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The Skeleton's Missing Bones   The skeleton and ghost of an early 1900's young woman with dark hair that is sometimes pinned up and at other times can be seen flowing down her back still haunts the University of Arizona’s Modern Language Building that was built over the site of the original Woman's Athletic Field at the university. According to many reports over the years, she is often still seen wearing a long shawl and a long dress that was popular between 1899 and 1904 and is seen peering through and out the windows of the Romance Languages Lab and the Modern Languages Building itself late 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 raped, murdered, thrown down into a deep hand dug open water well, and then was found floating in the one of the schools  water wells located on the University's original athletic field one morning. The many reports over the years confirm she now has returned to search for and collect her now scattered bones in hope of giving her spirit some final peace after the horrendous crime against her. The current Modern Language Building was constructed directly over the top of 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 very mysterious deaths, and none are still alive today.  There is a persistent and substantiated rumor that a fraternity house member during the 1960's had stolen and thus gained possession of at least some of the bones and they were buried secretly at the stroke of midnight in 1967 on the fraternity's grounds after many very mysterious happenings continuing at the fraternity. Subsequently, by 1974 the fraternity had it's charter revoked, and today the fraternity's old location now has another structure and parking lot located directly over the top of it.  Further information has confirmed that a small group of University of Arizona Alumnus from the mid 1960's to early 1970's still meet precisely at midnight once each year over the spot some of the murdered girls bones now lie. In a still well guarded secret ceremony they continue asking for forgiveness of the actions of the fraternity brother who originally stole the skeleton's bones seemingly bringing the bad fortune, and as some say the 'curse' on all of the fraternity's members who were involved or did nothing to make things right in the 1960's. There have been complaints from the current property owner concerning attempts by persons unknown to try to dig through always the same certain areas of cement and asphalt on the property. The owner has also noted a very high unexplained employee turnover, and amount of 'unusual' employee injuries at the many businesses that have occupied the property since the demolition of  the fraternity structure. Surprisingly, many of the employees injuries are exactly the same or very eerily similar to the ones experienced and reported by the members of the fraternity once located on the property. Of the fraternity's members between 1965 and 1967, many have died under 'unusual circumstances.'  Starting in 1966  two members died in auto related accidents after being hit by automobiles, another was murdered then cut up into pieces and almost completely eaten by his jealous and seemingly insane wife in New York City before she was finally arrested . One died when as the foreman of the electric company back in his home town got his coats left sleeve caught in a fast moving conveyor belt that was loading coal up into the power company's furnaces that provided electricity. Unable to turn the automated equipment off without the foreman's key, the other employees watched in sheer horror as he was carried screaming over 200 feet along on the conveyor that rose up almost 50 foot off the ground, only to be flung like a rag doll into the blast furnaces that electrically powered his entire hometown. His remains could not be recovered.  Five other fraternity members each encountered untimely deaths during the course of various types of robberies or muggings they encountered, and 11 others died of  'natural causes' before they had reached the age of 35.                   Home|BearDown Mystery|Maricopa Hall|May Day Mystery|Old Main Ghost|Professor's Obsession|Centennial Hall|Skeleton's Bones|Spirits In Museum|Contact Us|Disclaimer|Store|