Ghosts and Hauntings---

[honeychile]

My mother grew up in her grandfather's house, very large (14 major rooms) and built around the War between the States. To this day, she will not talk much about it, but the place definitely has *something* wrong with it.

There was a young woman who died there, and if you looked into a mirror, her reflection would often be there, too, brushing her hair. Also, a priest (!) walked up & down the stairs - we're talking a staircase about 4 foot wide, curving into the foyer.

I once talked her into taking me up to the house (I had seen it from afar, but never walked the grounds), and there's just an oppressive feeling about the house. I don't know how else to explain it, but I'm in no hurry to go back there again!

One of the dorms at Pitt is also haunted, Bruce Hall. It had been part of an exclusive apartment complex in the 1920's-1950's, and an adulterous wife jumped from the window when her lover spurned her. I don't know the room number, but I know the window.

Some people will say that the ADPi suite also has a ghost - it's in Amos Hall (the sorority hall), also part of this same complex. I lived in the room that has the ghost, and I think it's just bunk. There was never a problem there the entire time I was in school, but supposedly someone once heard the piano start playing out of the blue. Well, if the ghost is a butler, and there were no butler's quarters, and if he committed suicide in the one closet, what's he doing with a piano? I think it's vivid imaginations.