| 词条 | Iowa State Myths and Legends |
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}} There are many myths and legends rumored to be associated with Iowa State University. They celebrated with tours that are given each year at Haunted Iowa State, a week or two before Halloween. Memorial UnionHortense WindKnown to make a strange noise that sounds like a low eerie moan. She is also blamed for many odd occurrences such as: the slamming of doors at night when nobody else is in the building. ZodiacIt is a well known superstition that you do not step on the Zodiac in the entrance of the Memorial Union, or you will fail your next test. Barton HallBarton hall is said to be haunted by the ghost of Clara Barton, the founder of the American Red Cross. She is said to be a "nice" ghost, however. Freeman HallFreeman hall, much like Barton, is said to be haunted by the ghost of Alice Freeman, who is also a "nice" ghost. Friley HallLinden HallLinden Hall is haunted by the ghost of an ex-Cyclone football player. He is in his full game day gear and can be spotted the night before a home football game, prepared to play the next day. Iowa State CemeteryThe Iowa State cemetery has had many accounts of faint outlines that look like an isolated mist in the shape of a person over the years. Nuclear Engineering BuildingThe Nuclear Engineering Building is said to be haunted by the ghost of Joseph Keichel, who died of radiation poisoning in 1946, shortly after his stint working on the Manhattan Project in the Ames Laboratory. Although the actual cause of the poisoning is inconclusive, he blames graduate students and continues to haunt them by thwarting their projects in the Nuclear Engineering Building. Farm HouseTurning on and off of lights have been reported, along with rattling of dressers. Fisher TheaterFrederica Shattuck died in 1969 and haunted the Shattuck Theatre. Her ghost then moved to Iowa State Center Fisher Theater in 1973 with the theater program, along with her wheelchair and a few of her other belongings. According to the Iowa State Daily in an article in 1978, a member of the cast investigated some strange noises, and found her wheelchair mysteriously rolled to the middle of the stage as if Shattuck was about to give a monologue. Referenceshttp://www.inside.iastate.edu/2007/1019/ghosts.shtml http://www.iowastatedaily.com/news/article_1d72e2db-d152-5ea9-a4f0-f2ae6896c341.html 1 : Iowa culture |
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