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pe eerapeineve Lex Menz | WC Editor (Editors Note: The following is a regularly published feature where WC Editor Lex Menz looks into rumors. ) So rumor has it that cam- pus dormitory Harrill Hall is haunted. Given the firsthand - accounts from residents and personal experience, | am say- ing this rumor could be true. According to legend, a girl named Erin suffered an asthma attack one night when her boy- friend was sleeping over. The boyfriend never woke up, and Erin suffocated to death. Since then, Harrill Hall, in particu- lar the fifth floor is subject to all kinds of supernatural oc- currences like misbehaving elevators. Many Harrill students have reported strange activities, par- ticularly on the upper floors. At the same time, many stu- dents have not. Those who reported strange activity said the supernatural occurred in the bathroom faucets turning on randomly and hearing foot- steps running down the hall. The most popular report was a single knock on the door, but upon answering, no one is there, Tyler Collier believes he lives in Erins old room: room 510 A. Collier said that dur- ing a shower late at night, the curtain fluttered with- out cause along with other spooky happenings through- out the semester, The most interesting story came from the fifth Bone ae acaba Burns | Staff Writer The traditions of Hal- loween has evolved and is popular all around the world, including in the U.S., Ireland, Canada, and in more recent years have began to spread through Europe and parts of Saudi Arabia to name a few. But have you ever wondered how the holiday came about? Early Halloween traditions first came to America dur- ing the Irish potato famine and over the years have de- | veloped into the holiday we know and love today. Halloweens origins have often been debated, but the most common tale is that it began with the ancient Celtic festival Samhain, which cel- ebrates the end of the harvest season for the Gaelic culture. Ancient pagans would begin collecting food and supplies to last through the winter, The Celts believed that on Samhain, the connection be- tween this world and the oth- erworld, or after-life, became thin, allowing both good and bad spirits to pass back. and forth. Families offered sac- rifice and held ceremonies welcoming home the spirits of passed loved ones, while warding off the harmful ones. The tradition of costumes is thought to have begun as an attempt to fend off the unwanted, harmful spirits visiting during Samhain, The idea was that one would wear masks and costumes to. re- semble the harmful spirits in order to avoid harm. Jack-o-lanterns are a pop- ular symbol associated with Halloween. The tradition comes from an Irish folklore around the town drunk, Jack, who was known for his tricks. As the tale goes, Jack invited the devil for a drink, after tian-Hodges. Tall and slightly intimidating, Christian- Hodges was going through the motions of Room Condi- tion Reports at 10 p.m. a week before students arrived for the fall semester this year. As he rounded around the eleva- tor corner, he spotted a danc- ing shadow. Immediately, he turned about and fled for his room, According to him, Er- ins shadow is a regular near the elevators on late ciuiet drinks, Jack dared the devil to climb a tree and then trapped him at the top by carving a cross into the trees trunk. According to the tale, Jack _then made the devil promise to never tempt him again be- fore letting him down from the tree. When Jack died, because of his evil, trickster ways, he was denied access into heaven and was also de- nied access to hell for trick- The eee in Harrill Hall are said to be haunted. Stories can he ba or scary. Stories can carry different truths with different people, | decided to test the stories my- self. While I never saw the in- famous shadow or heard any unwarranted knocks on a door as | do not reside in Harrill, my fellow ghost buster Barney and I rode both Harrill eleva- tors for a total of an hour. What we saw was weird. Barney and 1 sat down on the elev aoe floor and waited. ing the devil. The devil gave him a single ember placed in a carved out turnip to light his way through the empty darkness, Originally, the Irish used turnips as their Jack-O- Lanterns, when they came to America during the potato famine; they discovered that pumpkins were more plenti- ful and easier to carve. The color of the Jack-o- lanterns, and the empty black- We Hew Gowan. to the ihied floor, picked up a student, dropped them off, then the el- evator rose to the sixth floor. There, it stopped. The doors did not open. We sat there. This happened four more times, the elevator for no rea- son stopping on the sixth floor after dropping off students on a lower or higher level floor. Once, the doors opened on- the first floor but no one had - os the elevator. The doors ness of the dark night that they light is one of the rea- sons why orange and black is most commonly associated with Halloween. Oranges and blacks are always used to decorate for this ghoulish holiday, often without much thought into the meaning. . Aside from pumpkins, the or- ange tints of the leaves and of bonfires are also credited for giving birth to orange theme closed. On the second eleva- tor, it repeated the sixth floor favoritism four times through- out our riding excursion. When Barney and I hit the fifth floor to try and see the shadow, the elevators con- tinued to act strange without us. Elevator two opened on the fifth floor, but no one was on it. Neither the up nor the down arrow button was lit. It was just like the rumors had reported. of celebrations. Trick or treating did not originate from the Celts Samhain holiday, but in- stead has been traced back to nineteenth century Britain and Ireland as the practice referred to as souling. Soul- ing would occur on Nov. 2 or All Souls Day. The poor villagers and children would travel from house to house begging for soul cakes ce Pee ve oy mor Has It: Harrill Haunted? Cae . he age 10 According to Keith Corzine, the Residential Living direc- tor, it should not be. We upgraded the elevators (in every dormitory) within the last five years, Corzine said. He also added that he had never heard any ru- mors pertaining to a Harrill Hall ghost. According to How Stuff Works, a subdivision of Dis- covery, computers are the masterminds behind eleva- tors and control how people get from floor to floor. If a person does not call the ele- vator, the computer does not send out the elevator because it has received no call. Why then would a computer send an un- called elevator to the suppos- edly haunted floor of Harrill Hall unless there a little truth to the rumor? I dont really believe in ghosts, said one Harrill resident, but its kind of creepy how the doors open by themselves. People constantly debate . back and forth over whether ghosts are real. Personally, I believe in the supernatural and that it is possible for spir- its to hang around after their bodies die. Whether you be- lieve in ghosts or not, you have to admit there is something haunting about Harrill Hall. (Want to read more? Check out my personal blog post on the entire night at http:// starstruckhotellex.blogspot. com/2010/10/who-ya-gonna- Pens eens METISO RA pieces of break made with | currants, and in return would. promise prayer for the dead _telatives of those who gave them the treat. The seemingly pagan cel- ebrations of Halloween with its black cats, witches and ghosts, is actually a harm- less evolution of the Celts new year, and the Christian practice of offering prayer to passed loved ones. ry INGE ae

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The Western Carolinian is Western Carolina University's student-run newspaper. The paper was published as the Cullowhee Yodel from 1924 to 1931 before changing its name to The Western Carolinian in 1933.
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