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floor and heard footsteps. She waited alone
for 45 minutes, but no one ever appeared.
The Our Lady of Victory nuns who re-
side in a home behind the building told Kenel
that before they moved out of the building,
one ill nun protested. After they moved, she
“That was the first time he (the ghost) was ever seen,”
Schronk said.
“The women immediately left to find some of their other
theater friends. They went back to the theater but saw and
heard nothing,” he said. “They left the theatre through the big
doors which were propped open as always, and just as they
were about to leave the building through the glass doors, the
big theatre doors shut.”
The group came back into the building for a second time,
but once again saw nothing.
“During rehearsals I had an eerie feeling of some type of
presence, nothing evil, or anything like that,” Schronk said. “I
really can’t describe it.” . .
Schronk’s wife was helping him direct a play that same
year.
“During rehearsal my wife was sitting on the back row of
abyss beneath the bridge. The screams and
moans are supposedly the women’s frantic
cries.
The road is no longer used, and the bridge
has been replaced by a concrete one. The vic-
tims’ families have moved away, but those
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South Main Street, Fort Worth. Phone: 429-
0609, price: adult $8, children 10 and under
$5. Open through Oct. 31. Time: 7 p.m.-
late.
•Hangman’s House of Horrors—1-30
and Forest Park Blvd., Fort Worth. Phone:
336-HANG, price: $7.95. Open on Fridays
and Saturdays in October. Tune: 7 p.m.-mid-
night.
•Cutting Edge Haunted Houses—
Woodall Rodgers & McKinney, Dallas and I-
30 & Lancaster in the Texas & Pacific Rail-
road Freight Warehouse, Fort Worth. Phone:
792-FEAR, price: adult $8, children $6. Open
through Oct. 31. Time: Fridays and Satur-
days, 7 p.m.-midnight, Sundays through
Thursdays, 7-10 p.m.
•Darkside:Dead and Buried—811
McDonwell School Road, Nine Acres Com-
plex, Colleyville. Phone: 498-DARK, price:
adult $8, children 12 and under $4. Open
nightly through Oct. 31. Time: 7 p.m.-l a.m.
•Dungeon of Doom—201 West Main
Street, Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington.
Phone:275-4600, price:$6. Open Thursdays-
Sundays in October and Halloween. Tune: 7
p.m.-late.
•Fright Fest 1994—Six Flags over
Texas, Arlington. Phone: 640-8900, price:
$26.95 plus tax. Open Thursday-Sunday, Oct.
28-30. Tune: Fridays 6-11 p.m., Saturdays
10 a.m.-ll p.m., Sundays 10 a.m.-8 p.m.
•Haunted Hollow at the Hill—432 West
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dents in their mid to late 20s were in the theater re-
hearsing a dance routine on the stage with the re-
hearsal lights on. The auditorium lights were not MM
on, so the lights were fairly dim,” Schronk said. |
“One woman went out into the wing to adjust the |
lights and heard a man make a sound, nothing ob- I
scene, just a sound that he (the former student who F
died) would always make, and everyone knew it |
when they heard it.”
The woman looked around to see who was there
but saw no one. The other woman looked out into
the theater and saw a man sitting in the back row in
work clothes and a work hat. All of sudden the
woman saw the same figure pass across the top of
the theater. A third friend was waiting for them at
the door. The two women hesitantly asked her if
she too had seen the figure. The third woman agreed <
she had seen him but was not going to say anything
for fear of everyone thinking she was crazy.
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the theater,” he said. “Down in the very fror^ and to
the right of the stage, my wife saw a glowing trans-
lucent light approaching her. As it got closer, she
recognized the figure and called him by name, ask-
| ing what he was doing there. Then she immediately
I left. I never believed any of this until my wife told
| me what she saw.”
Another student was removing his makeup and
saw an image of a face in the mirror on the wall
behind him in the dressing room, Schronk said.
“I can always tell when he is there,” Schronk
said. “He (the ghost) never liked controversy; how-
ever, he did show up at our last play Comedy of Er-
rors, even though he did not like this play when he
was alive. It was the very first play he was ever in.”
Schronk said things sometimes occur during
shows and rehearsals. It always happens to the left
of the stage. ■
“I doesn’t matter where I sit, I can always get a |
glimpse of something to my right,” he said. “Noth-
ing evil ever happens.”
Schronk feels that this student may have been
on his way back to the theater when he was struck
by a car head on.
“When in the theater, I remember this talented ■
actor only wanted to be in the theater, which was his W
first love,” he said. “So this is where he is.”
Schronk said there have reportedly been other
ghosts who have appeared before this one. At one
time they had a ghost who liked to pinch unsuspect-
ing people. «
“I was pinched once and thought the woman I
who was walking with me to my office did it,” he "
said. “When I turned around to look at her, she was
at the top of the stairs, and I was at the bottom, so I
know for a fact that she could not have done it.”
Schronk has heard other accounts from students
about seeing a ghost through the years, which has ■
only confirmed his belief that a ghost really is present ■
in TCJC’s NE Playhouse.
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crash on a air field which once occupied the Arlington and Bedford. The wooden bridge
now home’s site. The second ghost is Jenni- was burned by pranksters in 1961. On Feb.
fer, a “Southern belle” who wears a long, 4,1961, three Arlington High School juniors
pink dress and matching hat. Jennifer’s ori- died and three more were injured when the
gins are unknown, but both Henry and she vehicle they were driving plummeted off the
demand attention, the family said. “When
we don’t pay attention to them, that’s when
they get nasty and start doing things to irri-
tate us,” one family member said.
•In 1967, students who rehearsed for
Tales abound over area spirits
by Robyn A. Sanders
south campus news editor
Each town claims its own strange tales
of the supernatural. Following is a list of lo-
cal ghost tales.
•The Mourning Mother of War Memorial
Park was only seen late at night, always car-
rying a child’s coffin. The gray-haired woman
would walk aimlessly in a long, flowing gown,
screaming so loud by that some who never
saw her, heard her. The apparition was seen
in the 1960s along the then main access route
to Six Flags over Texas. The specter has not
been sighted in recent years. Many of those
who saw her say this is because of construc-
tion which altered the road.
•In Arlington, a family has reports and
has photographs to document their life with
many ghosts for over 20 years. The family
has two ghosts which have been with them
the longest. Henry is an apparition of a World
War II pilot who was killed in an airplane
Parkerville Road, Cedar Hill. Phone: 214-
780-7153, price: $7. Open Friday-Monday,
Oct 28-31. Time: 7 p.m.-midnight.
•Haunted Tayman Manor—between
Cedar Hill and Midlothian. Take 1-35 South
to Hwy. 67 South, exit Old Hwy. 67, go past ■' I (
the Citgo Store and follow signs. Phone: 723- |
3811, price: adult $5, children under 12, $4.
Open Oct. 28-31, 7:30 p.m.-late.
•Haunted Verdun Manor—1025 East
Hwy. 80, Forney. Phone: 214-564-3941,
price: adult $7, children under 12, $6. Open
Wednesdays thorough Sundays, lime: Fri-
days and Saturdays, 6 p.m.-midnight; other
days, 6-10 p.m.
•Reindeer Manor— exit 1-35 at
Beercreek Road, turn East and follow signs,
DeSoto. Phone: 227-4705, price: adult $6,
children 5 and under $4. Open through Oct. a
31. Time: Sunday-Thursday, 7-10 p.m.; Fri-
day-Saturday, 7 p.m.-late, Oct 30-31, 6-10
p.m.
•Silo X Haunted House—1-35 and Wal-
nut Hill, next to Malibu Grand Prix, Dallas.
Phone: (214)504-8700, price: adult $12, chil-
dren $10. Open Tuesday through Sundays in
October and Halloween, lime: Weeknights
dusk-11 p.m., Fridays and Saturdays, dusk-1
a.m.
•The Haunting of Hemphill Hall—
3300 Hemphill, Fl Worth. Price: $7. Open
Thursday-Monday, Oct 27-31. lime: 7-mid-
night.
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road and into the ravine below. All of the vic- £
tims were teenagers. The “Bridge Out” sign
which had been posted was removed before
the women reached the gap in the road.
For several years after the accident, many
plays at Arlington High School would be in- people would visit the site on the anniversary
terrupted by the sound of a sewing machine of the event where they heard distant, blood- ■
running in the nearby costume/prop storage curdling screams and moans coming from the ■■
room. When students would enter the room,
it would be found in disarray. Props and
costumes would be scattered, and the sewing
machine that is in the room would be off.
•According to the Fart Worth Star-Tele-
gram dated October 28,1984, the most popu-
lar of local ghost stories is the tale of who attended the late-night anniversary wakes
“Screaming Bridge.” The tale involves a still remain awestruck at the incidents they
bridge along a main road that once connected heard.
Fright guide offers haunted spots
Bewitching time again, and the area of-
fers a cornucopia of scare space.
•Samuell Farms’ Haunted Hayrides—
Samuell Farm 100 E. Hwy 80, Mesquite.
Phone: 214-670-8263, price: adult $6, chil-
dren ages 3-11 $5. Open Thursday-Monday,
Oct. 27-31. Time: 7-11 p.m.
•Murder Mystery Masquerade—Ta-
rantula Train Stockyards Station, Fort Worth.
Phone: 625-RAIL, price: $40 per person.
Saturday, Oct. 29. lime: 7:30-10:30 p.m.
•Phantom Manor—Wet and Wild LBJ
@ NW Hwy, Garland. Phone: 214-877-1075,
price $5. Open Wednesday-Monday, Oct. 26-
31. Tune-: Fridays and Saturdays, 7 p.m.-mid-
night; Sundays and weeknights, 7-10 p.m.
•Haunt Fest ‘94—1/2 mile west of Hwy.
360 on East Abram, Arlington. Phone: 460-
1666, price:$6. Open Fridays, Saturdays and
Sundays in October. Time :Friday and Satur-
days, 7 p.m.-l a.m.; Sundays, 7-10 p.m.
•Dr. Frights’Asylum—217 Front Street,
Arlington. Phone: 478-8078, price:$6. Open
Friday-Monday, Oct. 28-31. Time: 7 p.m.-
midnight.
•Haunted Trail—500 NE 23rd Street,
Cowtown Corrals in the Stockyards, Fort
Worth. Phone:740-0582, price: adult $6,
children $4. Open Oct. 27-31. Tune: Fri-
days, Saturdays and Halloween from 7 p.m.-
midnight; Thursday and Sundays from 7-10
p.m.
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by Karen Bayless
nw campus news editor
Tales frequently abound about theaters being
haunted and TCJC’s NE Playhouse has some sto-
ries of its own.
Stacy Schronk, associate professor of drama,
stated that a few years ago a theatrical student stu-
dent on NE Campus had a love for the theater but
felt that he could not make a living at acting; there-
fore he left drama behind in search of another ca-
reer.
His passion for the theater remained strong—a
desire that brought him back to the NE Playhouse
where he applied for a job.
“We both agreed he had the qualifications and
we were really excited about the future and work-
ing together,” Schronk said.
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by Robyn A. Sanders
south campus news editor
alking into the old building, one
notices the sense of peace and
calm despite the littered hallways
and peeling paint.
Now the building is haunting in more soon died. Kenel believes that her spirit
ways than one. In fact, the first floor is be- might be residing in the old building since
ing used as a haunted house during the Hal- that is where she was the happiest.
loween season. “Many nuns still are here in spiriL” she
Welcome to the old Our Lady of Vic- said. “These spirits have usually kept to the
tory building, owned by Historic Landmarks third floor, which served as the infirmary to
and located at Shaw and Hemphill in Fort the nuns.”
Worth. Some force can also be detected in the
The building was built in 1909 and was chapel area, although it also was stripped
for years an academy for girls. The and the pews, stained glass windows and
building’s four stories, basement and attic ornamentations auctioned off.
then served as a Catholic junior college and Anyone touring the chapel can feel a
then finally was used as an infirmary for ill sense of somberness as if the nuns from a
nuns. previous age still permeate the area.
It is the spirit of these nuns that sup- Jim Willeng, who oversees work on the
posedly haunt the building, Carol Kenel, building, says that spirits are in the house,
executive director of Historic Landmark, “I must prepare at least two days be-
said. fore going into the building,” he said.
The nuns lived in the building until 1993 Willeng says that in the basement a
when they were forced to strip the building force can be detected.
and auction off everything, including “Late at night, right before I turn out
baseboards, to pay taxes. the lights, I can feel something,” he said.
Historic Landmarks was founded and Perhaps it is appropriate that “The
bought the building only weeks before it was Haunting of Hemphill Hill” is now scaring
scheduled to be tom down. people from around town.
Currently, renovation is being done to Is the Old Our Lady of Victory build-
turn the building into a haven for artists to ing haunted? Are the spirits of departed
work in and display their work. nuns staying where they were the happiest?
But things are not so quiet there. Kenel No one knows for sure. But no one ever
tells the story of the time she was on the main wants to be there after dark.
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