Students this past weekend were mostly concerned with staying warm, as a snowmaggedin unlike any seen in decades passed through. But some students found themselves distracted from this endeavour by rumors of a mysterious figure trudging through the deep snow.
A few students made attempts to locate the shadowed shape, but the wind and snow made such ventures pointless and even dangerous. After a few too many sightings of this strange form, a faculty member managed to get a good look and was shocked to see white fur covering the peculiar figure. Once the creature had been confirmed to be a Yeti, students seemed to no longer care for their health or for staying warm, opting instead to try to take pictures of the creature before it moved on to other haunts.
These “Yeti” sightings had become the talk of the campus, and everyone seemed to assume that they were all true. But some students were not convinced. A small group got together as the snowstorm ended to do some proper research and prove once and for all that the Yeti was not real.
As a sophomore student, Ellie explains, this is what they found out: “It was hard to track the thing, with all of the snow blowing around, but we managed to work out from sighting that it was always walking either towards the apartments on the north side of campus or towards the area around Morton Hall. We camped out in Morton to see if we could catch it in the act, and lo and behold, a student in a white, fuzzy coat came trudging through the snow at about 8:00 in the morning! We were ecstatic! And even more so to learn that the student in question had no idea about any of this Yeti stuff!”
According to our sources, this mysterious student was collecting snow and mud samples for an ecology thesis, and he, in his words, “had no idea anyone else was even outside.”
And so ended the Yeti’s brief visit to Athens Campus. He will surely be missed by all except that ecology student.
