Researching haunted high schools across the country was so much fun, we decided to do it again, this time focusing on colleges and universities. While the following list contains disturbing material, keep in mind that most of the stories are just that, rarely backed by anything beyond hearsay or the occasional eyewitness account once or twice removed. However, that doesn’t make these tales entirely false. Ghosts can be a deceitful bunch, and the stories behind them could be even more twisted than we believe them to be. So put down the books and strap on a proton pack; it’s time to tour the scariest haunted colleges in America.
The 10 Scariest Haunted Colleges in America:
Georgia Regents University (Augusta, Georgia)
Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College (St. Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana)
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (Champaign, Illinois)
Penn State University (State College, Pennsylvania)
University of Notre Dame (Notre Dame, Indiana)
California State University Channel Islands (Camarillo, California)
Wells College (Aurora, New York)
Huntingdon College (Montgomery, Alabama)
Kenyon College (Gambier, Ohio)
Ohio University (Athens, Ohio)
Wait, seriously? There’s a school located in an even scarier spot than the “Gates of Hell?” Apparently so, but it’s still in the state of Ohio. Famously one of the most haunted schools in the world, Ohio University seems to be a bit of a victim of circumstance. You see, the entire campus is located at the center of a pentagram whose five points each represent a different cemetery surrounding the school. If that wasn’t hair-raising enough, it’s caused quite a large amount of spectral activity throughout the grounds, with each building said to be inhabited by at least one ghost. Of all of them, Wilson Hall is thought to have it the worst because of its supposed location at the dead center of the graveyard pentagram. In particular, Room 428 has even had to be permanently sealed off due to an incident in the 1970s involving a female student practicing astral projection jumping out the window to her death. It is said she was behaving very strangely and speaking in tongues before plummeting to the ground below. Couple that with sightings of an entire phantom basketball team, the spirits of previous instructors and various other unexplainable supernatural phenomenon, and Ohio U is the perfect end to our list.
