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4 Ghosts and g MARK HWAS Staff Writer Dicture, if you will, a dark dorm room, a Ouija board and nine or so of your closest friends. Two people V? r%\ra Viork/^a r\Ti 0 r\l ( fKn QtTAW rliu T v> Vll&ll 11UI1UO V/ll UIV |/lUllVHVbVV \ tliv Mil V? ?? shaped indicator that is used to spell out words on a wooden board, supposedly guided by'spirits or ghosts), aAd they suddenly contact a spirit. Now try to imagine that this spirit starts spelling out strange, cryptic messages. If you imagined this, then perhaps you can begin to feel the uneasiness of one USC freshman. Amy B. (who asked that her last name not be used) was with a group of friends who contacted a "spirit" only two weeks ago. "He started spelling out weird stuff about this guy," Amy said. "We asked him his age, where he was from and where he went to school. He wouldn't tell us. Every time we asked his name he would spell out "be polite." "Somehow we got on the subject of how he died. He said he was pushed, then said, 'no, jumped' and kept switching back and forth. Someone in the room started saying 'He's lying, he's lying.' So then we asked him if it was suicide or if it was accidental. First he said suicide, then he said accidental. Again, he kept switching back and forth." That, according to Amy, was when it started getting really strange. "He kept telling us, Tlay Bloody Mary. Ray Bloody Maiy.' So, we asked him why. He said, So you will see me," according to Amy. This, however, is not the only unexplained phenomenon on campus. Amy did not know that about 22 years ago the Columbia Hotel was demolished, and two photographs were taken that showed images that couldn't be explained. According to a 1984 issue of The Gamecock, former USC student and Gamecock reporter Charles Gay ancLa staff photographer toured the inside of the building before it was destroyed. Neither one of the two saw anything unusual while they were in the building, but a picture showed a dark silhouette of a young man walking down a hallway, surrounded by a bright light. Also, according to Gay, United Press International took a picture of the building as it fell. In an upper window was the face of a young man. Before the building was demolished, a hotel housemother, Miss Bell, told Gay that students were never assigned to a certain ninth-floor room. An icy presence occupied the room, Frightening ft BWYCEGBSON Staff Writer September. It folio masked Myers on hi You're looking for a few the town of Haddon nerve-shattering, spine- night. If s a fun retu tingling movies for an movies of the '80s w entertaining Halloween some never-ending c night. Some newly- like the "being stalk released fright films on Mllef scenario, this i video and some nightmares from the || Children of th past might be just the answer. 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The action field on Halloween moves back to the countryside after its irn to the "slasher" short detour to the city in "Urban ith blood, guts and Harvest." The rural setting is :hase scenes. If you appropriately chilling for these movies, ed by a a maniacal The Craft " ?V??, ?>%% v.A.i ITvirrU^ oaq fKlo mnino Tf io uic JLLiUvie iui yyju. i iigia xaiio uiuoi ooc viiio xuv/tiw iv e Corn IV: The features a hot, young cast, an outstanding soundtrack and an awesome 100 minutes tephen King sequel, of entertainment. The title comes from is creepy and eerie the four lead characters who find time i. The "Children of to practice witchcraft in between their one of the scariest shopping expeditions. The movie is scaiy rner mr ; PALM \ \- I I Campus \ V I? I Ministry \ \ \.|%. F inner Program | JB * ler Pilgrimage | R 1 d Dinner I * ? 30 pm 1 Lutherans || lodists A ?799-7363 | ^rter \ ih>I ?f Nursing; I 1 ^ ^ c. campus haur too, and the incidents were occurring those rooms." Tronco also recalled a few specific incidents during her time as a Burney RA "A few people reported seeing a hospital gurney in the hallway late at night. A girl who lived in room 416 came into her room to find the M & M package on her desk had been smashed flat. The laundry was scattered all rival* tVia rnnm " VT VI bllV 1 W1U> ' Tronco also said the girl had no roommate at the time, and the doors were locked when she came back to her room. "One time, W|T"7 during ' -ll|| ' .* : -:i;V.' =' | e x a m s, I yll-llilill u came out of . is my room 1 I? : ] and found T-k::'.- ' ' ' g about 10 '-j"? girl s fM ' ? huddled ??*= '_J together. ilreet They were too scared dc<?H?iLs | 51] HW1} iniono Library | > ^dHL Tronco said. House i story in a ja^ ; 1993 edition ' \ of the Theater Gamecock J talked ^?- ?about the incidents, BEN MULOROW The Gamecock including statements by a sophomore at the time, Maggie Roark. It started happening in October of last year (1992)," Roark said in the article. "It started that the balcony door would be open when my roommate and I would come back, and neither one of us had left it open." Next, came unexplained events that led Roark to believe that her room was haunted. "The CD player and the radio would turn on and turn off. One night in a friends room, a computer started typing letters, and then it turned itself off," Roark said. After these occurrences, Roark and her roommate began t A ertaining Hall when it needs to be,but also has some g Pet Cemetery funny times, too. There are moments of A family moves seriousness, and it is a roller coaster ride soon discovers the from beginning to end. "The Craft" is a nearby burial gr one of the best horror movies in years, people come back ft A Nightmare on Flm Street that would have th< Freddy, the gloved killer, is still of the Living Deac making people stay awake all night. The their graves. This series has a range from its high points Stephen King mo of the original and "The Dream Child" movie is dark and ] to its low point of "Freddy's Revenge." lets you forget the The film's creator, Wes Craven, and was made: to sea Freddy Krueger definitely know how to good as the book, tl show us what nightmares are made of. adaptations come. 015^ % ) 1 Wednesday, October 30,1996 iting ground to see ghosts. ( "My roommate and I were in bed talking, and I opened mv pvps and saw an imaee of a man above mv bed." Roark said in the article. "He was about six-feet tall, was wearing old clothing and was blurry. My roommate and I were screaming for each other to cut on the light, but we were both too scared to move." Roark became too scared to sleep in the room by herself whenever her roommate was gone. The next semester, she witched residence halls. Another girl woke up one night and saw a girl in a brown dress and shawl, carrying a tray that had a wine bottle and | wine glasses on it, according to another story researched by Gay. At first she thought it was her roommate, but when she called out her roommate's name, the girl vanished. Gay said he heard a story about a Dr. Black who used to live at the corner of Greene and Pickens Streets. Black was, supposedly, a staunch southern supporter. One night, his daughter was raped by three Union soldiers, after which the girl poisoned the soldiers and drank some of the poison herself, killing all four. Another story involving Union soldiers happened in the late 1970s, according to the 1984 article. A security guard saw a young lady while he was going upstairs at Harper to { turn off some lights. He noticed the girl was covered in blood, and was saying "I killed them. I killed them all." While doing research at South Caroliniana Library, Gay found that buildings on the Horseshoe were used by Union ti-oops as hospitals during the Civil War. There was an account of a southern nurse who had killed seven Union soldiers at Harper College. The nurse was hanged the next day. In 1982, residents of a third-floor Elliott College apartment told friends that they heard a voice they didn't recognize. Sometime in the 1970s, a couple spotted a girl outside the President's House while walking home from a fraternity party. The couple called security, who told them to go sleep it off. Rumor has it that a security guard saw the same girl two , nights later, and asKed to be replaced. A sorority room in the basement of a Women's Quad dorm had the furniture completely rearranged overnight. No one ever found out who did it. And if you can't find ghosts at any of those places, there is always Longstreet Theater. Between 16 and 26 Union soldiers were buried there,. The limestone slabs that are the foundation of the theater were poured on top the graves. In England, most supposedly "haunted" houses are theaters. oween night Halloween into a new house and Through the years, there have been unearthly powers of five sequels made to John Carpenter's ound. In this movie, "Halloween." None of them have been om the dead in a way ^ scary or effective as the original. You s zombies from "Night ^ ,he p,ot Mjchael ig out t0 m on craw ing ac in o night. Hiis movie doee exactly is one of the scariest , . . _ , , ???? mnAa rrn what slasher movies are meant to do. It vies ever made. 1 he mysterious and never *eeps the audience in suspense until the i main reason that it uext killing takes place, re. Although not as These movies will make you think his is as good as King twice before walking alone Halloween night. ^McMeel \ http://www.usc.bkstr.com