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Students heading home on the 51B toward Rockridge BART on Monday about 4 p.m. saw something strange near College Avenue and Derby Street. According to these students, another 51B bus was parked at the stop, lights flickering and no one apparently inside.
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In this city of wild characters, activist spirit and rich historical background, Berkeley is flush with possibly true (but definitely fake) scary shit.
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Whatever the rationale for societal triskaidekaphobia, you don’t have to dread Oct. 13. Instead, take our tips and confront your fears.
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The spirits have risen from behind Moses Hall, the monsters are crawling out of the basement of Sproul Hall and all of Nicholas Dirks’ dirty laundry is being slowly discovered in the secret tunnels underneath Wheeler Hall’s auditorium. Halloween is the time when all of our school’s hidden horrors come
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Lothlorien sits near the corner of Channing and Prospect, removed from the street by a series of unlit cement steps obscured by tangled tree branches. Inside the student cooperative, dozens of students and two ghosts make their home. The co-op is made up of two large houses separated by a
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Months of extraordinary outfit planning and event anticipation have finally culminated in a Halloween that may just harbor the best festivities we’ve ever experienced. Kick off the spooktacular weekend with a little All Hallows’ Eve on Friday, then shift gears pronto for some Dia de Muertos monstrosity to cap off the terror-iffic
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With Halloween coming up in only a couple of days, we bet you’ve been sitting in the North Reading Room, attempting to study for midterms, thinking, “This would be an awesome place to throw a Halloween party.” Well, that’s weird — that’s exactly what we were thinking! So we put
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(Disclaimer: All the places, names and quotes are used fictitiously. None of this is real — absolutely none of it.) Earlier this week, we fed some rumors about some allegedly “haunted” places on and around campus. Now, we bring you our second installment of creepy Berkeley locales: 4. The stairwells in
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