Some more ghost stories!

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Anyone ever been to this college?

Ohio Univerisity

Ohio University, in Athens, Ohio, is no stranger to ghosts. The area in and around Athens is sad to be one of the most haunted places in the country. Many students report strange and unexplained happenings in the dorms in which they live on. Although different dorms serve as the setting, the stories reported are sometimes the same, although there are always exceptions. Are these students experiencing encounters with paranormal spirits, or are they just experiencing spirits in their drinks?

Residents of Jefferson Hall in 1996 found more than they bargained for one day when they decided to go looking around their dorm. While walking around upstairs they came across a room that as far as they knew was unused, but the door was wide open. Looking into the room, they noticed a woman, dressed rather conservatively, sitting at an old desk in a dark corner of the room. The residents later said that she looked like an elementary school teacher. The students greeted her and then realized what they were really seeing. The residents noticed that the woman was not only transparent, but was also floating a couple of inches above her chair. Upon seeing this, they freaked out, and ran to their RA (residential assistant). When they returned to where they had seen the woman, the door was not only closed, but locked as well with no signs of anyone having been there. It is believed that the woman is a former caretaker of the hall and is just continuing to do her job even in the afterlife.

Other phenomena from the top floors of Jefferson Hall reported by students include the sounds of voices in the halls that cannot be explained and the sounds of marbles dropping hundreds of times on the floor above you, even if the floor above you is the attic which no one but the administration have access to.

Washington Hall is said to be haunted by a female basketball team that had died in a bus crash after returning from a basketball camp that they attended during the summer at Ohio University. Residents have reported hearing basketballs being dribbled, laughing, and talking in the hallways, especially in the arch that connects Washington and Read Hall.

Another hall that is prone to unexplained phenomena is Bush Hall. Aside from the sounds of marbles dropping (as heard in Washington Hall, and as you will see others as well), footsteps in the halls, water fountains turning on and off at will, and doors opening are commonly reported strange occurrences in the hall.

A resident in Shively Hall in the 70's was drawn to specific parts of rooms and the building itself by a force that pulled her where it wanted. After numerous incidents of this, her friends plot a line of where the source might be coming from or where it might be taking her. The line that was plotted, when matched with a map, lead directly to one of the cemeteries in Athens. At the time, cults were known to be performing rituals in the cemeteries of Athens. The five major cemeteries of Athens form the points of a pentagram.

On April 11, 1993, a student by the name of Laura was sitting on her window on the fourth floor of her dorm in Crawford Hall. She lost her balance and fell to her death. The following Spring of '94, residents began experiencing problems; lights would turn on and off by themselves, items would disappear and reappear several days later, then things got worse. One evening, one of the residents lay down to take a nap. It was early Spring, and the soft light from the fading sun barely illuminated the room. Knowing that his roommate would be returning, the resident left the door cracked and turned off the lights. He drifted off to sleep, but after a while he was awakened by the door opening and the light from the hall poured into the room.. A female stood in the doorway, silhouetted by the lights. She entered the room, and calmly sat next to the resident on the bed. She spoke, saying, "I'm sorry, I've woken you". The resident tired to assure her that it was OK, but she wasn't listening to him, almost as if she wasn't even aware of him. She got up, left the room, and closed the door behind her. The resident was somewhat confused, since he was sure he knew everyone in his complex, and he had never seen this woman before. Not sure if he had dreamed the whole incident, he went to talk with his RA. He swore again that he had never seen the woman before, but that he felt perfectly calm when she was near. As he described his visitor, and the clothing she was wearing, the RA began to become alarmed, trying to hide her room marked the exact spot where Laura had landed exactly one year before.

Wilson Hall is one of the oldest buildings on the campus of Ohio University in Athens, and surpassingly, not a single report of unexplained phenomena have been reported from there, however, there may be an explanation as to why. The five major cemeteries of Athens, where the cults held rituals, form a pentagram. Pentagrams, according to the pagan traditions, create safe zones that are free from paranormal activity, especially so in the center of this pentagram which is exactly to spot where Wilson Hall was built and stands today.

Besides the events already explained, unexplained sounds such as foot steps and marbles dropping have been reported along with electric disturbances and doors opening and closing without reason in several other dorms including: Truedly, Tiffin, Sargeant, Ryors, MacKinnon, and Lincoln Halls.

Are the halls of Ohio University housing the spirits of people long forgotten along with the leaders of tomorrow? If so, then the line of people wanting to live in Wilson hall must be getting rather long, let's just hope the spirits don't decide to look for a new place to roam.....

 

[Mistress]

Oooooooo.....shivers with excitment

 

[Pyper]

I've got a question. Why do dead people haunt some universities but not others? In the sixties, four people jumped off the highest building at my university to protest to Vietnam War. Another set himself on fire in the middle of the quad. Several more committed suicide over the years by jumping off my residence hall. Yet no haunting here. Why are they so selective?

 

[Siren]

Cuz Pyper.....

 

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Probably fearing defrauding by razor

 

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Anyone else know any haunted college stories?

 

[lavender]

 

[Bonnie Wee Lassie]

Creepy!

Not to my knowledge do we have and Canadian hauntings in Schools. Glad I went to school here.

 

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Here's a case in England for you lavvie

This is an excerpt from an excellent website covering ghosts all over the world!

Drury lane Theatre, London

First, regarding the ghost of the handsome young man mentioned. In this book(about famous ghosts) he is referred to as the "Man in Grey." He is described as very dignified, dressed in eighteenth-century clothes, with either powdered hair or wig, and wearing or carrying a three-cornered hat. He gets his name from the long grey cloak he wears, and sometimes the hilt of a sword has been seen sticking out of the cloak. He seems to be part of the audience, rather than a ghost of a performer, although people who see him might mistake him for a (living) performer wearing a costume. He is often seen before a play that is going to be a hit, so he's considered an omen of good luck. He never shows up for failures. Someone once offered to exorcise him and was turned down.

Drury Lane was opened during the reign of King Charles II, who loved theatre. In 1948, during the extremely successful run of "Oklahoma," King Charles II and a crowd of his attendants were seen on stage.

Also during the run of "Oklahoma," there was a young American actress named Betty Jo Jones who wasn't doing a very good performance. Then during one scene she felt hands pushing her into a new position, and the invisible hands continued to guide her around the stage during the performance. Her performance got better.

Another young actress named Doreen Duke was trying out for a part in "The King and I." She was very nervous, and during the audition she felt the invisible hands guiding her around. She got the part. A theatre expert named W.J. Macqueen-Pope thinks that this may be the ghost of Joe Grimaldi, who performed often at Drury Lane and gave his farewell performance there. He was always known by other actors to be very helpful.

Another ghost at Drury Lane is described as being tall, thin, and ugly, and is thought to be the ghost of actor Charles Macklin. He had a bad temper, and in 1735 he killed actor Thomas Hallam during an argument. Macklin was charged with manslaughter but never punished, and finally died at the ripe old age of 107. The ghost wasn't seen until after his death.

A comedian named Stanley Lupino was putting on his makeup when he looked up and saw another face reflected in the mirror beside his own. It was the face of Dan Leno, another comedian who had died recently. Lupino later learned he was using Leno's favorite dressing room.

W.J. Macqueen-Pope got a letter from a woman who said she had seen what must have been a ghost intently watching the play that was being performed. It was a man wearing old-fashioned clothes sitting at the end of the row where she was. When the lights went up, the man was gone, though to get out he would have had to walk right past her, and he hadn't. Later when she was looking through a book of old theatre pictures she saw his picture. It was Charles Kean, an actor of the nineteenth century.