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The secret of the secret room!

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Alumnus Otha Spencer recalls a story retold on campus many times: When Old Main, the administration building so old it was used by Professor Mayo himself, was finally demolished in the early ‘50s, it’s said workers made a surprising discovery. In the attic was an unexplained room furnished with a rolltop desk, a chair, a couch, and a safe. There was also a telephone with no rotary for dialing out; yet when workers picked up the receiver, they got a dial tone. But the strangest thing about the room, legend has it, was that the hidden room had no discernable way in or out.

2 The Toweled Terror

Ghosts apparently take exception to being shushed, if a towel-turbaned specter who’s made at least one late-night visit to the Kappa Delta sorority house is any indication. A KD currently in residence says her aunt still tells about the time she and two other sisters came in late one evening, showered, wrapped their hair up in towels, then headed for their rooms and bed.

The aunt didn’t have a roommate and so was alone when the ruckus started. About half an hour after lying down, she started hearing unintelligible yakking—yakking which continued long and loudly enough that she finally hollered for the perpetrators to hush and go to sleep.

Not long after that, a figure in a bathrobe and towel turban appeared inside her closed door. The aunt sat up, ready to speak to what she assumed was one of her next-door sisters. The figure slowly approached her bedside, then—poof!—disappeared. Auntie flew from her bed and ran screaming next door, only to see both sisters innocently asleep in their beds.

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It’s said that this building, Central Cafeteria, once situated on Education Drive, has its own tall tale, but The Pride could find no one who remembers exactly what it was. Well, except for one current faculty member who says he’s still haunted by the extra 15 pounds he put on there one semester.