The Sorority


As a former sorority pledge and fraternity little sister, I found quite a few problems with this episode. The first and most significant was that no one--and I mean no one--who pledges or is involved with Greek life uses the word "frat." When someone refers to a fraternity as a frat, he or she is using the equivalent of negative slang. I would not go so far as to say saying frat instead of fraternity is like saying midget instead of little person, and yet it kind of is.

I also never remember being in any fraternity house or sorority house/floor during a big break when there was absolutely no one present. Many of the kids who go to college come thousands of miles, and many of them cannot afford to fly home for all of the big breaks, believe it or not. Even though this story supposedly happened during Spring Break, more than one person would have stuck around.

If these issues were the result of poor script writing, then I wonder what other mistakes or fabrications are going to plague this show. If the testimony was taken directly from the person involved, then I have to call fake.

The gene pool could use a little chlorine......

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I dunno, but I tried searching for names and stuff that they showed the woman in the sorority story searched for, but no results turned up. In a way the show could be a victim of its own success, the more money they put into the show and the the more professional it looks, the less credible it seems because paranormal stories mostly involve average looking people (maybe even ugly) who can't act, not always good-looking paid actors who deliver every line like they're trying to sell a story.

Comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable

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Yeah, I watched this and called BS. Did they even say in what state it was supposed to have taken place?

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Not necessarily. As I recall, that episode was set quite a while ago--early 90s or even 80s. I went to a small private college in the 80s and stayed in the dorm over the smaller holidays. It was not at all uncommon for me to be alone, or nearly alone, in the dorm, since everyone else went home or on a trip somewhere. Tuition was a lot less back then.

As for fraternities, I knew people in them who called themselves "frat brothers" and such. Animal House was a very popular film at the time, so people really embraced that crazy attitude.

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