Haunted Schools

The San Francisco Art Institute on Russian Hill, a Spanish Colonial Revival building with a tall bell tower and red tile roof

San Francisco Art Institute – San Francisco, CA: The Bell Tower Ghost, a Paper Trail from 1947 and a Graveyard That Is Not There

October 24, 2026 admin Southwestern US Haunted Schools

The bell tower ghost of the San Francisco Art Institute has a paper trail from 1963 to 1985. The graveyard story does not, and the campus is closed to visitors.

Herrmann Hall at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, a long Spanish Revival building with arcades and a red tile roof, the former Hotel Del Monte

U.S. Naval Postgraduate School – Monterey, CA: The Man in Gray, the Hotel Del Monte and What the Dates Show

October 24, 2026 admin Southwestern US Haunted Schools

Herrmann Hall at the Naval Postgraduate School was the Hotel Del Monte. This guide sets out its documented history, the man in gray legend and where the dates do not agree.

The Bell Tower building at CSU Channel Islands, a white Spanish Revival building with a domed tower, arcade and red tile roof

CSU Channel Islands – Camarillo, CA: The Former Camarillo State Hospital and the Stories Students Tell

October 24, 2026 admin Southwestern US Haunted Schools

A university built on a state hospital: the documented history, the people who lived and died there, and the ghost stories students tell.

Pattie Cobb Hall at Harding University, a two-story red-brick building with a rounded entrance canopy, partly framed by trees

Harding University – Searcy, AR: Gertie and the Ghost of a Building That No Longer Stands

October 24, 2026 admin Southeastern US Haunted Schools

A Galloway-era ghost story, a 1950 student editor’s tall tale, and the bricks of a demolished hall that carried it across campus.

Gorgas House at the University of Alabama, a two-story brick house with a columned front porch, photographed in 1993

University of Alabama – Tuscaloosa, AL: The Woods Hall Duel, the Gorgas Family and the Buildings That Survived 1865

October 24, 2026 admin Southeastern US Haunted Schools

A documented 1877 shooting at Woods Hall, the family that lived in the Gorgas House, and why the library elevator ghost is a modern story.

Flowers Memorial Hall at Huntingdon College, a Gothic Revival red-brick building with a central tower, seen across the lawn

Huntingdon College – Montgomery, AL: The Red Lady and the Building That No Longer Stands

October 24, 2026 admin Southeastern US Haunted Schools

A Montgomery campus ghost in red, a 1931 yearbook, and what happened when her dormitory was torn down.

Black-and-white view of Main Hall at the University of Montevallo, a three-story brick building with a tall central pavilion, in 1993

University of Montevallo – Montevallo, AL: Condie Cunningham and the Main Hall Fire

October 24, 2026 admin Southeastern US Haunted Schools

A documented 1908 dormitory fire, the ghost legend built on it, and which of Montevallo’s other campus stories hold up.

College campus buildings at night in the snow

How to Run a Campus Ghost Walk This Halloween

October 22, 2026 admin Haunted Schools

Almost every school has a ghost story. A footstep in an empty hallway, a light in a locked room, a[…]

Campus of Henderson State University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas

Henderson State University – Arkadelphia, AR

September 15, 2019 admin Southeastern US Haunted Schools

According to the best-known version of the legend, when Henderson State University in Arkadelphia, AR was a Methodist college, a[…]

Stone front and red-tiled roof of Pemberton Hall, a 1909 residence hall at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Illinois

Eastern Illinois University – Charleston, IL: Pemberton Hall and the Real Mary Hawkins

September 10, 2019 admin Midwestern US Haunted Schools

A ghost named Mary is said to haunt Pemberton Hall at Eastern Illinois University. The record shows a real matron, Mary Hawkins, who died in 1918 of paresis. No murder is documented, and the legend first appears in print in 1976.

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