Haunted Universities
40 haunted locations across America
Academic halls with scholarly spirits and dormitory hauntings
All Haunted Universities
Caraway Hall - Arkansas Tech
There's a window on the second floor of Caraway Hall that students will point at if you let them give the tour.
Centenary University
Tillie Smith was eighteen when someone raped, beat, and strangled her in a field outside Taylor Library on April 9…
Central Washington University
The ghost of Kamola Hall was invented in 1982 to promote a haunted house event.
College of William & Mary
On foggy nights at William & Mary, students say a young Native American boy sprints across the Sunken Garden.
Earlham College
At Earlham College, a phantom dribbles a basketball in the Athletic and Wellness Center after the building is locked.
El Paso High School
El Paso High School, a magnificent 1916 structure perched dramatically on a hillside overlooking the city…
Flagler College
Flagler College occupies the magnificent Ponce de Leon Hotel, built by Standard Oil co-founder Henry Flagler in 1888 as…
Harris Hall
A housekeeper who worked in Harris Hall from 1997 to 2023 saw Lily more than once.
Harvard Porcellian Club
The Porcellian Club is Harvard's oldest and most secretive final club, founded in 1791 after undergraduate Joseph…
Harvard Yard
Harvard Yard is the historic heart of America's oldest university, founded in 1636…
Heffron Hall - Saint Mary's University
On the morning of August 27, 1915, Father Louis Lesches walked into Bishop Patrick Heffron's private chapel on the…
Huntress Hall
The wheelchair in the Huntress Hall attic isn't a rumor. It's a real wheelchair…
Indiana State University - Burford Hall
"I heard a woman vomiting and crying," a Burford Hall resident recalled of a night in January 1995…
Indiana University Bloomington
Indiana University Bloomington has its own ghost archive. Not a metaphor, an actual archive…
Inn at Carnall Hall
Carnall Hall cost $35,000 to build in 1905, funded by the Arkansas State Legislature.
Kemper Military School
Between two and four in the morning, ghost soldiers form up in D Barracks.
Kendall Hall at TCNJ
Sigrid Stevenson was practicing piano in the empty auditorium at Kendall Hall when she was murdered.
Le Mans Hall - Saint Mary's College
Freshman Julie Galvin woke up at two in the morning to a profile in the corner of her eye. Greenish tint.
Macky Auditorium
The ghost story at Macky Auditorium has a real body behind it, and that body has a name. Elaura Jeanne Jaquette.
Mission Santa Clara de Asis
Roughly 1,000 people are buried in a 19th-century cemetery between the Mission Church and O'Connor Hall.
Nassau Hall
A cannonball fired at Nassau Hall during the Battle of Princeton on January 3, 1777…
Oregon Institute of Technology
The story you'll find on most paranormal websites about the Oregon Institute of Technology in Klamath Falls goes…
Pennsylvania Hall
Two Gettysburg College administrators got in the elevator at Pennsylvania Hall on a normal workday…
Rockefeller College (Rocky)
When Italian stonemasons broke ground for Princeton's Collegiate Gothic expansion in 1913…
Salem College
On the evening of November 28, 1873, a sixteen-year-old boarding student named Sarah Tilkey was practicing piano in the…
Santa Clara University
Father Magin Catala died on November 22, 1830, and his body has been missing ever since. Not metaphorically.
Science Hall
In 1974, geography graduate students exploring the attic of Science Hall at UW-Madison found a human foot.
Skull and Bones Tomb
"Skull and Bones! Accept or reject?" That's what you hear at midnight on Tap Night at Yale…
South Caroliniana Library
The emergency call boxes near J. Rion McKissick's grave go off throughout the week. Campus police respond.
St. Anselm College
Saint Anselm College has a ghost story that the school itself will happily tell you, which is unusual.
Transylvania University - Old Morrison
When Old Morrison burned on the night of January 27, 1969, the fire was so intense that only the Greek Revival exterior…
University of Virginia
In 2015, library worker Will Wyatt was opening Alderman Library before sunrise when a short older woman with long…
Vanderbilt Hall
There's a door on the first floor of Vanderbilt Hall that is always locked.
Virginia Military Institute
The Yellow Peril shows up on the third stoop of Old Barracks at 3:30 a.m.
Washington Hall
In 1926, an international student at Notre Dame named Pio Montenegro told the school paper he had seen George Gipp's…
Western Kentucky University
On April 21, 1979, a student named Theresa Watkins hanged herself from the steam pipes in the basement of Potter Hall…
Wilson Hall
Room 428 in Wilson Hall at Ohio University has been sealed shut for decades.
Alpha Theta Fraternity
Students doing laundry late at night in the Alpha Theta basement describe the same thing, over and over…
Mary Lyon Hall
Mary Lyon Hall is named after a woman who never set foot in New Hampshire.
Mary Mayo Hall
Mary Mayo died in 1903. The MSU dorm that bears her name wasn't built until 1931.