[This is only one of many, many versions of this story]
In the early days of the college, Henry Wells was having an affair with
a young woman living with the Pettibones, of Pettibone
House. (Some people have it that his mistress was Mrs. Pettibone, others
that the lady in question was a secretary who was boarding there). Whoever
she was, Mrs. Wells found out about it and one dark night she slipped out
of Glen Park, across
the bridge and struck out towards Pettibone. She came upon her husband's
mistress at their place of assignation 
and with the knife she brought for the purpose, she viciously stabbed the
other woman to death. Beware, then, on dark nights, if you cross the bridge
in front of Glen Park. If you are on the bridge and one of the lights goes
out, don't look back, for you may see the ghost of Mrs. Wells, with wrath
in her eye and knife in her hand, seeking the woman with whom her husband
betrayed her -- she might mistake you for her victim!
There are no further documents in the Wells College Archives to either prove or disprove the accuracy of the stories presented here.
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