https://digitalcollections.eku.edu/files/original/3b3ba259058f4bb9c22f6158a95da3c1.pdf b1965a9d6125cc517ec416fd681c9033 PDF Text Text Ghostly Blue Lady Mystifies Theatre BYJOAN COTTONGIM Fenture EdUor The reopening of the Pearl Buchanan Theatre next Wednesday will draw various personality types . Some will come out of curiosity to see the theatre itself; other people are dedicated theatre goers who wouldn't miss any play , especially "Dandelion Wine." But one lady may view the play because she's part of · the theatre ·itself. She's called the Blue Lady and she 's a ghost who is very dear to EKU 's drama people. Nobody 's quite sure when she first appeared in the theatre. But there is agreement as to why her spirit entered the Buchanan Theatre. The legend is told of an Eastern actress, wearing a blue dress in a play, who became extremely.: - emotional in her part. The role, in the Greek tradition, required that the character commit suicide. The actress performed well and was drained after the show and left the theatre . Actress Did Not Return The actress never returned to EKU : No one heard any more about her although there is a rumor of a train wreck. According to one student, "her spirit lingered--she left that much of herself in the theatre. And here the Blue Lady was born. ft Because of her tragic birth, it would seem that the Blue Lady would be vengeful and possibly harmful. Not so. She has a very • admirable repu~ation, and there are stories to support the belief. One actress told of an experience she had in the Green Room of the theatre. She explained, "I was in the basement getting boards and throwing them around in one room. I felt someone was_watching me; I felt a creeping feeling. I turned around and all the boards were • neatly piled. Having heard about the Blue Lady, the girl •· sa'i ' c i s i i ~ from the·' _ l'tiieatf'e;: ,... ,.,;v ,,.v- - ·-·~~ ·' ft ---n1e Biiie Lady 's concern forneatness extended to another good deed. The Green Room was flooded once during a vacation period. When the students returned from vacation, the Green Room was _ clean . No one from the University or the theatre admitted to cleaning the room. The Blue Lady's spirit has been felt in other experiences. One actor told of an eerie encounter last fall in the 'theatre. He said, "One day I went by a blackboard that had gray crepe paper over it. The doors were closed and I heard a sound like a cart moving . There was no draft, but the crepe paper went out from the blackboard. I heard the sound 4 or 5 times. Nobody else was in the theatre." Third Blackout Occurred Seances held in , the theatre have produced sounds of footsteps and moving curtains, but there's been ->one physical occurence that drama students feel is very stange and due possibly to the Blue Lady 's presence. "At the final rehearsal of last year a tribute was being written to the Blue Lady ," said one drama student. "Just as an actress was writing the lights went out." This was the blackout on campus last December. The student said, "The lights went back on for 30 seconds and went off again ." ' Then the student said they "got our books and got outside." The incident seems harmless in itself, but it appears, this ; blackout was the third one in three years--happening on the same.date each year, according t~ one drama student . �In 1969 the Blue Lady was actually seen. A male actor said lie was conjuring a spirit "by blasphemy in the name of God. " He repeatedly cursed the name of God and then "There was like a blue mist and the act curtain was drawn half way and it shook. Then a blue mist appeared for 3 or 4 seconds. " The student then "split, to be quite honest, in no insult to my courage," he s.aid. At a rehearsal for "Dandelion Wine," this same student said he felt the presence of the Blue Lady on stage. He said, "A faint blue glimmer came into my eye back stage." He continued, "It was a blank--nothing I could distinguish, no form." He stated that, "It appalled me--my eyes were wide open ." The Blue Lady also has beeu identified as walking around the tower of the old Student Union Building. One drama major said a "blue globe of light has encircled the steeple." However, the Blue Lady hasn't been seen on the steeple for 3 or 4 years. Few people have seen her recently. Could it be that she's left the Pearl Buchanan Theatre? One former EKU drama student seems to feel that she won't be at the debut 9f "Dandelion Wine." She explained, "The Blue Lady pulled us together when_ we weren't a strong group. She felt wanted then." But with the new renovation, and the strength of the actors, the actress felt, "She's found another resting place." • 1 If the Blue Lady has left the 'theatre, she will be missed by her many ; admirers . As one drama student stressed, "We really believe in the Blue Lady." The Blue Lady's spirit will be remembered and treasured in the renovated Pearl. Buchanan Theatre just as sacredly as she always has been. ,, �Great G h OSts :t::,:~/?,,,":]:,~e 1 Theatre's famous Blue 'Lady is not just another drama By LARRY BERNARD Feature Editor Take an old spooky theatre and a young student's suicide inside the building and what do you come up with ? The Blue Lady, of course. The Blue Lady is a ghost who has been haunting the Pearl Buchanan Theatre for several years now. Nobody is quite sure when she first appeared in the theatre. Nor does anyone agree as to how her spirit entered the theatre. Several different theories float around the theatre department ·as to how the University actress came to live in Buchanan but the most prevalent theory goes something like this. A University coed had the major part in a play being staged in Pearl Buchanan Theatre in the 1950's. The part required that the student wear a beautiful blue dress. Each night she would go up the bell tower to memorize her lines. On one such night she never returned from the bell tower; students werit up to the tower and discovered the girl dangling "I was walking by the Pearl there by a rope, a victim by Buchanan Theatre when I her own choice. heard a girl vocalizing. She Since then the Blue Lady paused for a moment then she has been seen or heard many started vocalizing again. To be times in the theatre by drama • frank with you, it scared me to students. She reportedly death," Chic said. makes annual trips around the Chic went on to say that the balcony surrounding the Blue Lady had a "perfectly clocks on the Keen Johnson polished voice with a style that building. Students describe sounds like an old Victrola the scene as "a shocking blue record. "It was like an · ·outdated glimmer with long flowing hair that seems to mingle with voice," he said. "She had a bland tone like a turn of the the wind." Other students have said century operetta starlett." there were flashes of blue light Donna Kilgore, i:i theatre that streaked around the arts major, also recalls her clocks but no human figure experience with the Blue could be made out. Lady. In the past few years the "We were rehearsing for a Blue Lady has almost play in Pearl Buchanan disappeared. She hasn't made Theatre and me and another her little trips around the guy stepped outside the clocks in quite some lime but theatre for a break," she said. her voice is still sweet music "All of a sudden· we heard this to the ears of drama students. woman vocalizing. It was a Brian Chic, a theatre arts very beautiful voice, ver rich major, describes his con- and full and very clear." •• One of the peculiarities of frontation with the Blue Lady: " It was a particularly the situation is that only lonesome night around 9: 30 on theatre majors have seen or the first day of this semester. heard the Blue Lady. Some . It was very frosty and cold drama majors believe this is and not many students were because she is a friend of on campus yet. fsee LADY,page 11) . . �''Blue Lady not just another drama (continued from page 3) theatre people and because they feel so close to the Blue Lady. Keith Johnson, instructor of speech and theatre arts, who was a student here in the 1960's, smiles broadly when reminiscing about the ghost. "Oh, I'm "very fond ·of the Blue Lady," Johnson said. "I have very good memories of her." Johnson has never witnessed the spooky prescence of the ghost but he related the tales of a few people who have. "She walks around the Keen Johnson balcony with her blue dress flowing in the wind. And I think some students have seen her inside the theatre. 1:Jut she's the type of ghost who just doesn't reveal herself to t,e masses.'' . . Johnson said some mghts hen h~ was working late in ~. he old the~tre he would swear there was _someone walking around and dropping things but when he looked, there was nobody there. . A couple of years ago seances were held in the And if one th inks he has theatre to try and bring back enough courage, take a qukk the sprit of the Blue Lady. glance up at the Keen Johns'On Those seances produced s1,1ch tower. events as sounds of footstt.ps . Who knows,. maybe ;an and moving curtains Image ofa beautiful blue dress But the Blu La.d , swirling and swaying in t:he e y no , • d ·11 f"ll h 1 seems to be a dying art. With wm WI 1 t e eye. the . exceptions of those ...._'--,----students who haveheatd her singing, she seems to slowly be fading. • Kilgore feels this is because the Buchanan Theatre is not used anymore since Gifford Theatre was built a couple of years ago. She said she believed she was stll there but nobolly is around Buchanan much anymore to witness the presence of the B!ue Lady anymore. _ Whatever the case, the Blue Lady still lives on-if only in the minds and harts of theatre students .. So tM .::' next time one is walking · past the old Pearl Buchanait ,'J'heatre on a · dark . and lonely :night, be sure to listen carefully. The clear and eerie voice of the Blue Lady may give a free recital. �Out of the blue \ ) ....,.___ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ___,,_ ~Ni]jfftT~'{lflf~ ' 1;?,-J];X:/t;rr1r She's not seen as oft en as she used l o be but many drama st ude nt s swear sh e's still fr equent l.v found in th e Pea rl Buchanan Thea ter in th e K een J ohn son B uilding . She is spok en of r ev er en Uy . sa dl y. w ith fri ght , with affec tion and w ith doubt.. She is. however . a trne pi ece of th e Uni ver sit y's his tor y. She is th e Blu e L ady , the spirit of :, i·eput ed c'"•ti·e,ss of c'l l oilg ., "· l'or gutt en pl ay in th e theat er . The stories of her ori gin ar e , ·,1 ri ed and ha zy but belief in her is strong in th e thea ter departm ent as well as th e other s who have happened upon her . ·1 ·wo vas ti y d 1 ' ff er en t s t on•es ar e tol d as to her ori gin , ea ch w ith it s supporter s and its own few bits of fact . The first in vo lves a coed actress pl ay ing in the Littl e Theater the rol e of a tragic Gr eek who in the pl ay con1111i11cJ suicide at th e en(( II is told th at she became very invol ve d in th e part in whi ch she \\o r e a blu e dress. /\ t thi s point in th e stor y even tho se \v ho beli eve in this ve r sion di ff er sli ghtl y . Som e insist th at she r efus es to leave the floo r of the sta ge unUI fin all y her fellow ac tor s left her . Other s say sirnpl y th a t she was so dra ined by the perform ance that she im med ia tel y left the thea ter . Whet her the form er wa s added to spi ce up the story or as fac t, the story continued with it s vers ions • agr ee 111g. T he ac tress book ed passage on a train imm edi a tely aft er wa rds. The train she was supposed 10 be on w r eck ed w i th0 Ut a ny on e kno w ing wheth er she go t on lhe tra in or no t. She was never seen on cam pus aga in and sinc e has supposedl y bee1·1 1 · 11h al)1·t1·1·1g the tl·1°:1te1· ,"S ,, " a fri endly ghost. The olher sto ry of her birth is not. quite so comm on and has a rath er gruesom e note to it. In th is tale, the lwr oine also is the sta r of a pl ay in Ille thea ter. H owever, it seem s in lhis ver sion of the sl or y she was a rather eccentric soul as she went up to the Student Uni on Building ( now th e K een Johnso n B ui ldi ng, bell tower to study her lines e,ich ni ght. W il en she faile d to return one ni ght a gr oup of stud ents we nt up to in ves ti ga te and found her hangi ng from the tow er. ·1 m a k es a goou •1 s t ory . I\Ill 10ugI1 1 ti1e va 11 ·c1 1 ·t y 1 •s s 11 ·g t1t Iiecause 110 Iong t ·111, • l en I ti 1:1 I I I e ,,. .ic I1111011 d r es u talk ed w ith ca n r emC'mlJe r i l sui cide from the bell towe r of the l)L1·1 1 ct·111 g • Thi s ver s·i<)n of I.he st 1Jr .v w,·1rns tha t the B lu e L ady is see n, at the sa m e tim e each year 1supposcd ly th e anm•ver sary o1• 11er d ea ti 1J as a blue li ght walking around th e bell towerfrom w hich she hung hersel f. It is fh e belief of many peopl e conn ect ed With th e rl ra rn a departm ent th at she is not see n oft en any m or e for sever al r easons. Of course, man y cont end th at .th e pr obl e1i1 is sim pl y th ai no one fr equent s the th ea ter as !hey once did since the buildin g of the new Gifford Theater in th e Campbell Buildi ng. The primary on e seem s to be tha t she is nut needed so much any more. Sh e ser ve d her fun ction as a fri end l o pull th e wea k g rou p toge th er to m ak e th em t he benefici al and strong or ga niza ti on tha t they ar e now. �Just who is the Blue Lady? By TIM EATON Staff Writer If you are one of the students at the University who has never heard of the . Blue Lady, you should start listening. The Blue Lady is a ghost and she may be witnessed in the Pearl Buchanan Theatre on campus. This is not just another ghost tale made up to scare people. The Blue Lady is "believed" by many in the theater department, who do a lot of work and performances in the Pearl Buchanan Theater. She is believed to have died in the 1930's, when she supposedly committed suicide in the bell tower just above the Keen Johnson Building. It is also believed she was practicing a scene in which the character she portrayed committed suicide. She wore a blue dress which was to be used in the play and she allegedly was so occupied with her character portrayal, that when she practiced the hanging scene she actually hung herself. The name of the play, as well as the Blue Lady's name, are not known. Since her death in the 1930's, there have been numerous sightings reported in the Pearl Buchanan Theater. Those witnesses say they have seen the same thing -- a blue-misty image that has a glow to it. Senior Terry Lumpkins, a theater arts major, described her visions of the Blue Lady. "She's not a bad ghost. She shows up when things are going good. When the theater is not in use she doesn't appear," Lumpkins said. "I was outside and saw her up inside the bell tower as a blue light in between the vents," she said. This has happened more than once. "She's not real particular about when she will show up," said Lumpkins. Another time Lumpkins saw the ghost was when she was doing a directing scene with director Scott Bird while behind the stage. She said they all saw a light up in the lighting booth. They were going to wait and start when whoever was in the booth came down. However they realized that everyone was on stage. "We broke up after that and left the building," explained Lumpkins. "We were scared." Gary Jones, a performing arts senior, explained his encounter while in Pearl Buchanan. "I was in a directing class when I saw a weird light on the hall and I looked for a window but there wasn't one." · Jones' roommate Jackie Hall, also a senior in theater arts, said he was going to the Pearl Buchanan Theatre for some backstage work when he saw an image on the stage: "I went to the stage and saw someone there on stage and then they moved to the right behind the curtain," said Hall. "Behind the curtain is a wall. There was nowhere else they could have gone." The list of witnesses who have seen the Blue Lady goes on and even includes some teachers, but none of the teachers could be reached for comments. The Pearl Buchanan Theatre was renovated in 1972. The elevator which the Blue Lady used to get to the bell tower was cut off from the second floor. There is no way to get to the bell tower from the theater. Instead, it can be reached ·by way of the Keen Johnson Building. There are some aspects of this Blue Lady phenomenon that are unclear. Terri Lumpkins said that the Blue Lady had "never spoken." Whereas Gary Jones said he had heard people say they · walked by the Keen Johnson Building : on the weekend when it was supposed to be empty and they could "hear singing." Some people even said a seance took place and the Blue Lady appeared. However, two of the alleged participants, Jones and Hall, completely denied this. There are many unanswered questions dealing with the ghost of the Blue Lady. There are unanswei:ed questions like equipment that mysteriously moves, racks of costumes that wave in the cold draft where no windows are located and the sound of the traveler--curtains-moving back and forth when the building is all locked ·up. �~-,~Blue lady reportedly haunts EJ 'i1 • ~ Q ' RICHMOND - A number of ~years ago several students were 1 ~alking across the campus of V' Eas _tern Ker~lucky University during the silent hours of the f) ni_g ht. Through the darkness, one , of th e m spotted a light where no \) I ight ought to be. ~ \ "We watched it for several minutes," said Roma Pe dneau , an '\. EKU alumna and now develop_<;J" rnent director for WEKU-FM. -~ The students were in front of the Powell Building, facing the ~' Georgian tower of the Keen John~ son Building as it rose over the darke ned walls of Case Hall. The light came from somewhere inside the tower. " I was a freshman, but the ~ ~ others with me were sophomores His encounter took place in the and juniors, and they all said, 'It's Pearl Buchanan Theatre in the her! It 's the Blue Lady!" Ke~n Johnson Building - the lo-· the Blue Lady is the popular cation most often associated with na,_ne for EKU's benign , if not the ghost. ~u,te benevolent, ghost. Sight"It' ~ a peculiar theatre in a rngs of her have been reported peculiar part of the building" for years. Benson said. ' "It finally moved away and just "It's like a pit. I always feel went out," Pedneau said. "It claustrophobic in there." ~asn't a bright light like a flashThe Buchanan Theatre somelight, _b ut a flickering light _ times called the Little Th~atre, is more like a fluorescent. The light now used mostly for one-act plays had a blue cast to it. That's why and for scene rehearsals. Few she's called the Blue Lady." major productions are held Many others have seen the Blue there. Lady appear - or disappear "One night several years ago we "I f~lt her presence once," ~aid were in there working on a playDr. Richard L. Benson, chairman I've even forgotten which play of th e EKU Speech and Theatre now." Benson said. Arts Department. "I was center stage talking to an K.U's Pearl Buchanan Theatre actor down right - and I felt her presence. It was very strong and distinct." A feeling of being watched? "well, yes. Just a feeling of her presence there," Benson said. "Not a harmful presence in any way." The feeling passed in a few moments. He said that although he has spent hundreds of hours working in the theatre, that was his ony encounter with its ghostly star. • Other witnesses claim to have seen a blue light floating just above the stage, or to have heard an actress vocalizing in the theatre when there was no one there. According to one version of the story, published last year in the student newspaper, one student was going through a stack of wood in the Buchanan prop room, pitching the pieces she could not use behind her. When she found the right one, she turned around and found the lumber she had discarded stacked neatly behind her. As with any good ghost story, the origins of the haunting are somewhat obscure. A couple of the most current variations of the tale go like this: Many years ago an Eastern student was cast to play the lead in Henrik Ibsen's 'Hedda Gabler,' a play in which the female lead ci:>mmits suicide. Apparently the pressure of playing a suicide over and over became too much for the young woman, who hanged herself in the Keen Johnson bell tower. At the time of her death, she was wearing a light blue dress. The other version holds that the Blue Lady had been on her way to a performance - perhaps opening night - of a play, and was hit by a car and killed. She never made it to the theatre. '.'But you know what they say in the theatre ," Pedneau said. "The show must go on." And so it has for the Blue Lady - on dark nights when the doors are locked and she has the stage ... All to her,-,-elf. �a:-The Eastern Progress, T h u r s d a • r i s• •· he l~dy is still:( ha~nting By George Gabehart Staff writer Late on a Sunday evming in 1978 Ernie Adanis and a few theater students sat among the rows in the Pearl Buchanan Theater studying their movements for an upcoming performance of The Di,ary of Anne Frank. • ·-1,, • As-the last late suitcasers returned to campus these aspiring young actors, actresses and director • Adams noticed a mist oflight hover above the stage.· ' In awe they watchep •as the · shapeless illuminati((l / began to move across the theater and dissipate. Glancing toward the lighting booth, Adams noticed a brief "glare <?f 1.jght" that quickly disappeared Not really believing what they had seen, the startled drama · students hurriedly checked the theater for signs of anyone who m,ight have been out to spook them. Finding no one; the students thought that possibly a passing car headlight had caus~d this illusion. Upon checking the theater's only window and finding . it heavily screened against outside light, the group decided. they had been witnesses to one of the appearences of the Blue Lady, the ghost of the Pearl Buchanan Theater. • Today, five years later; Adams, ' _23, the resident "expert", on the Blue Lady says the legend of the ghost is still a topic of occasional conversaticn among stt.dents in.the theater department. ' female as a player in the department who got so caught up in her role that she actually hung herself while rehearsing a scene. According to Jerri Zoochi, a senior drama student, the legend of the Blue Lacy involves "a girl, sup' posedly a theater major here. Either she committed suicide or she went home after doing the role here of Hedda Gaebbler, which is a strong woman's role, and was killed. Zoochi said that although she does not believe the stories about the Blue Lady are true, the legend makes her feel spooky about being in the theater alone. l • , Another theory about the Blue Lady's origin that Adams has heard seems more plausible. A friend of his, he said researched the Blue Lady and found that she had been Although unsure of the origins of killed in a train accidmt. "Supposedly, this girl finished up the amiable spirit, Adams said he has heard rumors about how the . a show and was going home out Blue Lady came to haunt the West on a train," said Adams. "The theater. train derailed and a bu:och of people "The original tale was the Blue were killed and they could never find Lady was a female in. the , theater her body." department who didn't get cast for Adams said that the woman came a show," said Adams. "She was so back and haunts tlie theater now. emotional about the situation she "Thats what I hear to be true, " he hung herself in the Keen Johnson said. . Variations· on the legend of the belltower." • Variations of this story ha~e the Blue Lady date as far· back as the �HlllO!'! nn,1 l,hil !!IIIPl'll'l/1 ~ Ill i!lreu lfi~Q ~on~ ~robers of th~ Wtu,:Lhei: the rnmora uf Oia Ulue ~h~giGr Luay !lFe tfUe, Hrn §toH@~ liiive i,Ut department. • " There have always been a lot of crazy things happen around Pearl Buchanan theater, " said Adams. "People have gone walking by there and they claim to hear someone vocalizing on stage. They go to open the door and it's locked up, it's pitch black" . Adams said his friend once passed the theater and heard the curtains opening on stage. When the man looked in, there was no•,one there. Some students claim that they have seen mist-like blue clouds of a woman standing in the belltower above the Kt)en Johnson building late at night. Other strange occurences have also taken place. . One girl, said Adams, supposedly was going through a stack of wood in the rrop room, pitching the pieces she cruld not use behind her. When she frund the right one, .she turned arouoo and found the lumber she had discarded stacked neatly behind her. "How much of that is true, I don't know," said Adams. "That's just what I'v~ heard. That was before I was here." - a certain apprehension into most theater students, said Mike Miller. Miller, a junior elementary education major who worked in the production of Key Exchange said that while doing the play he had a first hand run in with the spirit. One night when he walked into the deserted theater to work on his role, Miller walked up on stage to get to the light switches at the back of the stage. Suddenly he felt something grabbing and twisting around his feet. These mysterious hands were actually trees that the prop people had planned to use for the play and Miller had tangled his feet in them. "In the darkness the legend took over in my mind where I thought something ipust be happening to me," said Miller. "Whm I got to the light switch there we-e all these trees Iring around. Miller believes that too legend will continue as long as the strange occurences keep happening. "This is a story that 's been around so long that every time there's a production over there it sort of comes back and people start talking about it again." • The ghostl y glow of the Pearl B~channan Theater. �~slue lady~ hau(lts theater "\•··- the Blue Lady. By Terri Martin The Blue Lady is the ghost or Staff writer "I'll go in there with other people, presence that is often sensed in the but I don't like to go there by Pearl Buchanan Theatre. myself," said Cinda Ford, a "I felt it once," said Dr. Richard secretary in the speech and theatre L. Benson, chairman of the speech and theatre arts department. arts department. According to Ford, she has felt "One night several years ago, we this way since she and another were in there (the Pearl Buchanan secretary saw a strange occurence Theatre) working on a play. in the Pearl Buchanan Theatre of "I was center stage talking to an the Keen Johnson Building. actor down right and I felt a "It was four or five years ago," presence," Benson said • said Ford. "It was very strong and distinct," "Another secretary and I had he said, "but not a harmful presence gone to the Pearl Buchanan Theatre in any way." on an errand. While we were there, According to Benson, several a large rat trap snapped. No one was students have felt a presence in the near it," she said. theatre. "There was no reason for it." In one instance, a student was There's no reason for many things going through pieces of wood in the that happen in the Pearl Buchanan prop room, throwing the ones she Theatre. couldn't use behind her. There's no reason for the sound of When she found the right one, she · footsteps and the feeling of being .turned around and found all the watched. lumber she had tossed behind her /No reason at all ... except perhaps arranged in a neat stack. t / - Some students have reported feeling a presence this semester. "We finished rehearsal around 11:30 p.m. and Tony Smith (the director) was giving us notes on our performance, " said Jay Howell, a sophomore broadcasting major from Lexington. "I felt like someone was standing behind me, so I turned around. No one was there. "That was three weeks ago, " he said. Tony Smith said he has also sensed a presence in the theatre. "A couple of times when I was putting things away at night, I felt a sort of presence." "Sometimes I'd hear noises and think somebody was there," Smith said. "I'd yell to see if somebody had come in and no one ever answered.'' Others said they have also heard unexplafoed ~i;mnds in the theatre. A 1973 Progress article reported that a seance held in the theatre produced sounds of footsteps and rustling curtains. Other students have reported hearing a woman vocalizing when the theatre is supposed to be empty. No one knows who the Blue Lady is. In one account, the Blue Lady was a universitv actress who was killed in a car a~cident on her way to a performance. • In another explanation, she was a university student who was cast as the lead in a tragic play. For her role, she wore a blue dress throughout the performance. Her character committed suicide at the end of the play. The story explains that the actress often went to the old Keen Johnson bell tower to study her. lines. One night she never returned. �Pearl Buchanan Theater is home of mysterious presence Photo illustration/Rex Boggs and Sean Elkins ~fe.rn p~r<7".J'S P. /CJ- ;;2.:;-- ? i..t s- �C 6 _.- lnsight,,.Thursda -, •April -2-3, - 1987 I Trouble··delayed Witnesses -remember . rriVal of stat-ue seeing theater ghost- \ ~ By Dellnd.a Doqlu wrote: "Ha4 I known it would By Delinda Dou1Iu Spedal NCfJou editor take eight months, we ·never ~pecial aectlou editor Dlilli61 Boone had to croee 11 - would have requested it oflhe · By now, emely every student rocky frontier before be finlllly city ·of Louisvillo; and further, has heard "the tale of the Blue rested on the university's h11d the city of Louisvilli! known Lady." Pused down throughout campU8. it would take eight months, they the past 20 years or ilo, the story There wee •a delay and would never have granted 118 the has hem told in different ver· rescheduling in bis itinerary, u1111 of the 1tat11e." siol18 to different people and not • which call88d him to be late, and In a countB" reply from Cole to ju11t theatre arta majors. above all elee, eomeone gave him Martin on May 18, 1967, Cole Suppoaedly a blue form of a the wrong rifle. wrote: "Should a copy ever be lady can be aeen at times linger'The statue was one of many of wanted, it might be made ~om ing around the bell tower of the former university President your copy." Keen Johnson Building and the Martin's dreams .for the univer· Louisville was returned its Pearl Buchanan Theatre. The flity. According to Archives let- statue and the university had its fate of her death carries many ters to and from Marlin, it is replica.. but upon further 8ll· •_storjes. . "the finest ststue of Daajel amination by Denny N. Bearce, One 11tory has it tl;ie female Boone that W!l have seen ae&i!ltant professor of the lead of a play '1anged herself geology and geo1Jrapby d9part• before the openinlJ night, anf11!here." ment, it Wll.8 l8arned the stock Qf Another . llt.ory -indicat.ee--11he--· The brolWI replica is nine feet Boone's Kentucky rifle wu upboarded ·a trafn·before·the open· ' "titll imd weighs 3,600 pounds. It aide down. ing night of the play. ~_sected--May-1 ;-1 967:-and - - - - - - - ------ Whatever the story there are dedicated at the university's an•This was noticed even after faculty member.- wh~ say-they __ nual J,aw Day U.S.A. the replica was inspected in Ne~ have witneeaed the ghost. caremorues May 3. York on Mar. 10, 1967, two Larry Bailey, director of alum• The original Boone statue months bef<re being clelivered j;o ru affa.irii, eaid he encountered stands at the entrance of the· unlvenity. ·the ghost around 1967 or 1968. Cherokee Park in Louisville. Bearce stated in a May 10, "l was a freshman helping 8 • ·----1- ·-·It--was-transported-·toth~l967~1D6DJO"to"t~e prein<f~ntne fellow do lighta for the play, Modern Art Foundry in Long thought something was wrong 'After the Fall,'" Bailey said. i•1 • l~land City, N.Y., for reproduc· ~th the rifle when he firr,t saw • remember it,ot real cold and we bon, after Martin's request to it. saw this blue shadow. borrow the statue in August Bearce WM a gun collector a~d "We left in a big hurry. We left , l 966.. by hobby a stock carver. He 11atd all the lights on," he continued. Louisville city officials sew no he had made Kentucky rifle In fact, he and his friend were problem with loaning tbe ,statue stocks and knew the sj;ock was • asked the n8llt day why all the • L-O the university. However, ll8 upside down. the months went by lllld still the statue was missing, they begau 'fhe statues were returned to I ~""'-"---+--1-to =-~ ~ ~=-c'"o= "" r re ~ spo = ·· =·n'"'d-ence ~-=- -== - ~~'::urt!11o~:-~o~ ~~ - - - ~;~;;nr~ti~~~2{J;-". ~~~~;~,t&:!:!'' ~ anticipated. ' In II reply let~r to W. R. Cole Jr., on M.iy 16, 1967, Martin at both Kentucky eiteB. Final Lill: '17,593.60. A large price for such a i;mall frontier. ' - - -- ---~?DY -- ,. lights had been left on, md the waa a student here. two studenta told their stories. "At that time, 1111 it theatre ma1 Bailey said be saw the blue jor, the thea~r we had was_ shadow mother time. Each time the Pearl Buchanan," Johnson he saw it, it was "reallate, either said. after a production while break· "We would be over there at ing the ligbbl or late atnite after night and lights would go off," dress rehearsal" be said. " All ofa sudden It would He said be remembered the get very cold md then warm up play, written by Oscar Miller, again." had a peculiar backdrop. It con· Johnson 118id people gu8888d • aisted of buildings "as if you the cold and. hot feelinge could were laying on your back looking have been "due to fatigue." He • up at them," he said. added that could be apoeaibility. Norma Robins on, ad• • ministrative assistant of Stu· Johnson said he hae heard of • dent Services, 88id she never students who have seen the heard of the stories of the ghost ghoat walking around _the clock until she came to work at the 'tower. He aald a~uden~ who :university. hav~ wor~e«l. on ligb~. m the "I grew up around Eastern theatre 881d they saw str angeand came ·to school here,Jmt ft_ ~ ~ glowing in the • ht booth.:: 1~ contmues ~ hJp_pen, wasn't until I came back to work here that I beard thoee stories," ,f obns~n , said,. "lt's not a~d Robinson, whoee office ie som~t~ that u-1 to ~P~: located in the Keen Johnson but it OODtinuse to happen now. Building. While some people ~t • t:!i~ She eaid she has heard "a lot university ~nd their time wor· of unBCCOUilted for noises." b,uL__rying--or-mdering- about--th~ she has no-fear of th_em ~ legendary ghost of the Blue from the Blue Lady. "You pt Lady; eome-people have recentthat with any of your oldar ly began their own suspicions of buildings," she added. Victoria, a friendly g~ost who Keith Johnson, assistant prohaunts the hallowed halls of feesor of speech end theatre, said Sullivail Hall, according to he encountered strange in· Charles Hay, director of univer· «;i_lf~IJl:eB in the theater while he sity archives. he, 75 stt 1 (m, an. pe1 I pif ty, tw Oil de: w, s· ------S= ~Yi ,Vi=-cr.R-=--l-----N= ~ = K -- j(~~r~4~~--- N~ ,_n ~~~-T 7 ·-c· ------ -- , i we et. Th pa tw 80 th re pt re UI Cl si dA s, -1:i----~ R;~~-N-- '"~~£~ --~~-~~~---_-w-_·-_ _ - --t_t_·- _-..y; -: r If you will be spending the summer in northern Kentu cky, you rnay want to cons ider Northern Kentucky Universit y's 1987 Summer Semester. Session 1 (w , ltegistration Classes Begin �Haunted EKU I Facebook Page 1 of 2 Haunted EKU Back to I'm an Eastern Kentucky University Freshmen of '08 I Discussion Board Topic View Topic: Haunted EKU Displaying the only post. Kathryn Keene Hall Legend has it that a suicide that took place on the sixteenth floor of th is men's dorm is responsible for haunting throughout the building, but phenomena on that particular floor are said to be even greater. Witnesses have seen and heard doorknobs moving by themselves, music seemingly coming from inside walls (and no, not the guy in the next room blasting music), and other disturbances. When you walk around this dorm, strolling through its 1960s-1970s ceramictiled hallways, you definitely get a sense of bleakness, desperation, and despair. Then again, maybe the same could be said for dorm life in general. Sullivan Hall Another suicide is the basis for the rumor here, this time of a female nursing student who allegedly killed herself in the 1970s. We spent many hours in the library trying to track down any reference to th is suicide in old newspapers and came up empty-handed. However, we did find a reference to a nursing student's death in a nearby dorm, which has no reports of hautning. Either the story is attributed to the wrong dorm, or Sullivan Hall's specters have nothing to do with the other suicide. Our vote is the latter, since I have experienced some ghoslty activity here and spoken to many residents and former residents of the dorm who report the same. Many had experiences before they learned of the legend Moore Building's [censored] Ghost: The specter of a [censored] female has often been seen in the Moore building, which is a huge and sprawling edifice housing E.K.U .'s science program . However, the descriptions given of this ghost vary wildly--tall to short, young to old, blond to brunette. So are there more than one of these free-spirited spirits padding around the building's weird old halls? I am on the lookout for a firsthand gander at this supernatural streaker! Keen Johnson Ballroom: Said to be a "Blue Lady" in an evening dress, this is the most famous of E.K.U.'s ghosts. Though the tale predates the 1970's, the same story of the suicidal nursing student is often heard in reference to the Blue Lady. In truth, the earliest recorded sighting of a ghost here, that I know of, is in the 1950s. Unlike in the dorms, there is nothing stopping visitors from walking in and having a look around, so this is your best bet for ghost-hunting if you should find yourself on E.K.U.'s beautiful campus. The Blue Lady of Keen Johnson has also been seen in the nearby bell tower, reportedly singing. A bluish mist has often been said to be a manifestation she takes. The bell tower is off-limits to the general public. http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=l0095558445&topic=13820 9/3/2010 �Haunted EKU I Facebook Page 2 of 2 Model Laboratory School: Ghostly activity, moving objects, and "anxiety zones" have been experienced here in the elementary wing, the underground maintenance tunnels, t he band room, and the auditorium. Although some people attribute these hauntings to Model's high incidence of students who met tragic deaths in recent decades, anecdotal evidence seems to show that many of these reports of ghosts predate those premature passings. Ghost Dog: Behind the amphitheater in the ravine there's a grave for a dog called Mozart, wl10 was the music department's mascot in the 1960s. It's said that Mozart can be seen walking about--sometimes in the ravine and around the nearby music building. It's interesting to note that with the exception of Keene Hall and Model Laboratory School, these haunted locations all face each other in the same area of campus. And complicating the suicidal nursing student rumor is the story of a sorority girl who accidently fell from a tenth-floor window at Telford Hall in 1991, which some also point to as an impetus for E.K.U. hauntings, but strangely, not in Telford Hall itsel( A rash of other recent deaths in dorms will probably eventually also add to the speculation confusion . http://www.thespook.org/news. php ?item. 45 In the early 1990s I received a firsthand account from a former Eastern Kentucky University janitor, who affirmed having witnessed the "glimpse from the corner of your eye" variety of ghosts in several of the restrooms in the Bert Combs Building. Specifically, both sets of the th ird and fourth floor men's restrooms were said to be haunted (there's a men's room on diagonally opposite sides of each floor). The former EKU employee said he often felt an eerie presence in the rooms with him while cleaning the place up at the end of the day. He gradually grew accustomed to the entities, and reported that another janitor corroborated his story http:// unusua lkentucky.biogs pot. com/2 008/06/hau nted-restrooms-of-eku. htm I and another one http://www.ghosts.org/easternkentuckyu.html http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=l0095558445&topic=13820 9/3/2010 �Unusual Kentucky: Sullivan Hall Ghost Page 1 of 2 MONDAY, F E BRUARY 9, 2009 Sullivan Hall Ghost From the ol' JS H mailbag comes this missive from And rew Beck: I found your site while browsing around on the internet tonight searching for ghost s and oddities in Kentucky. I was surprised to hear that you live in Madison County, because l have lived in Richmond all my life. ! graduated from EKU a few years ago and while there I lived in Sullivan Hall. One of our traditions (before the Fire Marshall shut us down ) was the Sullivan Ha unted Hall. I'm sure you·ve heard the stories of the nursing student who killed l1erself on the fourth floor of Sullivan (a room which I lived across the hall from} . In early October of 2005 (the same year we were shut down) the Sullivan Hall Council was going through the basement of our dorm to figure out the layout for that year's maze. As I was discussing the layout with one of my floor representatives, Reid Connelly, (pictured in the fore ground) i took a few pictures with my camera. Later, I had them developed, and noticed something VERY strange in the photo of Reid near the Coke machine. What I am e-mailing you is a scan of the original picture (hence the graininess; I didn't have a good scanner at the time}. The original picture still http://unusualkentucky.blogspot.com/2009/02/sul li van-hall-ghost.html 9/3/2010 �Unusual Kentucky: Sullivan Hall Ghost Page 2 of2 resides (somewhere) in Sullivan Hall. We had it framed for posterity, but I moved out of Sullivan in Spring of 06, so I coukl nt tell you what happened to it. I think this would be a great edition to your website. I really clo enjoy the interesting , unusual, and nostalgic articles you have. Thanks, Andrew .. . 1'111 not really sure what to make of the photo. I'm inclined to believe that it's some kind of light-refraction thing related to the Coke machine, which in fact the anomaly is aligned with perfectly. Nevertheless, I don't have a specific explanation. And there have indeed been stories for a long long time about Sullivan Hall's haunted vibes, some of which I've experienced myself while creeping around its corridors in years past. http://unusualkentucky.blogspot.com/2009/02/sullivan-hall-ghost.html 9/3/2010 �-Ilfe abost stc;,~e~ can ~ : found in trfatiison County ...... ~ ,it £~•i~ ,/ ....._ ... ,._~ ........ • wlille ~ - .-.,....-.. """""'" Wltlw 1fall. iN ·~ hoate·. ot Cwiu ;,;,, .~ •Cla;y, t , �Thursday, October 14, 2010 Kaylia Cornett, Editor j i on us, what better time to become .acquainted at you scan::iper b:y each day when.'·. ampus, the Keene Johnson Building towany o.ffic:ial campus c,eremonies take p!ace. 'he BtuC Lady, devoted theatre student cHnl'bed to the top of ctit'e lines. But one morni:n;g her body was found .tfie rafters. It was believed to be a suicide. Nmv, !'' &ili:td 'to haunt the tower and Pearl Huchan<m rtains mave, a female voke is heard and a blue, N: . • ,:cir.'1~ ' · ,. ~r;;e♦.~ '(,, ·.· .,"'\.nl-~;'! .. .,- · . , • . . -, . --.: ·¢t.c;, \ /;c;-H-- :"-..::t .• -t ~;~ ·_. •-,: ,i,-.- .it r:i't: 4,rlving up to olonels Ep:ke <?" an opponent at 1:nid- "t+.~· -~f:-·,1;..1,e-~ in•;.-·\~.l.. -:t ·• b,....,._....;fiA-..i· ,r+·~ :""'° f'"- c ~ ~: ""' - -tt. 1'U �FEATURES ! The Easkm Progrt~ss www.castcm1~.:,£S!:..r..:.c..:. ss..:. -.c..:.·<..:. n-= 11----__:_~~;.;;.L;:_:;....:..:.: I �REAL CONTINUED FROM Bl ~ ' hile sorne places are at the top o • the haunt list, Eastern\\; campus isn't without i.ts own ghouls and spool')' legends. But that's aU they are - fogem:Js, except if you have had your ov.rn pers,. mal encounter with the paranor• mal. Here are son1e of the l.o cal. cam- pus l.e gends that continue to thrill and chill: •Ke ene Johnson Ballroom This is Ea.s:tern''s most fa•mous ghost> knovm a;s the Blue Lady. It ii;;; said that she was a devoted th.eater~ student who '.Vas killed. Accounts :m.o re frequently place her presence .i n the :Pead Buchanon Theatre, where th.ere have been reports of noises, foot'iteps. and fuU body apparitions. •Keene Hall - Legend has it that a stu~ dent committed suicide on the 16th ftoor of the re:sidence hall. Today:, there have 16-e en occurrences of doors moving on t:hei.r mvn and 0th.e r unexplained noises. •Sullivan Han - It is believed that this honors dorm itorv i:s to how~e a fe tu:ale nurs• ing stu.dent:'s gh~stJ ,,rho is also believed to have committed suicide. Noises and moving objects. are the rumor here. •The Ghost of M.o zart - Mozart, a dog, was a ""'-ellrknown pet and mascot for the university in the 1960s. He is buried be~ hind the Ravi.ne's outside amphitheatre.. Reports state that people have seen his ghost sniff• ing around the Ravine and the mu• sic building. •Comb s Building Accounts from former janitors have composed these tales,. and it is sog• gested that the thi.r,d and fourth floor men·'s. restrooms are haunted. Again,, these tales are only rumors 1 and some of your fellow students have done. the research to prove or d is.prove these ac• counts. 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