor, he opens and closes windows and causes footsteps overhead--despite the fact that there is no floor higher than the fourth. Now that the railroad has been converted into a bike trail, you have to wonder if he continues his yearly vigil.