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Top Five Haunted Campuses
America's Most Haunted
College Campuses
Every August, college campuses across the horror because some scenes from “The Crawford Hall and now stops the Bob Marley
country are packed with families moving eager Exorcist” were filmed at the university. song “Laura” from playing in her old building,
students into their new dorms. Unless you were paranormal experiences are pretty much a
lucky enough to move into a brand new building 3. California State University, Channel prerequisite for graduation. The real haunt at
with state of the art air conditioning and a new Islands OU, however, is room 428 in Wilson Hall. Ohio
mattress, you might remember the eerie feeling When it comes to haunted campuses, it’s all University stands in the center of a pentagram
of taking over an empty room that has been about location, location, location. Cal State’s of Athens cemeteries, and Wilson Hall just
called home by dozens of students before you. Channel Islands campus has only been open happens to stand at the very center of that
The thumbtack holes are still on the walls and since 2002, but from 1936 to 1997 the campus pentagram. Exact explanations of the events
the mysterious stain on the carpet will keep you was home to the Camarillo State Mental that have occurred in room 428 are unavailable,
and your roommate guessing until you add Hospital. Ghosts and strange voices apparently but Ohio University officials have sealed off
stains of your own to the room’s history. It’s haven’t learned that the campus is now an room 428 and dubbed it uninhabitable for
almost like the ghosts of previous tenants still academic institution rather than an insane students. If you never got off the waitlist for
haunt the dorms they left. Once some posters of asylum, and the signature bell tower is a regular Ohio University’s freshmen class, the violent
your own are up and the dorm starts feeling like site for paranormal happenings. If living in an death of a student in the 1970s practicing a
home, college campuses start feeling much old asylum isn’t cause enough to call CSUCI satanic ritual in 428 might be to blame for the
more like “Animal House” than a horror movie haunted, watch “The Ring” and keep an eye out lack of an extra bed. Those missing out on ghost
by the time Halloween parties on are on the for scenes shot on the campus. stories while an undergrad will have to settle for
mind, but some campuses have haunts that rival OU’s killer Halloween party. []
Universal’s Halloween Horror Nights. Next 2. Gettysburg College
time you’re scared to death by that physics final, Rivalries are popular on college campuses Gary Owens of 'Laugh-In'
think of the five most haunted college campuses across the country, but Pennsylvania Hall at and 'Space Ghost' fame is
and be glad your campus doesn’t have more to Gettysburg College was held and used as a
be afraid of… hospital by both Confederate and Union troops dead at 80
during the Battle of Gettysburg. Med students
5. University of Virginia know that Civil War era hospitals were more Television announcer and voice artist Gary
Almost every college tour guide has a ghost like butcher shops than modern operating Owens has died at his home in Los Angeles
story to tell prospective students, and the better rooms, so it should come as no surprise that the after a lifelong battle with diabetes. He was 80.
the story the more likely it is to stick around ghosts of bloody doctors still haunt
long past the storyteller’s graduation. Of all the Pennsylvania Hall’s basement. College Variety reported he died Thursday, but
storytellers, however, no one tops Edgar Allen romances can get dramatic, but men should also the entertainment industry trade newspaper did
Poe when it comes to hauntings, and his old fear Glatfelter Hall. A young couple made a not specify an exact cause of death.
school starts off our list. A Confederate surgeon suicide pact to jump from the bell tower, but the
named Dr. Green is said to haunt the library to boy bailed after the girl jumped. Her ghost— Best known as the announcer on the
which he donated all of his books, and his ghost only visible to guys—haunts the bell tower, sketch comedy series Rowan and Martin's
moved with the books when the library trying to lure a potential suitor to jump from the Laugh-In, Owens also lent his voice to more
transferred from the University’s famed tower in her cowardly boyfriend’s place. After than 3,000 cartoons, perhaps most notably
Rotunda to Alderman Library. Apart from other checking out the ghostly version of Romeo and providing the voice of the title character on the
haunts on campus, Edgar Allen Poe left a scary Juliet at Glatfelter Hall, head over to the Kline animated series Space Ghost. []
note on his windowpane when he was forced to Theatre at Brua Hall where the General haunts
leave U.Va. due to debt… backstage.
“O Thou timid one, do not let thy 1. Ohio University
Form slumber within these Ohio University in Athens, Ohio has been
Unhallowed walls, universally dubbed the most haunted campus in
For herein lies the United States (if not one of the most haunted
places in the U.S. period). From the girl’s
The ghost of an awful crime.” basketball team that died in a bus crash haunting
Washington Hall to a student named Laura who
Student loans are scary enough, but how would fell to her death from the fourth floor of
you like to find a note like that on your first
night in a new dorm? If you want to learn more,
the University Guide Service at U.Va. even
offers a Ghost Tour of the campus.
4. Fordham University
Waking up to the sounds of a drunk roommate
stumbling into the dorm well after midnight is
pretty common in college, but students at
Fordham University’s Bronx campus have to
worry about something else that goes bump in
the night. Students living in Finlay Hall have
told of frozen hands grabbing their throats late
at night—a reminder that Finlay Hall was built
on top of a morgue. The ghost of a young
blonde also apparently haunts the showers in
Keating Hall, so freshmen have more to worry
about than running into their new crush while
wearing only a towel. With any old college
campus, ghost stories are inevitable, but
Fordham might seem eerily familiar to fans of
