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Oct 26, 2024 · Herb Atkinson attended OSU in the early 1910s. When he passed several decades later, his wife buried his ashes in Bricker Hall due to his love for the university. Some say they have seen lights flickering throughout the building. Even more eerie is that there have been alleged sightings of the ghost of Herb Atkinson roaming where his ashes remain.
There's an old abandoned pump house on the east bank of the Olentangy in between Morill and Lincoln tower, there's all sorts of switchboxes and big old, dangerous looking electrical equipment, valves and gauges for giant 3 foot diameter pipes, a big old overhead crane with a huge metal chain and claw.
- Fifth-Floor Phantom | Denney Hall
- No Refills | Derby Hall
- The Hopkins Handprint | Hopkins Hall
- Curator in Chief | Hayes Hall
- Eugene on The Scene | Ohio Union
- Mendenhall's Monster | Mendenhall Laboratory
- Dr. Orton and The Caveman |
- Dr. Clark and The Pink Party Girl | Pomerene Hall
- Lady of The Lake | Mirror Lake
- The Oxley Poltergeist | Oxley Hall
In 1990, The Lantern published an article, “Halloween Tales Haunt University,” about an English professor who murdered a female student many, many years ago. According to the article, this dirty deed occurred in an elevator stopped on the fifth floor of Denney Hall. The professor fled and left the student there, where she unceremoniously bled to de...
The date was January 31, 1925, and campus was shrouded in darkness. Sunlight broke through the mottled blanket of midwinter clouds for only a few hours each day. It was the middle of flu season, and dozens of students headed to the student-run pharmacy in Derby Hall to fill prescriptions of fever reducers and pain relievers to cure their sneezes an...
There are a few versions of this myth, but they all begin the same way: Soon after the building’s construction in the 1960s, a student stayed late in Hopkins Hall working on a project. She went to use the elevator, but it became stuck, and since there was nobody in the building to free her, she remained trapped throughout the night. When the janito...
The oldest building on campus, Hayes Hall, is named after President of the United States and three-time governor of Ohio, Rutherford B. Hayes. Originally, it housed the school’s military department. Accordingly, a large gun room occupied the back of the building. From the years 1916 to 1920, Hayes Hall was also used for student housing. There was a...
At 6 a.m. on a Thursday in June, 1929, a corpse was found on the side of the road near Sabina, Ohio. The corpse possessed no identification besides a written address, 1118 Yale Ave, which turned out to be a vacant lot in Cincinnati. A man named Eugene lived near the lot so the town started referring to the corpse as “Eugene.” Eugene was embalmed, a...
The following does not take place in Mendenhall Laboratory proper, but it is nonetheless associated with the building. Physicist Thomas C. Mendenhall, for whom the lab was named, was the first faculty member hired in 1873 by the then-named Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College. The year prior to his hire, he taught at Columbus (today known as Ce...
On the south edge of the Oval sits the gloomy Orton Hall, whose bell tower chimes every fifteen minutes as it oversees the goings-on around campus. It’s a well-known piece of architecture; an example of the Ricardian Romanesque style, it is the second oldest building at Ohio State, behind Hayes Hall. The gargoyles perched on the edge of the buildin...
In the hours before dawn one morning in the autumn of 1903, Dr. Frederick Clark shot himself on the hill overlooking Mirror Lake, where Pomerene Hall now stands. He had become depressed following a failed Alaskan mining (or oil, depending on who you ask) investment, even turning to the president of the university for financial help. When none was g...
The most widely-spotted ghost at Ohio State is the Lady of the Lake. On cold, wintry nights, she can sometimes be seen skating across the ice, warming her hands and wearing outdated clothing. Some reports say she wears white, while others say she wears pink, leading people to speculate that she might be the ghost of the pink party girl of Pomerene ...
There have been multiple reports over the years of a poltergeist in Oxley Hall. The first residence hall on campus, it was converted into a women's-only dorm in the 1930s and 40s. Tales began to circulate the hall of interactions with the poltergeist: Lights were flickering on and off, and doors would slam and unlock at random times. Some thought t...
Oct 31, 2014 · Hopkins Hall, photographed on Oct. 22, is located on the North Oval Mall of OSU’s campus. The building is rumored to be haunted by the ghost of a female student who got stuck in the elevator.
Oct 26, 2009 · October 26, 2009. Lauren Hallow. In the spirit of Halloween, a campus organization presented a tour Monday highlighting Ohio State’s most haunted locales. The tour, titled “Are You Afraid of...
Sep 20, 2023 · Athens, Ohio is considered one of the most haunted cities in the state, featuring numerous ghost stories and haunted locations, particularly around Ohio University. With one of the oldest universities in the United States and a former insane asylum, Athens, Ohio is bound to have a haunting or two.
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Orton Hall at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, stands as a beacon of paranormal activity, its history steeped in tales that chill the bones of even the most skeptical visitors. The building, an architectural marvel and the second oldest on campus, commands attention with its Ricardian Romanesque style and the prehistoric creatures that ...
