Kenyon College
Seriously, this school is said to house the “Gates of Hell,” AKA the school’s south grounds entrance. The actual gates are said to harness the power to send anyone straight to hell if they pass through them as the bells of the nearby Church of the Holy Spirit chime at midnight. Obviously, that’s highly debatable. The story of the 9 students who died in a fire in 1949 however, is not. Ever since the fire they have been seen haunting the grounds, along with various strange moments on campus as well.
Ohio University
Ohio University has plenty of reasons to be haunted. It’s the site of the former Athens Lunatic Asylum, AND it was built on top of an old Native American burial ground. Perhaps the scariest place in the whole school is room 428 of Wilson Hall. Supposedly a female resident in the 1970s lost her mind and tried to practice astral projection, a method where the human spirit separates from the body and travels on its own.
Her friends went for help, but before they could get back she had thrown herself out the window. The room is now sealed, and legend has it that it was deemed uninhabitable after objects constantly flew off shelves and smashed into walls, doors opened and closed violently, and sightings of the ghost itself.
Gettysburg College
After the school’s establishment in 1832, campus building Pennsylvania Hall was used as a hospital by both sides of the Civil War. Supposedly the basement is haunted by bloody war doctors, and there’s also the “Lone Sentinel,” a ghost of a soldier bearing a gun who roams Pennsylvania Hall as well. Not to mention the “blue boy,” who is an orphan with a face so blue he looks frozen.
University of Georgia
Founded in 1785, the University of Georgia is riddled with stories of Civil War ghosts, but one of the more colorful stories took place in what is now the Alpha Gamma Delta sorority house. The former owner, Susie Carithers, bought the house as a wedding gift for her and her fiance, but he never showed up to the wedding. So, she hung herself in the attic. Residents say they see her staring out the window waiting for him to finally come home.
Fordham University
Despite the fact that the entire campus is filled with haunted-mansion-style buildings, Keating Hall’s Martyr Court is apparently home to the ghost of a young blond girl who haunts the showers. She doesn’t move or speak, she simply stares straight ahead until she disappears. She was probably a patient at the hospital the university was built over.
Huntingdon College
Rumor has it that a former student named Martha (some say Margaret) was shipped off to school here by her rich father despite the face that she wanted to stay in New York. She never made any friends and became more cold and alone as time passed. She was also described as loving the color red, which might be why she was found dead in her room wearing a red robe in her red bedspread. Ever since her suicide her spirit is said to give off a creepy red light (especially on the anniversary of her death) while roaming the halls of her dorm.
Notre Dame
One of the university’s most famous football players still hangs out on campus… even though he died in 1920. George Gipp fell asleep on the steps of Washington Hall on night and died of pneumonia. He likes to stir up trouble from time to time, but usually he’s a friendly ghost, patting students on the back and playing music late at night.
Penn State
Penn State is so haunted that it even has its own A&E show called “Paranormal State.” Among the many stories include the tale of Besety Aardsma, a former student who’s been roaming the Pattee Library ever since her murder in 1969, a poltergeist in the library, a phantom MULE who’s believed to be one of the mules that helped build the school in 1855, and the numerous sightings of former university president George W. Atherton and his wife Frances.
St.-Mary-of-the-Woods College
The oldest Catholic school in Indiana is home to “the faceless nun.” Legend has it that she loved to paint portraits, and painted the face last because it was the most important. When she was painting herself one day, she got very sick and died before she ever got to her face. Since then students have reported seeing a faceless nun roaming the halls and the courtyard.
Georgia Regents University
Legend has it that In 1861, Emily Galt lived in what is now Bellevue Hall. Her fiance joined the war even though she begged him not to, and he died. Grief-stricken Emily etched her name in a window pain with her engagement ring before she leaped to her death, and numerous people have heard ghosts arguing late at night. They’re believed to be the ghosts of Emily and her fiance fighting.
