Ghost Of Egan Hall by Gary Bukowski In the last few years there has For a long time afterwards wearing the ring the phone rang, been a great growth in the some of the Sisters nervously and it was the boy's parents, who number of legends and tales, reported that they kept ^hearing told her that he had been killed in many of which center around the noises and sighs in the Fourth an unusual type of automobile O'Neil Chapel. Most of these Floor of Old Main and especially accident. The'^ horrified Igirl stories have little historical basis in the Tower.; Then one night an blamed his death on the ring and in fact but legends apart of any older Sister entered the Chapel to quickly took it back to the Chapel. college's his t o r y . ^f say some prayers before rearing. Soon after she left college but the So here is Mercyhurst's most As she walked in she noticed that story persisted that the ring was famous tale. The incident centers a Sister was sitting up front cursed and the Chapel and Tower around the ring on the finger of looking at the "Infant of Prague" was haunted. $9 the "Infant of Prague" statue in statue. The Sister then proceeded To stop the | stories the ad- the Chapel. Just recently the ring to the front of the Chapel because ministration removed the ring a mysteriously dissappeared. the Sister looked strange from the few years ,ago and place it in a As the report goes there was back, but as she approached, the box somewhere in the Queen's one Mercyhurst girl who had a person suddenly seemed to Chapel. Although thek ring was lover, and they were engaged to be married when he was called to fight in the Second World War. Just before the war ended it was reported that he had been killed in action. ?j$ *g& When the girl received this news she was so shattered that she sworejthat she would never love another man, and eventually became a Mercy *Nun. Shortly before she took her final vows she placed her former engagement ring on the finger of the "Infant of Prague" statue. L .25 8 A few years later while busy in her work at Mercyhurst she was shocked to receive a letter from the soldier who wasn't dead after all, but pvhoi had been taken prisoner, and only recently been released. I | He wrote to the Sister that he Infant of Prague Statue was coming to see her. The disappear. Only a weird strong eone students continued tp make Sister, who still loved the man but odor remained. When the Sister strange reports of weird lights in who was now committed to God told this story to the other Sisters the Queen's Chapel as if the Sister became so upset that she suffered she was dismissed as being a bit were looking «fon the ring, and a complete nervous breakdown senile. But few went to the strange sounds like groans and was finally isolated in the Chapel anymore late at night. around the Tower late at night. Fourth Floor of Old Main. She A few years ago a Mercyhurst never saw the soldier and never Senior who was engaged became Real or not—the legend con- really recovered but often used to fascinated with the story. tinues to grow.}; J While the gaze at the ring on the statue.3 Because her boyfriend was Administration continues to One day, in the early 1950's, she coming to visit her at Mercyhurst dismiss the whole matter, there was found dead in her room. The -the next day, she decided to take are few people braveferibugh to rumor was strong that she had the ring f r o m the Infant and wear visit the Chapel jarea late at committed suicide and hung it herself to surprise the. bo v . St ni ght — i n c 1 u d i n g the herself. The next day while she was Administration, 4 •* I^^^^MttWWi^M^^^ttBmpHiW^HH^