74 places found

Hanover, Indiana
Parker Auditorium, designed by architect Jens Frederick Larson and completed in 1947, anchors the eastern end of Hanover College's historic…

Hastings, Nebraska
Altman Hall at Hastings College is a residence hall named for Clara Christine Altman, who came to Hastings as a languages teacher and…

Huntington, Indiana
Huntington University's Merillat Complex for Physical Education and Recreation — known to generations of students as the PERC, now the PLEX…

Pocatello, Idaho
Frazier Hall, ISU's Dramatic and Fine Arts building named for Charles Frazier in 1925, is home to a ghost students and staff call Alex —…

Fort Pierce, Florida
Students and staff at the college's McAlpin Theater describe a tall, lanky figure they call Lenny, often glimpsed in a bluish mist near the…

Sarasota, Florida
The Keating Center at Ringling College of Art and Design was originally the Spanish Mission-Revival Bay Haven Hotel, built in 1925; circus…

Galesburg, Illinois
In March 1988, Knox College freshman Andrea Racibozynski was beaten to death with a brick in a stairwell of Seymour Hall, a men's…

Godfrey, Illinois
Lewis and Clark Community College sits on the former grounds of Monticello College, founded in 1835 as Monticello Seminary — the oldest…

Chicago, Illinois
The Skyscraper Building opened in 1930 as part of Mundelein College, built by the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary as the…

Madison, Ohio
Madison Seminary is a red-brick building completed in 1857 as a school, later used from 1891 as a home for Civil War nurses and the widows…

Mansfield, Connecticut
Operating from 1860 until its 1993 closure, Mansfield Training School and Hospital housed and treated people with intellectual…

Lebanon, Illinois
The Alumni House at McKendree University, founded in 1828 as Illinois's oldest college, carries a somber history: an elderly woman died…

Portland, Oregon
The ghost story told at the Kennedy School is of a young girl: a bartender in the Boiler Room Bar told a National Geographic writer that a…

Macon, Georgia
Boone Hall, completed in 1950, is named for Sallie Goelz Boone — "Miss Sallie" to generations of students — who worked at Mercer as a…

Decatur, Illinois
Millikin University's Albert Taylor Theatre is home to "Rail Girl," a ghost first reported by a theater student in 1998 as a small girl of…

Columbus, Mississippi
Mississippi University for Women, known as The W, was the first state-supported women's college in the United States. Its best-known campus…

Montezuma, New Mexico
Montezuma Castle is the Queen Anne landmark building of the former Montezuma Hotel, a railroad-era resort near the hot springs outside Las…

Princeton, New Jersey
Nassau Hall, completed in 1756, is the oldest building at Princeton University and served as a barracks and hospital and was fought over in…

Fargo, North Dakota
North Dakota State University in Fargo has two of the state's best-known campus ghost stories. Minard Hall, built in 1902 as Science Hall,…

Lincoln, Nebraska
Nebraska Wesleyan University's best-known ghost story belongs to Clara Mills, a beloved professor of piano, music theory and music history…

Globe, Arizona
Built in 1907 and opened as Globe's main elementary school in 1917 — the future Arizona governor Rose Mofford was a pupil — this hillside…

West Palm Beach, Florida
The university library is said to be haunted by a former janitor who worked there for years before mysteriously disappearing without a…

Ellicott City, Maryland
The Patapsco Female Institute was a girls' boarding school from 1837 to 1891 on a hilltop above Ellicott City, with as many as 150 students…

Spring City, Pennsylvania
Pennhurst State School and Hospital opened in 1908 and housed thousands of children and adults with intellectual and physical disabilities…