By Loryn Schuetzle
Raver Staff

Several ghost stories swirl around the School of Mines. There was the believable sighting of Big Foot on campus a few years ago. It is rumored that there have been ghosts in the Connolly dorms in the past. There is a tale about a woman crying and two kids playing that can only be heard between the hours of 2 a.m. and 4 a.m. by Rapid Creek. However, there is still one mystery that haunts the campus to this day.

It is a well known fact that the School of Mines is full of interweaving underground tunnels. The school does not allow students to see the tunnels, but long ago, a student took advantage of the underground tunnels that weave beneath the School of Mines.

“I have heard of students living in the tunnels under the campus,” junior chemical engineering student Eliza Gores said.

The student that moved into the tunnels has been known to sneak around campus late at night when no one is around; sometimes choosing to stay inside a campus school building through the night. There have been accounts of items in the classroom building disappearing and then the next day reappearing, footsteps in empty hallways late at night, toilets flushing when no one is in sight and music coming from underground.

“I thought something was a little weird when I heard the toilet next to me flush and no one was there,” junior civil engineering student Jesse Morris said about the alleged mystery.

How is this person sneaking around campus living in the tunnels and buildings without getting caught? It is simple: no one has seen this student. It is possible that this is not a student at the School of Mines at all, but rather a ghost here on campus haunting the buildings that reside on the School of Mines grounds.

“I have heard of ghosts haunting the campus,” industrial engineering senior Katie Harvey said. “I heard there was one living in the tunnels under the campus.”

Ghosts have been known to find shelter at the School of Mines. Many students go in search of these spirits but no one has found the man who haunts the underground tunnels.