Conrad Hall ghost still spooks students |
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Photo by Kaylie Perry
"Stella", the ghost that haunts Conrad Hall, hangs out at the end of the hall on the third floor as a part of Conrad's Halloweeen decorations.
By Kaylie Perry
Antelope Staff
For many years the residents on third floor of Conrad Hall have reported haunting sounds and visions of a young lady who used to live there. The ghost, named Stella after one of the Alpha Omicron Pi founding sisters, is said to haunt the west end of the third floor rooms, particularly room 318.
Conrad Hall, built in the late 1950s, originally housed the Kearney State College chapter of the AOPi sorority.
"We usually hear most of the noises from Stella the week or so before the students move into the dorms," said junior Justine Agaloos, the first floor RA from Clifton majoring in multi-media.
Stella appears at night, sitting in students' chairs, as well as on their beds. Sometimes students wake up unable to open their eyes or roll over in bed because Stella is sleeping next to them. Stella goes about her daily tasks in other obvious ways as well.
Senior Audrey Churchill from Holstein, an RA in Conrad Hall majoring in interior design, tells a story of a resident on the third floor and her encounter with Stella.
"She [a Conrad resident] was in the bathroom one day and she was waiting for the water to get hot so she could wash her face and the water would not get hot. All of a sudden the faucet next to her turned on and steaming hot water was coming out. After she told us this story we knew then that it had to be Stella," Churchill said.
Churchill said she hasn't had many encounters with Stella, but she knows other girls on the floor have seen and heard strange things such as water turning on in the bathroom late at night.
Some residents say fans in their rooms will change speeds and turn off and on by themselves. Churchill has also heard the manually operated paper towel dispenser will start shooting out paper towels on its own.
Other sights and sounds give credibility to Stella's presence: rumors of chairs being drug across the tile floors in front of the mirrors, lights are found turned on in vacant rooms that have remained locked.
Most residents prefer to keep mum - just in case - because if they talk about Stella, she is more likely to make an appearance.
But what happens depends on whether Stella likes what you are saying: One resident tells the story of the time she was talking to her boyfriend on the phone, telling him about Stella and the eerie happenings when the call got lost. She tried to call him back but she could not get her phone to ring through. After she had some of her other friends try, they could get a call through, but the call would never work from her phone.
"That is when I knew that Stella did not like being talked about," she said.
According to OmaHaunt.com it is said that often residence halls are reported to be haunted. This may be because of the energy from the number of life-changing events happening to students who are housed in these structures.
These life-changing events involve strong emotional reactions, which may be recorded in the structure itself, or may act as a "magnet" to ghostly energies.
