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Old 06-09-2003, 01:51 PM
UGAnchora UGAnchora is offline
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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

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