Campus Rumors - Page 5

Lady Pi Phi · #61 12-16-2002, 01:44 PM

I don't really know of any rumors on my campus...I'm sure there are..some stories are true though. We have an old cannon that sits on the walkway just outside the UC (University Centre) and it's aimed at the president's office...that is true but they say it can't be fired...

There are some from other Canadian Universities, like the University of Western Ontario. Appareently the rumor is that Sugeen Hall is the wildest residence at Western, and probably in Canada and is the best place to get laid...the rumor is so infamous that it Saugeen made the Letterman top 10 list one night.

Another rumor at Trent University is that they have 2 reading weeks. They do in fact have 2 reading weeks and the story behind this is that they have the highest suicide rate at any university in Canada so they have 2 breaks so that the students don't get nurnt out and commit suicide.

DeltAlum · #62 12-16-2002, 01:47 PM

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Originally posted by xok85xo

how do you bleed from hanging?

The rope or wire cuts into your neck.

AchtungBaby80 · #63 12-16-2002, 01:47 PM

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Originally posted by xok85xo
how do you bleed from hanging?

The way I heard it was (and I got this from watching "Scariest Places on Earth"--my favorite!

) that the woman went missing for the longest time, and building was searched but no one could find her. Then, months later, they found her body in the tower. Supposedly, the outline of her body where it was lying on the floor is still there, and they say that if you touch that spot, something bad will happen...but I forget what.

Anyway, my campus has nothing as sensational as that, but I did hear that:

1) Some sort of poll listed UK as having the hottest guys in the country (which is probably not true, but judging by the scenery, it *could* be

); and
2) Th reason the doors on Whitehall Classroom Building are so amazingly heavy and hard to open is because the building was built in the late 60s and the doors were to prevent people from storming the building in case of a riot. Supposedly the steps leading down the hill to the Student Center were also built with the purpose of guarding against riots, because they're longer and flatter than regular steps.

DeltAlum · #64 12-16-2002, 01:52 PM

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Originally posted by TKE209Sweethrt

On this one, well, I'd advise you to drive up there at night, pretty creepy

Ooops...

Back again.

Actually, The Asylum Grounds (now known as The Ridges) was a favorite "parking" spot when I was in school. It was pretty creepy, which probably added to the atmosphere.

If you didn't have a car, you went out to the old golf course.

I think the faculty members use the chains and other devices now. We'll leave it at that.

Rio_Kohitsuji · #65 12-16-2002, 02:08 PM

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Originally posted by DeltAlum

Ooops...

Back again.

Actually, The Asylum Grounds (now known as The Ridges) was a favorite "parking" spot when I was in school. It was pretty creepy, which probably added to the atmosphere.

If you didn't have a car, you went out to the old golf course.

I think the faculty members use the chains and other devices now. We'll leave it at that.

Yeah, me and TKE209 drove up here one night (he's an Athens boy) to see how scared he could get me, lol. Get this, we weren't even parking..and here..an Athens Rent-A-Cop showed up and escorted us out..sheesh..I hate those cops..

I just wanted to some nutso ghosts..can't a girl get anything?? heh

Oh, DeltAlum- Don't forget umm..that one large park for parking purposes...you know..the one w/the giant smelly lake.. lol

adduncan · #66 12-16-2002, 03:41 PM

The eternal "virgin" rumor.

There is an iron sculpture in front of Marsh Chapel at Boston U simulating a flock of birds in flight. (Memorial to Martin Luther King, Jr, an alum of the School of Theology.)

The birds are supposed to come to life and fly away when a virgin graduates.

Some buddies of mine and I tried to hatch a prank based on that one. We really *were* virgins when we graduated--so we tried to figure out a way to unbolt the statue and hide it.
"See? We TOLD you we were...."

Didn't happen tho. Bummer.

Adrienne

Nikki_DZ · #67 12-16-2002, 04:10 PM

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3. We have an Old lunatic Asylum that the University has bought, and the rumor is that there are still torture devices and the chains that inmates were chained to the wall with are still there. however, i boubt that one because a lot of professors now have offices there and we have a lot of research going on there.

The Ridges ARE creepy! I did some training last January at the ILGARD (research center) offices and spent many long hours up there. I was so sure I was going to "spot" something that I'm not sure if I imagined it or not, but I swear one of the windows in empty building we were facing (which is boarded up) opened on its own. *chills*

DeltAlum-As far as Paul Newman goes, through the grapevine I have found out that he was my college roomie's uncle's pledge brother (Phi Tau) but he left school (don't know about being kicked out) after his first year. There you have it-lol...undeniable proof

Bowling Green rumors:

-Tim Conway is an alum and was greek (Phi Delt).
-There's some legend about the seal in the middle of campus, but for the life of me I can't remember the details. It's along the "walk to the left side and you'll marry the one you walk with" lines
-The Chi Omega house is said to be haunted by the ghost of a girl named Amanda. The chapter leaves a blank space in every composite labeled "Amanda". It's a little freaky to look at!
-Supposedly the Eva Marie Saint (BG DG alum) theater is haunted.
-We have a cemetary in the middle of campus. It was always comforting to be following a funeral procession to class

-The music building is in the shape of a clef note and the rec center the shape of a falcon (our mascot). They look awesome from the air.

*edited b/c I'm stupid*

alphaiota · #68 12-16-2002, 05:15 PM

miami u of ohio in oxford. another rumor i forgot about is similar to ou's where if you walk over the miami seal you won't pass your next exam.

hey deltalum, hook me up with the nbc stuff. i just graduated in may and i'm still looking for a job in tv production. pm me, please!!

shelley j
sigma k

#69 06-01-2003, 10:12 PM

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Originally posted by AchtungBaby80
The way I heard it was (and I got this from watching "Scariest Places on Earth"--my favorite! ) that the woman went missing for the longest time, and building was searched but no one could find her. Then, months later, they found her body in the tower. Supposedly, the outline of her body where it was lying on the floor is still there, and they say that if you touch that spot, something bad will happen...but I forget what.

So, i'm watchin "In Search Of...." last night on Sci-Fi channel, and they start talkin about some University that was built in the middle of 5 cemetaries, with the cemetaires forming a pentagram around the school and the various hauntings there. Then they start talking about "The Ridges" and how they used to be an insane asylum and i'm like, hmmm, this sounds strangely familiar.

Turns out this is one of the first threads i ever read after i logged on to GC.

About the lady missing though, they said they found her naked, with her arms crossed on her chest, like 5 weeks after she had turned up missing. When she began to decompose, it left a stain on the floor in the shape of her body. Supposedly they have tried repeatedly to get up the stain, to the point where you can see the scrub marks, but the stain, remains.

They also said that in one of the dorms some girl who was a witch was found dead, with pictures drawn on her wall in her blood. They say that no matter how many times they paint over the wall, the pictures continue to bleed through.

Freaky stuff. Definatly scared me at 2am in my empty house last night

oh, and for the record, this is Kitso's first post EVER concerning Nebraska.....and look, i even considering goin to NU!!

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When i was taking campus tours before my senior year of HS the tour guide at Nebraska told us that their chemistry building is built in such a way that should an explosion ever occur, the building will implode on itself to prevent the chemicals from escaping.

There was also one there about a haunted bell tower or something.

how bout it? any Cornhuskers out there able to verify these?

Kitso
KS 361

Kitso
KS 361 minutes it would have taken me at OhioU before i decided to get the F*** out!!

mu_agd · #70 06-01-2003, 10:24 PM

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Originally posted by alphaiota
miami university -

*melissa joan hart's sister attended miami and was a member of DG or something. (also melissa is supposedly a witch....get it )

I believe that Trisha Hart was a Gamma Phi Beta

Some more from Miami:

If you rub the heads of the turtles on the Tri-Delt sundial it's good luck on your next exam

The same woman that donated the money for the school not to have sorority houses also left money for the school to build a 10 foot brick wall around the only woman's dorm at the time to protect them. She died before it was built, so they built it underground.

There is a headless motercyclist that can still be seen driving down a street off of Chestnut.

There was a murder in Reid Hall, a freshman dorm, and the student's handprint can still be seen on the door. I heard that when they replaced the doors the RA's wouldn't let them replace that one. It is apparently now the door on a different room in that dorm.

If you walk across the seal in the hub you will fail your next exam

AlphaSigOU · #71 06-01-2003, 10:32 PM

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Originally posted by Cream
There is a mural of pegasus on one of the buildings. The rumor was that pegasus would fly when a virgin graduated. A lot of schools have similar rumors.

That rumor also applies to the Pegasus statue at the U.S. Air Force Academy that was given to the academy by the Italian Air Force in 1960. Same thing goes with the Minuteman ICBM on display there; if a virgin ever graduates from the Blue Zoo, the missile flies!

jharb · #72 06-01-2003, 10:37 PM

My sorority house actually had a girl hang herself out the front window with the pin light pointing at her!

Butler really doesn't have that many exciting rumors that I can think of though, I did hear that there are tunnels under all of the buildings though and supposedly someone was killed in them and that's why they are sealed off.

The TKE house on campus used to be the ZTA house and a girl was raped and murdered in it supposedly and when the TKEs moved in her ghost moved across the street to haunt AChiO!

Jess

AlphaSigOU · #73 06-01-2003, 10:42 PM

At the Naval Academy, midshipmen taking an engineering test at Rickover Hall that day rub the nose on the bust of Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, father of the nuclear Navy, for good luck.

alphaiota · #74 06-01-2003, 10:43 PM

actually some of those are a little off.

1. it is the delta zeta sundial.
2. the headless motorcyclist is out in the country a bit. i've done it a number of times.

also, another pretty cool one is if you kiss under the upham arches at midnight, that is who you will marry.

are you an agd at miami u? i used to be really good friends with a lot of agd's there.

shelley j
sigma k

DeltAlum · #75 06-01-2003, 11:49 PM

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KS 361 minutes it would have taken me at OhioU before i decided to get the F*** out!!

Aw, come on, Kitso, don't take off on my Alma Mater now, or I'll sic a bunch of Nebraska people on you.

Just kidding.

I lived in the dorm next to Wilson Hall (the alleged haunted women's dorm) but never met any ghosts. I also can't remember meeting any live women who lived there.

Is was fun parking at the old asylum grounds, though (now, The Ridges).

It was also said that there was more 3.2 beer consumed in Athens per capita than anywhere else on earth. That might have been true back in the days when you could drink "low" beer at 18 in Ohio.