Bates Urban Legends

Schaeffer Theater is supposed to be haunted by the ghost of Lavinia Schaeffer. When things go wrong or the lights flicker and doors bang open unexpectedly, this is supposed to be Lavinia at work.

A professor is reported to have died in Hathorn Hall, but no one is sure exactly when or who.

One of the houses on campus is supposed to be haunted, but no one can agree which one. Some people say Nash House, which is very old and filled with mysterious crawlspaces, but others say it's Davis House or Cheney. (Did I mention drugs and alcohol are abundant at Bates?)

A few years ago, Bates used to put kegs on the football field for all students to enjoy. They only stopped when the state of Maine made them.

Ten years ago, students used to dump their goldfish in the Puddle at the end of the year. After a while, these fish got to be several feet long, but when the school dredged the Puddle, they all died.

There used to be a two-story high bong in the Bill.

The College's first radio station had to be shut down for a year, and the call numbers had to be changed when the FCC shut them down for hooking the radio station up to train tracks and broadcasting through the entire East Coast.