The Great University of Montana “Pumpkin Mystery”

This sounds like the set-up for a Halloween movie (or maybe a cool video game). If you don’t spend a lot of time in Montana, you may not know about the mysterious pumpkin that appears every fall . . . stuck on the top of a spire high atop the University of Montana’s Main Hall in Missoula. It’s been happening annually for 30 years, and it’s not as simple as someone simply climbing on the roof. You’d have to get up there, then climb the multi-story clock tower, and THEN scale the spire and stab the pumpkin with it. The university has tried to hire professionals to get the pumpkin up there safely (to prevent students from hurting or killing themselves attempting it). But the students have just added that to the challenge, working to get it done BEFORE the university does it. Supposedly, no one knows who does it, so it’s unclear if it’s just a series of students, or if one person has done it over and over again. The local news talked with someone anonymous from the “climbing community”, who claims to know of people who have done it. The news blurred their face and disguised their voice (like they were some kind of FBI informant).