Interesting/scary facts of your sorority

[lsubabe1983]

this is about the "Wedding cake" house

Sorority house haunted by heartbroken bride

By ANNA FERGUSON
Published , October 24, 2003, 06:00:01 AM EDT
The Carithers House, a historic landmark located on the corner of Milledge Avenue and Baxter Street, is rumored to be haunted. The house is now occupied by the sisters of Alpha Gamma Delta. (Renee Brock * The Red & Black)

There are two kinds of spirits that flow freely down Milledge Avenue.

Students need to be 21 to enjoy the first, but the second resides at the Alpha Gamma Delta sorority house on the corner of Milledge Avenue and Baxter Street.

Before the house was overrun by sorority sisters, it was home to several prestigious Athens families.

According to the documentation of the Historic Houses of Athens (Charlotte Thomas Machal, 1987), the southern mansion was built by William Winstead Thomas in 1896.

Thomas built the house, which is often called the "wedding cake house," as an engagement gift for his daughter, Isabel, and her fiance, Richard W. Johnson.

However, when Johnson stood up his bride-to-be at the altar, she hung herself in one of the rooms.

When the home's original owner died in 1904, the house was sold to George Henry Hulme. It was later bought in 1913 by James Carither, but after his death it was purchased by a local sorority chapter.

Despite the many individuals who have come and gone from the house, legend has it one individual stays put -- the tortured spirit of Isabel, the bride-never-to-be.

"I personally have never seen the ghost, but I know a lot of girls who have," said Amanda Ellis, a sophomore from Lake Arrowhead, Calif., who currently resides in the house. "I really hope to encounter her one day before I graduate."

Girls at the house who have seen the ghost report many different occurrences of Isabel sightings.

Some report that faucets have started running on their own, lights have turned on and off by themselves, doors have swung open without anyone near them and faces have appeared in windows.

"The door to my bedroom and my roommate's closet door randomly swing open on their own," said Sarah Reiser, a sophomore from Winchester, Va., who is an occupant of the room where Isabel allegedly hung herself. "I swear that the ghost who lives here is doing it. It really freaks me out."

The room is appropriately nicknamed "Engagement."

According to the Athens-Clarke County Information homepage, (www.acc.gov), the house, officially called the Thomas-Carithers House, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and was locally designated as a Historic Landmark on Jan. 8, 1991.

[UGAalum94]

Originally Posted by lsubabe1983

this is about the "Wedding cake" house

Sorority house haunted by heartbroken bride

By ANNA FERGUSON
Published , October 24, 2003, 06:00:01 AM EDT
The Carithers House, a historic landmark located on the corner of Milledge Avenue and Baxter Street, is rumored to be haunted. The house is now occupied by the sisters of Alpha Gamma Delta. (Renee Brock * The Red & Black)

There are two kinds of spirits that flow freely down Milledge Avenue.

Students need to be 21 to enjoy the first, but the second resides at the Alpha Gamma Delta sorority house on the corner of Milledge Avenue and Baxter Street.

Before the house was overrun by sorority sisters, it was home to several prestigious Athens families.

According to the documentation of the Historic Houses of Athens (Charlotte Thomas Machal, 1987), the southern mansion was built by William Winstead Thomas in 1896.

Thomas built the house, which is often called the "wedding cake house," as an engagement gift for his daughter, Isabel, and her fiance, Richard W. Johnson.

However, when Johnson stood up his bride-to-be at the altar, she hung herself in one of the rooms.

When the home's original owner died in 1904, the house was sold to George Henry Hulme. It was later bought in 1913 by James Carither, but after his death it was purchased by a local sorority chapter.

Despite the many individuals who have come and gone from the house, legend has it one individual stays put -- the tortured spirit of Isabel, the bride-never-to-be.

"I personally have never seen the ghost, but I know a lot of girls who have," said Amanda Ellis, a sophomore from Lake Arrowhead, Calif., who currently resides in the house. "I really hope to encounter her one day before I graduate."

Girls at the house who have seen the ghost report many different occurrences of Isabel sightings.

Some report that faucets have started running on their own, lights have turned on and off by themselves, doors have swung open without anyone near them and faces have appeared in windows.

"The door to my bedroom and my roommate's closet door randomly swing open on their own," said Sarah Reiser, a sophomore from Winchester, Va., who is an occupant of the room where Isabel allegedly hung herself. "I swear that the ghost who lives here is doing it. It really freaks me out."

The room is appropriately nicknamed "Engagement."

According to the Athens-Clarke County Information homepage, (www.acc.gov), the house, officially called the Thomas-Carithers House, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and was locally designated as a Historic Landmark on Jan. 8, 1991.

This additional info may already be in the thread, but it didn't come up in my thread search:

The story when I was there was that the ghost particularly watched over the girls who lived in the "engagement" room, and one of the girls from the room would get engaged every year. The pattern of engagement for girls who lived in the room held true when I was there, and it was kind of sweet, rather than creepy story.

[AppStFan80]

I was in college when the Chi O's at FSU were murdered. One of my sorority sister's boyfriend was in a fraternity at FSU at the time and she had been down there to visit several times. I remember her telling us about how torn up the whole campus and Greek system was over the murders. They lived in fear that it would happen again. Of course, back in the late 70's we didn't know then it was the infamous Ted Bundy. We were scared up in NC, too. It could have happened to any sorority, wherever he was stalking around. Reading this post has given me creepy feelings that I haven't felt in about 30 years. You just don't realize what psychos are out there stalking for a victim.
And if I had been one of those girls he was hitting on at the bar before he killed the Chi O's, I would have probably had a nervous breakdown after the fact.