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Nittany Lyin’ Tales: Penn State’s grand tradition of campus legends and tall tales

The first lectures that a few thousand newly arrived Penn State students receive each year when they arrive on the University Park campus usually cover the stories and traditions of the campus. The students’ friends, fellow classmates and upper classmen typically administer these Penn State 101 lectures.

Some of these stories are even true.

But a lot of the tales told in dorm rooms, discussed on the Old Main lawn and passed around the HUB-Robeson Center are part of a much grander university tradition: campus legends. Like their urban legend counterparts, campus legends are slightly twisted tales about the campus, its buildings and its people.

Here are a few for your April Fools’ Day enjoyment:

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Photo by Patrick Mansell

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