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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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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Walter Library: Witnesses have reported hearing mysterious howling sounds coming from the bookstacks. These sounds have been attributed to the[…]
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