College Hauntings Bring Sense of Community

College campuses seem to be the most haunted places in the country, especially residence halls and buildings with towers.

Almost every college campus, large or small, seems to have a ghost story and the older the campus the more abnormal occurrences seem to be reported. Below are a few of the stories I found while researching this topic.

A the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign English building, which was formerly a women’s residence hall, slamming doors and footsteps can be heard along with computers and electrical appliances turning themselves on and off. Maybe they should check the due date on their electrical bill.

If you’re ever up at Illinois State University late at night, you might want to stay away from Williams Hall. The library there is supposedly haunted by the ghost of Angie Milner, the school’s first librarian. The ghost is said to send icy chills down student necks and backs while studying. And researchers have found strange energy abnormalities in the library. So please don’t upset our librarian.

One of the grossest and scariest college haunting is at Indiana University where one of the dorms is haunted by the spirit of a girl who was stabbed in the throat with a table knife by her boyfriend. The boyfriend let her bleed to death before hiding her body in one of the tunnels in the basement.

A ghost known as the Pink Lady haunts the campus of Ohio State University. She is the ghost of the wife of an over-worked faculty member who killed himself and appears in the form of pink mist of fog in various university halls.

One of the oldest colleges in the country is also one of the most haunted. The College of William and Mary has a variety of ghosts from a friendly hugging ghost to a nervous soldier to the ghosts of various frat boys prancing outside campus buildings.

College ghost have become part of college culture. Ghost stories give a student a sense of belonging and inclusion. You are not part of the university unless you know the haunted place on campus. Ghost stories have become a way to initiate a freshman into the college campus. They are past on from upper-classmen to lower-classmen and the cycle is repeated every year.

Ghost stories are a great way to pass the time and get a break from the do-it-yesterday atmosphere of college life. Whatever you do this Halloween, make sure you have a safe and happy one.