{"id":6887,"date":"2011-10-24T14:17:38","date_gmt":"2011-10-24T19:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/?p=6887"},"modified":"2014-05-20T13:23:58","modified_gmt":"2014-05-20T18:23:58","slug":"hamlet-makes-an-appearance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/tartan-news\/2011\/10\/24\/hamlet-makes-an-appearance\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamlet makes an appearance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hamlet makes an appearance<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hamlet stalks the stage at Blair Hall Theater at Sinclair Community College. Over the years, a number of students and faculty have allegedly experienced supernatural happenings in Building 2, according to Theater Manager Terry Stump.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne stage manager nicknamed the ghost Hamlet,\u201d says Stump. \u201cShe found him to be mischievous, playing tricks on her.\u201d<\/p>\n

Blair Theater was built in 1972, one of the original seven buildings constructed for the Sinclair campus in Dayton.\u00a0 Unlike some of the other buildings, it was never renovated.<\/p>\n

According to legend, the building rests on the old Dayton hanging grounds, where cattle rustlers and other unsavory characters were executed.<\/p>\n

Stump himself says he hasn\u2019t experienced anything paranormal in the 17 years he has been working at the theater.\u00a0 He says it is normally the student stage managers who report seeing and hearing strange things in the building.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a creepy place at night,\u201d Stump says. \u201cIt kind of freaks people out, especially when they\u2019re the last to go and have to turn off the lights.\u201d<\/p>\n

In one notable incident, Stump recalls, performers were using dry ice to simulate fog for a show.\u00a0 The white vapor would flow around where students were standing.\u00a0 During the rehearsal, one of the students claimed there was a spot nearby where the fog was displaced as if someone was standing there.\u00a0 When students moved through that area, they said they felt a chill.<\/p>\n

Once a student found a prop cabinet mysteriously unlocked.\u00a0 At other times, members of the stage crew thought they saw a figure up on the catwalk or crossing through the pit.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s one of these corner-of-the-eye things, where you swear you see somebody looking at you or standing there,\u201d says Stump. \u201cThey [the students] moved quickly out of the theater sometimes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stump believes that most of the theater\u2019s hauntings can be explained by noises that carry from other parts of the building.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou hear a lot of different noises, and every once in a while you see a glint reflecting off a light,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Stump points out that the theater is located directly beneath a dance studio, and that jumping dancers could account for the strange pounding noises that are sometimes reported in the theater.\u00a0 He says that sound travels easily through the building\u2019s cement walls.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe orchestra doors slam below,\u201d says Stump. \u201cAnd it sounds like it\u2019s right behind you.\u201d<\/p>\n

Still, the theater\u2019s reputation as a haunted place remains.\u00a0 The story of the Blair Theater ghost has appeared in the \u201cHaunted Ohio\u201d series and Karen Laven, author of \u201cHaunted Dayton\u201d has visited the school to interview students and take pictures.\u00a0 In some of her photographs, the author found ghostly orbs floating about the theater.<\/p>\n

The theater\u2019s spookiness may even extend into the lobby. Stump says that one person claims that the locked revolving door in the vestibule broke open and spun around by itself. On one occasion, while walking through the lobby, Stump found a religious group holding a prayer circle to try and exorcise the ghost.<\/p>\n

Other people have reported seeing a ghostly couple dancing on stage.\u00a0\u00a0 Stump says that these reports are weird, as the theater has never seen any ballroom dancing.\u00a0 It is uncertain what relation, if any, this apparition has to the student managers\u2019 \u2018Hamlet.\u2019<\/p>\n

If Blair Hall Theater is haunted, Stump doesn\u2019t seem fazed.\u00a0 According to Stump, the theater hosts 60 to 80 events each academic year, serving from 10 to 14 thousand patrons annually.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s spooky, I guess,\u201d says Stump. \u201cHe [the ghost] hasn\u2019t bothered me yet, and he\u2019s not going to do me any harm now.\u201d<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Ghosts horsing around in Building 13<\/p>\n

Twisted tales are emerging from all across Sinclair Community College, especially from Building 13.<\/p>\n

Tim Ryan professor of design has worked in Building 13 since the building was reconstructed in 1992. Ryan is convinced that Building 13 has experienced occurrences of paranormal activity, although not recently.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you\u2019re referring to the story of Joshua, then yes,\u201d Ryan said.<\/p>\n

Ryan explained that before Building 13 was apart of Sinclair Community College, it was the United Color Press building.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen Sinclair reconstructed Building 13, they gutted the inside and kept the basement and main pillars,\u201d Ryan said.<\/p>\n

In that very basement, United Color Press used mules to lift heavy printing equipment and materials. During the great flood of 1913, several mules drowned, according to Ryan. Among those mules was the lead mule \u2014 Joshua.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve heard from other faculty members, that are no longer here at Sinclair, that they have heard Joshua\u2019s name being called out,\u201d Ryan said. \u201cBut that goes on to if you believe in animals\u2019 souls becoming ghosts.\u201d<\/p>\n

The story of Joshua the mule has slowly died off, according to Ryan, but some faculty members let his tale live on by playing jokes on each other.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome of the faculty will put Joshua\u2019s name on other faculty\u2019s computers and joke around with it, but the tale is kind of dying off,\u201d Ryan said.<\/p>\n

However, Lieutenant Scott Fowler believes the story of the ghost in Building 13 came about a different way.<\/p>\n

\u201cI always heard that someone fell into one of the boiler room\u2019s coal burning furnaces,\u201d Fowler said.<\/p>\n

Although both may have opposing stories, both men agree that Building 13 may have a ghastly guest.<\/p>\n

Pat McClelland, galley coordinator for the Burnell R. Roberts Triangle Gallery,\u00a0 has never witnessed any paranormal activity during his tenure at Sinclair.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlthough I\u2019ve heard stories, I\u2019ve never seen anything,\u201d McClelland said. \u201cBut it is interesting to talk about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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