Faculty, staff experience campus hauntings
Joseph Roman Flis
Issue date: 10/18/07 Section: Culture
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Patten Chapel paranormal
Right next door to Hooper Hall, Patten Chapel has its own fair share of ghostly lore.
According to research Kotarski has conducted for her next book, some people have heard organ music coming from the chapel in the middle of the night. She also said some have heard doors slamming and footsteps just like in Hooper Hall, so maybe it is the same ghost.
"Others have seen a woman in white in or just outside the chapel, sometimes in the bright of day," Kotarski said.
Development building disturbances
The development building used to be the University president's home when UTC had presidents.
According to faculty, there are many stories circulating that after his death, a former president, Dr. Prescott, continued to inhabit the building.
They said machines turn off for no apparent reason. Cantrell said there are incidents where things such as scissors or keys have gone missing. Every time something weird happens, faculty stated that they say jokingly, "There's Dr. Prescott again."
Brock Hall haunts
Brock Hall sits on the site of an old jail and right next to where the old math building once stood. The old math building used to be a medical school where there was a black market for body parts, and before that it was the execution yard for the jail, according to Kotarski. She said several ghosts were believed to haunt the math building before it was torn down, and there have been reports of women's screams echoing through Brock Hall.
Lore leery
Chris Nikitas, an Oak Ridge, Tenn., senior, said he has never heard anything about hauntings on campus and is skeptical.
"I'm one of those 'I'll believe it when I see it' people," he said.
Right next door to Hooper Hall, Patten Chapel has its own fair share of ghostly lore.
According to research Kotarski has conducted for her next book, some people have heard organ music coming from the chapel in the middle of the night. She also said some have heard doors slamming and footsteps just like in Hooper Hall, so maybe it is the same ghost.
"Others have seen a woman in white in or just outside the chapel, sometimes in the bright of day," Kotarski said.
Development building disturbances
The development building used to be the University president's home when UTC had presidents.
According to faculty, there are many stories circulating that after his death, a former president, Dr. Prescott, continued to inhabit the building.
They said machines turn off for no apparent reason. Cantrell said there are incidents where things such as scissors or keys have gone missing. Every time something weird happens, faculty stated that they say jokingly, "There's Dr. Prescott again."
Brock Hall haunts
Brock Hall sits on the site of an old jail and right next to where the old math building once stood. The old math building used to be a medical school where there was a black market for body parts, and before that it was the execution yard for the jail, according to Kotarski. She said several ghosts were believed to haunt the math building before it was torn down, and there have been reports of women's screams echoing through Brock Hall.
Lore leery
Chris Nikitas, an Oak Ridge, Tenn., senior, said he has never heard anything about hauntings on campus and is skeptical.
"I'm one of those 'I'll believe it when I see it' people," he said.
