November 14, 1969
The "haunted" chair in Administration Bldg. Memorial Room.
Who is Johnson?
Ghost of Behrend
Haunts The Campus
Part II: Strange Spirit
by Charly Lee
It was stated in the last arti
cle, that Warren Behrend was
killed on Station Road. However,
upon researching this fact it
was found that the boy was not
even in Erie when he died.
Warren attended Deerfield
Academy in New England. One
Christmas he decided to visit his
parents in their winter resort in
Sea Island, Georgia, so he got s in
his car and proceeded to travel
south. It was on this trip that
Warren was to meet his fate. He
was somewhere, presumably in
Georgia, when in order to avoid
a collision with a school bus and
prevent-possible injury to the stu
dents, he ran his car off the side
of the road, sacrificing his life
for the sake of the others. To
honor their valiant son, the
Behrend family had a cross erect
ed at the site of the accident.
Several years ago, it was neces
sary for the cross to be removed
as the road was to be widened.
The cross was then transported
to Erie where it was re-erected
at its present site in Wintergreen
Gorge.
If there is a ghost that haunts
the Administration building, the
automatic writing that I receiv
ed last Wednesday night hinted
that it was someone other than
Warren. To make good a prom;
ise that I made in the last arti
cle, I tried again to contact the
spirit in the Memorial Room.
Again I used automatic writing.
This is a process in which a per
son goes into a trance, and hold
ing a pencil lightly in one hand,
lets the spirit, through psychic
energy-release, write the answer
to the questions the medium has
asked. The spirit, you see, must
use a medium because it is al
most impossible for ghosts to
engage in actual physical acti
vity. It usually takes years of
practice to become a good -.med
ium. As a beginner, _I found- it
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rather difficult to remain in
.a
state of deep concentration for
more than a few minutes at a
time. Being as it may, I spent an
hour and a half in the room des
perately trying to maintain a
thought-wave link with the ghost.
The writings were sparatic. As
opposed .to the first time I tried
the communication, this time I
received mostly scribblings. There
was, however, one distinguishable
word among the stray marks. Af
ter an hour of deep concentra
tion, I was thoroughly exhausted
so I decided to end the trance
and look at the paper. Upon ex
amining it only one word ap
peared_ Right in the middle of
the page were the letters
J O H N S O N. This puzzled.
me. Why did I get only one wordi
this week when last week I got!
six? Anyone - who is familiar with'
psychic phenomena knows that it
is often necessary to piece frag
ments of information together in
order to get an understandable
message. This is why the article
did not appear in last week's
issue; I just did not know what
to make of it. But now I have
pieced the information together
and have come up with a suit
able explanation of the two dan
gling communications. After find
ing out the true story concerning
the death ,of Warren Behrend, I
propose the hypotheis that a
stray poltergeist is frequenting
the building. He may have se
lected the Behrend House at
random or maybe not. It is hard
to say . Seeping in mind the
questions that I repeated in the
trance, I may have discovered
the name of the real ghost that
haunts the Administration Build
ing. My questions were: "Spirit, -
what is your name? Who are you?
Are there more than one of
you." To these questions he has
replied, in two separate com
munications: THE ONLY ONE
THAT THERE - IS—JOHNSON.
Believe It or not the fact remains
THE NIT TANY CUB
"CHRIST YOU KNOW
IT AIN'T EASY"
The five Byrds were the first
group anywhere to successfully do
folk rock. In their doing so, they
raised the level of rock from an
adolescent life style to real pop
culture.
Today the Byrds have only Rog
er (Jim) McGuinn left from the•
original group. Dave Crosby is
working with Steve Stills, Graham
_Nash, and Neil Young, Gene Clark
has a group with Doug Dillard,
Chris Hillman is with the Flying
Burritto Brothers, and Michael
Clarke has run off to who knows
where. •
The. Byrds have gone from a
quintet to a auartet to a trio and
back to a quintet. They have never
equaled their first three albums,
and as far as most people are
concerned they aren't the Byrds
anymore, they are McGuinn and
Who ever happens to be in the
studio that day.
The current Byrds are McGuinn,
Clarence White, John York,. and
Roger Parsons. It is a pity they
don't have any of the old Byrds'
"gets go out and stun the folks"
style. • (I remember seeing the
Byrds when they were the trio of
McGuinn, Hillman, and Clarke.
McGuinn took a bit of time tun-
that I found out about Warren's
true story after I received the
communication. What do you
think?
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was a • great statement.)
The discovery of anything that
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people YOU can rejoice. The first
tapes the original Byrds ever
made have been found and press
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The historical perspective of this
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1964 sessions is mind boggling.
In mid '64 the Beatles were still
doing their Everly Brothers' cop-
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their versions of Chicago blue, but
the B.yrds were locked up in the
World Pacific studios singing mu
sic as complex and meaningful as
anything that is being done to
day, or will be done in the future.
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World Pacific never released t
tapes.)
This album is a necessity f
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the old Byrds again is like fine
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Crosby, Gene Clark, Chris Hil:
man, and Mike Clarke.
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