Interesting/scary facts of your sorority

[AXOKatie]

Can you imagine being the student that had to move into that room?! - the first one that the girl was killed in - and i bet if they move students in there, they wouldn't tell them...i know that my university doesn't allow room changes until thanksgiving, i can't imagine being somewhere like that for very long

[4RunnerStar]

i agree...that paper should be held liable. they basically killed that girl. and that is awful.

i dont think he's dead either. i read it twice and it didnt say what happened to him. the story ends with him telling the RA he left something for him in his room.

[alphaiota]

after the murder/suicide at ohio u, they stopped using the room for a while and then started using it again. but there were a lot of hauntings so they stopped using it again and started using it as a storage room. i'm pretty sure that's correct. anyone want to verify for me?

shelley j
sigma k

[DeltAlum]

Originally posted by alphaiota
after the murder/suicide at ohio u, they stopped using the room for a while and then started using it again. but there were a lot of hauntings so they stopped using it again and started using it as a storage room.

Not sure if this is what you're talking about, but Athens, home of Ohio University is alleged to be one of the most haunted places in the world:

"Even outside of Mt. Nebo and the Mental Hospital, there are other ghosts in Athens and a number of stories are connected to the Ohio University campus. One such haunted spot is the Zeta Tau Alpha house. This is one of the oldest houses in town and legend has it that during the years of the Civil War, it was used as a hiding place along the Underground Railroad, the secret route that led escaped slaves out of the south. Apparently, Confederate soldiers once raided the house and shot and killed an runaway slave named Nicodemus, who was hiding in the basement. The place has been reported to be haunted by his ghost ever since. Residents of the house have reported hearing scratching and whining sounds behind the wall where the slaves once hid, creaking noises and footsteps, the unlocking of doors and even the apparition of a man in tattered clothing.

This is not the only building on campus that is said to be haunted either. Another is Wilson Hall, which is home to the ghost of a student who died mysteriously there in the 1970's. The student died in room 428 and for years after, residents of the room claimed to hear footsteps and strange sounds and witnessed objects moving about the room on their own. The room has since been closed off and it is not given out to new students anymore.

Strangely, Wilson Hall is said to rest in the very center of one of Athens’ most enduring legends. The building apparently falls in the middle of a huge pentagram that is made up by five of the area’s cemeteries. The graveyards are located in the Peach Ridge area and allegedly, when the positions of each are plotted on a map, they actually do form the shape of a pentagram, the occult symbol of magic and power. The stories say that an Ohio University student once computed the actual distances to create the pentagram and found that the distance of the side actually matched up to within less than one-quarter mile of each other. Could this be why the area seems to have attracted so many tales of the unknown?"

As a Freshman, I lived in Irvine Hall which is immediately next door to Wilson, but that was before this event.

For more info on Athens, you can check out:

http://www.prairieghosts.com/oh-athen.html

At one time, I read a story about a haunting at the O.U. Delt House which involved a seance involving one of my pledge brothers who was killed in an automobile accident, but I haven't been able to find it since the first time I read it on the web.

This is all I can find:

"During another seance in 1970, the spirit of David Tischman, a deceased Ohio University student was supposedly contacted by a group of his friends."

The "friends" were actually Delt brothers according to what I read.

[alphaiota]

yes, room 428! that's the story i was referring to. like i said earlier in the thread, that school/town creeps me out. i just very uncomfortable when i go there. not really sure why, but i do.
i still want an ohio u sig kap to tell the story about the ghost in their house. grandma's memory isn't so good and i don't remember the details the sisters told me at convention.

shelley j
sigma k

[DeltAlum]

Ah, come on. Athens is one of the greatest college towns in the world! Even if it is haunted.

Actually, I used to haunt a lot of the bars myself.

[alphaiota]

you haunting bars, that's scary enough for me.

shelley j
sigma k

[hannahgirl]

Originally posted by kappa2
Has anyone ever taken video of things like doors opening and closing mysteriously, etc. in their houses?

yes and no.....

we have taping of the drawers in our kitchen opening themselves and scaring our sisters.....







however, it was only one of our members hidden in the cabinet that was moving them. it was quite funny and we kept it going for a long time. the video makes it look like it really happened because we never caught ashley coming out of the cabinets on tape....

[DeltAlum]

Originally posted by alphaiota
you haunting bars, that's scary enough for me.

shelley j
sigma k

What's REALLY scary is that I go back and re-haunt a few of them each Homecoming!

[axidhawkeye]

my sorority house is supposedly haunted, but i''m not sure if i've really experienced it. some of my sisters and i did attept to see for sure, (as sure as you can get with my ouija board), but were scared out of our minds when a dry erase board came crashing to the floor and we took that as a sign that we should stop. i'm not sure if it's gravity that's to blame or if it's our ghost. none of the older girls would tell me any stories, and the only thing they say is that the stories are really freaky. on campus there's at least 2 other sororities that are haunted and one frat that used to be an old mental institution that performed illigal shock therapy(that's what people have told me), and it's supposely haunted, but i've never been in, given the fact that i'm scared of the building.

this is kind of a random freaky thing - the building that used to be the old mental ward for the hospital, and is now a psych research building, still has some rooms with padded walls. one of the dorms on campus is haunted by 2 girls who committed suicide as a result of a suicide pact, and there are a few buildings that are haunted by the university's first(?) president.

but the oddest attraction by far, i think, in iowa city is the black angel. there's numerous stories as to why it's black, but when ever i go out to see it, something happens and then i start to freak out. maybe it's the cemetery or the people i'm with. i don't know.

[SurfinDBeach]

Okay, i'm a guy, so therefore i'm not in a Sorority...

However, the TKE house at Long Beach State used to be an AIDS HOSPICE in the early part of the 1900's...

I've slept in the living room on a couch a few times with the door to the back yard open on a cold night...

The only things i've seen are that back door moving slowly, and the FRIGHTENING sound of a moaning girl in the back yard...


I don't want to think of that anymore...


Apparently, Tri-Delta on our campus also has a resident ghost in their house...


GO BEACH!!!

[CASIGKAP]

Originally posted by SurfinDBeach
Okay, i'm a guy, so therefore i'm not in a Sorority...

However, the TKE house at Long Beach State used to be an AIDS HOSPICE in the early part of the 1900's...

I've slept in the living room on a couch a few times with the door to the back yard open on a cold night...

The only things i've seen are that back door moving slowly, and the FRIGHTENING sound of a moaning girl in the back yard...


I don't want to think of that anymore...


Apparently, Tri-Delta on our campus also has a resident ghost in their house...


GO BEACH!!!

R U serious??? Oh My GOD!!! I'd be freaking out. What a coincidence b/c I just found out yesterday that the Sigma Kappa house in LB used to be a hospice for the elderly. Our Corp board told my yesterday during our house clean-up. That might explain why some areas of the house are just very peaceful & relaxing for no apparent reason & others just creep you out. I could never figure out why I didn't like going to the back of the house but now I know. WOW!!! I hadn't heard about the Tri-Delt house before.

[aphibeach]

so wait...i'm confused...what happened to curtis? was he caught?

Curtis is in jail waiting for the trial to begin. the second murderer was the one who drove off the ravine and died (during the car chase)

trust me, all the incoming freshmen know about what happened, so there's no way of "keeping this" from them. murders have never happened on our campus before May and every paper in NC had some sort of article on it, since the first girl killed was from Raleigh and the murderer was from Charlotte (which are the two biggest cities in the state).

[SurfinDBeach]

Tri-Delt apparently has an old man in their house...

Now that's scary...

GO BEACH!!!

[SurfinDBeach]

Did I mention that these stories from North Carolina are absolutely disturbing?

Thank goodness we have a mellow campus...


GO BEACH!!!