Urban Exploring at ISU

[KFitzy87]

My family is visiting today and we were killing time before going to a movie so we decided to drive past the shrine.. we drove past going away from Ames and then turned around in the driveway on the left past the place. Then on the way back past it, the guy was in the shrine and he stared us down!

[cyadict]

This has to be the longest running thread on the site....will never die!

[jaretac]

This has to be the longest running thread on the site....will never die!

How can you kill this pure awesomeness! Demonstrate your right to post and keep this thread alive.

[GMackey32]

Megathread is jealous of this thread.

[majorcyfan]

Look up the history of the ammo bunkers that used to be right near or at the corner of Stange and 13th Street and what was in them or the history of the onboard ship AckAck guns that used to sit outside the old NROTC building, that I played on as a kid. Lots of neat ISU history out there.

[kevdiv48]

Look up the history of the ammo bunkers that used to be right near or at the corner of Stange and 13th Street and what was in them or the history of the onboard ship AckAck guns that used to sit outside the old NROTC building, that I played on as a kid. Lots of neat ISU history out there.

Keeping it alive!
Is this on the corner where the disc golf course and parking lot now is or is it one of the other 3 corners?

[CysRage]

Good bump! I almost forgot about this thread. I have been to the Shrine 3 times now and I have never seen the guy. Does he still prowl?

[CysRage]

Yeah, they're down in Dodds, on the first floor of old Hughes Hall (the west end of the building). I can't find the story (I've never seen it online, only heard it orally), but a kid hung himself in the second room on the right.

The DoR placed new residents in there the next semester (without telling anybody what had happened in that room) but they both moved out and dropped out of school after just a few weeks of class. Two more students moved in, and the exact same thing happened. This continued for nearly two years, with multiple students moving into the room, only to move out and drop out of school with little explanation. In the meantime, students in the rooms on either side began to complain of some kind of noise (I think it was really loud thumping, like someone hitting or kicking the walls), and those noises and the complaints intensified as time went on.

Eventually the problems got bad enough that they were widespread legend in the building and on campus, and students started refusing to live in those rooms. The Friley hall director felt like it was being made to look bad, so she(?) very publicly volunteered to spend a full day and night living in that room to prove that it was not haunted. She "moved in" one morning and spent the day doing paperwork with no problems. The next morning, when the 24 hours was to expire, a few students were waiting outside her door for her to wake up and come out. She emerged right on time, but her face was drawn and pale, and she had obviously had not slept and had been crying for a long time. She walked out of the room without a word to anyone standing there, went to her office, packed her things, and quit her job on the spot. After that, those rooms were no longer used for student housing, and aren't to this day. Some of them have been converted into shop space for maintenance, and even they complain about weird stuff that sometimes happens. The three rooms that were most afflicted are completely sealed off and unused.

Has anybody ever heard an approximate year for this story? That's the one thing I've never heard.

Wow this is really creepy. I never lived in Friley but I heard that nobody lives in the basement but never knew why. I love reading the old posts in this thread!

[cmjh10]

Good bump! I almost forgot about this thread. I have been to the Shrine 3 times now and I have never seen the guy. Does he still prowl?

Group of us went there last year and took a picture, he was there, scared the **** out of us.

[CysRage]

Group of us went there last year and took a picture, he was there, scared the **** out of us.

Picture of him or the gate? Either way you should post it. Did he have a shotgun like others have claimed? I am really surprised he didn't come out for us. His light was on in the house and my friends decided it was a good idea to try to climb the gate and sneak into the shrine area.

[cmjh10]

Picture of him or the gate? Either way you should post it. Did he have a shotgun like others have claimed? I am really surprised he didn't come out for us. His light was on in the house and my friends decided it was a good idea to try to climb the gate and sneak into the shrine area.

It might actually be in this thread, I can try and find it....

[cmjh10]

My friends and i went out to the Shrine today. The old guy was out in the "park" on his hands and knees digging a hole.

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This is it!

[CysRage]

This is it!

Nice! Thanks for posting. I am trying to look but is the guy actually in the picture?

[cmjh10]

Nice! Thanks for posting. I am trying to look but is the guy actually in the picture?

No, I dont think so. If my memory is correct, I think he was on the other side digging a hole/burying something.

[Farnsworth]

No, I dont think so. If my memory is correct, I think he was on the other side digging a hole/burying something.

probably bodies of college kids he shot-gunned down while trying to climb the shrine.