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Collector: Kimberly Nelson
Title: “The Ghosts of Lambda Chi Alpha and Other Ghost Stories”
Semester/Year: November 22, 1977
There seems to be two ghosts haunting Lambda Chi Alpha: Hence Orme and Harold Mumby. Hence Orme was Indiana’s old Mohican Chief, a frat brother of Lambda Chi Alpha and was shot by two bandits, who stopped his car on the highway. Harold Mumby was one of the first to live in the Lambda Chi Alpha house and donated a lot of money. A huge picture of him is in the library where his eyes follow you wherever you go. There are unexplainable things occurring including footsteps, lights going on and off, voices of laughter and heartbeats.
Kevin Gale: My fraternity father was at the house during the summer and myself and another brother heard running up the stairs of the house when no one else was in the house. The two brothers thought it was an intruder and tried many times to catch this person running up and down the stairs. But, there was no one. The running up and down the stairs continued many times. The stairway from the library up to the third floor is haunted. Late in the evening you can hear someone breathing on your back and hear footsteps behind you. One of the brothers and his girlfriend were going through the informal and saw the piano keys playing by themselves.
Context:
This document describes the ghosts of Lambda Chi Alpha. These Ghosts represent the past of Lambda Chi Alpha. This story would be told to younger brothers in order to give them the history and culture of the house. The story seems to build credit by mentioning the memorates of past brothers in the house during the summer.