I recently received this link from a friend, detailing a guy’s month-long disappearance from MSU in 1979 that some attributed to too many hours playing Dungeons and Dragons in the steam tunnels underneath campus:
I’d never heard this story, and it got me thinking of other university secrets, like…
this guy, whose body was found in an abandoned refrigerator during my freshman year - the authorities claimed he just walked in and died of suffocation, never mind that the fridge was only 5 by 3.5 by 2.5 feet and the room it was in was always kept locked:
I recently found out that Theodore Roethke, who has always been one of my favorite poets, held a teaching position for a few months here in the 30’s, but had to leave when he had a nervous breakdown while walking around campus one night.
rumors of a ghost that hangs around Beaumont Tower looking for his long-lost sweetheart… spooky
I’d like to hear any unsettling/ creepy/ entertaining stories anyone knows about their own alma mater. MSU stories are especially welcome!
1973, I lived on the North edge of campus, in older, ivy covered buildings. My dorm was the only one that was ‘non food’ which meant the cafeteria was rented out a lot for meetings and so on.
I’d gone to the cheap flicks at one of the other campus sites, and seen, for the first time, Camelot with Richard Harris etc…
Got me in a mood. So, humming to myself, I wandered back home, dreaming of scenes from the movie, the flowing clothes, the handsome men… Da da, da da da da da da da daaaaa da… (Camelot theme if you didn’t recognize it),
Da, da, da da… enter my dorm,
da da da da da daaaaaaaaaa walk down the hall,
da da da da dada daaaaaa da, in Camelo…
there was a meeting of the Society for Creative Anachronism going on. (they dress up in medival garb).
Well, I once knew this girl at MSU who was mixing it up with one of her professors…
We have a lot of the standard legends here at Mizzou. The Columns represent the only six virgins to graduate, the lions at the J-school will roar when a virgin walks past…wait, I think I’m picking up a pattern here…
