I have only ever experienced "hauntings" in Torrey Hall during my first year, along with my roommate. We lived on the first floor and would often wake up hearing a woman sweeping up and down the hall, sometimes whistling or softly humming. But when I opened the door to go to the bathroom, no one was ever there. The second time we experienced a ghost was when we were both asleep and our door was locked. It was a single converted into a double so we had bunk beds and I was on top. My roommate's desk was on our left (if you were lying down), near her head. On this particular night, we were both woken up by a man's low laughter - as if he were SITTING AT HER DESK! I sat up and said "WHAT WAS THAT?!" and my roommate confirmed she heard it too- but there was no one there. I got up to see if one of our neighbors had guests over but everyone was sound asleep and in the morning, we didn't see any guys leave.
[October 31, 2008]
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The telling of ghost stories about Mount Holyoke seems to have become popular only in the 1970s. Some of the buildings have many stories associated with them, some have none. Collected here are first- and second-hand accounts of campus hauntings sent in by students. To submit your own story, e-mail it, as you would have it appear, to hauntedmhc@gmail.com
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