The Mongolian miracle was then locked in the university vault until a proper home was built for it in the Ho Science Center’s Linsley Geology Museum. When Father Shannon walked outside, he accidentally kicked it into the bushes and didn’t find it until he later received an anonymous phone call. Frightened, the perpetrators wanted to put the situation in the hands of God, so they placed the egg on the doorstep of the local priest’s house. The next morning, an emergency meeting was held in the chapel and students were informed that search warrants were issued to check every room on campus. Geography professor Theodore Herman heard the glass break and contacted the authorities (supposedly, even the FBI was called). TRUELate one Friday night in March 1957, two students snuck into Lathrop Hall, smashed the glass case containing the 80 million-year-old oviraptorid specimen, and absconded. Prehistoric prank: Students poached Colgate’s famed dinosaur egg. We’d go back through and not find anyone.” The Scene staff - who work in Merrill House and have spent a fair share of late nights in the building - have conflicting opinions on the matter.Ĩ. But we’d hear doors close and noises on the stairs. “It would be nighttime, we’d have gone through all three floors, and knew no one was there. “I had a co-worker who refused to go in there unless it was daylight,” reported Gert Neubauer, a 33-year veteran of the campus safety department.
It’s anyone’s guess who haunts MERRILL HOUSE, but several campus safety officers and custodians are certain that there’s paranormal activity in the old president’s residence. It almost hit my roommate, who had just replaced the lightbulb and secured every screw in the fixture the night before!” The morning after my first sighting, the ceiling light in my bedroom fell and crashed to the floor. “A female student dressed in a sweatshirt and sweatpants appeared in my bedroom, two times on my bed (as if it were hers), and there were a few ‘walking around’ our coffee table in the main room.
A first-floor room had sightings every year, according to Kaori Nakamura DiChiara ’93, but she had a frightening experience in her own suite, room 303. Student ghosts are rumored to live in ANDREWS HALL alongside their earthly counterparts. “Perhaps for lack of a resting place, their spirits returned to the site of the school of the prophets,” he said. Smith, who is working on a book about Colgate history for the bicentennial, explained that some of the missionaries who went abroad in the early days of the university died while on their missions. “We heard stories of the ghosts of old seminarians returning to the site,” Jim Smith ’70 recalled from his student days. Even so, the site - which was razed in 1956 to make way for Dodge, Eaton, and Kendrick Houses - was supposedly haunted. A 1920 Maroon article explains that, on Moving-Up Night, students would toss a hatchet into the lake as a symbol of the year’s end to the freshman-sophomore class rivalry.ĮATON HALL was known as the “Angel Factory” - not because there were seraphim sightings, but because it was the seminary until 1928 (when it became dormitory and classroom space). While we continue to test the water on these theories, it is a bona fide fact that students literally “buried the hatchet” in Taylor Lake. It was dredged in the 1970s and no four-foot-high cars were found.” It’s named after Professor James Taylor (he also was superintendent of buildings and grounds), who had the swamp dug out and made into a lake.
The ‘lake’ is only four or five feet deep. Jack Loop, Hamilton’s town historian, threw in his two cents recently: “There could be a piano (although I’m remembering that it was a harpsichord), but I question the cars. Colgate Hall and “plunged into the watery depths.” They add that in 1991, the owner of a white Datsun parked at the library “forgot to set the emergency brake and later returned to find that his car had disappeared.” Both of the cars, they reported, were pulled out the day after the incidents. The authors, Neal Bailen ’99 and Peter Lindahl ’98, cite a source as saying it’s a “credible rumor” that a piano melted through the ice after a winter party and rests at the bottom of the lake.īailen and Lindahl also tell a story from the 1976 Spring Party Weekend when a car was pushed from the top of the hill at James B. However, there may be both fish and a piano in Taylor Lake, according to a 1997 Maroon-News article on Colgate mythology. You know the joke: What’s the difference between a piano and a fish? You can tune a piano, but you can’t tuna fish. Found at the bottom of Taylor Lake: a piano, cars … and a hatchet PARTIALLY TRUE
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