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mtholyoke.stories
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.ghost-stories
From: lawrence.pilon@the-spa.com
Subject: MT HOLYOKE SPOOKS 6
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 94 02:56:23
My very lazy sister related the following story to me. It
seems that in the Pearsons, where my sisters friends roomed, they
liked to play with the ouija board. The important thing to note
is that generally this dorm is party dorm. There is lot of
negative energy in the building due to all the problems and
stress that the occupants experience.
My sister was told this by a very knowlegeable senior who was
into the occult when they invited her to join them in their ouija game.
She warned them it was very dangerous to participate in this activity
there. She was so scared that she did not even want to touch the box.
They didn't heed her warning and proceeded with what they
thought was a game. They lit candles and placed them all over the
room. The lights were kept on also in an effort to attract good
spirits. They also washed their their "Crystals" in salt in order
to purify them to ward off evil spirits. Some insence was also burned.
They began by putting the board on the floor and asked questions.
At first the pointer moved and spelled out jibberish. My sister was one
of the Pointer operators. Her hands were normal temperature for the
first couple of minutes. She then began to feel as if her hands
grew colder and that the tips of her fingers were being pressed upon.
The tips of her fingers also felt very warm. The pointer began to
move very eratically and violently across the board. The pointer even
flew off the board. They initially had asked the board silly questions
like whom they were going to marry, but no questions had been posed to
the board when the pointer went out of control. The room began to really
cool down and the candles began to flicker even though the windows were
closed tightly.
They then proceeded to put the board on their legs because
everyone wanted to sit closer together for security and to keep each
other warm. The movement of the pointer continued to be eratic
and their legs, where the board touched them, became numb and cold.
The board stopped it' eratic movements and everyone felt it would be good
to call it a night.
Later in the week and for a couple weeks later, the occupants of the
room experienced many strange phenomena. They had their sheets pulled off
them, a comforter (a heavy one) was pulled completely off the bed. Objects,
like books, could be heard to fall within the room, but when they looked
everything was normal and no books could be found. They also heard a
knocking at their window, which could not have been done by anyone since
they lived on the top floor of Pearson. They were thouroughly spooked.
They decided not to play with the ouija any more in the building.
They did go to a local cementary, but nothing happened. They were all
disapointed, but none of the Pearsons residents wanted to volunteer
their room to be haunted by a Ouija Spirit.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.ghost-stories
From: lawrence.pilon@the-spa.com
Subject: MT. HOLYOKE SPOOKS
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 94 02:56:23
This is a story told to me by my lazy sister who attended Mt. Holyoke
and enjoyed many fun times spooking herself and her friends.
The first story involves a darling student who live in the Pearsons
dorm on the second floor in a large room over the dining room. It
seems that one night in the 60's the student, we'll call her
"Moon Flower" (MF), was experimenting with LSD. Well, the story goes
that she took a little too much. She freaked and there were
no brown acid counselors available. The story goes that she went into the
closet and started to borrow into the wall with her nail. Hands bloodied,
she crawled into the hole.
The next day her friends missed her at breakfast and began to
worry about her. They knocked at her door, but heard nothing. They
knew she had not left her room so they asked the resident assistant to
open the door to check on her. When they looked into room, they noticed
it was in disaray, but didn't see anything. They entered the room and began
looking around and finally found her in the closet. She was curled up
in a fetal position in the hole she had created. From the expression
on her face she died at alone, frightened and tortured by the demons
her mind had created. MF came from a good family and her death was
most shocking to her family. To avoid scandal, the school refused to
acknowledge that the incident had happened. They repaired the damage
to the room and mysteriously did not place any more students in that
particular room. They turned it into a storage room. The resident
assistant is the only one to have the key. The room remains locked
at all times yet strangely, the room appear open from time to time.
Students, not really knowing the history of the building have reported
hearing footsteps, scratching sounds and very low weaping comming from this
room while eating in the dining room below.
The chandalier also moves a bit when you hear the footsteps, and yet
when knowing students have investigated incident and listen for sounds through
the door, they hear nothing.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.ghost-stories
From: lawrence.pilon@the-spa.com
Subject: MT. HOLYOKE SPOOKY 4
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 94 02:56:23
My very lazy sister, Women of Rugby Players, related to me the following
stories about the Mandels Dorm. For those of you who do not know
the Mandels, it is a dorm on the campus located on the top of
Mandel Hill. It's nestle amoung the treetops and looks quite
forbiding.
The story has two variations. During a october the seniors of
years gone by were hazing the freshman. Part of the the hazing process
was to take the freshman up to the attic of the dorm and initiate
them in any particularly degrading way the seniors could think of.
One particular freshman was rather homesick and was having a hard time
adjusting to the school. She did not really get into the hazing
experience which angered the Hazers. They locked her in the attic and
apparently forgot about her until milk and cooking time. When they
went up to get her. One version of the story goes that they found her
hung. The hazing had driven her to madness and suicide, not at all
the intention of the Hazers. The attic was locked and is not accessable
to the students.
The second version of the story tells that the Hazers left the
freshman in the attic. As it got dark, it got scarry and she became upset
and distraught. She yelled and screamed for quite a while but no one
heard her because everyone was downstairs eating dinner. As she was
trying to find her her way out, she fell down the stair in the dark to
her demise.
These stories are given as explanations of why the doornob to the
attic occasionally rattles as if someone is desperately trying to open it
from the other side. The door is often found open, even though no one has
the key. It also accounts for a tumbling sound that can be heard from the
rooms that are closest to the attic stairs.
* a word about hazing.....it is no longer allowed at MHC. This story is
supposed to have happened a long long time ago.
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