Interesting/scary facts of your sorority

[lsubabe1983]

it says louisiana under location:P

[alphaiota]

yeah they are cool sites. good post. i'm just verifying the miami info since i went there.
sorry about the L. i also thought it was an I. stupid lower case letters!!! j/k.

shelley j
sigma k

[lsubabe1983]

lol@shelly.
i was just suprised that there was soo much that was haunted there!
it makes sense, i've just never really paid attention!

[nhpgator]

just a quick correction - AOII is not banned at FSU... and most of the facts in the quote, although interesting, are untrue... but the stories seem to be fun for most to tell.... and I too am proud to be a Florida Gator and AOII!!!

[alphaiota]

it's pretty fun around halloween at miami. dr. shriver (former dean or something) tells tales of miami hauntings at shriver center (yes, named after him). i went my freshman year and i thought it was pretty cool.
now one story that isn't on campus, but in oxford is the story of the motorcycle ghost. if you go out this country road past the football stadium, you will come to this bend in the road. you are suppose to park your car on the side of the road, turn off your head lights, wait 1 minute and then honk your horn three times in a row. then you wait for about 5 minutes and you are suppose to be able to see the ghost of a guy who died in a motorcycle accident on that road. supposedly you see him drive right through your car and into a corn field. i tried this probably 6 times throughout my 4yrs at miami and never once did i see squat. but it's a fun story and we did scare ourselves silly trying it. lol

shelley j
sigma k

[Nikki_DZ]

Originally posted by alphaiota
i checked out the ohio link that isubabe put up and i have to say that the miami ones are a bit off. yes we had a fisher hall and it was haunted, but not by the judge. and the story of the student who went missing happened in the 1930's not the 50's. fisher hall itself was not haunted. shelley j
sigma k

I don't know whether or not they're "true", but the Fisher Hall stories on the website are similar to those that were published in the first Haunted Ohio.

As for the stories at BG...I tried, and tried over my 4 years there to experience some sort of paranormal activity at the Chi O house. I spent the night with friends there probably 20 times, hoping to catch a peek at Amanda, the house ghost. Unfortunately, all I got was a sore back from sleeping on the floor

[mu_agd]

Originally posted by alphaiota
it's pretty fun around halloween at miami. dr. shriver (former dean or something) tells tales of miami hauntings at shriver center (yes, named after him). i went my freshman year and i thought it was pretty cool.
now one story that isn't on campus, but in oxford is the story of the motorcycle ghost. if you go out this country road past the football stadium, you will come to this bend in the road. you are suppose to park your car on the side of the road, turn off your head lights, wait 1 minute and then honk your horn three times in a row. then you wait for about 5 minutes and you are suppose to be able to see the ghost of a guy who died in a motorcycle accident on that road. supposedly you see him drive right through your car and into a corn field. i tried this probably 6 times throughout my 4yrs at miami and never once did i see squat. but it's a fun story and we did scare ourselves silly trying it. lol

shelley j
sigma k

you're supposed to flash your brights three times, not honk your horn.

[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.

[alphaiota]

oh yeah it is your brights isn't it. i couldn't remember exactly, but i knew it was something like that three times. it's been about three years since i did it so grandma's memory is a lil off.

shelley j
sigma k

[hannahgirl]

The Akron ones did include this one.....

Someone hung themselves in the Boiler Room of the old Sigma Nu house. The guys claim that it is haunted or something because none of them ever would go inside the boiler room on their own....

The TKE and Hower House stories are fairly accurate. I've seen the TKE tombstone before.....its right behind the house. The Lambda Chi's have a random tombstone right by their back door also.

[ncsudgalum04]

we recently moved into the old TKE house and realized that there was a headstone in the back yard. we just figured it was a prank and someone had stolen it and put it there. when we were going through recruitment we would talk about it to the girls...about how we had just assumed it was a joke. but when we were planning on getting it moved, our house corp director told us that we couldn't do anything because it was a real person's grave there. this guy was a TKE and apparantly had given a large sum of $$$ to the university, and his request was to be burried there. so we were all kinda freaked out since that's where we do all kinds of activities!

[Dedante]

OK, this isn’t really a sorority story but close enough. I largely copied it off www.marylandghosts.com:

A Girl Scout camp is built on the Bell Plantation, which was part of the Underground Railroad, in Conowingo, Maryland. The house (Bell Manor) has a deep sub-basement and the story goes that slaves died hiding from the Southerners. Unusual events take place in the house, lights going off and on by themselves, the radio turning on and changing channels. There is also a large chimney left over from another home that was burned down by soldiers because the women occupying it was friends with the both the North and South. The women hid her children in the chimney when she heard the soldiers surrounding her home. They came into the house and took her out and set it on fire. The children all died in the house. The story goes that on moonlit nights the children can be heard crying in the chimney.

Now, keep in mind that I am one of the most down-to-earth people you will ever meet and I never believed in ghosts but there is something so creepy about this place that, when I worked at this camp over a decade ago, I hated walking by Bell Manor, let alone the chimney, by myself at night. I would always run as fast as I could, especially that one night when there was a full moon. I never heard anything, but then, I always made sure I had my ears covered.

Go ahead, call me a chicken!

I don't know if these stories are true but there certainly is something weird about the place. I have travelled quite a bit, have visited a lot of so-called haunted places (Ireland comes to mind) but this was the only place that actually ever felt weird and haunted to me! Or maybe it was because this place is not too far from where the Blair Witch supposedly lives (oh wait, this was years before that movie)

[AOTTAdvisor]

I am not sure if this is the same thing but about 4 years ago, there was a guy called the "RailWay Killer" and he would hop trains, get off somewhere, kill someone, and then hop back on the next train. Well, Elon(where I went to school) is right by a set of active train tracks and some of the sorority and fraternity off campus houses have letters on them and are RIGHT BY the train tracks and were ordered by the police to take the letters off because they feared a repeat of Ted Bundy by the railway killer.
It was during the summer, which is kind of quiet at Elon and I know my roomate and I were freaking out till the guy was caught.