Madeline

Upon my arrival at Coker College I heard tales of a ghost that roamed the cmpus. The story goes back to when Coker was an all girls school I cannot tell you all the information about Madeline, although the library containes files on the event. Madeline, according to student legend passed on, was a student here. The college was an all girls school. She was dating a professor at the school. She found her man to be untrue and heartbroken, she hung herself in the old elevator shaft. As the lore goes, she haunts the dorms and campus, and protects the females from the men. Recently I had heard a security guard at the campus say that he had saw her ghost behind our music building. I am a skeptic. I had never seen a ghost and therefore was not certain that they exsisted. Around 3 or 4 in the morning, September 3, 1995 I became a believer. I was in my new dorm room. The area was not generally known for spectors. I was in my room with a friend. All the lights were off.

The other person in the room, a male, did notice the light but did not notice Madeline. They cannot find her picture anywhere, and I am not sure what she looks like, this may have just been something else, or an overreactive imagination. I was terribly spooked, and I am not easily spooked.

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