The St Michael's College Hoax
On 11 August 2009, Honi Soit published a feature article, 'The Mystery of St Michael's' later uncovered as a hoax, which claimed a fire in 1992 at St Michael's College, a now derelict residential college adjacent to the University's Architecture building, had killed 16 students. It was implied that a cover-up by the Catholic Church had stifled widespread awareness of the tragedy, and that the site was now haunted by ghosts. The following week, the editors published a retraction, stating: '...after a particularly interesting week of deflecting queries from varying positions of authority... last week’s 'Mystery of St Michael’s' was an exercise in fictional storytelling. Thank you to everyone who played along or enjoyed.'
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