Haunted Universities
42 haunted locations across America
Old quads and older dormitories, where campus legend hardens into something students come to believe.
All Haunted Universities
Alpha Theta Fraternity
At the Alpha Theta house on North Main Street in Hanover, New Hampshire, there is one room the brothers keep apart from…
Caraway Hall - Arkansas Tech
The one genuinely strange thing anyone has put their name to at Caraway Hall happened in a hallway.
Centenary University
The campus theater at Centenary University in Hackettstown, New Jersey is where students say they find Tillie Smith…
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
The best-documented ghost at Earlham College, in Richmond, Indiana, turned up in the early 1950s…
El Paso High School
El Paso High School, a magnificent 1916 structure perched dramatically on a hillside overlooking the city…
Flagler College
At Flagler College in St. Augustine, Florida, the top floor of the towers is boarded off…
Harris Hall
The most credible witness to the ghost of Harris Hall, the old girls' dormitory at the University of Louisiana at…
Harvard Porcellian Club
The Porcellian Club, Harvard's oldest final club, sits behind a brick facade at 1324 Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge.
Harvard Yard
There is a line carved into the brickwork of the Meyer Gate, on the north side of Harvard Yard in Cambridge…
Heffron Hall - Saint Mary's University
On the third floor of Heffron Hall, a co-ed dorm at Saint Mary's University in Winona, Minnesota…
Huntress Hall
Students who live in Huntress Hall at Keene State College in Keene, New Hampshire say they hear a wheelchair at night.
Indiana State University - Burford Hall
At Burford Hall, a residence hall at Indiana State University in Terre Haute…
Indiana University Bloomington
At Indiana University Bloomington, the oldest ghost on campus is a woman in a black veil who walks along Third Street…
Inn at Carnall Hall
Guests at the Inn at Carnall Hall in Fayetteville, Arkansas keep seeing a woman in the halls.
Kemper Military School
Sometime in the late 1970s, a cadet named James Herring was pulling officer-of-the-day duty at Kemper Military School…
Kendall Hall at TCNJ
Kendall Hall at The College of New Jersey is the campus Main Stage Theater…
Le Mans Hall - Saint Mary's College
In Le Mans Hall at Saint Mary's College in Notre Dame, Indiana, the students on the second-floor corridor they call…
Macky Auditorium
The Macky Auditorium ghost story, the one students at CU Boulder pass around…
Mission Santa Clara de Asis
At Santa Clara University in California, students in McLaughlin-Walsh residence hall keep reporting a presence they…
Nassau Hall
There is a portrait frame inside Nassau Hall in Princeton, New Jersey that has outlived the two men who hung in it.
Oregon Institute of Technology
Pull up any list of haunted Oregon, and Oregon Institute of Technology shows up as a dead campus in the sagebrush…
Pennsylvania Hall
The most-told ghost story at Pennsylvania Hall in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania is a single elevator ride.
Rockefeller College (Rocky)
At Rockefeller College in Princeton, New Jersey, the ghost tours stop at a stone archway and tell you what is sealed…
Salem College
At Salem College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, students keep seeing a woman in the attic windows of the Single…
Santa Clara University
At Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, California, students say there's a flute player on campus you can hear but…
Science Hall
In 1974, geography graduate students exploring the attic of Science Hall at UW-Madison found a human foot.
Skull and Bones Tomb
In the middle of Yale's campus in New Haven, Connecticut, there's a brownstone building with almost no windows.
South Caroliniana Library
The emergency call box outside the South Caroliniana Library in Columbia, South Carolina used to go off on its own.
St. Anselm College
The ghost in Alumni Hall at Saint Anselm College, in Goffstown, New Hampshire, is supposed to be a monk.
St. Cloud State University
At the James W. Miller Learning Resources Center on the St. Cloud State University campus in Minnesota…
St. Olaf College
St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota keeps its ghosts in an orange file folder.
Transylvania University - Old Morrison
On the night of January 27, 1969, Old Morrison — the Greek Revival landmark at Transylvania University in Lexington…
University of Virginia
In 2015, library worker Will Wyatt was opening Alderman Library before sunrise when a short older woman with long…
Vanderbilt Hall
Vanderbilt Hall is the brownstone dormitory that closes off the southern edge of Yale's Old Campus in New Haven…
Virginia Military Institute
The Yellow Peril shows up on the third stoop of Old Barracks at 3:30 a.m.
Washington Hall
The ghost in Washington Hall at the University of Notre Dame started without a name.
Western Kentucky University
Potter Hall at Western Kentucky University, in Bowling Green, has a ghost the people who work there have named three…
Wilson Hall
Ohio University sealed Room 428 decades ago and has never said why.
Mary Lyon Hall
The story at Mary Lyon Hall, a dormitory at Plymouth State University in Plymouth, New Hampshire…
Mary Mayo Hall
Mary Mayo Hall sits on the West Circle of Michigan State University in East Lansing…