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Murder In The Rain

Death Echo

Murder In The Rain

Murder In The Rain

True Crime

4.21.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary


This Halloween brings you all treats, it’s no trick! In our second new episode of the week, Emily tells the tale of an infamous murder at her alma mater, Oregon State University. Could a notorious and “handsome” serial killer make an appearance? We’ll also get kinda spooky with several stories of local hauntings. For additional information visit this week’s MITR blog.



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Sources

Barometer - Hunting at Sackett Hall | Oregon State Library - Where’s? Waldo | KVAL 13 - I truly believe | The Gazette Times - The Haunts of OSU | haunted OC - Types of Hauntings | Fandom - Death Echo | Kevin Sullivan - The Bundy Murders | Kevin Sullivan - The Trail of Ted Bundy | Wikipedia - Ted Bundy | Oregon Live - Mom there’s a ghost in my dorm room |



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0:00.0

If you're into spooky stuff like folklore and ghosts you've likely heard of the term

0:17.5

residual haunting. The concept is pretty simple. A traumatic event like a murder

0:22.4

results in negative energy seeping into the area and causing a haunting,

0:27.2

one that often results in one or more ghosts trapped in their traumatic death.

0:31.8

The popular television shows supernatural

0:34.1

introduced the catchy term death echo,

0:36.8

which summarizes it pretty nicely.

0:38.5

Someone trapped in their death,

0:40.1

reliving it over and over and over again like a horrifying loop.

0:44.8

For years, co-eds at Oregon State University have speculated that their very own

0:49.3

quaint little campus in the valley is home to multiple hauntings and possibly even a death echo that has been in place since the 1970s.

0:58.8

Roberta Kathleen Parks known as Kathy was from Lafayette, California.

1:03.7

Kathy was beautiful.

1:05.0

She had long silky brown hair parted down the middle, cheekbones for days,

1:09.2

and gorgeous full lips.

1:10.8

Like many teens, she was drawn to Corvallis, Oregon with a desire to become an

1:15.1

OSU student. At 20 years old, she was living a normal life, studying regularly as a world religions

1:21.7

major and nursing a broken heart because she broke it off with her boyfriend.

1:26.2

Friends noted that there was evidence of this impacting her greatly. She was drinking more alcohol,

1:31.6

falling behind in classes, recently skipping class altogether.

1:36.0

Her boyfriend, Christy McPhee, was a scuba diving instructor

1:39.2

from Berwick, Louisiana.

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