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...always kill a roommate.” Dunsterites have more to fear than just a long walk to and from the Yard. The infamous and supposedly haunted room H-21, the rumored site of a 1995 murder-suicide, makes Dunster the campus’ spookiest residence. However, most loyal residents are able to sleep soundly. “I’m not concerned that I will suddenly murder my roommate or be murdered by her,” says future resident Sarah B. Rosenberg-Wohl ’12. Indeed, undergraduate residents need not fear finding dried bloodstains underneath...

Author: By Anna M. Yeung, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Explained: Rooming Myths | 4/8/2009 | See Source »

...spookiest hours of Halloween night may be a little less scary this year, thanks to a program that will offer free taxicab rides around Cambridge...

Author: By Pooja Venkatraman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Program Offers Free Cab Rides on Halloween | 10/24/2008 | See Source »

Thanks to alcohol, a friend of mine celebrated the wee hours of Halloween at Mt. Auburn Hospital just over a month ago. As his escort from a masquerade party to the emergency room, my spookiest moments were conversations with real nurses, decidedly less seductive than those we left behind, and real doctors who, stuck with the dregs of weekend duties, were in no mood to dance. The trick of that weekend was that party abundance, a rare treat, came with an abundance of excess. Twelve students were admitted to University Health Services (UHS) for alcohol abuse in two days, making...

Author: By Blake Jennelle, | Title: Please, Sir, Could You Drink Somewhat Less? | 12/1/2003 | See Source »

...interviewing scores of al-Qaeda detainees, investigators have found not a single reference to the Sept. 11 hijackers. "Where's the intel on these people?" asks a senior FBI official. "Even after all this time, there are no documents and nothing in the humint [human intelligence]." Which raises the spookiest possibility of all: that there could be another al-Qaeda cell out there, just as good--just as quiet--as the one that mounted the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. That's why assessing the capabilities of al-Qaeda now is so important...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Al-Qaeda Now | 6/3/2002 | See Source »

...Scenarist Koepp (Jurassic Park) smoothly adapts a novel by Richard Matheson (What Dreams May Come) with vagrant similarities to The Sixth Sense. The payoff is relatively small change, but the setup is persuasive: a portrait of a blue-collar marriage in mute distress. And strap yourselves in for the spookiest, most imaginative hypnosis scene in movie memory. You are getting...very...scared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Stir Of Echoes | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

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