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17 18 19 GRAPHICS SPOOKY SPECIALS Survey shows students’ Halloween favorites
W a t c h s c a r y m o v i e s N o t a p p l i c a b l e G o t o h a u n t e d h o u s e s What do you do on Halloween?
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H a n d o u t c a n d y G o t o a p a r t y
Most popular candies
15.7% 13.5% 7.9%
What’s the worst thing you’ve gotten while trick-or-treating?
Where do you like to trick-or-treat?
DOWNTOWN NEIGHBORHOODS 89.8%10.2%
“A stomach ache from eating too much candy.”
“Shelled peanuts (a handful, not packaged).”
“A subscription to a local dentist.”
Do you celebrate Halloween?
“Pennies.”
“Fish bait.”
No 4.9%
I used to 8.1%
“Those stupid vampire teeth.”
“Christian pamphlets.”
“Fake ‘Fun Dip’ that made me have weird dreams.”
“I got lost two blocks from my house.”
Yes 87%
WHO YOU GONNA CALL?
Interactions with possible ghosts chase away skepticism
MARIAH HOUSTON, JUNA MURAO AND ROWAN PLINSKY
The possessed woman sits up in bed. Slowly, she climbs off her king size mattress and stands, facing her sleeping husband. The woman stays there for hours, staring at the sleeping man. At precisely 3:14 am, she leaves the room. Two minutes later, a scream rings throughout the house. The man jumps out of bed and runs towards his screaming wife. The man’s body is flung back into the bedroom and against a wall. The woman appears, covered in blood. She stands over her husband’s body. She makes sure he is dead. She smiles viciously and lunges at the camera.
The lights flick on and people begin to file out of the theater. Faces are filled with excitement and relief; it was just a movie, right? Ghosts aren’t real, right? There is no plausible way the events of the movie could happen to any living breathing human, right? Well...maybe. Growing up, junior Sophia Riedemann heard ghost stories about a lady in a red dress from her parents, which made her believe in ghosts since she was in elementary school. Her older sister Chloe was the first to have an interaction with a ghost in their house.
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Growing up, junior Sophia Riedemann’s older sister repeatedly saw and interacted with a mysterious lady in a red dress. After hearing dozens of stories about these ghostly interactions, Sophia Riedemann became less skeptical about paranormal activity.
“My dad was lying on the couch, watching Chloe play, and she pointed behind him and she said ‘there’s a lady in a red dress,’” Riedemann said. “My dad looked back, but there was nothing there. My sister kept saying ‘there’s a lady, a lady in a red dress.’” Riedemann’s house has taken many different personas, including a hospital, a fraternity house and a warehouse. Her parents moved there when they were just married and were warned about the conspicuous “lady in the red dress” that only children could see.
“[Chloe] was taking a nap and when she woke up she walked to my parents room,” Riedemann said. “They asked how she got out of bed and she said ‘the lady helped me, the lady in the red dress.’”
Riedemann was first exposed to these ghost stories in kindergarten while she was on a tour of historic places in Lawrence.
Previous owners of Junior Sophia Riedemann’s family’s home warned the Riedemanns about a suspicious “lady in a red dress.” According to the previous owners, only young children can see her. After living in the same hosue for years, Riedemann said her opinion of ghosts has changed from fear to acceptance. She believes they are kind spirits. Photo by REBECCA CALDERON Below:
The tour guide began talking about her house and how it was a hospital. That was when her father began to tell her about all of the paranormal activity in the house.
Riedemann expressed that she completely believes in all of the ghost stories she grew up hearing from her family and friends. Stories from other people, such as her brother’s friend, confirmed her belief that her father was not simply making things up.
Because of her belief in ghosts from a young age, Riedmann expresses that she has never been afraid of the ghosts in her house. “I’m not really scared of them [ghosts],” Riedemann said “just because I lived there for so long and nothing [bad or scary] really happened.”
Being only a child, senior Savannah Fergus had a prominent curiosity of ghosts and anything paranormal. As she grew up she still maintained her belief.
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Junior Sophia Riedemann’s house, nestled on Ohio Street, took the form of a hospital, a fraternity house, and a warehouse before settling into it’s current form as the Riedemann’s place of residence. It is known for it’s ghost stories and paranormal possibilities.
Photo by REBECCA CALDERON
“When I was younger I read a lot of ghost books and watched a lot of Ghost Hunters, Fergus said. “I had a lot of paranormal experiences, like I would lay down to go to sleep and I would see faces, coming at me.”
As a strong believer Fergus never questioned her supernatural experiences. She always saw a woman in a white dress, standing at the foot of her parents’ bed. The first time she saw the woman, she was sleeping in her parents’ bed and heard something suspicious.
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standing at the foot of her parents’ bed. The first time she saw the woman, she was sleeping in her parents’ bed and heard something suspicious.
“I woke up, and I looked over and she was standing over my dad touching his head and his feet. And then she was gone,” Fergus said. In Fergus’s experience, the more someone believes in the possibility of supernatural beings the more likely it is for supernatural occurrences happen.
“I think the more open you are to it the more likely you are to having paranormal experiences,” Fergus said. “People who would
be scared of [anything] happening to them, [I’ve] noticed they don’t have experiences.” According to Fergus, people that come to her house often mention feeling uneasy or claim that they feel something that is not necessarily mean, but just does not want them there.
“To me, he isn’t always there,” she said. “But when he is, it just feels like [I’m] sitting next to a relative that [I] don’t know very well, but it’s not like he is trying to hurt me.” Senior Ella Sullivan has been ghost hunting from a young age. Sullivan’s mother, Nancy, started off her paranormal career as a tour guide for Ghost tours of Kansas. However, after being invited to an investigation with the Kansas Paranormal Research Society, she decided to become an official paranormal investigator.
“We investigated anything from a private family home to the Sigma Nu house here in Lawrence,” Nancy Sullivan said. “We would set up cameras around and then would have a base station where someone would sit and watch the monitors all night. People go out two at a time [to] different positions in the house. You always have a walkie-talkie to keep in touch with everyone. And then you just go and sit and ask questions and use your recorders to record anything you might not hear, and you just sit and wait for something to happen.”
Nancy Sullivan admitted that her reason for joining the Ghost Tours of Kansas was not her belief in ghosts, but rather her skepticism. “I was mostly just interested in it, and I just wanted to know if there really is something there or not,” Nancy Sullivan said. “I felt like I was more skeptic in the group. I try to find other explanations first, but sometimes you just can’t.”
Although she still has her skeptic moments, Nancy Sullivan has had numerous experiences that point her toward believing in ghosts.
“We were at a home in Junction City,” Nancy Sullivan said. “We had a psychic with us at the time, and she felt like there was a little girl in the house. The owners of the home had seen a little girl, and the psychic didn’t know the stories [ahead of time]. On two different recorders we have a really clear voice of a little girl going ‘mother?’ My recorder was out in the hallway outside the bedroom and the other recorder was in the bedroom, and we got it on both of the recorders. There weren’t children in the house.”
Ella Sullivan spent her childhood attending ghost tours and investigations with her mother, and she also witnessed unexplainable events, heightening her belief in supernatural beings.
“In a country club, there was a boy ghost that drowned in the pool, and we found wet little footprints,” Ella Sullivan said. “Nobody was wet, it was in October so the pool was drained, there was no leak in the pipes and it
Along with junior Sophia Riedemann’s experiences with a ghostly lady in a red dress, senior Savannah Fergus has also seen suspicious paranormal activity. She recalls a woman standing over her while she slept. Fergus believes that the less skeptic people are about ghosts the more likely they are to encounter them. Photo by REBECCA CALDERON Right:
A long, wooden staircase leads to the upstairs section of junior Sophia Riedemann’s house. Since moving to their current home, Riedemann’s family has had countless interactions with an infamous lady in a red dress. Supposedly, only children can see this lady. Bottom Right:
Photo by REBECCA CALDERON
Junior Sophia Riedemann and senior Savannah Fergus are not the only ones who have experience paranormal activity. Senior Ella Sullivan and her mother Nancy Sullivan have attended multiple paranormal investigations across Kansas. The Sullivans’ skepticism of paranormal activity has shrunk. Photo by REBECCA CALDERON
was really in the shape of a footprint.”
The Sullivans have countless paranormal stories, including the inexplicable sound of a music box at a winery in Topeka and a recording of footsteps running down a hall while all the investigators were standing still in an old bookstore in Abilene.
Although the Sullivans have encountered what seem to be ghosts, they have never encountered the kind of demons that are portrayed in popular horror movies.
“I don’t think it needs to be scary; it’s just people,” Nancy Sullivan said. “I don’t necessarily believe in demons or bad ghosts; it just might be someone who was grumpy in life is grumpy in death.”
Although these ghostly experiences have convinced Ella Sullivan of the possibility of paranormal life, she doesn’t believe just hear- ing her stories will convince other people. “The thing that gets people to believe is having them experience it themselves,” Ella Sullivan said. “I don’t think anyone could ever convince somebody without proof.” Whether someone is skeptical about ghosts or a strong believer in ghosts, Nancy Sullivan claims there is one thing everyone can agree on.
“There are some things you just can’t explain,” Nancy Sullivan said.
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