7/30/2017 0 Comments Haunted SchoolsMarqutte University - Milwaukee Founded in 1881 as a Catholic University, the college is situated near the heart of Milwaukee. Many strange occurrences have happened and have been somewhat explained by its rich history. Johnston Hall is one of the oldest academic buildings and is supposedly built over an American Indian Burial Ground of the Mascountens Tribe. This structure was used for a home for the Marquette Catholic teachers. One or two priests, supposedly, hung themselves on the fifth floor. There have been reports of students seeing place faces of two priests in the windows on the fifth floor. As well as sudden low temperatures, mysterious footsteps and voices, and recording equipment failing to work. Even a newspaper staff spent the night on the haunted fifth floor and they claimed to have recorded a “strange human figure” and heard unexplained noises. Another building, Humphrey Hall, was originally the Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin until 1988 when the university absorbed it. Since then, ghosts of children haunt parts of the campus, screaming recklessly. On the 5th floor, the ghost of a young girl in a white hospital gown has been seen. The security cameras around the building pick up the young girl around the rear entrance. There have also been reposts of loud screams and children crying heard late at night. In the Straz Hall, formerly the YMCA, a boy who drowned in the pool, “Whispering Willie”, haunts the building. He’ll swim alongside solitary students doing laps in the Recreation Plex Pool. He’s also known for opening and closing doors, turning lights on and off, unrolling toilet paper in empty stalls, and, naturally as a little boy, copying what people are repeating them in whisper tones. Wandering about Cobeen Hall, an art critic roams. If he likes you, he’ll leave you alone, but if he doesn’t, he will tear down any posters you try to hang. Kemper Hall - Kenosha Built in 1861, the Charles Durkee Mansion, a brick building that was bought by the local Episcopal Church in the mid-1960s. After that it became a female seminary named it Kemper Hall in 1867. Eleven years later, the sisters of St. Mary took over the seminary with Sister Margaret Clare at the helm. Sister Margaret Clare was a stern nun who became a legend after her chronic illness in 1921. Kids would say that she tripped over her habit or was pushed to her death in the school’s observatory tower. OR Another story was a student was in such pain to leave her lover behind and forced to attend the all female school, that she committed suicide. A real suicide took place in 1900 when Sister Augusta came from Chicago to attend the annual retreat at the seminary. While attending, she vanished leaving just her handbag, crucifix, and her insignia of Holy Sisterhood. Once it was learned she was missing, the authorities were alerted and telegrams were sent to both Chicago and St. Louis, where her family lived. On January 5th, it was reported that the mystery of Sister Augusta had been solved and that she was safely in Springfield, MO, which was a lie. Almost midday on January 8th, two kids, Bertha Smith, and her younger brother, were on the east end of the seminary by the beach, when they discovered the floating black robes shrouding the body of sister Augusta, They ran home to their mother, who called the police. Although battered by waves, her friends could still identify her. When the investigators dove deeper into the case, the nuns spoke of her strange behavior on the night she disappeared that was covered up by the Kemper Hall nuns. One person claimed that Sister Augusta had become so mentally deranged from her work, which had become exceedingly hard during the few months before her death. Even though she was granted time off, it is unknown why she took her own life. Two young ladies claimed to have seen her walking on the beach January 2nd, the night she disappeared. Coroners ruled her death a suicide and buried in St. Louis in Bellafontaine Cemetery. Ghostly phenomenon’s have been seen and/or reported
Caryville Schoolhouse - Caryville The legend around the Caryville Schoolhouse states that one of its former students loved his schooling so much that he hid in a closet to escape his drunken, violent father. When all the other kids left and the locked all the windows and doors, he revealed himself. What the little boy didn’t think of was how cold the classroom would get in the dead of winter, at night, with no heat. Unable to leave, the boy sat at his desk and froze to death. Today, if you sit at his desk, you’ll feel his presence pass through you. Although this legend had been debunked because there was a young boy who died, but in 1957 of polio during the national epidemic and died in a hospital, not his desk. Northland College - Ashland Located on the northern border of Wisconsin, lies Northland College and within it’s borders is Memorial Hall. There is a history of spooky occurrences in that building. In the 1920s or 30s, when the Hall was the women’s dormitory, a girl fell down a 3-story tall elevator shaft. The reason is unknown, but people speculate that either she committed suicide or her boyfriend pushed her down the shaft. She does not like the presence of men at all. Another ghost haunts the hall, and they call him the janitor. He leaves black hand prints in the rooms he believes is inhabited by Pagans or anyone dealing with witchcraft. He’ll also turn a computer at night and print out the desktop. McNeal Middle School - Beloit Before the McNeal Middle School was built, a man used to live there. After he passed, the school was built on his land. Now he is haunting the students & staff. In the backroom of the stage, where costumes are kept, students gather there during his free time and claim to be haunted by the old man who used to live there. Ms. Franze, theatre teacher, fell asleep on the coach and awoke to blood everywhere. Later the students pointed out a plug, like an outlet plug, stabbed into the back of her head. Writing on the mirror, slamming of doors, “666” etched on a chalkboard that can not be erased, and then disappears/reappears as often as it wants, and ceiling tiles falling. Dominican High School - Milwaukee Formerly a convent, until a fire started & killed a theatre-loving nun. She now floats down the halls of the 3rd floor and comes to theatre rehearsals. JFK Prep - Saint Nazianz Built in 1854 by Rev. Ambrose Oschwald, who created a colony called the Society of the Divine Savior. The society is rumored to have practiced pedophilia, incest, and homosexuality. Fast forwarding to the part where the property becomes a school, there is said to be a nun that haunts the place. Although no nuns have been reported dying at the church, but this nun that haunts the school, supposedly tortured and abused boys until killed two boys. She was scared of being caught, so much so, that she eventually killed herself. Then in the 1970s, a young female student, supposedly hung herself in the auditorium because the nun haunted her. In one of the buildings, there is a “Satan Room”, where a priest encountered Satan The school sealed it up to protect the students and staff. This building went from monastery to orphan asylum for girls to hospital before 1900. Then back to monastery to college and seminary for Salvation until 1969 when it closed. It reopened in the 1970s as JFK Prep until 1982. Then started renovation since 2004. Menasha High School - Menasha In the 1940s, tunnels were built to connect Butte Des Moore School and Menasha High School together in case of Nuclear Attack. During a school drill, four kids got locked in the tunnel wile trying to ditch school. You can here them screaming and pounding for help. The same can be said for it's neighboring/ rival schools, Neenah High School, and other two connecting schools, Shattuck and Horace Mann Middle Schools. Each have the same rumor of kids being trapped in the tunnels and now haunting them. St. John's Military Academy - Delafield Sunday, October 1981, St. Johns Military Academy, Delafield, in the afternoon, a fire at the old house in the center of campus broke out for local fireman and army engineers to study. In 1905, Rosslynne Manse was home to the Smythe family. Dr. Smythe built the huge home for his wife, daughter Betty, and son Charles. That November, at 8 o’clock, Mrs Sidney Smythe started for the kitchen to make her husband a small meal. As she walked towards the living room on the south side, she spotted a pale man in a rocking chair. The man seemed on the verge of death from a fatal disease. Mrs. Smythe pressed the groundskeeper about the previous family that lived on the land and discovered the Ashby’s. Mr. Ashby’s son-in-law fit the description of the pale man. As it turns out, the son-in-law died of tuberculosis of the lungs. Roughly 12 years later, in 1917, Charles, with dog Jack, was home alone. After reading, he came into the living room for some reason or another, and saw the same man his mother described years earlier. Except the man was standing with his feet apart & hands behind his back. Jack growled and Charles looked down at the frightful, protective creature, the man disappeared. Jack sniffed for the ghost until his family returned. Alexander Graham Bell Middle School - Milwaukee Although I couldn’t find a backstory as to why, but if you drive past the school at 9:00, a man with a book bag will be walking on the lawn or playground. Wisconsin Lutheran College - Milwaukee Six ghosts haunt this college. A poltergeist, signing nun, mother superior, janitor, strange laughing children, and a malevolent presence. Ripon College - Ripon Ripon College has many haunted buildings across campus. Although the town was known for Ripon Good Cookies, it might as well be a haunted paradise. Brockway Hall, Room 104, phantom knocks on the door has been heard by a student who got up 3 times to answer, just to find no one. Another instance is the phantom named “Anton” who appears on Friday night at 11PM. Another student heard his name called and awake to find a gray figure in Scott Hall. Hughes House was built in 1863 to be used as the President’s house between 1910-1917 & 1921-?; living group seminars experiment with 15 women (which ended in fire at the beginning of the 2nd semester of the 1967-1968 school year). A group of freshman girls heard wailing from the upper floor & saw shadows moving around. Raphael, the campus ghost, can be heard through footsteps, wails, and other strange sounds. He made his presence known with a fire in the Red Barn Theater in 1964. He is known as Raphael because a child named Raphael was killed years earlier when climbing the steeple. Between Rooms 203 & 204, students painted a red pentagram on the floor & summoned a demon. The demon had been spotted multiple times. One student claimed to have defeated the demon in 1990 when he showed ip on Maples Hall, room 104. In Bartlett Hall, students hear phantom footsteps and dragging of furniture on untouched floors (proven by the thick layer of dust) in the 1970s. One day, a professor “died unexpectedly” and lights were on late at night in his office for weeks after his death. The “Basketball Dribbler” phantom dribbles heard on the second floor when no one was on the third. Resident director had all doors simultaneously shut after him during inspections before a vacation closing. A 30 year long haunting reputation in the Bovay Residence Hall. One ghost of a young frat student died in an auto accident and haunts students who occupy his old room. Even his plaque in the lounge would “fly” off the wall. The Rodman Center of the Arts is haunted by Sam Pedrick who is former alumni and college trustee
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