Mississippi University for Women (Callaway Hall)

Mississippi University for Women, known as The W, was the first state-supported women's college in the United States. Its best-known campus legend concerns Mary Callaway, said to haunt the fourth floor of Callaway Hall after leaping from the clock tower in grief over a soldier lover, with students reporting strange noises for decades. Campus and local newspapers note that the story does not match the record: the clock tower was added after the war, and the hall is named for Mary J. S. Callaway, a longtime mathematics professor and twice acting president. The legend is best taken as campus folklore, one of several told on the campus.