Interesting/scary facts of your sorority

[azdtaxi]

Originally posted by aphibeach
god yall got me so scared

thankfully fraternities and sororities are not allowed to have houses or floors in dorms.....and our campus was built in the 1970s and before May, there hadn't been a murder on campus.

i guess i can share one possible scary story (well we all think the room will be haunted now). our campus built a brand new Georgian style dorm last summer which opened up last fall. there was Curtis who claimed that he had been homeschooled his whole life when he came to school. he was kind of creepy and a lot of the kids in the dorm didn't really like him. well then there was Jessica, this girl who felt bad for Curtis and befriended him. Curtis started stalking Jessica because he wanted to date her but she just wanted to remain friends. well the last day of exams, Curtis kidnapped Jessica, brought her to his room, killed her and then raped her. He left the body in his room over night and the following day Curtis called Jessica's parents to tell them that he had killed their daugher. After making the phone call, Curtis went down to the RA desk, handed the keys to his RA and told him that he "left something in there for him." yes, disturbing.

anyways, i feel bad for whoever ends up in that room this fall. because the dorm is new, they won't replace anything (i guess besides the carpet maybe).

so this is true true???? And it just happened?

[alphaiota]

if that's really true, i'm a lil freaked out now. that's probably the worst of all these stories.

shelley j
sigma k

[33girl]

I would hope they'd use it as a storage area or something, I can't imagine putting students in there so soon after the fact.

[aphibeach]

so this is true true???? And it just happened?

yes its true....it happened in May

and then exactly 1 month later another UNCW student was dead. this girl used to date this guy who was again somewhat creepy. well they broke up and he started stalking her. the girl placed a restraining order against him but it didn't seem to help. the mother of the girl contacted the local paper talking about how the exboyfriend had lied on his application saying that he didn't commit a felony when in fact he did (for sexual assault). the mother asked the paper to NOT include her daughter's name since the daughter had a restraining order against the guy and didn't want any problems. well the paper decided it would be neat and fun to include the girl's name anyways, along with the guy's nam and talk about how the university failed to do background checks on all it's applicants they accepted. 2 days later, the exboyfriend found the girl at Target, followed her back to her apartment and shot her 8 times. she died and the exboyfriend took off. the police raided his house and found directions to the girl's parents house in Ohio (where they lived) and started heading out that well. well the police ended up finding the guy out in the mountains of North Carolina and a car chase ensued. the exboyfriend ended up losing control of his car and went flying off a ravine and died.

the sad part of the whole thing is that with the first murder, the guy Curtis had also lied on his application saying that he did not commit a felony (when he did) and now the university is getting a lot of junk for it. we even made CNN news about this. which is scary when i think about all the crazies that could be roaming around the campus having felony records and the university was too lazy to do a background check before accepting them.

[4RunnerStar]

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

[lyrica9]

Originally posted by aphibeach
the mother asked the paper to NOT include her daughter's name since the daughter had a restraining order against the guy and didn't want any problems. well the paper decided it would be neat and fun to include the girl's name anyways, along with the guy's nam and talk about how the university failed to do background checks on all it's applicants they accepted.

um that's highly illegal of that paper, and i hope they're taken to court. even if the mom hadn't specified to keep her daughter's name out of it, there are still ethical and legal issues surrounding that sort of situation that should have kept that paper from printing that information.
but because she did specify to leave it out and they didn't comply, they could be accused of libel if taken to court.

[astroAPhi]

Originally posted by 4RunnerStar
so wait...i'm confused...what happened to curtis? was he caught?

From what I understood, he's dead.

[aopinthesky]

Originally posted by astroAPhi
From what I understood, he's dead.

I don't believe that he is. The one who died was the killer in the second murder which happened after the one in the dorm.

[alphaiota]

wow.........that's all i can really say........wow.......

shelley j
sigma k

[lilykkg]

I don't know why I keep reading this thread while I'm alone in a creepy office building.

[carnation]

I am also bumping this one for LikeASista, seeing as it's Octoberrrrr!

[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.