In the darkness of night illuminated by a lamp, students and families followed Raider Power of Paranormal\u2019s Haunted Tour of Texas Tech Campus to learn of the university\u2019s spooky side Friday evening.<\/p>\n
The event was hosted in collaboration with the School of Theatre and Dance and the Military and Veterans Program. RPOP members took students and families around campus to share stories about supernatural Tech legends.<\/p>\n
Emma Pitts, a fourth-year English and Chinese major from Las Cruces, New Mexico, said the organization has been planning this event since summer.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe’ve had this tour for a few years now,\u201d Pitts said. \u201cThis specific one we have been, the current executive council has been working on this since July.\u201d<\/p>\n
With the tours happening once a year, she said a lot of preparation goes into setting everything up, such as getting permission for the event, setting up a ticket system, holding auditions for storytellers and promoting the event.<\/p>\n
Pitts, one of RPOP\u2019s primary coordinators, said this would be her final haunted tour before she graduates. She said seeing the event one last time shows just how much the organization\u2019s work has paid off.<\/p>\n
\u201cI really love the club, and I really love this event,\u201d Pitts said. \u201cI’m excited to just have one last moment where all of our hard work from the last four months is kind of rewarded.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tours around campus are led by investigators \u2014 RPOP members serving as the guides for the groups \u2014 as they encounter storytellers to tell of Tech\u2019s supernatural tales and mysteries.<\/p>\n
Eryn Galan, a third-year biology major from New Braunfels and lead chief investigator for the tour, said the event relied on a rigid schedule to make sure the tour was as engaging and dramatic as possible.<\/p>\n
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A lantern sits on a table during a haunted campus tour Oct. 24, 2025.<\/p>\n
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\u201cBasically we would practice stopping at every tour stop while the dramatic storytellers would give their story,\u201d Galan said. \u201cWe would practice on where we’re going to stop, things we’re going to say, how to handle certain situations.\u201d<\/p>\n
Claire Carbajal, a fourth-year civil engineering major from Houston and tour attendee, said she checked out the tour to hear of the spooky side of Tech campus, which is something she hadn\u2019t known much of previously.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy parents come up once a semester so I was like, \u2018Let’s just do something spooky and fun,\u2019 and we’ve never done this before,\u201d Carbajal said.<\/p>\n
Kaitlyn Burke, a fourth-year history major from McKinney, attended one of the first tours of the night and said the event came at a perfect time for the holiday season.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just am really into Halloween, haunted, spooky stuff, and it seemed really fun,\u201d Burke said. \u201cI was looking at all the parent, family weekend stuff, so I was like oh that seems fun to do with my family.\u201d<\/p>\n
As a history major, she said the tour was interesting and she learned new things about campus.<\/p>\n
Burke said it\u2019s important to support organizations at the university and encouraged others to participate or attend as many events as possible.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel like contributing to any clubs and organizations on campus is super fulfilling,\u201d Burke said. \u201cJust being out here and spending time on campus with a lot of other students and community members is super fun.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the darkness of night illuminated by a lamp, students and families followed Raider Power of Paranormal\u2019s Haunted…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[1837,168,170,169],"class_list":["post-21027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lavida","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}