From the outlandish to the perfectly plausible, the explored 13 พรพรสำฦต legends in hopes of either verifying or disproving the titillating tales that have been told over the years. Read the feature at , test your knowledge, and prepare to be surprised.
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Found at the bottom of Taylor Lake: a piano, cars โฆ and a hatchet
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You know the joke: Whatโs the difference between a piano and a fish? You can tune a piano, but you canโt tuna fish. However, there may be both fish and a piano in Taylor Lake, according to a 1997 Maroon-News article on พรพรสำฦต mythology. The authors, Neal Bailen โ99 and Peter Lindahl โ98, cite a source as saying itโs a โcredible rumorโ that a piano melted through the ice after a winter party and rests at the bottom of the lake.
Bailen and Lindahl also tell a story from the 1976 Spring Party Weekend when a car was pushed from the top of the hill at James B. พรพรสำฦต Hall and โplunged into the watery depths.โ They add that in 1991, the owner of a white Datsun parked at the library โforgot to set the emergency brake and later returned to find that his car had disappeared.โ Both of the cars, they reported, were pulled out the day after the incidents.
Jack Loop, Hamiltonโs town historian, threw in his two cents recently: โThere could be a piano (although Iโm remembering that it was a harpsichord), but I question the cars. The โlakeโ is only four or five feet deep. Itโs named after Professor James Taylor (he also was superintendent of buildings and grounds), who had the swamp dug out and made into a lake. It was dredged in the 1970s and no four-foot-high cars were found.โ
While we continue to test the water on these theories, it is a bona fide fact that students literally โburied the hatchetโ in Taylor Lake. A 1920 Maroon article explains that, on Moving-Up Night, students would toss a hatchet into the lake as a symbol of the yearโs end to the freshman-sophomore class rivalry.