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HORROR LEGEND

AT WEST POINT A TALE WAS TOLD OF A GIRL'S SCHOOL: TWO GIRLS
WERE IN A DORM ONE NIGHT AND HEARD A STANGE NOISE OUTSIDE. THE
GIRLS AGREED THAT ONE WOULD GO OUT TO SEE WHAT IT WAS AND WOULD
COME BACK AND KNOCK ON THE GIRL'S DOOR TO BE LET IN. SO THE GIRL
LEFT AND WAS GONE QUITE A WHILE. MEANWHILE, THERE WAS A FAINT
SCRATCHING ON THE DOOR, BUT THE GIRL INSIDE DID NOT OPEN IT...
IN THE MORNING SHE OPENED THE DOOR AND HER FRIEND WAS LYING
OUTSIDE DEAD.
VARIOUS VERSIONS OF THIS TALE HAVE BEEN HEARD BY ALMOST EVERY
COLLEGE STUDENT.

Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE

Subject headings: PROSE NARRATIVE -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter

Date learned: 06-00-1972

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