8 | March 1 - March 7, 2012 the JOURNAL FEATURES Tiger Seeks Sealed Rooms and Hidden Tunnels BY MARYNEWPORT. actly where she was ‘commersone has the mimes of the room was closed. Inthe asked if | would eral around ‘Fdwwrin-Chief Diamond's location may be several Masons and the board 1950s, a student living inthe in tunnels.” he said "Nobody losttotime, but Susan Ingram, of afars- including Linscheid dorms stayed behind when his else wanted t0 doit said it East Central University is adninistative assistant” and and Nagle- earved on it. In- roommate and friends went sounded like fun full ofhistory. Everywhere stu- adjunct. ef communications gram believes the time capsule to dinner, saying he would ‘The tunnels are 4foot tal dents go, they can hear gossip an marketing, sid she knows lies beneath, but its hatd to be there soon, When they re 3-foot-wide holes i the earth and ramos about the campus where studenis might find a prove without litle digging. cured, they found thei Friend according to Henley. They are and its hidden features. Some long-lost ime capsule Students. who don't want gone, leaving behind only a often damp aed mukly. always ‘may wonderhow muchisteue. "T'm convinced there is a to dig might look instead for bundle of sage and the red dark and usualy filled with Thisis theiechance to find out. missing time capsule on cam- the mysterious sealed room message on the wall. Rafes cobwebs, spiders and roaches ‘One of the most popularsto- pus from the 19205 she said. of Fentem Hall, Fentem was allegedly re-sealed the room The tunnels were originally ries is about the elephant. Dur “I think Tknow wher itis, bu _osignallya dormitory formale after his experience, and ite used 10 cary Steam from the ing tours of the campus, new proving itis another issue.” students, but in 1976 ECU mains closed to this da. Physical Plant, which stood students are often told about a Ingram spends a great_tumed the frst floor inooffice There is no such room, ac- where Linscheid Library now ‘mighty elephant coming to the deal of time researching the space. Rumoe ays somewshere cording to Jim Vercelli, Litera- stands, tooth buildings, Now university withthe ciscus. The school's history, and daring in the builling. par of the cy Fist coordinator they conan pipes an tele clephant died. mid-visit and her reseatch, she found an in- dom remains, a single locked “I've been ere 18 years and communication wires, which was supposedly buried some- teresting aricle in the serp- room containing evidence of a 1 remember when this whole maintenance workers occa where on university grounds. book of alumnus 1G, Hill, bloody tragedy floor was gutted,” he sad, re- sionally climb inside to fix ‘The story is true and deals who slvended ECU in 1925) Angie Brunk, libravian and ferring tothe building's 1988 Fasidious adventure seek can be found in “What Hap- The article describes the laying instuctor, said she first heard emoxeling. "You could come ers might skip the macky tun pened to East Central's El- of the comertone in “ECU's the story shorty after Rich- up hee and it was nothing but nels and search forthe myste ephant?” in the centennial his- new education building.” ard Rates, ECU president columns ously disappearing, museum ‘ory publican "Celebrating Deputy Grand Master Wil- 20062008, was inaugurated, Those disappointed by Fen- of Danley Hal, Danley began 100 Years." Honest Bill New- iam Freeman of the Masonic The tale sys Rafes found tem Hall's fack of haunted a the fist Linscheid Library ton’s Country Cireus spent the loge placed the comerstone locked door in Fentem Hall oom might be happy to heat in 1949, Old clippings from winter of 1919 in Ada, and and a time capsule beneath that seemed to have nokey, He instead about ECU's system the 1957 Ada Evening News during the time an elephant i, Adolph Linscheid, ECU called locksmith open the of underground tunnels. Tun- mention the opening of the named Diamond passed away. president 1920-1949, nd Pat door, ad behind it he Found a els connect every building on East Central Museum in the Newton save the body to Nagle, member ofthe board of preserved dorm room. campus, of so the story 20es, building and show pictures of ECU's science department but _afsts, gave speeches. Rafes entered the room and allowing those in the know to glass cases featuring exhibits efforts to preserve the body for The article never identifies found the message “Aren't you escape winter winds by trvel- labeled Meso America, Ori section and skeleton for dis- the building by name, and the gla you dida’t wait for me” ing underground, fentand Europe. Ingram cannot play failed, so Diamond was name ofthe peri not shown spelled outon the wall in stil- Dave Henley, assistant di- find further mentions of the buried ‘on the clipping. Two build- wet red pain, Asie from the rector of networking and tele- museum or locate anyone Who Time, money, the Great De- ings were built in 1925, the furniture, the only other thing communications, confined knows anything about it and pression and WWII prevented Adminstration Building’ snd in the room was bundle of the tunnels existence but said what happened to the exhibit, anyone digging Diamond up McBride Gyrn, Ingram could sage lying onthe bed they’ze not shat people thik They.likean entire elephant ‘again for 25 years, and by that at ocate the McBride corner--Rafes made inguiies and they are before them, have simply dis: time nobody remembered ex- stone, but the Administration leamed the unsettling reason “When I came here, they appeared into the mists of tim , LOANS + LOANS + LOANS EAST CENTRAL CREDIT UNION 831 EASTMAIN — ADA, OKLAHOMA 74820 — www.eccuada.com