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Trying to
make sense of the mystery, some of the residents used a ouija board to
contact the spirit, who responded with alacrity, but also with sorrow
and bitterness. Her name, it is said, was Allison. Some years ago, she
had committed suicide by hanging herself in that basement room that everyone
seemed to avoid. She gave precise details of her death–the date, even
the location of the room where it happened.
When the residents asked a housekeeper about the incident, she was surprised
by what they already knew, as the tragedy had been carefully hushed up
over the years.
Since Potter Hall's conversion into an administration building, Allison
has been heard from less frequently but a 1994 incident, where she loudly
banged on the pipe in the room where she died, suggests that, unfortunately
for her tortured soul, she may still be "alive and well."
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