This past week CAP board put together a week full of fun and chilling Halloween activities.
The week started off with the Eastern State Penitentiary event where students were able to walk through the haunted prison in Philadelphia. According to the Eastern State Penitentiary website, it is the largest haunted house and number one haunted attraction in America.
As if the penitentiary was not scary enough, if you attended the next event Cabrini students soon found out that there are ghosts right here on campus. The event featured ghost hunter Chris Moon. People attending the event could listen to ghosts that live at Cabrini. The former owner of the mansion, Thompson Dorrance was heard having a conversation with his daughter and a little girl named Sally that lived in the mansion when it was an orphanage. This was all possible through a telephone that has radio frequencies that make it possible to hear the ghosts.
Freshman criminology and sociology major Maggie Javitt said, “I thought it was really cool. Chris Moon came and showed us the telephone to the dead. I’ve always wanted to do something like that because I love paranormal investigative shows.”
The event started in Grace Hall where Chris Moon explained all the paranormal things he has found at Cabrini. Then the students took a terrifying walk to the Cabrini mansion with Chris where they got to hunt for ghosts themselves. Students reported seeing orbs, good ones are yellow and bad ones are red.
The freaky photoshoot was another event that took place toward the middle of the week. Students were able to get creative and put on masks, hats and other costume props in Founders lobby and take pictures together as a reminder of the frightful night.
The zombie run could be seen all around Cabrini’s campus. Students ran for their lives through the forests of Cabrini being chased by other students dressed up as zombies. The object of the run was to avoid being caught by the zombies.
Senior president of CAP board Alexa Milano said, “We first did this event last year and it was really popular so we brought it back.”
Later in the week, there was a hair raising event called The Haunted Mansion. As students walked through the mansion they were startled and terrified by CAP members dressed up as ghosts and monsters. Participants were charged $1.00 to enter the haunted mansion at their own risk and all proceeds benefit the Relay for Life.
The Boo-B dance was the final event of Freak Week and took place in Grace Hall this past Saturday. Students danced the night away in all sorts of Halloween costumes. All had a ghoulishly fun time.
“I definitely think these events are good events that bring the campus together. Some of our freak week events like ghost hunters and the haunted mansion are repeated every year so they become things that the students look forward to, Milano said. Freak week is one of our most popular weeks of the year.”
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