Collected by Deborah A. Bell and Susan R. Keith, class of 1982

Before Pearsons' Annex was bought by the College, a young couple and their baby lived there. The husband was having an affair, and when the woman found out she was furious. One stormy night, when she knew her husband was with her lover, the wife, in an act of revenge, killed their baby. When the husband returned, he too became furious and without thinking killed his wife with the same knife she had used on the baby. The realization that he had lost both his wife and child through his own stupidity turned the man's wits; he was found the next morning cowering by the dead bodies. The man died thirty years later in a mental institution. To this day the innocent baby can be heard wailing for its lost life on dark and stormy nights.

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