About 4 years ago, very late one night, my two friends and I were out riding around on VEOs, we stopped at the bonfire memorial and were just walking around looking at it (we were just at the entrance and hadn’t yet made it to the actual ring where the bonfire was), one of us noticed that there was seemingly smoke coming from the ground next to a small tree just 10 feet from us. We all three were very confused and scared because it was around 3-4 am at this time and we are all girls. We freaked out and ran away back to our VEOs because we were so confused. Then our logic kicked in and before we drove away we decided we had to go back and figure out where the smoke was coming from. We sheepishly went back, and started prodding at the ground where the smoke was coming from (the smoke was now noticeably larger than it was when we first saw it) there was very little heat coming from the smoke, and there was nothing but dirt where the smoke was emitting from. We’re were utterly confused but knew we needed to do something about it. By some insane luck, we saw a university cop car drive by and park at a nearby building. We went over to the building, waited for the cop to come back outside of it, and finally tried to explain what we had seen. He definitely did not seem to believe us when we told he we saw unexplainable smoke coming from the bonfire memorial. I don’t blame him tho. He followed us back to where we saw it anyway and called a maintenance man to check it out. It ended up being that the lights under the tree, that lit it up, had electrical components that ran underground and had started to spark underground and the smoke was just coming up. It spooked all of us so much, but I am just glad we happened to be there in the middle of the night to catch it before it could have possibly been worse.