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tracks by North Campus right beside the cemetery and
the train didn't see him, and it cut off his head,” said
Kelly Aratoon, a senior public relations major from
Vienna, Va., who serves as bench chair of the Student
Alumni Council.
It’s speculated that the ghost of “Wee Willie” sleeps in
a hollow log on the banks of the Oconee River, according
Aratoon's research.
“People come through downtown walking and they
sometimes think they can hear him screaming,” she
said.
Most of the other anecdotes of horror are more than a
century old, Aratoon said.
Knowledge of these stories can turn familiar land
marks into scary spaces, a welcoming campus into a
Halloween haunt and historic alumni into ghostly phan
toms.
In the 1820s, for example, Robert Toombs, a student
and member of Demosthenian Literary Society, had been
expelled several times from the University and could not
attend graduation.
Toombs instead stood under a large oak tree in front
of the Chapel and gave a speech so compelling that stu
dents fled their graduation within the Chapel to hear
Toombs’ defiant discourse. But the oration abruptly
ceased when lightning struck the tree and killed
Toombs.
A sundial now stands in the place where Toombs
allegedly died.
A Toombs impersonator will act as a tour leader
tonight, but Toombs' ghost may still linger the streets,
Aratoon said.
“I'd definitely say that there's ghosts that come and
visit us,” she said. “Is it a negative thing? I don’t think
so.”
One of those spirits may be looming the mysterious
stairway in Joseph E. Brown Hall on North Campus, Lee
said.
When the building was a dormitory in the 19305, a stu
dent hanged himself during Christmas break. The putrid
corpse remained suspended in midair for days until a
potent decaying smell led to the body’s discovery, accord
ing to Lee.
The staircase that supposedly led to the late student’s
room still remains, but the door has allegedly been
sealed by a concrete wall.
An enlarged photograph of the apartment of the
German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is the only
visible thing hanging today.
Senior magazines and sociology major Savannah
Weeks said she’s heard of the Joe Brown Hall haunting.
However, she said she was not aware of any of the other
ghost stories.
‘Tm expecting to learn a lot of history of UGA,” Weeks
said. “Any University this old has to have some good
scary stories.”
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One of Aratoon’s favorite chilling-secrets about the
University is the construction of North Campus on the
Jackson Street Cemetery, covering the graves of those
who had died.
“It was our understanding that they knew it was a
cemetery but didn’t really care. They just started
building,” she said.
The cemetery can still be seen on Jackson Street,
but when the University was chartered, it extended
from the Bishop House all the way to the Psychology
building, Aratoon said.
Burials have ceased since 1892.
Aratoon said all the bodies underneath the ceme
tery are of Civil War and pre-antebellum time and that
the Civil War played an integral role in the University’s
history, as North Campus served as an infirmary dur
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Reema Patel, a microbiology major from Savannah,
said the historical element is what attracted her to the
tour.
“I expect the tour to talk about ghosts of past
important students,” Patel said. "I love haunted hous
es and ghosts, so I thought this would be lots of fun
and a way to scare all of my friends.”
The tour will be dimly lit with Halloween lanterns,
and students will follow guides who will be disguised
under grisly costumes.
“A lot of people said last year it was really historic
but wasn’t exciting and captivating, so this year that’s
our goal is to really captivate everyone,” Aratoon
said.
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the North Campus ghost tour. The tour shares
stories about some sinister secrets on campus.
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Police Documents
CRIME
NOTEBOOK
Student arrested while
waiting for Mends
A University student
was arrested Tuesday at
about 2 a.m. after an offi
cer observed her wander
around inside The Grill in
a confused manner,
according to an Athens-
Clarke County police
report.
Taran Marie Gilreath,
18, was arrested after an
officer noticed her walking
around in and out of The
Grill multiple times. .
Gilreath was wearing a
costume comprised of a
black outfit with what
appeared to be dried blood
on her neck, according to
the report.
After the officer asked if
she was OK, Gilreath
replied that “everyone had
left her," that she had sat
with random people at the
Grill, and that she was
going to walk back to
Russell Hall alone.
The officer reported the
smell of alcohol on hef
breath asked for her ID
and found an ID that did
not belong to Gilreath in
addition to Gilreath’s ID.
Gilreath was charged
with underage possession
and public intoxication.
She was transported to
Clarke County Jail.
Panhandling leads to
barring notice
A man was banned from
campus for one year
Monday after asking peo
ple for money near the
Oglethorpe House parking
lot, according to a
University Police report.
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