THE DRAFT TUESDAY 10.31.2017 No. 051 Vol 213
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BY SARAH.MULLER @iowastatedaily.com While many believe ghosts and goblins come out during Halloween, at Iowa State some locals claim to have experienced paranormal activity year round.
HERE ARE A FEW OF THEIR STORIES: FRILEY Multiple tales haunt Friley’s halls, but two experiences by students are similar. In 2015 Sarah Etheridge, senior in performing arts, was taking a shower at 1 a.m. on the third floor of Friley when the bathtub mysteriously turned on. She peeked out of her shower stall to check if she was the only person in there when suddenly all of the showers started streaming out hot water. She gathered her belongings and ran to the door, but as soon as she made it to the exit, all the showers turned off. On the first floor, Andrew Smith, senior in design and performing arts and employee of Model Farm, was mesmerized by three isolated doors that were always locked. One night his freshman year, he came home late from the design building and decided to take a shower, which was a room near the three mysterious doors. He turned off the water and heard creaking amongst the pipes. Suddenly the other shower turned on. “I went into full panic mode,” Smith said. He ran back to his room. But, his curiosity with paranormal activity caused him to return to the scene and the showers were off. Smith had heard stories of the three rooms being haunted so he decided to investigate. When he tried to open the first door, it was locked. His hand gripped the second doorknob and it wouldn’t budge. However, the third door clicked open. He stepped in and there was nothing to be found. “It was just eerie,” Smith said. “I don’t want to call it a presence, but there was a feeling of something else there.” He retreated and shut the door behind him. As he began to walk away, he heard the door unlatch and swing open, but Smith had to keep walking.
MEMORIAL UNION Late at night, Memorial Union staff have reported “the sound of what could be ghostly activity,” according to the Memorial Union website. The sound appears to belong to Hortense Elizabeth Wind, the only woman on the wall of more than 500 names of students or alumni that have lost their lives to war. She was a home economics graduate in
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