From: cavaden@ariel.lerc.nasa.gov (Karl Vaden)
Subject: Re: Athens County Ohio Stories Wanted
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Date:  1 Sep 1992 17:18 EST  

In article <1SEP199210050522@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov>, devol@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov (WILLIAM DEVOL) writes...
>I sure hope I got this right; this is the first time I've ever posted 
>anywhere.
> 
>I went to college at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio.  My parents live in 
>Athens County, Ohio, but I wasn't raised there.  When I was in school there
>, I became very interested in the local ghost stories.  I've collected a 
>few, and I was wondering if there are any of you that can help me out.  I 
>realize this is a world-wide news group, but I figure my chances are better 
>this way.
> 
>If you don't have any Athens County stories, how about ghost stories that 
>are associated with colleges or universities.
> 
I went to college at Prairie View A&M University in Texas.  In my junior
year, my roommate and two girls sneaked into the new library which was 
being constructed.  I had just come from a party and was a little drunk.
We went to the top floor (5th) and were looking at the campus, talking,
etc.  All of the sudden we heard a noise like a sheep or a goat (you know
-Baaaaaaaaa).  We all stopped and listened and heard it again.  I thought
someone followed us and was trying to scare us, so I picked up a long pole
and asked "who's there?".  We just heard the same sound.  That's when we 
realized that the only exit was the wooden spiral stairway we had used to
get here (which is where the sound was coming from-just like the horror 
movies where the college kids get trapped and mutilated :) ). By now, 
everyone was a little uneasy.  The girls were holding on to us, and we 
started inching towards the stairs.
  This is where things got wierd.  I saw a man walking towards us with his
hands over his head like he was carrying something.  At first, I thought it
was a security gaurd- but as he got closer I couldn't make out any details.
It was like he was a shadow.  I told myself that I was drunker than I
thought, but I still couldn't see anything except a shadowy figure of a 
man slowly walking towards us.  My roommate said he saw something like a 
large dog run behind something.  One of girls saw something like a goat.
 The other girl just saw "something" walking towards us.  "It" ( in my
case, a shadowy man) came closer and then disappeared.  Whatever the others
saw must have disappeared at the same time, because we all hauled ass
towards the stairs.  Ahead of us of the left, there was a vent on the floor
 which was covered with a plastic trash bag. As soon as we past it it
started flapping wildly like there was a strong wind over it.  I didn't
feel any gust of wind.  My roommate says he felt the wind.  We flew down
the stairs, I don't even remember running through the rest of the library,
but we didn't stop running until we were far away from the library.  That
was one of the strangest things that has happened to me.  My roommate
and I still get chills up and down our spine when we tell someone about it.
  Months later, one of my friends told me that a constuction worker died
by falling from the fifth floor.  I don't know whether he was telling the
truth or if he had heard the story and wanted to see my reaction when he 
said this. 

K. Vaden    cavaden@ariel.lerc.nasa.gov