Urban Legends Part 2

I really wasn’t expecting to have to make another one of these so soon. I apologize. Once again, if you have some odd aversion to long posts or if you don’t care about the stories of college students, feel free to skip this.

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There’s a ghost that haunts Frye Commons. Reports vary, but it is a man, about 21 to 25 in age, wearing a three-piece suit and a fedora (this ghost is my personal favorite, he’s got class). Students call him Johnny Frye. I’m not entirely sure how that name came about other than the name of his favorite hangout. The building’s namesake was a woman by the name of Mary Elizabeth Frye.

Johnny’s story is an interesting one. Even though no one knows who he was, everyone knows how he died. The newspaper article is still in the library, and freshmen are always in there reading it. Considering that the article is now around 60 years old, I’m a little surprised it hasn’t fallen apart yet.

Unfortunately, the article is just a little shout-out to the event. It simply mentions in passing that a man, unidentified, was found dead in the basement of Frye Commons when a student went down there to smoke.

The story that everyone tells is much more forthcoming. It is said that everyone that was awake in the building heard strange whisperings starting around 4:13 a.m. Everyone said that they were too quiet to understand, but everyone that wasn’t asleep agrees that they were there. The whisperings ended right at dawn.

Johnny Frye was found about two hours after that. His throat was cut, his clothes were torn to shreds and he was stabbed about ten times in the torso. Only the students that lived in the building and maintenance workers had access to the basement during the night, but the investigation found no conclusive evidence to suspect anyone they interrogated. The man was never identified, and there were no missing people of his description in the area.

And the student that found him? He went missing about 3 days later.

According to some students that live in Frye Commons, if you listen closely you can hear Johnny Frye whispering at night.

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This is one of those stories that I’m partially inclined to believe. The whole ghost thing is obviously a case of people turning a mysterious murder into a campfire story. Still, there’s definitely some truth to this. Unfortunately the story is from the fifties and all the students that were around at the time are gone.