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David In Indy:

--- Quote from: Lynne on November 18, 2008, 09:10:27 pm ---"Aside from the Headless Gownsman, there is a more disturbing tale on campus. This involves Tuckaway Hall, and a room on the third floor. Campus legend tells that three students who have lived in this room have committed suicide. Now their ghosts haunt Tuckaway Hall, causing mayhem for residents today. Almost anyone who knows the tale will reject any assignment to this room, but there is the occasional student who does not know the history of this room. If you ever attend the University of the South, and are assigned to a room on the third floor of Tuckaway Hall, be careful. You might meet the same fate as three other former residents."

http://www.johnnorrisbrown.com/paranormal-tn/sewanee/index.htm

***shiver***

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Lynne, that story is creepy!! I wonder if anyone there recently has seen the gownsman? I think I would probably lose my sanity permanently if I ever saw a spirit walk past me with his head cut off! :o

That really does look like a beautiful campus, and it's very historic too! :)

Lynne:

--- Quote from: DavidinIndy on November 18, 2008, 09:50:24 pm ---Lynne, that story is creepy!! I wonder if anyone there recently has seen the gownsman? I think I would probably lose my sanity permanently if I ever saw a spirit walk past me with his head cut off! :o

That really does look like a beautiful campus, and it's very historic too! :)
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Yep...creepy is right.  Some of these stories are featured in Ghost Stories of the American South:  http://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Stories-American-South-McNeil/dp/061398952X.

It is truly a beautiful campus.  I never saw the Headless Gownsman myself, but I know others who say they did.  My history professor sophomore year (Dr. Cushman) had his office on the fourth floor of Walsh-Ellett hall - had to climb a spiral staircase up almost into the bell tower.  Our papers were always due at midnight, so there were frequent trips up there to provide opportunity for contact!

Jeff Wrangler:

--- Quote from: ednbarby on November 18, 2008, 09:00:28 pm ---The really weird thing about the attic was that it went between my brothers' any my "Jack and Jill" bedrooms on the second floor.  You could get into it from a door in each bedroom.
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My maternal grandparent's house had a feature like that. The house was built in the 1870s, and there was a doorway in two of the bedrooms that led to the stairs to the attic. What really creeped me out was that in the room where I always had to sleep when we stayed over, the attic door was blocked by a large a chest of drawers, almost like it was barricading the door closed. I always more than half suspected that the chest actually was placed where it was to keep something trapped in the attic.  :laugh:

Jeff Wrangler:

--- Quote from: DavidinIndy on November 18, 2008, 09:31:45 pm ---THEN! We had this mean babysitter who used to tell me that a monster called the "suds" lived in our basement. She said the suds looked like soap suds, but they were shaped like a giant man. She said they would come up through the heat vents in my bedroom floor and snatch me if I was bad. Then they would drag me back down to the basement and tie me up and torture me. I'm sure that was probably part of my fear of the basement too, but I remember being most afraid of any ghosts. :(

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 :o  Aw, David, that's awful!  :o

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