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Phantom footprints are just one of Cabrini's haunts.
was rampant in the cities. The mansion home of this family is now the presi"Where's my baby?" dent's office, the business You look over from where office and other college ofyou sit at your desk in fices. What is now Grace Woodcrest and there is a Hall was used as the stalady dressed all in white bles for the family's horsfloating inches above the es. floor. She is pleading with The Paul family had a you to tell her where her daughter who was about precious baby is. The the same age as the stable woman, believe it or not, is hand they had hired. When a common face around the children were growing campus according to some up, it was acceptable for students and staff. them to play together, but Ghosts only come as they grew older, the very around on Halloween different social backright? Well, if you are a grounds of the pair deemed Cabrini College student, their friendship inappropriyou know that that is totalate. In their teenage years, ly untrue. From the first the daughter and the stable boy soon fell in love. The daughter became pregnant and, knowing what the response would be if her father found out, hid the pregnancy for as long as possible. When the night came that she could hide it no longer, her father put on his coat and top hat and headed to the stables. The stable boy, anticipating the father's actions, went up to photo by Katie Reing the bell tower, tied a piece of rope and hanged himThe ghouls awake in Halloween Adventure
by ShannonKing
staff writer
night of orientation students are told the tales of happenings of long ago in the very buildings where they live, learn and visit every day. Some people choose not to believe the legends, passing it off as only that, a legend. Others know from experience that unexplainable things are known to take place every so often right here on campus. Before it was a college, the Paul family, a wealthy and prominent family in the area, bought the property that Cabrini now occupies and had a home built that was away from the sickness and disease that
self. By the way, the bell mansion when he first tower has been sealed ever joined Cabrini. It was Ocsince and it is said that the tober and by coincidence, piece of rope hangs from the dance was being held on the anniversary of the the rafters to this day. When the daughter young girl's death. When found out about this, she they pulled up the rug to flung herself over the bal- create a dance floor, the cony in the mansion, broke bloodstains came right up her neck and died along through the hardwood with her unborn baby. An- floor. Have you ever wonother ending to the story is dered why there are no that the daughter had the dances in the mansion? Many students tell stobaby stillborn and buried it in the peach orchard where ries of odd things that have Woodcrest stands today. As happened to them in the legend has it, the daughter, dorms. Many of these inwho people refer to as volve appliances turning Mary, still roams the estate on by themselves, objects looking for her baby. Take flying across the room and this story as truth or leg- lights flickering on and off. end, but no matter what Junior Rita Horning tells of you believe there are some when she was a freshman occurrences that still go living in Woodcrest and unexplained on Cabrini's she was sleeping in her campus. neighbor's room one night. Former professor of "It was about 5 a.m. and communications, Dr. we were all sleeping. All of Carter Craigie comes to a sudden the hairdryer give a lecture most years tu~ed on. No one was anyaround this time about the where near it and it didn't bizarre happenings that fall or anything. It just have caused alarm among turned on." some of the students and faculty over the years. One -continued on story that he tells is of a page 9 dance that was held in the
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-Career Connections workshop, 12:15-1:15 p.m., Grace Hall, room 160 •Mocktails 2001, 8 p.m., Woodcrest Lounge
• Midnight Madness, Dixon Center, 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.
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28 •Mass, 7 p.m., Brockmann Chapel of St. Joseph
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31 •Halloween, Feast of All Souls
• Hoedown, athletic field, 12 p.m.-4 p.m.
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