32 Wild Stories from People Who Pledged Greek Life

‘The made us all dress up as Waldo’
32 Wild Stories from People Who Pledged Greek Life

I’d like to say that fraternities and sororities have strayed far from Ancient Greek life, but it sounds like they’re just getting wasted and naked, and doing stuff that’s kinda gay, which is actually pretty spot-on. And while, yeah, hazing is definitely very real, some of these organizations are merely making one guy be a real-life Where’s Waldo? or perform songs from Mulan in front of a crowd, which isn’t so bad. 

Redditors have shared those wholesome stories, and other, decidedly less wholesome stories about Hell Week, pledging and all of the psychological torture therein — and it’s truly no wonder that some of these tales end with “the investigation is still ongoing.”

Pale-Hunt9718 1y ago This one isn't so bad, but we were blindfolded and ziptied together in a train, then paraded around our house's property naked (it was winter) whilst they poured shots of liquor and milk into our mouths. Honestly the milk chaser was the worst part of the whole thing Imao. 4 Share ...
eddieschlag 1y ago For a week straight we had to take our nightly medicine.... A 40oz baked hot in the oven. The crazy amount of foam from drinking this made me throw up my retainer that had two fake teeth on it without even knowing... and I proceeded to flush that down the toilet. I was from then on known as the toothless goat. Good times. 3 Share ...
Articulated 1y ago Male Honestly, the most painful one I saw (and did) was a bleep test with a constantly-refilled shot of beer at each end of the hall. I wisely picked ale because I thought the bubbles in lager would be a problem. The bubbles in lager were indeed a problem. + Share 361 ...
KR1735 1y ago Bi 35M I didn't witness any hazing whatsoever. The closest we came to hazing was we were told we had to eat dog meat. And I was convinced it was dog meat until the next year when I was on the other side. It was just beef brisket from the campus BBQ shack. + Share 735 ...
Clementinequeen95 1y ago 0 Female Not me but my friends had to eat an entire gallon of Mayo. Couldn't leave until they were finished. I also know of a frat that had guys swallow live goldfish. I was in a sorority and had zero hazing- not sure why anyone puts up with it. Share 8 ...
Dont_Mess_With_Texas 1y ago Left in the middle of nowhere with nothing except their shoes. Luckily one kept a quarter in their shoe and used a pay phone to call their uncle to come pick all of them up. The shoe quarter guy is my grandfather + 32 Share ...
SHEEEEESH-_- 1y ago Had to run up and down stairs until we threw up, along with many other things but that was probably the worst. The next year when it was my turn to put people through hazing fraternity leadership decided the best course of hazing was assigning 80 hours of community service working at the homeless shelter. I felt robbed 14 Share ...
azing6 11y ago . A friend of mine was forced to eat a stick of butter covered in chewing tobacco. Не said the chew made him gag but the butter prevented him from being able to throw up. Made me glad I opted out of fraternity life. 4 ...
likemyhashtag g 11y ago с I walked into a fraternity house once and saw a pledge duct taped to the wall wearing ski's and goggles drinking a beer. Не didn't seem to mind. 8 ...
11y ago We were not allowed to be seen with members of the opposite sex during rush (I believe 8-12 weeks long.. memory is fuzzy) and if we were caught, we would be publicly shamed in front of sisters. Also we had to confess our darkest secrets to the group leaders, and be critized for them. One of the other sororities had to stand in front of a frat singing while being pelted with rotten fruit + 50 ...
QueenOfPerks 11y ago An acquaintance of mine (and others) was charged with a felony for stealing over $600 worth of Christmas ornaments and decorations from nearby houses as part of his frat's holiday hazing, apparently part of second semester rush. They used some of the stolen goods to decorate the frat house. 17 ...
LearningLifeAsIGo 11y ago We would take the pledge who was the least engaged of the group and we would put them in a very comfortable chair, make them tropical drinks, put their favorite show for them on TV, have them put their feet up, basically make them very, very comfortable. At the same time, we would take the other pledges who were all doing a great job and stand them in a line and criticize them for every stupid thing that they could possibly have done wrong. We would make up things if we had to. The next day, there
MrGrumpyBear 9y ago в One of the traditions was that one night during Hell Week the pledges had to spend the entire night cleaning the kitchen spotlessly. All while hearing the same song on repeat play. The most annoying song the actives could think of. My year it was Right Said Fred's I'm Too Sexy. All. Night. Long. 3 Share ...
9y ago Friend of mine at an Ivy League school got locked in a dark room with like 40 other people (note: this was a rather small room) and was tasked with solving a 1,000 piece puzzle. They spent 14 hours in that room. After it was clear that they weren't going to finish it, the brothers let them out. They all missed class. 3 Share ...
BrandonThe 9y ago As a pledge they made us all dress up as Waldo and hide around campus. It was actually pretty fun. A cop questioned me because I guess standing in an alley in Tucson arizona while wearing a red beanie was suspicious. Great times 3 Share ...
9y ago Umm.. Probably shouldn't say because the investigation is ongoing. But for our pledge walkout (pledges just get the hell out of the house/town for a fee days, and pull a prank on the house as they leave) we put a few goats in the house. Goats are cheap BTW, $75 a head. You can have some fun at that cost. Anyway, one of the goats escaped, made its way on campus, got into a dining hall, ate a bunch of food and shit all over the rest. About $5000 in lost food, or so I heard. 3
9y ago Cover the pledges head to toe in peanut butter, save for their undies (no gay shit, unwritten rule #1 of hazing) put them in a big tile or hardwood floor room, and dump 5 boxes of lucky charms and 5 boxes of Reese's puffs, turn on a strobe light, play some loud heavy fucking metal, and tell them they can't come out until they're done sorting. Usually we let them start for like an hour or two before we bring them out and hose them off and get drunk as shit together. We're not manics after all,
MayonaiseHOBO 9y ago My cousin rushed in Oklahoma and has red hair. When he was a pledge they gave him a broom and a handle of tequila and made him ride it all night saying he was Ron and he'd just seen the snitch. Не also had to finish the handle. He's a funny guy so I'm sad I missed it. 17 Share ...
GenitalFurbies 9y ago We made the pledges perform I'll make a man out of you from Mulan in front of the chapter from memory. It was actually a damn impressive performance, they acted it out and everything. Plus going to college and joining a fraternity can play a role in helping someone mature so it had a good double meaning. Overall 9/10 would light-heartedly haze again. 4 Share ...
cnh2n2homosapien 9y ago Early on hell night you are blindfolded, given a condom, and instructed not to lose it. When it's your turn, they lead you into a room, still blindfolded, and they begin to hurl questions, insults, and beer cans at you, the room thick with cigar smoke. At this time, you're told to get the condom out & open it up. Suddenly, the blindfold is ripped off, and you find yourself in a hazy interrogation room setting, blinded by lights, the crowd is a hidden mass behind a jet black darkness. Directly in front, you are presented, with
The-Fry-Guy 9y ago My identical twin brother pledged a frat at our university. Got yelled at by his actives for not wearing pledge attire and they wouldn't believe me that I wasn't him until I pulled out my damn ID. The next year I was given permission to fuck with the pledges with my twin. It was glorious. 20 Share ...
JohnTheLe 9y ago . This one i heard first or 2nd year Fraternity is hazing the new ones by making them stand in the ocean up to their shoulders at night. Kid get hypothermia and rushed to the ER. Had a choice of to sue them, but instead accepted the bribe to join on the spot. University gets wind of this and the frat gets banned or dismantled. They are still trying to get recharttered I think. 36 Share ...
Athletichemist 9y ago I wasn't in a frat but had friends that were. 2 funny ones stick out the most. Made all the guys stand in a room naked watching hardcore gay porn. The first person to pop a boner had to eat a donut off the last person to pop one. Every pledge member had to wear jean shorts 1 inch above the knees every day for a month. If they didn't wave and acknowledge a brother they passed, they would have to cut one inch off the shorts. That got pretty funny as the month went on. +
9y ago Edited 9y ago Had to sit crosslegged in a circle and finish around 15 cases of beer. If we had to pee we had to pee ourselves, and if we had to throw up we had to throw up on the person to our left. Actually was pretty hilarious and horribly gross. Edit: We were underground so there was like 20 of us. We were there a while. The kid to my right had chipotle for dinner. 71 Share ...
The_Rusty_Taco 9y ago Edited 9y ago We had a narrow corridor leading to the main living room. We would place a trophy or something on the fireplace and tell the pledges they had to retrieve it. Because of the narrow hallway, numbers didn't count for shit. This was also done with all the lights off, except for the red emergency/exit lights, the windows blacked out, and music like mortal combat playing. People would tackle each other and things would usually get pretty intense. We would normally let them win once we saw that they were working together. There were usually
9y ago This will get buried but I pledged an SEC school fraternity and it was fucking brutal. We had a week of nothing the first week and it was great we all thought it would stay like that. Till the 8th day we get calls at 1 in the morning and are all told to report to the house. We did planks on broken glass bottles and bottle caps for about 4 hours. Another incident, all 50 pledges were taken into a storage locker where members would sit outside and blow smoke in though the hole in the
fiduke 9y ago Dressed about 6 pledges in ballerina type clothing. Stuff to get them embarrassed. Handcuffed them all together in a circle facing outwards. Drove them a couple miles from school (4?) and told them they had 2 hour to walk back to campus. It's a rural farm area so they pretty much just had to walk straight. After about 30 minutes to an hour, the frat brothers drove back to tell them it was a joke and they could get a ride back to campus. Except they couldn't find the group of dudes who were handcuffed together and
9y ago I pledged got a bid but didn't accept. Although all my friends were РКА so I got all the benefits with no punishments. Here's one: It was Friday 6pm were playing halo. Me and three brothers. They get S call that they are to meet at the house in 15min. 30 min later there calling me they won't be back until tomorrow: They had to pack 5 deep in an accord and get a picture with the Washington monument by tomorrow. (We're in Alabama.) lol they had to drive to D.C. Get a pic and drive back.
not-nice 9y ago The sisters poured several containers of sprinkles onto newspaper, and we had to dip our hands in marshmallow fluff and organize them by color. Around 4am after about five hours of this, they told us the whole point of the exercise was that things that belong together (like sisters!) can't be separated. This was during our hell week, so afterwards we went back to dorms and had to be in the library at 6am in formal wear. + 547 Share ...
9y ago e my favorite was when we got all the pledges to be the pieces of a chess set, and we played wizards chess with them, everyone loved it + 2.2K Share ...
murreye 9y ago My sisters friend told me a story that always stuck. She picked her boyfriend from the last day of hell week (which is the last week of hazing I think before initiation). Не said it wasn't that bad at first. The pledges had to drink a lot of beers. After most of them were feeling pretty buzzed/drunk, the actives then put them in a dark room, threw on a strobe light, and brought out a jigsaw puzzle. They weren't allowed to leave until it was finished. It took them 4 hours. + 513 Share ...
SubmissionDenied 1y ago The worst was being put in a room and having to put together 2 separate 1000 piece puzzles, that looked very similar, and had all the pieces in one giant pile. This was on a Friday night, lights were off, and they were playing very annoying music all night. We weren't supposed to leave until we finished but by 7am we weren't even close so they finally let us go and re-scheduled for another day. 2 Share ...

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