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Nor'easter News Volume 6 Issue 4 R'EASTER \'ol fl. J.,,ut' :'\o 4· l lalln,Yecn Edi1ion l'niwrsity of NL'\\' En~land Wednesday. October 31.20 12 SPECIAL E EDITION Security Finds Unconscious Female in Champlain BY SHANNON CARDINAL of slenderman-ish." He is want­ Nor'easter Staff ed by the police for questioning, and anyone with any information Security and the Bidd­ on him or the assault is encour­ eford Police are urging all stu­ aged to come forward. dents, especially young women, to take extra safety precautions Makame is currently rest­ after a gruesome discovery ing at the Southern Maine Medi­ made late Friday night. Maria cal Center. She bas received two Makame, a 19-year-old sopho­ blood transfusions, and is feeling more and Medical Biology major very weak. She refused visitors living in Champlain, was found other than her immediate fam­ unconscious in her donn with heavy blood loss and multiple ily. Her father commented, say­ puncture wounds shortly after ing only "Maria doesn't know midnight. what happened and wants to be Her roommates returned left alone," before rushing to her just before 1AM after visiting private room. Students are urged some friends on Hills Beach COURTESY OF SOLARFEEDS.COM to use the buddy system, make Road, to find Makame passed out Crime scene on the floor. "She was pale and her to ---'s beach house. We The Biddeford Police be a coincidence, in a search of their roommates aware of their barely breathing. I knelt down to could tell she didn't want to go, refused to comment, but off the her donn Security officials found plans, be wary of strange activ­ check her pulse, which was very she isn't really into that sort of record campus security shared a no makeup in Makame's space, ity or people on campus, and be faint, and saw two small puncture thing. But she was texting some chilling fact: young women have and no shades of lipstick match­ cautious when answering their wounds on her neck. There were ing the one which she wore at the guy earlier in the day who kept been discovered with simiJar doors. others on her wrists and chest, trying to make plans with her. He injuries for years on this cam­ time of the incident amidst the but those [on the neck] seemed pus, even before it was a co-ed other girls' belongings. was way too into her and she was to be the deepest," Jennifer school. The attacks often occur As for the insistent young *Disclaimer: This story is com­ trying to act chill about it. I could Doyle, her roommate, reported. in Mid-fall, and there are usually man texting her, it seems he was pletely fictional and is meant for tell he was annoying her. When Doyle is also a sophomore cur­ only one or two victims, always using a prepaid cell phone and is the pure enjoyment of our read­ we left she turned her phone off rently majoring in Medical Biol­ matching similar descriptions to not listed under Makame 's con­ ers during this Halloween sea­ ogy. They share the donn with just so she could concentrate." Makame: dark eyes, brown hair, tacts. However, a young woman son. Yet this is the only fictional two other girls who requested One of the girls confided before and tan skin. The girls are always from down the hall saw a strange their names withheld. "She had they headed home for the week, found with a layer of red lipstick, man in the elevator shortly be­ story in this special edition of the stayed behind to catch up on an too shaken by the assault to at­ freshly applied. Though the lip­ fore the attacks occurred. She de­ Nor'easter News. English paper when we invited tend classes. stick was previously thought to scribed him as tall, pale and "sort UNE Students Remember Halloween: Favorite Memories as told by Students BY CARLOS AUGERO and refill the bag with candy, party. We set up a path through versions, but I'll tell you the Emily's Bridge. You can read Nor'easter Staff and leave it on someone else's my barn so it had a sort of haunt­ main one. These two young peo­ the whole story there. It's one door, and it keeps going on in ed-house feel. But that night, ple were seeing each other, and of the top five haunted places in Halloween is upon us, the whole neighborhood. It's re­ we told stories around the fire. the guy's family hated the girl; New England. It's so sketchy! and there is nothing quite like ally fun, since you've got to be And my friend, who I ended up they didn't want to see her ever YEEEEEEEEEEEEAP." sitting around a campfire and sneaky!" collaborating with, her dad was again. So, the couple planned on Caroline Case (CC): "In sharing stories (secretly hoping Tyler Boucher: "We were a cop. So at the beginning of running away. The two were sup­ eighth grade I went to my best none of the stories come to life all asleep when at three o'clock the Halloween party, he spread posed to meet at a bridge. The friend's Halloween party with her that night). So to start you off, in the morning, we heard the around a rumor that there was night came when they were sup­ older sister and her older friends. we at the Nor'Easter News have door bell ring. We were freaking a refugee on the loose, and that posed to meet there, but the guy All the adults were upstairs, in compiled five stories from local out, running to the windows. We he was in the neighboring town never showed up. The girl was the kitchen, watching the movie students about their favorite Hal­ looked outside to see three kids and that we should be aware of "loony tunes," supposedly, and It. I went upstairs to check out loween memories over the years. run to a car and peel off; the same it. So during the campfire, we she was crazy, so when her lover the movie, but all the adults had Sara Nelson: "Have you ever car went by a couple of times told the story and talked about dido 't show up, she freaked out gone outside by the fire. So I was • beard of Ghosting? Someone that night-we know because we the refugee--about what was go­ and hung herself on the bridge. watching it all by myself, while gets a bag and puts candy in it, were just watching them. But we ing on. As we were doing that, So we went there on Halloween, the others were dancing and and leaves it on someone else's didn't realize that they had set a my friend's dad, maybe half a it was about two years ago, at partying downstairs. The movie door; it's kind of like ding-dong­ bag of poop on fire on my front mile away. started running at us about one in the morning. To get was playing the scene where "It" • ditch. You knock on the door steps until my mom stepped on it and shooting his gun, wearing a the full "haunting" effect, you're the clown is dropping balloons and run away. The person whose the following morning!" jail outfit. He was just dressing supposed to park on the bridge. on people in the library, and house you've left it at takes the Kelsey Heck: "In sixth up and playing the part because So we were parked on the bridge, blood is exploding everywhere. bag and finds a picture of a ghost grade, I was living in Connecti­ he spread the rumor himself. He and we could hear the young girl So I'm freaking out, frozen in in there, which the person has to cut at the time and I had a barn was trying to scare everyone, talking in the distance! My friend place! And the movie zooms in hang on their front door so peo­ in the backyard. So me and my and it worked too well!" had a night-vision camera, and on "It's" face, and he laughs, and ple know that they've already neighbor collaborated and invit­ Justin Fontaine: "This when we went back home, we the power instantly goes out at been ghosted. Then you take it ed about 200-300 people to this myth has a couple of different could hear the girl's voice play­ that moment! His face was plas­ ing back. And there was scratch­ tered on the TV after that, and I ing too! On the bridge, we could was completely frozen in place, hear someone scratching on the I couldn't move! Everybody was body of the car, and it was right yelling because the power had by my head. I was looking for­ gone out. I couldn't move, so • ward, and I was like 'Nope, I'm my friends had to go upstairs to • not even going to look!' When get me to move. Ever since, I've • we pulled off the bridge, we saw been petrified of clowns and cir­ actual scratch marks on the car. cuses." • So we went back a week later, Nor'easter News: "And you and if you walk underneath the thought it was "It" the clown that bridge, you can see a rope hang- turned the power off?" ing beneath the bridge, belong- Caroline: "Yes, no it definitely ing to the girl; it's the sketchiest was [laughter]." thing ever, such a scary place! And I've never believed in ghosts until I went there.
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