CULTURE Spring 2025 25 PHOTO BY KATTERLEA MACGREGOR OSU BELOW In the steam tunnels beneath the Corvallis campus, myths and reality collide. ByKatherineCusumano,MFA’24 If you’ve heard anything about the steam tunnels that wind beneath Oregon State’s campus, it may be that Satanic cults practice rituals down there. Or that a murdered professor’s body is down there, or that a professor lives down there. Or that Ted Bundy — who did in fact tragically abduct and murder an OSU student named Roberta Kathleen Parks in 1974 — hid a victim’s body down there. By no means an exhaustive catalog of the tunnels’ mythology, these stories cling to the interiors of the tunnel network like stalactites in caves: continued
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