Haunted Universities

Caraway Hall - Arkansas Tech

Russellville, Arkansas

Caraway Hall is a residence hall at Arkansas Tech University in Russellville, a campus founded in 1909 as the Second Dis...

Centenary University

Hackettstown, New Jersey

On the evening of April 8, 1886, eighteen-year-old kitchen maid Matilda "Tillie" Smith left the campus of the Centenary...

Central Washington University

Ellensburg, Washington

Kamola Hall was completed in October 1911 as the first dormitory on the campus of what was then Washington State Normal...

College of William & Mary

Williamsburg, Virginia

The College of William & Mary, founded in 1693 under a royal charter from King William III and Queen Mary II, is the sec...

Earlham College

Richmond, Indiana

Earlham College is a liberal arts institution founded by Quakers in 1847 in Richmond, Indiana, making it one of the olde...

El Paso High School

El Paso, Texas

El Paso High School, a magnificent 1916 structure perched dramatically on a hillside overlooking the city, achieved inte...

Flagler College

St. Augustine, Florida

Flagler College occupies the magnificent Ponce de Leon Hotel, built by Standard Oil co-founder Henry Flagler in 1888 as...

Harris Hall

Lafayette, Louisiana

Harris Hall was built in 1939 as a women's dormitory at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, named for Thomas H. Ha...

Harvard Porcellian Club

Cambridge, Massachusetts

The Porcellian Club is Harvard's oldest and most secretive final club, founded in 1791 after undergraduate Joseph McKean...

Harvard Yard

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Harvard Yard is the historic heart of America's oldest university, founded in 1636, and according to Ralph Waldo Emerson...

Heffron Hall

La Crosse, Wisconsin

Father Louis Lesches murdered Bishop Patrick Heffron inside Heffron Hall in 1915, shooting the bishop in his own room. T...

Huntress Hall

Keene, New Hampshire

The ghost of Harriet Huntress rolls her wheelchair across the attic floor of the dormitory that bears her name, and she...

Indiana State University - Burford Hall

Terre Haute, Indiana

Burford Hall at Indiana State University in Terre Haute, Indiana, is a residence hall that has harbored one of the campu...

Indiana University Bloomington

Bloomington, Indiana

Indiana University Bloomington, founded in 1820, is one of America's oldest public universities, and its sprawling limes...

Inn at Carnall Hall

Fayetteville, Arkansas

The Inn at Carnall Hall occupies a stately building at 465 North Arkansas Avenue on the campus of the University of Arka...

Kemper Military School

Boonville, Missouri

Kemper Military School, founded in 1844 in Boonville, Missouri, operated for over 150 years before closing its doors in...

Kendall Hall at TCNJ

Ewing, New Jersey

Kendall Hall, built in 1929 as the main theater of what was then New Jersey State Teachers College, stands as one of the...

Le Mans Hall - Saint Mary's College

Notre Dame, Indiana

Le Mans Hall is the iconic central building of Saint Mary's College in Notre Dame, Indiana, its bell tower rising above...

Macky Auditorium

Boulder, Colorado

Macky Auditorium was completed in 1922 on the University of Colorado campus in Boulder, funded by a $300,000 bequest fro...

Mission Santa Clara de Asis

Santa Clara, California

Mission Santa Clara de Asís, the eighth of California's 21 missions, was founded on January 12, 1777, by the Franciscan...

Nassau Hall

Princeton, New Jersey

Nassau Hall, completed in 1756, stands as the oldest building on Princeton's campus and was the largest stone structure...

Oregon Institute of Technology

Klamath Falls, Oregon

The old campus of the Oregon Institute of Technology sits off Old Fort Road, roughly three miles northeast of downtown K...

Pennsylvania Hall

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania Hall at Gettysburg College was constructed in 1838 as one of the college's first buildings, originally call...

Rockefeller College (Rocky)

Princeton, New Jersey

Rockefeller College — known affectionately as "Rocky" — stands upon what was once the FitzRandolph family burial ground,...

Salem College

Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Salem College traces its origins to 1772, when Moravian settlers established a school for girls in the planned community...

Santa Clara University

Santa Clara, California

Mission Santa Clara de Asís was founded on January 12, 1777, as the eighth in Padre Junipero Serra's chain of California...

Science Hall

Madison, Wisconsin

Science Hall is considered one of the most haunted buildings on the UW-Madison campus. Students and faculty report heari...

Skull and Bones Tomb

New Haven, Connecticut

The Skull and Bones Tomb stands at 64 High Street like a fortress of secrets, its windowless Portland brownstone facade...

South Caroliniana Library

Columbia, South Carolina

The South Caroliniana Library is allegedly haunted by the ghost of former University President James Rion McKissick, who...

St. Anselm College

Goffstown, New Hampshire

A monk fell four stories from an Alumni Hall window, and his spirit has never left the hilltop campus. Saint Anselm Coll...

Transylvania University - Old Morrison

Lexington, Kentucky

Transylvania University, founded in 1780, is the oldest university west of the Allegheny Mountains. Its campus in Lexing...

University of Virginia

Charlottesville, Virginia

Founded by Thomas Jefferson in 1819 and designed around his vision of an "academical village," the University of Virgini...

Vanderbilt Hall

New Haven, Connecticut

Vanderbilt Hall rises from Yale's Old Campus like a Gothic fortress of the Gilded Age, its Tudor gatehouse facade hiding...

Virginia Military Institute

Lexington, Virginia

The Virginia Military Institute, America's oldest state-supported military college, opened its doors in November 1839 in...

Washington Hall

Notre Dame, Indiana

Washington Hall on the campus of the University of Notre Dame has been the center of the university's most enduring ghos...

Western Kentucky University

Bowling Green, Kentucky

Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green sits atop a network of limestone caverns beneath its hilltop campus, and ar...

Wilson Hall

Athens, Ohio

Wilson Hall at Ohio University is so haunted that Room 428 was permanently sealed and declared uninhabitable. In the 197...

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Alpha Theta Fraternity

Hanover, New Hampshire

Nine fraternity brothers suffocated in their sleep on February 25, 1934, when their furnace chimney blew out and filled...

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Mary Lyon Hall

Plymouth, New Hampshire

Mary Lyon Hall at Plymouth State University carries the name of the pioneering educator who founded Mount Holyoke Colleg...

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Mary Mayo Hall

East Lansing, Michigan

Mary Mayo Hall was built in 1931 as the first all-women's dormitory on the campus of Michigan State University, then kno...