Fort Hays State University - Reveille Yearbook (Hays, KS)

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•TRYING PARKER BROTHERS INC., SALEM, MASS. U S A OF GAMES OR GHOSTS, The Warrens can tioned students about asking theOujja board questions about itself. (Photo illustration by Laura Johnson) IIAUNTING GROUNDS. Legend claims a blue light can sometimes be seen moving along the hillside near the monument erected in memory of Elizabeth Polly. (Photo by Laura Johnson) Campus Life 19

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Ed and Lorraine Warren have spent much of their lives in search of the Supernatural upernatural beings, some people may say, are only the in- vention of an imaginative mind . Ed and Lorraine Warren, how- ever, have dedicated 30 years to the long and exhausting hunt of the supernatural. The Warrens visited the univer- sity in October as part of Dr. Caligari ' s “Vault of Villains,” a week- long Halloween festival sponsored by the Memorial Union Activities Board and the Hays Arts Council. To begin the festival, the Warrens conducted an afternoon field trip to a location just beyond Old Fort Hays where several townspeople have re- ported sitings of an image referred to as the Blue Light Lady. Local legend traces this image back to the 1868 cholera edpidemic and a woman named Elizabeth Polly. According to the legend, Eliza- beth nursed soldiers suffering from cholera and, as a result, suffered and died from it herself. Her last request was to be buried on the hill overlooking the fort where she frequently took long walks. During investigation of the site, Lorraine Warren, an acclaimed clair- voyant, said she could feel the spiri- tual presence of a distressed young woman desperately searchi ng for her husband. As Lorraine moved closer, she said the image became surrounded in a turquoise iridescence followed by a strong, pungent smell that indicated illness. Further investigation led the Warrens and their entourage to the tombstone erected in honor of Eliza- beth Polly. The Warrens’ day concluded with the evening lecture, “Seekers of the Supernatural,” at the Memorial Union Black and Gold Room. They showed pictures of demons and spirits, played tapes of muffled voices they said were demonic or satanistic and presented a film of an actual exorcism. Ed cautioned the audience on the use of tarot cards, Ouija boards, seances, drugs, occult practices and heavy metal music. He said these were all ways of let- ting demons in. “Don’t ever invite a demon in,” Warren said. After attending the Warren’s lec- ture, Tina Huelsmann, Oakley so- phomore, said, “I don’t ever even want to see another Ouija board. That thing moves by itself.” Ed pointed out that 70 percent of demonic encounters he and Lorraine investigated were a result of the use of Ouija boards. “I never really believed in ghosts or life after death, but this lecture really changed my outlook, Huelsmann said. Warren made reference to many spirits he claimed were earthbound, meaning they had not made an ap- propriate crossover. “Death is not the end,” he said. “All of you, each and everyone, will survive the grave.” Vicki Schmidtberger 1 8 Halloween

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SET DESTRUCTION, Ehoima Williams, Her- rington freshman helps disassemble the set from Noises Off.” REH EARSING. The set for “Noises Off took approximately 1 000 hours of work, Steve Larson director of technical theater said. Sean Gunther, Andale sophomore and Shawn Stewart-Larson, wife of Steve Lar- son, rehearse for the performance. 20 Theater