Question about Camp Merri-mac[for girls]/Camp Timberlake[for boys]?

Question

ok so I went to merri-mac for 3 years when i was younger and there are so many rumors behind the place that it's ridiculous...take stardust cabin for instance..everyone knew it was fake but still fun to believe that the derranged campers stayed there lol.

anyway..if anyone cam find it, was it true that it was once an insane asylum before it was a camp

and, Myrtle Steps, those freaky rinky-dink stairs, about a hundred of them down one of the back ways that everyone slips on at least once...yeah..those hurt...anyways is it true that there was a girl named Myrtle who fell down them and died?

I wouldnt doubt that someone would been killed by those, they are awsful but apparently they are haunte dhow too...another thing wich iwouldnt doubt.

anyways. just wanted to know if it was really THAT interesting.

Thanks guys, much love.

didn't know how to catagorize it. the camp is in Black Mountain north carolina, not to far from the biltmore estates..or some big mansion like that.

Answer 1

I don't know about those camps, but I do know that the staff at most summer camps encourage such rumors! (Often, they start them.)

It makes the whole summer-camp experience exciting and more fun for the campers, and that brings them back the next year.

At my summer camp, there were a lot of dragonflies, and we all knew that there was a dragon off in the woods on the other side of the creek. We knew because of the magic grass that grew on the creek bank, and everyone knows that dragonflies and magic grass means there's a dragon! And we heard it! Just before bedtime, every night, a loud "Rooooaar" could be heard coming from those woods. In fact, that's how we knew it was time for bed.

Not only did we have a great time looking for things like dragon eggs and dragon hair, it kept us out of the woods and away from the creek without a counselor.

Forty plus years later, I still smile when I think about Camp Oconomowoc.