A Site About Haunted Schools
The Academy has a John Paul Jones crypt legend and the documented 1907 death of Marine Lieutenant James Sutton, which a Navy court found self-inflicted and his family disputed. What the record shows, what is legend and how to visit.
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The observatory on Waveland Golf Course holds the ashes of Drake president and astronomer Daniel Morehouse and his wife, Myrtle. What the record shows, the stories told about it and where sources disagree.
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College Hall’s campus ghost has a real student behind her. What Simpson and its student newspaper have documented about Mildred Hedges, the first written sighting in 1977, and which tales the record does not support.
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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 documented 1820s hanging on Gallows Hill, the Westcott Fountain that stands nearby and two Cawthon Hall ghost stories, with the history kept apart from the legends.
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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.
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