Haunted Houses?

[Kansas City]

With Halloween approaching, do any of you have any haunted Greek houses on your campus?

We had a student die in the 1950’s as a result of a boiler explosion who is rumored to “haunt” the sorority dormitory on campus. Those who have experienced her presence claim to hear piano playing, picture frames being knocked down or lights/radio turning on and off. I had a friend who claimed to have felt her sit on the edge of the bed. I really don’t believe in ghosts but think that it is a fun story for the sorority women to share. If she (the ghost) really does exist, at least she is friendly and likes to play a few good pranks!

I’d love to hear some similar experiences.

[ΑΓΔSquirrel10]

I'm not sure if this is entirely accurate, but I believe that the KA house on my campus is haunted.
I have clearer stories about haunted places on campus, but they don't pertain to the topic.

YouTube video of Susie Carithers, the ghost who allegedly haunts the Alpha Gamma Delta UGA house.

[agzg]

Our house was haunted for sure - but I don't want to think about it because I lived in fear the entire year that I lived in!

[Benzgirl]

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.)"

[Benzgirl]

Now, this one was new to me. AOPi wasn't at Ohio State when I was in school, and I doubt any truth to it. Zeta Tau Alpha still owns the house.

"Start with a trip to the Alpha Omicron Pi House. The Ohio State Michigan tradition dates back years, and students used to jump into Mirror Lake as part of their celebration. One sorority girl jumped into the Lake drunk, and broke her neck. The sisters decided to hide the dying girl in their room, rather than risk getting in trouble. The girl still haunts the room where she died by moving things around, sitting on the bed, and opening the closet doors. "

[Benzgirl]

Also, from Forgotten Ohio, here are some haunted Greek Houses from Ohio University in Athens.

Delta Tau Delta

According to stories I've read, the members of Delta Tau Delta fraternity (which has been at Ohio University since the 1860s) stole a tombstone from the famously haunted Simms Cemetery and immediately began to experience weird poltergeist activity at their house. They eventually returned the stone and were left alone after that.


Alpha Omicron Pi

A slave named Nicodemus haunts the home of the Alpha Omicron Pi sorority. Once it was the Zeta Tau Alpha House, but before that it was a private residence and a stop on the Underground Railroad. They say that when locals found out that the house at 24 E. Washington was harboring fugitive slaves, they stormed it. They managed to find only Nicodemus hiding there, and shot him as he fled through a hidden tunnel. For years after that he haunted the building through its possession by several different sororities. The Zeta Tau Alpha girls had extensive encounters with him in 1972 and 1973. Later it was the Sigma Nu frathouse, then Alpha Omicron Pi; now it's Sigma Phi Epsilon. Do the Greek groups keep moving because of the strange disturbances, or is it just a coincidence? I'd have to say that, if you're a ghost and you're stuck haunting someplace through eternity, you could do a lot worse than a sorority house.

[Benzgirl]

Bowling Green:
Chi Omega Chi Omega Sorority House is haunted by Amanda, a girl who was either a pledge accidentally killed in a railroad initiation, or a little girl who died on the park behind the old student union, where the house now stands. She is the source of a lot of superstition around Chi Omega. One room is labeled "Amanda's Room" and is the site of lots of poltergeist activity, including things disappearing and reappearing in the house utility room, and a closet which locks itself. Every year in the group photo the girls leave a blank place which is marked "Amanda" in the caption. The 1986-87 class accidentally forgot to include her, and that picture is found off the wall a lot. (Note: According to a source at BG, the tradition of the blank place in the group photo has been abandoned.)

[Benzgirl]

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.

[Benzgirl]

Marietta College, Alpha Xi Delta



A former Ohio governor may be the one haunting Marietta College's Alpha Xi Delta sorority house at 322 Fifth Street. Although it was built by William P. Skinner in 1855, and he lived there until he died in 1866, it's George White who everyone thinks of when they talk about the history of the house. The Whites lived there after the turn of the twentieth century, when White had earned his fortune in oil. He had the third floor built on to accommodate his family. It wasn't until the 1930s that he became active in the Democratic Party and served two terms as Ohio's governor.

By all accounts, "George" is a gentleman. He appears full-body to certain girls, dressed in a grayish, conservative suit and looking out a window or staring off forlornly. He also performs some poltergeist activity, including making creaking noises on the floors overhead (he prefers the second floor), and turning the water on and off in the "Sink Room," where he makes every noise that a person using the bathroom would--except that when you open the door, no one is there. "George," whether he is Ohio's former governor or not, is a legend passed down from generation to generation at the Alpha Xi Delta house. As long as he remains protective and relatively non-aggressive, he'll be a welcome presence there. And what better deal can you ask for as a ghost than to spend eternity in a college sorority house?

[Benzgirl]

University of Akron

TKE Fraternity House Also haunted at U. Akron is the TKE fraternity house. Its ghost is that of a servant girl who died when the house was still a private residence. Her body is buried in a hard-to-find grave in the back yard, but her ghost roams the house and grounds. (I work with a TEKE from Akron. I need to ask him about this)


Wittenberg

Sigma Kappa Haunted by Gus Sun, a theater owner from the Vaudeville days who died, along with his daughter, in a fire.

[When Doves Cry]

Our house (Sigma Chapter of AZD) is said to be haunted by one of our founders, Cora Bollinger Block, because it was the last house she visited before she died.

[nwADPi]

Kansas City, that sounds very close to the sorority dorm on my campus.. we could be talking about the same story!

Except for ours is haunted by a girl who was hurt (and later died) from a train explosion outside the dorm. There are no longer tracks there! But we all like to blame the creepy things that happen there on her!

[AGDee]

There are a couple threads on this with some good stories..

http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/sh...ad.php?t=20184
http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/sh...ad.php?t=19992

This is the longest one:
http://greekchat.com/gcforums/showth...&threadid=1613

[ForeverRoses]

Originally Posted by Benzgirl

Alpha Omicron Pi

A slave named Nicodemus haunts the home of the Alpha Omicron Pi sorority. Once it was the Zeta Tau Alpha House, but before that it was a private residence and a stop on the Underground Railroad. They say that when locals found out that the house at 24 E. Washington was harboring fugitive slaves, they stormed it. They managed to find only Nicodemus hiding there, and shot him as he fled through a hidden tunnel. For years after that he haunted the building through its possession by several different sororities. The Zeta Tau Alpha girls had extensive encounters with him in 1972 and 1973. Later it was the Sigma Nu frathouse, then Alpha Omicron Pi; now it's Sigma Phi Epsilon. Do the Greek groups keep moving because of the strange disturbances, or is it just a coincidence? I'd have to say that, if you're a ghost and you're stuck haunting someplace through eternity, you could do a lot worse than a sorority house.
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This is the house I lived in! And for the record, the hidden passage entrance was in my roomate's closet- you can (or could 15 years ago) open it up. I lived there for the entire school year and never had anything strange happen- I was even in the "haunted" room.
Oh, and AOII didn't move to a new house because of Nicodemus, we moved to a new house because the old house could only house 25 women and didn't have a room large enough for the entire chapter- we would have to have part of rush outside in a tent to accomidate everyone. The house we are in now houses ~50 and is more on par with the other sorority houses at OU.
Sig Ep did not have a house, so when AOII moved, it was a perfect fit for them (aside from all the floral wallpaper).