[Vision2020] Local urban legends

[Dickow]

The left-over finger story is like many of those beloved campfire-side ghost stories.

But I think most of you may know that Ridenbaugh has a ghost, well reported over the years by our students, and also that there is supposed to be a ghost in Hartung Theater. According to lore, the ghost is the spirit of a custodian or construction worker who had a fatal accident there at some point in the past.

Bob Dickow, troublemaker.

-----Original message-----
From: Paul Rumelhart godshatter at yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 21:35:21 -0800
To: deb debismith at moscow.com
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Local urban legends

> While we've broached the subject, what allegedly local urban legends 
> have people heard around here?  Any haunted buildings?  Spooky areas?  
> Ancient Indian burial grounds? 
> 
> The only one I can think of myself was one I heard of when I was a kid.  
> Supposedly, on some lonely stretch of highway with woods on both sides 
> somewhere around here a lady in a car was almost stopped by a group of 
> individuals in (presumably) Satanic robes who were holding taut a chain 
> across the road hoping that she would stop.  She of course floored it, 
> and the chain got wrapped around the bumper.  When she made to safety, 
> she went to the nearest police station which examined the chain and 
> found someone's finger caught in it.  They were presumably looking for 
> someone to use in their nefarious rituals or whatever it is that 
> Satanists get up to in the backwoods of Idaho.  This was long before DNA 
> testing was a viable option.  I did a cursory search on snopes.com, but 
> found nothing.
> 
> Paul
> 
> deb wrote:
> > Oh, for Pete's sake! This forum has gotten so self righteous and 
> > up-in-arms, one can't even make a joking reference to "urban legend" 
> > without having to provide nine thousand proofs! ROTFL!!!! Stop, Stop, 
> > it's making my ribs hurt!!!! It's like watching a zombie movie--too 
> > stupid to watch, too amazingly ridiculous to ignore!!
> >  
> > Surely, folks who have been in Moscow a while have "heard about 
> > someone who knew someone who saw the undergound passage between the 
> > building (X) and the building (y) undergound in downtown Moscow before 
> > they got covered up"? I've only been here about 25 years, and have 
> > heard this urban myth....
> >  
> > As for the "underground newspapers", what were all these old hippies 
> > (this poster being one) who came to Moscow to finish their lives doing 
> > in the sixties? There were "underground newspapers" everywhere. 
> > Granted, most had a run of two copies before the mimeo machine fumes 
> > put them out for the count, but they must have been in MOSCOW? They 
> > were in PULLMAN....the last bastion of the Ole Hippy cannot go 
> > undefended!!! (That's a joke, Son. Don't sue me)
> >  
> > Y'all need to get over yourselves, get less defensive, and grow a 
> > sense of humour. No wonder this forum has deteriorated to five people 
> > closing their eyes while slapping each other silly...you look like a 
> > Monty Python skit!!! The Department of Ridiculous Defense 
> > Postures...."OOOOH, OOOH, Prove it!!!" Maybe it's just the long cold 
> > winter that's got y'all in a lather? Get some full spectrum lights, 
> > some better antidepressants, or a life for Ghod's sake, and stop being 
> > so flipping grumpy!!
> >  
> > By the way, Joan Opyr's newest book is out---some conflation of 
> > characters there look a lot like some Moscovites...From Hell to 
> > Breakfast is a very funny read! and I think some of you could use a 
> > really good laugh......................trust me, you WILL feel better.
> > Debi R-S
> >  
> > PS: if there is an iota of sunshine, I suggest y'all go stand in it as 
> > long as it lasts....stimulate that seratonin, you dour Moscovites!!  
> > Laugh! Get some fresh air into those stifled and sour nasal passages!! 
> > Cowboy Up, Kids!! Winter is a ending, though not soon enough to keep 
> > you all from another smack-down, i'm sure.
> 
> 
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