A Site About Haunted Schools
The Farm House Museum is Iowa State’s oldest building and its best-known haunted house. What the record shows about the Wilson family, Edith’s curtains, the silverware and Gold Star Hall, and what is only legend.
Read moreA copy of The Poems of Ossian in DePauw’s archives is said to be guarded by Governor James Whitcomb’s ghost. What the library’s own records show, and why the archivist cannot trace the story before the 1990s.
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The Woman in Black first appears in the student paper in October 1911, and IU’s folklore department has run a Ghost Walk since 2001. What the record shows about Owen Hall, Dunn Cemetery and the Auditorium, and what is only legend.
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Harriet Haskell led Monticello Seminary for about four decades. The library ghost story that bears her name traces back to a 1999 book at the earliest found, and much of it conflicts with the record.
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Rail Girl, a student death in Aston Hall in 1927, a gym that has since been demolished and a bricked-up window: what Millikin’s records show and what is campus folklore.
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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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At the Lourdes High School in Chicago, IL, students, teachers and even custodians report hearing footsteps and haunting music echoing[…]
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The McCluer Senior High School in Florissant, Missouri opened its doors in 1957 as a junior high school. Witnesses say[…]
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Larsen Hall at Luther College has a ghost called Gertrude. The college’s own history guide says the stories are inconsistent and that no records support them. What is documented about the building and what is only legend.
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Helen Roberts, a first-year student from Strawberry Point, died of influenza in 1918, and her parents gave Voorhees Hall a clock. What Coe’s own records show, where the sources disagree and what older ghost lists add.
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