Common Sense Lesson #1: Ivy League or not, never leave the door to your residency unlocked.

Over the weekend, a Yale student learned this harsh lesson the hard way when she returned from Thanksgiving Break to find her room in shambles and a strange man sleeping in her bed.

Hayley Carpenter ’11 arrived on campus on Saturday morning, and when she entered her suite at Swing Space, she discovered vulgarities “and other juvenile things” written on everyone’s whiteboards.

Naturally, she suspected something was amiss, but she never imagined the perpetrator would still be on the premises—let alone her bedroom.

The Yale Daily News reports:

Upon seeing the mess, Carpenter said she ran to her bedroom to check to see if her other possessions were safe. When she turned the knob, the door would not budge.

She pushed harder. The door opened a crack. And she saw a hand reach out.

[…] Carpenter said she screamed out to her mother, who was standing at the entrance to her suite: “Oh my God! Someone’s in my room!”

After the two hastily fled the scene, they called the Yale Police Department, who arrived shortly thereafter.

However, the strange thing is New Haven’s Finest didn’t find anyone in or around the building.

Where did this vandal go? Is Swing Space haunted by a mischievous ghost who enjoys sleeping female coeds’ beds?