<DOC>
<DOCID>ghost_stories.doc.txt</DOCID>
<AUTHOR></AUTHOR>
<TEXT>




With Lake State being located on the former grounds of Fort Brady, its no wonder that there are ghost stories floating around about campus.  The fort was active from the 1890s until 1945, so it is understandable that there are stories about ghost soldiers, marching footsteps and other noises that could be found in an area that once housed a jailhouse, morgue and over 20,000 soldiers. 



Brady Hall is the location of some of the most familiar ghost stories on campus.  Some of the most common stories include lights being seen through the windows on the third floor; people hearing footsteps marching up and down the third floor and the sound of drumming coming from the third floor.  These stories are so well-known that they are even available online, on various Sault Ste. Marie ghost story sites.    



The Admissions office is another building that is reportedly haunted.  People have reported hearing voices coming from rooms that are empty, doors that are closed have flung themselves open and stopped just before banging into the wall.  Recently, Brandon Fast had an encounter involving a door opening.  After going to Lake State for six years, Id never experienced anything involving ghosts.  A few weeks ago, though, I was working at the desk in Admissions.  I had locked the basement door, which has a sliding latch, but as I was working, I heard the latch open, making a metallic scraping noise and heard it click into place, and the door opened 6-8 inches.



Several of the Row houses have ghost stories attached to them, ranging from strange noises, such as footsteps, faint screams and scratching sounds to seeing faces or movement in the windows of the attics but the most active house seems to be Erie hall, which was home to Alpha Theta Omega sorority and Theta Xi fraternity until recently.  Cortney Jones was willing to share some of the experiences she and her sisters have had in the house.  Sam is a little boy that bounces a ball and runs up and down the hallway.  Room 6 has the most stories attached to it.  Theres a really eerie feeling in the closet in that room; the door to the room would close on people even though the doorstop was firmly in place.  One girl would experience her lamp falling off the table and onto her boyfriend a lot.  Jones also told a story about a mans face showing up in pictures taken in one corner of the room.  She said that there were no pictures or windows or anything that could account for the image and that it was very clearly a man with a beard standing in the corner of the photo.  Orbs are also seen quite often in pictures as well as a white arm that appeared in a picture that was taken in the hallway between two bedrooms upstairs.  Another time, a girl was walking up the stairs, with her boyfriend following her.  The boyfriend happened to glance at the window on the landing of the stairs and he saw someone helping the girl up the stairs but when he looked at her, no one was there.  There have also been reports of seeing a girl in the window of unoccupied rooms, hearing crying noises and having the attic door unlock and open, well past maintenance hours.  Jeremy Groat shared his stories about the hauntings on the South side of Erie hall.  There is an older woman that walks around both sides, wearing a nightgown, a soldier that stands guard in the office bedroom on the South side and there is a crazy-looking middle aged man who is only seen hanging from the rafters in the attic.  I doubt the last one has been seen in a while since the attic is now closed off and full of insulation.  Groat said he has seen the older woman in a nightgown as she walked past him in the middle of the night and he added I was not a believer in ghosts; until that point, I basically told everyone they were full of it. It [seeing the ghost] made me a believer.















</TEXT></DOC>
