Derrick and Ryan are still in pursuit of all 101 activities on the infamous list you may or may not have seen floating around campus the last four (or five) years!This time we are crossing #17 off of the list: Hunt for Ghosts in the Attic of Converse on in our special Halloween edition!

I have never once set foot in Converse Hall on UVM campus. Why? Probably not enough friends in college.

But Derrick, having many friends in his day, spent a lot of time in that scary building and encouraged me to hunt for ghosts in the attic space with him on a casual Thursday afternoon in October.There are many stories about haunted places at UVM and Vermont and you can learn about dozens of them here.

Of course, I was skeptical, but as I approached this strangely Gothic structure, I thought it might be worth a look. I mean, nothing else on campus looks as creepy as this building!

In fact, Converse has it’s very own Ghost named Henry.

Even though it was mid-day, we were a little freaked out the whole time. At the center of the top floor lies a very dated and terrifying mural suspiciously missing Old Mill.

And….*GASP* a television from the late nineties! The temperature outside was dropping, the leaves falling, and the shadows growing, maybe it was time to go back to work…I thought we needed flashlights but the eerie light from spooky windows like these led us to some suspicious graffiti on an old chimney.Upon closer inspection…we noticed something wasn’t quite right…This was very unsettling because I had just eaten potato salad for lunch. It can’t be true.

After all of the skepticism, I was starting to believe that something was truly haunted up here. At that very moment, I heard a voice tell me to go to the door down the hallway…Scary right? I almost got pulled in by some spirit summoning me, but Derrick quickly ran down the hallway and saved me. I was in some kind of trance, but snapped out of it and we left that attic for good. Definitely haunted.

It was also really weird when Derrick said he didn’t remember going up to Converse Hall when we chatted the next day…very strange indeed.

The Devil Is In the Potato Salad

The Devil Is In the Potato Salad

The Devil Is In the Potato Salad

The Devil Is In the Potato Salad

The Devil Is In the Potato Salad

The Devil Is In the Potato Salad

The Devil Is In the Potato Salad

The Devil Is In the Potato Salad

The Devil Is In the Potato Salad

Thanks for joining us! Stay tuned throughout the year for more posts like these. We will attempt to:

• Make new friends from each campus
• Climb Camel’s Hump
• Spend a day barefoot
• Learn a foreign language
• And much more!

Help pick what we do next – email us at afterwrd@uvm.edu