http://mysteriousheartland.com/2014/01/20/top-10-most-haunted-colleges-in-the-midwest/
Never heard any of those stories. Weird.
So, we're not a middle of the road university? Made a top ten list, aina?
Glenn Humphrey Hall, a student apartment complex, was originally the Children's Hospital of Wisconsin. Marquette University acquired it in 1988, and since that time, students have reportedly heard screaming children.
Not good for recruiting.
Glad there wasn't a mention of Mashuda or even kids falling out of McCormick.
I spent a lot of late hours in Johnston Hall and worked in East Hall, and never once heard these rumors.
I heard the rumors about Johnston. I, too, spent a lot of early and late hours and never encountered anything. I hears stories about Carpenter Tower, as well as Gesu. I wonder if Lazar ever saw anything.
I dunno, back in the day some of the broads livin' in Cobeen, Tower, and O'D were pretty dead.
Quote from: 4everwarriors on January 24, 2014, 03:50:48 PM
I dunno, back in the day some of the broads livin' in Cobeen, Tower, and O'D were pretty dead.
Were there ever girls in O'Donnell?
Are they sure the ghost sighting weren't self-induced? It is a college campus and kids do things after all....................
Quote from: WI_inferiority_complexes on January 24, 2014, 04:06:12 PM
Were there ever girls in O'Donnell?
It was an all girls dorm during my tenure from 1987 to 1991.
Hopefully we get a episode on the show School Spirits. On the Syfy Channel. That would make it official.
OD was an all-girls dorm from the beginning. I had a few aunts who lived there. I think it switched over to all-boys when McCormick went co-ed...1990s I believe?
Quote from: Bleuteaux on January 24, 2014, 05:14:37 PM
OD was an all-girls dorm from the beginning. I had a few aunts who lived there. I think it switched over to all-boys when McCormick went co-ed...1990s I believe?
Yup.
O'D was all girls. Don't recall when they shifted over...
Think about it boys...remember the restrooms? Nary a urinal in the whole place: just toilets with their doors removed.
Don't know if it's been renovated....
Quote from: Bleuteaux on January 24, 2014, 05:14:37 PM
OD was an all-girls dorm from the beginning. I had a few aunts who lived there. I think it switched over to all-boys when McCormick went co-ed...1990s I believe?
92-93 it was all male.
I remember hearing stories about people hearing a kid swimming in the pool at East Hall and supposedly the people working the front desk at Humphrey would see kids walking with IVs on the security monitors. I saw nothing myself.
Quote from: Bleuteaux on January 24, 2014, 03:14:45 PM
Did that happen?
Yes it did. I knew the guy. Wally Spence was on the Wrestling team. Good guy from CT. He was struggling with grades and under a lot of pressure from his father. I lived on 8 directly below Wally's room on 12. I knew the guys in the room who said he was sitting on the window ledge with the window open and hitting the screen with his elbows. He ended up going out backwards. There was a group in our room drinking beer and we heard him screaming on the way down. It was bar time on a Sunday night but we knew the scream was too loud to be guys whooping it up. Fr Majka was on our floor so we got him and he went down and administered Last Rites there on McCormick's back lawn across the street from the Ardmore building and the Circle Inn.
Spence's advisor was Fr Landwermeyer who left Marquette pretty quickly after that incident. Spence's old man was a lawyer and sued MU. For those who knew Landwermeyer there were all sorts of stories popping up after Spence's suicide but who knows what was true.
Wow, no mention of the Mashuda 4th floor mirror, the art critic in Cobeen, or "Crispy" over in Carpenter. We should had number 1 for sure!
I was the student manager of the Varsity Theater for 3 years and I never wanted to be in there alone. (Which I had to do a bunch to change the marquee). This has nothing to do with a haunting, but it was pretty odd: If you went to the room that led up to the projection booth, there was a hole drilled through the wall to the outside (what was prob a foot of concrete) and if you looked through it all you saw was the door of the Jesuit residence across the way. I always wondered how and why that got there.
Quote from: keefe on January 25, 2014, 04:51:52 AM
Yes it did. I knew the guy. Wally Spence was on the Wrestling team. Good guy from CT. He was struggling with grades and under a lot of pressure from his father. I lived on 8 directly below Wally's room on 12. I knew the guys in the room who said he was sitting on the window ledge with the window open and hitting the screen with his elbows. He ended up going out backwards. There was a group in our room drinking beer and we heard him screaming on the way down. It was bar time on a Sunday night but we knew the scream was too loud to be guys whooping it up. Fr Majka was on our floor so we got him and he went down and administered Last Rites there on McCormick's back lawn across the street from the Ardmore building and the Circle Inn.
Spence's advisor was Fr Landwermeyer who left Marquette pretty quickly after that incident. Spence's old man was a lawyer and sued MU. For those who knew Landwermeyer there were all sorts of stories popping up after Spence's suicide but who knows what was true.
I always wondered about those windows. They are so low and the rooms are so small, and the screens were of such low quality that guys would routinely punch them out and throw down their empty beer cans. I always worried about tumbling out when I was drunk.
Insert joke comin' from F*ckin' here.
Quote from: WI_inferiority_complexes on January 24, 2014, 04:06:12 PM
Were there ever girls in O'Donnell?
Hell yeah. When I was there, all girls dorm. The "hot" gals were in O'Donnell and the others were in Cobeen. It was like MU requested a picture with the application to decide what dorm to put you in.
Quote from: RushmoreAcademy on January 25, 2014, 09:56:55 AM
I was the student manager of the Varsity Theater for 3 years and I never wanted to be in there alone. (Which I had to do a bunch to change the marquee). This has nothing to do with a haunting, but it was pretty odd: If you went to the room that led up to the projection booth, there was a hole drilled through the wall to the outside (what was prob a foot of concrete) and if you looked through it all you saw was the door of the Jesuit residence across the way. I always wondered how and why that got there.
I was a manager at Brooks, then AMU and also worked Varsity. The only thing I hated about Varsity was the nights we played the Wall or Rocky Horror Picture Show....the amount of puke that had to be cleaned up was not pleasant.
Quote from: ChicosBailBonds on January 25, 2014, 11:17:02 AM
Hell yeah. When I was there, all girls dorm. The "hot" gals were in O'Donnell and the others were in Cobeen. It was like MU requested a picture with the application to decide what dorm to put you in.
Wasn't Cobeen called the virgin vault?
Billy Hays of Midnight Express fame broke his leg trying to climb into an OD window back in the day?
Yes on the vault. Also housed a lotta TMSUB*
*=typical Marquette stuck up bitch
I think someone committed suicide in his bedroom in McCormick my junior year (2009-2010).
Quote from: WI_inferiority_complexes on January 24, 2014, 04:06:12 PM
Were there ever girls in O'Donnell?
Yes, back in the 60s it was a women's dorm.
Quote from: Bleuteaux on January 24, 2014, 03:14:45 PM
Did that happen?
Yes, in 1981 when I was a Freshman on 6 in McCormick. A kid on 8 right above me (who I did not know and cannot remember his name) committed suicide by jumping out his window. If my memory is correct, it was the weekend before December finals.
"Whispering Willie," a boy who drowned in the pool when East Hall was home to the YMCA, haunts that building.
Willie Warrior?
That would be whining wailing Willie instead of whispering Willie.
Wisconsin Lutheran College right down the road is also known for being haunted. Have heard some crazy stories...
Had a creepy experience at Humphrey. Some friends and I were talking about the children ghosts in Humphyey(we lived there 01-03) and how there was supposedly a morg in the basement as we were walking into the building. When we got into the elevator we dared the "ghost" to take us to the basement which got us laughing....until the elevator went to the subbasement(which there wasn't even a button for)! The only lights down there were coming out of the elevator and it was pitch black. I tried exploring around a little but didn't want my friends ditching me down there with no sure way to get the elevator. Creeped us out good. Lived in East too, heard the storied about Willie, but never saw anything. Friends were comm majors and talked about the Johnston Hall rumors but none ever experienced them.
My mom went to nursing school at what is now Froedert, was Milwaukee County General at the time. She had some really creepy stories including one of her meeting the woman(in real life) in white that supposedly haunts the Pfister.
The pfister is legendary...
http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/9315544/justin-upton-more-mlb-players-spooked-milwaukee-haunted-hotel-espn-magazine
http://www.today.com/video/today/32348255
Quote from: pbiflyer on January 25, 2014, 09:38:35 PM
Wasn't Cobeen called the virgin vault?
Billy Hays of Midnight Express fame broke his leg trying to climb into an OD window back in the day?
I thought it was referred to as "Cowbeen Hall".
Quote from: MU Fan in Connecticut on January 27, 2014, 08:34:11 AM
I thought it was referred to as "Cowbeen Hall".
In fall it was Virgin Vault, in spring it was the Slut Hut....or so I was told
Quote from: 77ncaachamps on January 26, 2014, 11:54:55 PM
The pfister is legendary...
http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/9315544/justin-upton-more-mlb-players-spooked-milwaukee-haunted-hotel-espn-magazine
http://www.today.com/video/today/32348255
Story of the lady in white goes, in the late 60's a young couple were planning to get married both came from wealthy families. I guess at the time it was normal to get physicals prior to marriage and it was discovered the bride was externally female, but internal...not so much. Fiance leaves her, family rejects her, and she of course goes a little nutty, attempts to harm herself, etc. They put her in the sanitarium at Milwaukee General for an extended period of time. Eventually she shows improvement, enough that they grant her a weekend pass. She immediately goes to the Pfister, checks into the suite that was to be her room for her wedding night and leaps out the window to her death. And as such the lady in white is "born"
The Rave is also apparently very haunted.
Quote from: PTM on January 27, 2014, 08:52:34 AM
The Rave is also apparently very haunted.
I think that's just echos of rampant drug use, regret and a deuce Blues Traveler took their once.
Quote from: pbiflyer on January 25, 2014, 09:38:35 PM
Wasn't Cobeen called the virgin vault?
Billy Hays of Midnight Express fame broke his leg trying to climb into an OD window back in the day?
We have endless nicknames for Cobeen nowadays. Its kind of like a "pick your favorite" type thing. Virgin Vault, Slut Hut, Pu**y palace, c**t castle, im sure some are slipping my mind at the moment.
And yes, there is a morgue in Humphrey. They still have to keep it available incase of emergency. My friend who works summer staff was down there and said there was a room there with just a single tricycle in the center of the room.