WSU students were asked to share a horror story from their time in the dorms, whether it’s about the student activity or the building itself.
Hope Dela Cruz, a junior and a creative writing student, said that they are very spiritual and believe in ghosts and spirits. Their story takes place in Stephenson East.
“Me and my floormate had a little thing where we couldn’t back-talk the elevators or else they would drop you and if you’re nice to the elevator, it will work,” said Dela Cruz. “We were sitting in the elevator one day, just saying how much the elevator sucks and constantly smells bad. As we were saying that, the lights turned off and we dropped two floors.”
Along with the elevators, Dela Cruz said that the parking lot next to Stephenson also had some supernatural activity.
“It was finals week and my friend kept telling me there’s whistling every night in the parking lot, like clockwork from 12 a.m. to 5 a.m. She would voice record it on her phone and it was a different song every night,” Dela Cruz said. “I thought it was just someone smoking because people just hang around that parking lot and smoke. One night, at 1 a.m., we were watching a show together. Then, we heard the whistling in the parking lot. We wanted to catch who it was, but as soon as we looked out the window, it stopped. The whistling would start and stop as soon as we looked out the window. As long as we didn’t look, it would keep on going.”
Nicholas Ragsdale is a junior and is studying social studies education. His story is from when he lived in a pod in Stimson Hall.
“My roommate and I would always use the shower in the hallway across the hall,” said Ragsdale. “So we never actually used the one inside the pod. We heard one day from one of the janitorial staff that somebody took a sh*t inside our shower, inside the pod. We were trying to figure out who the shower sh*tter was. We still don’t know who it is.”
The final spooky story is from Zoie Kveton, a junior and zoology major, set in Regents.
“I thought it would be really nice and clean because there’s a lot of women,” Kveton said. “It was not. Most of the time, I would go take a shower in the morning. We had four stalls of showers but only two of them actually worked. So I’d always use one and the other one every day always had bloody tampons in it. Also, we had another room that had the toilets. I went in there one day, looked at the wall and there’s just a bloody pad stuck on the wall.”
From mysterious sounds to strange student activity, the WSU dorms provide students with stories they will carry with them throughout their time in school.
