urban myths

[SigkapAlumWSU]

It's a rumor in my House that one of our founding members (cerca 1924) of my chapter haunts the house. If you lean over the third floor railing of the spiral staircase, people say if feels like someone is trying to push you over. People also say that she wanders around on the sleeping portch at night, so no one ver wants to be the first one to go to bed!

[PSK480]

storty in my Chapter is that we have 2 ghosts. One is a lady who haunts our upstairs( we have 2 floors of rooms, upstairs is a hallway with 9 rooms, and down stairs are 2 apartments a 2-man and a 3-man, all single rooms, and of course a basement). Yet, she only comes out when there are no more than 2 or 3 people in the whole house. The other ghost is a dead pledge from the fraternity that had the house before us. He's in the basement and likes to turn the lights and sound system on and off on people, he also lightly pushes them into corners, this only happens with 2 or 3 people also. I actually experienced this ghost one night when I was sent to the basement to get something, and I can say there was no one behind me pushing me because I would have heard or seen them when I turned around to look.

[mu_agd]

Originally posted by OUlioness01
The story I heard about Miami Ohio isn't that there is a brothel law but that a benefactor of the university (a woman) would only continue to donate money if they agreed not to let the sororities ever have houses, mostly because of ffear of them becoming like a brothel, but that story doesn't indicate any sort of law.

that is the story i always heard when my sister went to miami and then when i went to miami. they also said that she left money for the school to build a brick wall around the only women's dorm at the time, but that she died before they built it so they built it underground.

[AUDeltaGam]

Originally posted by WarEagle1918
The same story goes around in Auburn and I doubt it's true.

It's not true. We don't have houses ( ) because if one sorority gets a house then they aaaaaaaaaaallll have to get houses.

And to WarEagle1918: WAR EAGLE!

[FAB*SpiceySpice]

Supposedly my chapter house has a ghost, I forget the name of her but it's something old fashioned and not common at all. A lot of the girls claim that they've seen her and she does weird things like open and slam their doors, turn their lights on and off, open their windows, etc. All these claims come from the girls on the third floor and apparently the ghost is of a girl who was killed in room 301. That's the only part of the story that we know is true, is that someone did actually get killed in there. So I dunno, I have yet to experience the ghost, but I am also never going to live on the third floor so, who knows?

Apparently our SAE house is haunted as well since it used to be a Civil War hospital back in the day and many people died in there. Their philanthropy though is a haunted house that they run through their house in October, so whether or not it's true it kind of adds to the theme of their philanthropy.

I don't know any other myths though about our Greek houses, maybe AXJules can add some if she reads this.

[madmax]

Originally posted by PSPGirl
It's not true. We don't have houses ( ) because if one sorority gets a house then they aaaaaaaaaaallll have to get houses.

And to WarEagle1918: WAR EAGLE!

Who says you all have to have a house?
NPC or the school?

I think that rule is BS. If you were at a school where all the sororities have houses and one sorority lost their house, would all the sororities have to suddenly give up their houses?

[33girl]

The school doesn't give a shit (this statement of course depending on overage or lack of dorm space). The NPC has a clause that all groups must have equal facilities or some such thing. This usually only applies if the houses are on campus and the sororities' housing corps helping pay for them. However - wasn't someone on here (I think KappaKittycat) saying one NPC at her school got a house on campus and the other ones didn't?

If one sorority lost their house, it is assumed that a) they either did something to deserve losing it or b) if they are losing it due to campus expansion and such, the school will find them a new one.

[DeltAlum]

Originally posted by JohnsDGsweethrt
Do we have any idea why Athens Ohio is so haunted? Sorry this is off the subject I was just curious. If someone wants to pm me that's fine

Good question. I've heard Athens stories since I was an undergraduate there in the 1960's.

Check out the following link:

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

I found it by doing a Google Search on "Haunted Athens, Ohio"

You'll notice a prominent mention of a sorority house and the underground railroad as noted in a previous posting on this thread.

[OUlioness01]

Originally posted by JohnsDGsweethrt
Do we have any idea why Athens Ohio is so haunted? Sorry this is off the subject I was just curious. If someone wants to pm me that's fine

we have 5 cemetaries, shaped in the form of a pentagram surrounding the university. we also have the old Athens Mental Health Hospital, which is rumored to be very haunted by all the people that have died that.

[FuzzieAlum]

The NPC *urges* that sororities on your campus have equivalent housing and nothing more. And honestly, the national sororities don't have much desire to spend oodles on housing escalation games - if all the sororities are in dorms, even if you personally want a house, your national probably isn't going to care much. It saves money! But the moment Sorority A gets a house, the rest will run to catch up.

Example? A dozen years ago, no sorority on my campus had a house; they all had dorm floors. Then our school started moving them into houses. First Alpha Chi got a beautiful house, then several of the chapters moved into dorm-style buildings, then Phi Mu got a cute house, and then A Phi got the ultra-modern former TKE house. The university moved them based on size, which meant the smaller sororities never had a chance to keep up as the rushees just loved the houses! Sigma Psi, an old local, has a dorm-style house, and my chapter just had a dorm floor. At no time did NPC rush in and say - wait! you can't give just Alpha Chi a house! - or anything like that.

[OUlioness01]

DeltAlum, i checked out that website and i think the Zeta house they're talking about is now the Sig Ep house, but i could be wrong. if it is, the website must be pretty outdated 'cause i know before it was the sig ep house it was the Sigma Nu house. that website is really interesting though.

** edited to add**
here's something else i just found

http://www.geocities.com/athens/acro...ntou.html#delt
1. Delt House (University Terrace): Strange things started to happen a few years back at the Delta Tau Delta house after some members made a trip to a local cemetery, Simms'. Simms' cemetary, found on Peach Ridge, one of the several mountain ridges surrounding the valley of Athens, is one of the cemeteries said to form a pentagram around the city, with its center over Wilson Hall, on the College Green. Its also listed as one of the most haunted places on earth. The story goes that in the first years of the city, the Simms clan were very involved in city life, with the father serving as local magistrate and executioner, all rolled into one. It is said that after sentencing a criminal to hang for his crimes, the town would process out of town to Judge Simms Peach Ridge home to carry out the verdict. In the dark of night, in the secluded family cemetery, the victims were hung until dead from the branch of an old, dead tree overhanging the family's wooded grave plots. The rope marks on the tree branch, worn down from years of swinging dead, are still clearly visible on the "hanging tree", and many people have reported strange events in the area.

The cemetery is said to change positions in the woods on Peach Ridge, and in fact many who know the area well are unable to find the tombs and hanging tree, despite the fact that they have been there dozens of times. Many local high schoolers, who use the area as a late-night hangout, report seeing a hovering spirit, dressed only in a black, flowing robe, rising from the mists. Local spiritualists have also reported similar phenomena, which one identifies as a "guardian spirit", placed on the grave site by a cult or perhaps a local witch coven. The spirit stares with piercing eyes at the invaders, and utters only one word: Leave! Few stick around to see what happens if they say "no".

Finally, many have reported seeing a slow moving figure, rocking back and forth in the still night air. Upon closer inspection, the source of the figure becomes obvious…it is the spirit of one of the hanging victims, slowly swinging to death over and over each night, moved by the breeze from another age…

The Delts, having heard such tales, went exploring one autumn. Stumbling across the cemetery, they entered the sacred site and removed a headstone, carrying it back to their University Terrace house as a fraternity prank. Soon after the problems started. Residents were awakened at night by doors opening and closing, windows moving up and down, pushed by invisible hands in the dead of night. Certain rooms became intolerable, including the chapter room where the tombstone lay. Fraternity members were soon suffering nightly, unable to sleep or study in their own house, and after a while the events grew more ominous. Members were soon injured almost daily…drawers would fly from their places just as residents entered the room. Windows would crash down, spraying sharp glass on nearby people. People were tripped going up and down stairs. The situation grew worse by the night, and eventually a decision was made. The events didn't begin until the fateful trip to Peach Ridge. The stone must be returned. At that moment the stone fell over from its spot leaning against the wall. The name etched on the stone became evident: Simms. The stone was returned promptly, and no further supernatural problems have taken place in the Delta Tau Delta Fraternity House.

[AUDeltaGam]

Originally posted by madmax
Who says you all have to have a house?
NPC or the school?

I think that rule is BS. If you were at a school where all the sororities have houses and one sorority lost their house, would all the sororities have to suddenly give up their houses?

From what I've heard, it's Auburn's rule.

I think.

[sherbertlemons]

Originally posted by mu_agd
that is the story i always heard when my sister went to miami and then when i went to miami. they also said that she left money for the school to build a brick wall around the only women's dorm at the time, but that she died before they built it so they built it underground.

Just out of curiosity, how do you build a wall underground?

[FAB*SpiceySpice]

Originally posted by sherbertlemons
Just out of curiosity, how do you build a wall underground?

Haha that's an excellent question. I was wondering that myself....

[DeltAlum]

Originally posted by OUlioness01
The stone was returned promptly, and no further supernatural problems have taken place in the Delta Tau Delta Fraternity House.

Geez. What a bunch of wimps. Just kidding.

I never heard any of this. Of course the House on University Terrace opened after I left there.

The "old" shelter where I pledged was right at the top of the Richland Avenue Bridge -- now that place could easily have been haunted.

Only dead soldiers I saw there had names like Jim Beam, Jack Daniels, and Ron Rico, though.

Edited to say, you should all follow Lioness's last link, though. Some pretty strange stuff.