More Than 1,000 Bodies Found Near Ole Miss Campus
God, I hate it when I’m surveying for a campus expansion and I suddenly exhume more than 1,000 corpses attributed to a lunatic asylum that was shut down in 1935. It really ruins my day. The University of Mississippi knows this feeling all too well, as recent expansion plans have come to a dead stop (LOL) thanks to a mass grave of what are so far assumed to be the deceased from the Mississippi State Lunatic Asylum.
Now, I don’t want to sound like a narrator for a shitty slasher movie here, but all this needs is a spooky night, some thunder and lightning, and a little bit of horror movie magic to turn into “Night of The Living Co-Eds”. On the positive side, the newest pledge activity in town could be protecting the frat castle from actual invasions by the unsettled living dead. Damn. That actually sounds like the plot for a great Z-grade horror film. Get on it, Ole Miss fraternities.
The collection of corpses is supposedly going to cost the university a staggering $3 million, or $3,000 per corpse, to exhume, relocate, and presumably bless with a priest so they don’t return seeking vengeance and brains. Also, maybe just some anti-anxiety meds, because they didn’t have those back then.
As a result of the stiff financial costs associated with relocating said stiffs, the university is planning to simply relocate the expansion to another part of campus–presumably to avoid both the financial costs of the move and to keep extra priests on staff to clear out all the hauntings that will assuredly result. That is how this whole thing works, right? My understanding of dealing with mass graves pretty much comes entirely from Scooby-Doo reruns, so I could be way off here.
Hopefully the university can find another fitting site without stumbling on more mass graves. The University of Mississippi is just begging some terrible indie director to come down there and do another found-footage horror movie with this kind of story, and the last thing you want to be known for is for a shitty found-footage horror movie.
[via Huffington Post]
Not on the Ole MIss campus, found in Jackson which is 3 hours away.
get it right pledges.
11 years ago at 11:40 amPledge burial grounds.
11 years ago at 11:41 amshow this to the pledges when they complain
11 years ago at 11:46 amIf I was a pledge master at Ole Miss I would seize this opportunity and make up a story about how all the blackballed pledges got dumped there back in the day. Then send them out to the site during hell week with a Ouija board and make them try and reconnect with their lost brothers.
11 years ago at 12:00 pmYou are sick in the head.
11 years ago at 2:36 pmHow would they be considered “Lost Brothers” if they were pledges that were blackballed?
11 years ago at 2:41 pmNot the main campus it was at the medical school in Jackson. The thought of Ole Miss actually building a new parking lot in Oxford is hilarious though.
11 years ago at 12:08 pm“Night of the Living Co-Eds” could be a great porno.
11 years ago at 12:12 pmPotential “Coed Confidential” Halloween special?
11 years ago at 4:14 pmI thought this was going to be a race thing. It being Mississippi and all.
11 years ago at 12:13 pmI was honesty expecting this to be an old slave burial ground.
11 years ago at 1:28 pmI think ole miss pledges might ought to donate their time to the exhuming process as a “philanthropy” event.
11 years ago at 1:31 pmPlot twist: They found the hopes and dreams of ever winning an NCAA championship down there, too.
11 years ago at 1:38 pm