Bloody Mary of Duquesne

The Legend of Bloody Mary of Duquesne
The legend has it that Mary Hart was a Duquesne University student, majoring in music who in the early 1960s had what was believed to be a mental break down, and hung herself in her dorm room on the sixth floor of Saint Martin's Hall.
Story
According to the legend, in 1963 Mary Hart enrolled in Duquesne University's School of Music. A gifted vocalist, she was active in choir and the school musicals. However, her roommate, Sarah reported after the incident that on January 21 Mary began insisting that she would perform the Ave Maria for her freshmen choir performance. "It was a challenging piece and I asked her if she was sure, she already was under alot of stress, Mary was set on it" Sarah later reported. After a week Mary was fully prepared for her performance. However, on January 28 Mary did not show up to her class. Her roommate, shocked upon not seeing her among those coming out of the class rushed back to the room. Sarah found Mary hanging from the ceiling in their room she told police after. It was ruled a suicide shortly after the investigation began. The stress Mary was facing and that her focus on her performance drove her to her deadly act concluded the appointed police investigator.

Suicide revisited'
According to legend in the late 1970s the university opened that room back up to incoming freshmen. The first, and last of the new room's occupants were Susan Buittoli, and her roommate Katie Spellman. After multiple weeks of classes Susan began complaining that she kept hearing Ave Maria in the hallway and that it was very distracting. Katie reported no such music. As the months went by Susan complained to the RAs, the housing department, and her floor multiple times about the noise, she was dismissed. However, as her freshmen performance came around she picked Ave MariaIt was claimed that Susan became obsessed she knew what she wanted to sing instatly and couldn't be talked out of it. Then Katie and the other girls on the floor began to report changes in Susan. For a long time she would just sit with her hands over her ears yelling be quiet. Claimed the girl next door to her room. Another floor mate reports that Susan would sing Ave Maria at all hours of the night and day almost as if she was singing a duet. Finally on January 31, tragedy struck again. After another rough night of yelling to stop the music and the singing Susan hung herself. She was found the next morning by her roommate who returned from home. Once again her death was ruled as a suicide. The only note left by Susan supposedly said "quiet at last" it was signed Susan, but rumor has it there was a faint trace of the name Mary at the end of the letter.
Aftermath and Rumors
Rumor has it that after the second incident, the school closed the room and the room next to it and turned them into a lounge for the floor. As for Mary Hart she became known as Bloody Mary of Duquesne. Rumor still has it that if you sit and listen in the lounge on the sixth floor of Saint Martin's Hall late at night you can hear the faint singing of Ave Maria by two separate voices. The second is believed to be that of Susan. No one knows for certain the events that took place on those fateful nights the only two girls who could are dead, or maybe they never existed. However, before you draw your conclusions sit quietly late at night in the lounge on the sixth floor of Saint Martin's Hall and hear the voices of Mary Hart and Susan Buittoli.

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