A Halloween Round-up of Scary Campus Ghost Stories
This entertaining and creepy compilation is brought to you by Katie Jones of The College Fix.
Haunted Halloween: A Spooky Round Up Of Campus Ghost Stories
A college campus is a great place for a ghost story to take root. From library stacks to lecture halls, universities are targets for students and locals alike to get their fix of hauntingly scary stories come Halloween.
Here’s a College Fix round-up of some of the most haunted campus ghost stories in the country:
Fordham University
The Exorcist was filmed here. Need we say more? The centerpiece of the Jesuit campus is a Gothic-style building, Keating Hall, and a dorm, Finlay Hall, which were built on top of an old morgue. It is alleged that sleeping students are awoken with cold hands around their necks. In another dorm, tale tells it that a ghostly priest wakes a student and tells him that he has performed an exorcism to rid him of demonic spirits. If that isn’t enough, students also say that there is a blonde-haired ghost who cruises the showers. ht/Daily Caller
Mercyhurst University
Students at this small Catholic campus have unwisely used an ouija board outside the Mercyhurst Christ the King Chapel. Didn’t someone teach them that’s a no-no? This university in (no pun intended) Erie, Penn., is said to be haunted year-round. The most famous legend of is that of a deceased nun who hung herself on campus. Students say her bitter soul still roams the halls. There are also stories of the South Parlor in Old Main, used as a viewing room for the deceased. Rumors circulate that a deceased nun was placed in her coffin, and the next morning her body had disappeared, but footprints were found leaving the room. This mystery was never solved, but now the doors to this room remain permanently shut. ht/The Merciad
University of Tennessee
At Hoskins Library, it is not unusual for students deep in their studies to hear unexplained footsteps, books falling off shelves, elevators that move between floors without any riders, and experience the scent of fresh cornbread. Allegedly, the ghost of Evening Primrose is responsible. While her identity is not confirmed, she is rumored to have been an undergrad who died in the library. Other parts of campus are haunted, too, so the stories go. Many students claim to see the apparitions of six Union Army soldiers conferring next to Perkins Hall. In another part of campus, Tyson House, lights flicker on and off and someone can be heard roaming the halls when no one is there, accompanied by low moans. ht/UT website
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Haunted Halloween: A Spooky Round Up Of Campus Ghost Stories (The College Fix)