A Brief History of Hazing (Part Two)
Added 2024-03-19 11:15:01 +0000 UTCThere was one other unusual hazing death from the 1970s that I wanted to include in this video… but ultimately I just couldn’t find enough imagery to cover it. Here’s a newspaper article I did locate, though, that covers the death of Thomas Fitzgerald during a fraternity hazing in 1976.
Unusually, the accident wasn’t a result of alcohol consumption. Instead, the “pledges” were taken out to a small island and interrogated as though they were prisoners of war. This included menacing them with a bayonet.
Fitzgerald had been fitted with a wooden guard so that his captors could pretend to stab him with the knife without actually hurting him. Predictably, this slipped and he was fatally stabbed.
To make an already-bizarre accident even worse, the university refused to acknowledge that it was a hazing, insisting that it simply couldn’t be because hazing was illegal. Instead, they said, the students had simply gone out to the island for “extra training”. An odd way of putting it, to say the least!
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There are certainly enough incidents out there for it to be a regular feature. Will take a look and see what I can find :)
Fascinating Horror
2024-04-01 14:36:18 +0000 UTCThis is one of my top favourite topics from your channel! Thank you. Hope to see Part Three sometime later this year. (pretty pleaseeeee)
Milo OJ
2024-03-30 17:10:15 +0000 UTCWhat a surreal experience! I wonder if they found the sorority to be worth all the hassle in the end...
Fascinating Horror
2024-03-25 16:04:29 +0000 UTCNow that I could get on board with. Seems like it might actually be fun for everyone involved!
Fascinating Horror
2024-03-25 16:03:48 +0000 UTCWhen I was in college, my roommate was joining a sorority. One night I was already in bed when she returned very late, completely covered in a thick, dripping layer of white latex paint. I thought wow that's going to be mess to clean off the floor in the morning, but to her credit, she cleaned up every drop before she went to bed and there was no evidence it ever happened when I woke up the next morning.
Angela Schwartz
2024-03-21 01:17:29 +0000 UTCAccording to my late father, hazing at his fraternity in the early 1950s consisted of making the pledges catch eggs dropped from the third floor landing in the house. It was a simpler time.
Elizabeth Finkler Hanasaki
2024-03-20 01:55:41 +0000 UTC
