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The Skeleton's Missing Bones

The skeleton and ghost of an early 1900's young woman with long dark hair still haunts the University of Arizona’s Modern Language Building that was built over the site of the original Woman's Athletic Field. According to many reports, she is still seen wearing a long shawl and a long skirt that was popular between 1899 and 1904 and seen is peering through and out the windows of the Romance Languages Lab and the languages Building itself at night. The students who notice her, and try to speak to her, say that when addressed, she turns and very quickly runs away... only to vanish!

According to newspaper reports of the early 1900's, the unknown woman was murdered, raped, and found floating in one of the schools water wells on the old athletic field one morning and she now has returned to collect her bones. The Modern Language Building was constructed on the site in 1965. The workers were said to have found human bones there as they dug the foundation footings but didn’t report them to anyone for fear that the resulting investigation would delay the project, and put them out of work. The sometimes skeleton and sometimes ghost has been trying to recover her bones ever since.

It is unsure what the workers did with the human bones, but it is believed some of them split the bones up between themselves and kept them as souvenirs of the project. Of the workers on the project twenty four of them died of mysterious deaths, and none are still alive today. There is a rumor that a frat house member during the time gained possession of some of the bones and they were buried at the stroke of midnight in 1967 on the frats grounds. However, by 1974 the frat had it's charter revoked and, today it's old location now has another structure and parking lot located on it.