Three Minnesota campus legends without their own post: Weld Hall at Moorhead State, the St. Cloud State library built over a pioneer cemetery, and Mankato State’s dorm ghost. What the records show and what is only legend.
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A roundup of Illinois campus legends without their own post: the Harold stories at Western Illinois University’s Simpkins Hall, the Morton College legend and the Maryknoll College phantom priest, with what the record shows and what it does not.
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Concordia College has a short list of campus ghosts that its own archive and news office have written down: Dolly Larson in Fjelstad Hall and the Al Gersbach name on theatre programs. What is on record, what is folklore and how to visit.
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The Heffron Hall ghost at Saint Mary’s in Winona is one of Minnesota’s best known campus legends, and the university says it was made up. What happened in 1915, how a 1967 student paper turned it into a ghost story, and how to visit respectfully.
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Saint John’s archive traced the campus ghost stories to three real 1800s deaths and records that the best known tale was invented in 1966. What the record shows, what is folklore, and how to visit the Abbey Church respectfully.
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The best-known ghost story at Mount St. Mary’s University places Father Simon Bruté in Room 252 of Bruté Hall. The records show he died in Indiana in 1839 and the hall was begun in 1843. This guide sets the legends beside the dates.
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Brodbeck Music Hall is the oldest building at Hood College and the center of its ghost stories. It was built in 1868, not 1840, and has been closed since a lightning fire in 2021. This guide sorts the record from the folklore.
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Massachusetts Hall’s Holbrook Smith, the Hollis Hall “ghost” of 1940, a Weld Hall sighting in 1985 and the Widener plaster story, set against what Harvard’s own records and the Crimson say about the buildings.
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Central Michigan University’s student-run Legends of the Dark tour runs Thursday, Oct. 29, 2026. What the records say about the 1930s Warriner Hall death and the 1951 Barnard Hall death, which tour stories the record does not support, and how to join the tour.
Read moreNick, a football player said to haunt the old Purple Masque Theatre, and a fraternity house that was once a hospital. What the yearbook, the university and the newspapers show, and what is only campus legend.
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