he legend of Peter Dromgoole and Fannie is a popular campus
story at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Dromgoole, a student who supposedly died in a duel in 1832, is
said to be buried under a stone known as Dromgoole Rock. It
doesn't hurt to keep the legend alive that Dromgoole Rock is
located at Piney Point, on the land of the appropriately gothic
Gimgoul Castle. Gimgoul Castle was constructed in the 1920s and
is the home to the Gimgoul Society, UNC's answer to Skull and
Bones. The legend goes that Peter Dromgoole and another student
were both in love with a young girl from town named Fannie. The
rivals met one night and had a few nasty words to share, then
agreed to meet the following day for a duel. Dueling was, even
then, strongly discouraged in the student handbook, but somehow
word of the event leaked out and Fannie heard of it. She rushed
to Piney Point just in time to see Peter shot through the heart.
Peter collapsed onto a boulder, which was permanently stained
with his blood. In a tex