Haunted School & College Paranormal Stories: Back to School Ghouls

Paranormal Encounters in Educational Settings

• 💡 A middle school teacher in Pennsylvania reported hearing a strange breathing noise in her classroom at night, which stopped when the lights were turned on.
• 🏫 In Elgin, Illinois, a school was built on the site of the city's first cemetery, with reports of children's footsteps on the roof and janitor figures.
• 🎓 At Southern Illinois University Carbondale, an RA dealt with a student reporting activity in an empty dorm room, including lights turning on and off and doors opening.
• 👻 Mount St. Mary's University in California had a student whose roommate woke up to the sound of creaking wooden floors in their dorm, despite no one else being present.
• 🏠 In Muncie, Indiana, a sorority house had reports of an older man sitting at the foot of a bed and lights turning on and off followed by a door slamming shut.
• 🏢 Western Michigan University dorms experienced quarters falling off a desk one by one, a forceful shove in a hallway, and the sound of someone rolling around in a bed below.
• 🏫 A high school teacher in Mississippi felt a presence watching from above a drop ceiling and later experienced a feeling of dread and a sense of a dark cloud entering her classroom at night.
• 🏘️ A college student in the Midwest felt constantly watched in a rental house, hearing a voice say "beep" after a microwave finished, and experiencing unattributed break-ins.

Notable Haunted Educational Institutions

• 🏛️ Boston University is said to be haunted by Arthur Miller and Babe Ruth, with reports of disembodied footsteps and electrical issues.
• 🏊 Kenyon College in Ohio has legends of a student drowning in the pool, with sightings of wet footprints and sounds of a bouncing diving board.
• 🏥 The University of South Carolina's Horseshoe area, a former Civil War hospital and prison, is associated with ghostly conversations and apparitions of soldiers.
• 🏫 Tennessee High School is reportedly haunted by Agnes, a young woman killed by a train, with sightings of a woman in white and a phantom train.
• 🎭 El Paso High School in Texas has reports of a ghostly football player, unexplainable goo, and a young woman jumping from a balcony.
• 🚪 The Elizabeth V. Edward School in New Jersey, now vacant, is said to be haunted by a school mom and a former student named Lizzy, who causes lockers to slam and lights to flicker.