By CHRIS KOEHLER ’13
Eye Staff Reporter
Imagine the following scenario. You are working late in the SIHS Library. Engrossed in your English paper, you lose track of time. It’s 11:45pm and the last student left hours ago. You hear a strange sound. Is it Mr. Arko, coming to grammar check your work? Or is it something far more sinister? You panic and make a run for it. Here are five places you probably want to avoid:
#5 The Top of the Tower
Few student have been privy to the secret room located above the Tower Conference room. Behind a locked door is a narrow stairwell leading to a rickety ladder, leading to a trapdoor, leading to a room right out of Edgar Allen Poe’s warped imagination.
The Tower room makes it to our Top Five Scariest Places, although truth be told, we think Ignatius’ gothic spires are more spectacular than scary.
# 4 The Loyola Hall Boiler Room
Freddy Krueger’s schoolhouse lair has nothing on the Loyola Hall boiler room. Tucked away behind a nondescript door next to the back stairwell, the boiler room is a subbasement of the oldest building on campus.
#3 The Carroll Gym Basement
Few even know this place exists, but according to Mr. Valinsky, the Carroll Gym basement is a dusty, rat infested maze of discarded gym equipment.
#2 Under the Stage in the Rade
The construction of the Breen Center left this area largely unused. With it’s black paint-splattered walls, the angst of drama students past is almost palpable as you descend into a labrynth of old props, which according to rumor, includes a casket.
#1 Mr. Hennessey’s Office
If there’s one place no Ignatius man wants to wind up, it’s Mr. Hennessey’s office. The thought alone is enough to tmake the hairs on any Ignatius man’s head stand on end. You’re better off taking your chances with whatever it is chasing you around campus!
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