{"id":10429,"date":"2014-10-08T11:45:39","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T16:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/?p=10429"},"modified":"2014-10-08T11:45:39","modified_gmt":"2014-10-08T16:45:39","slug":"haunted-sinclair-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/tartan-news\/2014\/10\/08\/haunted-sinclair-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Haunted Sinclair"},"content":{"rendered":"
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With Halloween just around the corner, Sinclair students, faculty and staff are reminded of the campuses own paranormal activity.<\/p>\n

For those unfamiliar with the stories, Sinclair has quite the history with the supernatural, so much that according to mostmetro.com, the campus is said to be one of the most haunted college campuses in America. The reported hauntings are said to be in Buildings 2, 7 and 13.<\/p>\n

In Building 2\u2019s Blair Hall Theater, people have reportedly said they have felt tugging on them, seen doors clos- ing on their own and have heard such things as random laughing, babies crying and meowing cats.
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\u201cOne night, in spring semester, I was listening to music and doing laundry, I swear I heard someone singing with me, out of nowhere. I looked around to see if anyone else was around, but there wasn\u2019t,\u201d said Jennifer Smith, a Theater major.<\/p>\n

Students have named this particular ghost, Hamlet, showing that this particular ghost is a theater buff. Jess, another theater major, has said that the has heard strange noises at night, and that Blair Hall\u2019s official mannequin, Mona, has moved on it\u2019s own.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Hamlet has however traveled outside of Blair Hall, according to Emily Kronenberger, a communication major, whose aunt is teacher in the medical department in Building 2.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne time, I sat in my aunt\u2019s office while she taught class when I suddenly heard noises and the door in office began opening and closing on it\u2019s own,\u201d said Emily.<\/p>\n

Overall, Hamlet has been described as a spirit that the students and staff of Blair Hall have an understanding with.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe say hello and goodbye to him,\u201d said Smith. \u201cThe story of him being around tends to keep the theater family together.\u201d<\/p>\n

Building 7\u2019s cafeteria was built over hanging gallows, where criminals and cattle rustlers were executed. The first person to be hung was John McAfee, on March 8, 1825, for poisoning his wife. The last hanging occurred in 1877, of union veteran, Harry Adams for beating a fellow veteran to death. After this, the Ohio Legislature abolished executions, and the Dayton gallows were dismantled in the mid 1960s,where the cafeteria in Building 7 stands.<\/p>\n

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Not one, but three ghosts occupy building 13. The original ghost, dubbed Mr. Joshua, a possible worker for the United Color Press, may have died from having one of his arms caught in a press. Now, Mr. Joshua is accompanied by two other ghosts; an old man and a mule. Originally, Build- ing 13 was a railroad roundhouse that used mules to turn railroad systems. The sight was destroyed in the Dayton flood of 1913.<\/p>\n

Now when you are in Building 2, 7 and 13, make sure to not only be courteous to the people around you, but also to the spirits that call these buildings home.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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