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And while no one claims to have actually seen his spirit, people have reported witnessing floating fire extinguishers spurting foam and mysteriously moving wooden boxes. Interestingly, the Purple Masque Theater is also based in the stadium, and the apparition of a Confederate soldier has reportedly been spotted on its stage.

Others have reported seeing book carts move of their own accord and automatic doors mysteriously opening. Legend has it that the museum was constructed above a Native American cave and that the previous inhabitants still wander its halls.

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Something altogether more terrifying, though, is said to occupy Hess Hall, built in In one former student also described a vision he saw from his fraternity house in the late s. Bill DeWees explained to university publication Torchbearer. The blaze took the lives of half a dozen undergraduates, three graduate scholars and a faculty member.

Since then, students have allegedly heard mysterious footsteps and voices, while others claim to have seen specters in their bedrooms. Elsewhere on campus, Gold Star Hall — which was opened in and honors the memory of more than alumni killed in military conflicts since the onset of World War One — has its own spooky history.

Among the dearly departed was a solitary woman: Brittany Hall, meanwhile, occasionally harks back to its previous incarnation as the Brittany Hotel. It seems that the parties at this Prohibition-era hotspot never stopped, and some occupants still claim to hear strange music and observe unexplainable lights there.

Ignatius College — a priest and a nun reportedly began a relationship. As the story goes, the nun fell pregnant and gave the priest a proposal: Students have since reported a flickering glow emanating from the same window, not to mention a vision of a hanging human form, while others claim to have heard the sound of a man weeping, his subsequent scream and then an abrupt hush. Helen Peabody, the former principal of the Western College for Women, was considered a severe woman.

One of her notable gripes was men from neighboring Miami University soliciting the attentions of the young ladies attending the school she presided over from to For some reason, the elevator likes to make unscheduled stops on the fourth level, and the hall lights are reputedly more muted here than they are on other stories. His services were apparently offered to students with nowhere else to turn, but eventually the doctor is said to have started perceiving the unmistakable sound of crying infants.

Moreover, since then others have also reported hearing the wailing babies.

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Finally, in a fit of rage, the medic is rumored to have used a scalpel to fatally gouge his beau in the neck and then to have concealed her grisly remains in the basement. According to the legend, Susan Hower became furious after discovering that her husband John had been unfaithful, and she held onto this anger for the rest of her life.

One tale centers on formidable-looking Old Main, which was opened in Meanwhile, something more sinister is said to have taken place at Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity house, where during an initiation ceremony a number of years ago, a group of new members were purportedly killed. When investigators from ghost-hunting group Weird U. The production team must surely have been hoping to catch a sighting of the ghost of George Gipp, a college football superstar who competed for Notre Dame from until his death in Former chemical engineering undergraduate Bryce Chung set up the Notre Dame Ghost Tour , which attracted eager ghost hunters for Halloween A past resident who was pregnant is said to have leapt to her death from one of the towers, and according to current students, her ghost can still be seen, and heard, on a regular basis.



Meanwhile, a more tragic tale concerns James W. Norman Hall, which was the site of an elevator accident that resulted in the death of a number of children. Rather eerily, the children have been said to linger around the third floor, laughing and playing in spirit form. Not all sightings are necessarily by students, though: Thought to be the spirit of a former football player — although his identity remains unknown — the uniform-wearing apparition is said to sport a permanently bleeding gash near his eyebrow.

Some assert that she was pushed by her boyfriend; others that fighting with him drove her to suicide. Cunningham suffered horrific burns from the resulting fire, and a couple of days afterward she died in hospital from her injuries — although her tortured spirit supposedly lingers, over a century after the accident. The victim, it is said, can still be heard scratching at doors, perhaps in a vain attempt to draw attention to her plight.

Fortunately, the fourth level today serves storage purposes. Having died in , Mayo never lived to see the construction of Sylvan Lodge, which was later rechristened Mayo Hall in her honor. This space has since been sealed shut. One such ghost is known as the Lone Sentinel, and appears to be a gun-carrying soldier marching atop Penn Hall, who sometimes takes aim at the passing students!

The doors opened and revealed a ghostly hospital scene, with blood-drenched doctors and wounded soldiers racing around. Wikimedia Commons user Phmalo. Sites of mass death are often plagued with stories about ghosts. One harsh winter, the campus was hit hard by an influenza epidemic, and the weather was too bad to leave. With no way to bury the bodies, another room was turned into a temporary morgue. The door was painted red, so no one would accidentally enter. After the epidemic, the door was repainted, but soon after the red color bled through.

Time and again the door was repainted, and still the red persisted. Reportedly, some students still go searching for the red door now that the building has been redone. There are so many ghosts and haunted buildings on campus, including Max the Security Guard, who lost his life while evacuating students from a burning building—reportedly students can feel a ghostly hand shoving them in the stairwell, trying to get them out.

Another specter haunts Zabriskie Hall. In life, she was a bright science student who discovered that her professor was stealing her work and publishing it as his own. When she confronted him, he stabbed her to death. Her ghost approaches students studying in Zabriskie late at night, asking them to pull the knife out of her back.

Flickr user Zlatko Unger. At the University of Georgia, many of the sorority and fraternity houses are haunted. The sad tale of Susie Carithers, former owner of the Alpha Gamma Delta house, is often the centerpiece of the yearly ghost tours on campus. The story goes that she was left at the altar, and she hung herself in the Alpha Gamma Delta house in grief. Residents say they sometimes see her ghost staring out the window of the attic. Over at the Phi Mu house, the ghost of Anna Hamilton lingers. Her husband was murdered and buried in front of the Phi Mu house, so she watches over his grave.

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Apparently some brave or foolish sorority sisters have attempted to contact Anna with a Ouija board. Flickr user Curt Smith. Students avoid the south entrance around midnight, when the church bells chime. In , nine students lost their life in a horrific fire. Today, students claim to hear bloodcurdling screams, see flickering lights, and flushing toilets. Another phantom, known as the Greenhouse Ghost, lost his life in a diving accident at the pool.

Students say that he leaves wet footprints around, and randomly turns on showers. There are a number of ghosts at East Tennessee State, many of which are less malicious than some of the others on our list. Founding President Sidney Gilbreath is a very practical sort of ghost, as he turns off lights that were accidentally left on, and closes windows that people leave open.

Another phantom has earned the moniker of Marble Boy. In Clement Hall, sounds of rolling marbles echo on the upper floors, but no marbles are ever found. The spirit of former teacher Christine Burleson reportedly haunts the portrait of her father that hangs Burleson Hall. Most of the 22, students at Exeter University believe he is there to finish the painting job.

Salve Regina may have earned university status only in but the buildings were erected in making them a bit of a decade shy of years old. The Carey Mansion, which Salve Regina leases as an academic facility now used by its 22, students, is allegedly haunted by a nun who killed herself there after being impregnated by a priest. There are also ghosts of individuals who had illicit affairs that ended in tragedy and resulted in their suicide.

Exorcism had also been performed on the Watts-Sherman dorm after students reported that strange things were constantly happening. The acre Flagler College was founded in and is now attended by 2, students. Students and faculty say they often hear his random stomping at the Hotel Ponce de Leon Hall, which used to be a lavish hotel for the elite.

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What spine-tingling secrets does a nearlyyear-old building hold? Legends say criminals during the Medieval Times were burned at the stake on university grounds. There were also guillotine executions in this school during the French Revolution. Students also report smelling gunpowder in certain sections of the campus at times. Today, there are 23, students at Southampton University. The Avenue Campus reportedly has a female specter that haunts it from time to time.

Footsteps across empty classrooms, the sound of moving furniture, and hands sticking out from the toilet door are just some of the hair-raising ghost stories within the halls of the year old university! Founded in , Salem State University continuously baffles and scares! Some of the reported incidents include a bed violently shaking and loud banging sounds in Room of the Bodwitch Hall.

It is also said that a student who killed herself and a black figure haunt the Gramely Hall. The Gramley Library is where two ladies were reportedly electrocuted and continue roam the area. The lift inside Clewell Hall is haunted by a girl who died there. In Babcock Hall, there is a haunted portrait that everyone avoids.

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The University College London, founded in , is haunted—that is, according to some of its , students who have had the unfortunate supernatural experience. A famous phantom is that of a young girl they call Emma Louise who would appear if her name is called three times.

Legend has it that she was killed in the tunnel connecting the new UCL building that accommodates students and the Cruciform building. There are stories of him being seen roaming the corridors. The sound of his walking stick being tapped could also be heard. Now years old and with 17, students attending, Durham University is continuously becoming a spot for unexplained sightings. Frederick Copeman , a student in the early 19th century, was said to have plunged to death from the Cathedral tower after failing in the final exams. UNC usually makes it to various haunted schools lists mainly because of the ghost named Edith, a bullied resident who supposedly killed herself in the attic.

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It is said that to this day, Wiebking and Wilson Hall residences harbor her spirit, manifesting through unexplained movements of inanimate objects. Other popular specters are those of a dead janitor and a murder victim haunting Harrison Hall and the Tobey-Kindel dining hall, respectively. While these talks live on, UNC confirms no records exist to confirm these deaths. The Ateneo de Manila University was founded in It was a World War II military camp and war hospital , and—even scarier—has a cemetery right below it.

Ghost stories include the phantom of a woman who was hanged and died in a praying position, dwarves, mythical beings, spirits of lovers who killed themselves, ghosts of Japanese soldiers, and the presence of an otherworldly portal at Court 4. It is said that even with some 15, college students roaming the university, restless souls still wander the Cervini Dormitory, the Gonzaga Hall, and Bellarmine Hall. The very first comprehensive national university in modern China , Peking University was founded in In , a gruesome massacre took place amid the Tiananmen Square demonstrations.

Ghost sightings, strange smells, and unexplained screams within classrooms, dorms, and specific spots across the hectare campus grounds have been reported. Now years old, Ohio University is said to be harboring ghosts and ghouls. The site used to be the Athens Lunatic Asylum , has an underground Native American cemetery, and is found right in the center of a Pentagram of burial grounds.

The notorious Room of Wilson Hall is reportedly extremely haunted. It was there that a student in the s was reportedly possessed; she was acting strangely and spoke in strange languages before jumping to her death. A possessed student was said to have been exorcised on the 5th floor and ghosts of children are haunting the Jaeger Hall at unholy hours. Also reportedly captured on camera are the ghosts of a little girl and a little boy at the Neuzil Hall.

Benedictine University students and residents are used to televisions inexplicably changing volumes. Over years and Fordham University lives on—and so do its ghosts and ghost stories. Even more terrifying is that the site used to be that of a hospital. But academic prestige is just one side of the university; it is said to be a paranormally active campus.

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It is also there that the ghost of a bursar who killed himself in 18th Century is usually spotted. The University of Alabama, founded years ago , is rife with ghost stories. It is said that the Gorgas House, one of the oldest buildings in the campus, is being haunted by Josiah Gorgas, former university president.

Students and faculty would sometimes hear footsteps and the clanging of his sword. Her wife Amelia Gorgas, after whom the Library was named, is also believed to be wandering the 4th floor. Another haunted building is the Alabama Natural History Museum where the carriage of former state geologist Eugene Allen Smith would be seen rolling down the hallways on its own. The Marian Galloway Theatre also harbors the ghost of Marian. A popular story is the ghost of a year-old boy, reportedly the son of a foreign lecturer who drowned in the pool. Sometimes they would see the ghost of him drowning and asking for help.

The ghost of a girl with braided hair is also frequently seen on campus.