A Vacant Building Near Niagara Falls Has Been Blasting The Iowa Fight Song For 6 Months Straight And No One Knows Why

Gazette- There’s a tinny sound dribbling out of a vacant building’s open windows on the corner of Ferry Avenue and Third Street. It’s the University of Iowa’s fight song, a 60-year-old composition played at Iowa Hawkeyes’ sporting events, which has played on a loop from about 4 to 11 p.m. on most nights for roughly six months. The winter weather has not deterred its play. Even through stretches of freezing temperatures, the sounds echo faintly for a city block in any direction. A local restaurant, Wine on Third, neighbors the vacant building with an address at 500 Third St. The structure is also kitty-corner to the Niagara Gazette offices, 473 Third St. Its owner, Shawn Weber, said he remains uncertain of why the music keeps playing. His customers, he said, have complained, as have the residential tenants above Wine on Third. “I’m not sure what the purpose is or what the issue is,” Weber said.

I don’t want an explanation for this. No Hawkeye fan should want to know why this is happening or should want it to stop. Some things are better left untold. Is it weird and unsettling that an abandoned building is just cranking a college fight song from 4 to 11pm for 6 straight months?  Maybe.  Maybe not.  All I know is that ever since that creepy vacant building near Niagara Falls started blasting the Iowa fight song, Iowa sports teams have been on historic runs.  Winning streaks like we have never seen before in these parts.  The Iowa football team had never had an undefeated regular season until a creepy vacant building started blasting the Iowa fight song for hours sooooooooooooo you tell me.  And now the Iowa basketball team is #3 in the country for the first time in forever and might be on its way to a no. 1 seed.  I’m not an overly superstitious person but you can’t tell me these things aren’t connected. That vacant, music-blasting building is like our beacon of light. It is powering our sports. So keep that music going until we win a National Championship in something.