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The Daily Barometer

Jen Waters, the executive director of the Whiteside Theatre, located at 361 SW Madison Ave., holding a
picture frame of Lillian McElroy, a vaudeville star who is rumored to haunt the organ in the theater. McElroy is only one of a few ghosts that are said to linger around the Whiteside.

Local ghost enthusiasts discuss Corvallis’s most hair-raising haunts

Adam Figgins, News Contributor
October 25, 2021

Rumors say that Corvallis, Ore.’s Whiteside Theatre is home to two commonly-seen ghosts—but the historic theater is not the city’s only haunted place. Over the years, many rumors have spread about...

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COVID-19 present on OSU campus; TRACE OSU testing available

the Baro Staff
October 1, 2020

Up to 1,000 students, faculty and staff at Oregon State University may be voluntarily tested randomly for COVID-19 weekly through the TRACE OSU project.According to an email sent on Sept. 30 to all OSU...

The OSU Sesquicentennial Oral History Project collects stories and first-hand-accounts from people in the OSU community, and each person interviewed is photographed. The Project aims to piece together OSU’s history through the different interviews. 

OSU Sesquicentennial Oral History Project aims to capture the past through collecting stories

Thomas Ebrahimi News Contributor
October 31, 2016

The tunnels moan under the pressure of the ground above. Sounds echo, bouncing crisply from wall to wall. A cold tension fills the air.Someone was murdered in the catacombs underneath Sackett Hall.The...

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