Like many other old historic places, Florida State University has quite a bit of a past. After doing research on the ghost stories and hauntings at Florida State I have found quite a few entertaining stories that are sure to give you goosebumps. Most of the stories have to do with the dorms, and other residential places. The most famous ghost story at Florida State is one about Cawthon Hall.
The story goes that one day in the 1960's a girl was sunbathing on the top of Cawthon dorimitory when a bolt of lightening struck her, killing her instantly. Ever since then there have been numerous reports of strange noises, toilets flushing without anyone in the stalls, and the feeling of another presence in the room. One of my friends actually lived in the haunted room which the dead girl used to live in. She said that she would hear loud banging noises on her door a couple times and when she went to look outside, nobody was there. Another boy who use to live there says he saw an old lady standing behind him in the mirror on night. The old lady is supposedly the ghost of an old caretaker who use to look over the girls in the dormitory back when it was an all girls school in the 1950's.
Reynolds hall is another dorm with a not so pleasent history. Apparently back in the day, a janitor hung himself in one of the downstairs bathrooms. Since then there has been reports of mysterious opening and closing of doors when no one is there, and the showers turning on and off randomnly. Another girl who lives in the attic of reynolds says there is a poltergeist in her room. Sometimes in the middle of the night she can hear someone ratteling through her medicine cabinet, as well as her suite mates when no one but her is in the room.
One of the sorority houses ( i've been asked not to say which one) has some pretty crazy things go one at night, other than parties. Apparently in the old days, their house mom would flicker all the hallway lights to signal lights out for all the girls. In the middle of the night when some of the girls would get up to use the bathroom, they would see a little girl standing at the third floor stairs with her hand on the light switch. Also people walking by the house use to see an old lady rocking in a chair on the third floor at night.
These are all the stories I have for now, but I will keep updating my blog when I find more stories. Please feel free to leave comments and let me know if you have any other stories I haven't heard of yet!!!
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my sister goes to fsu in landis hall im going to tell her this lol :)
ReplyDeletei live in cawthon and its no joke it really is hainted!! i my was the first to move into room in my floor and as i was unpacking at night i felt like someone else was in the room with (and as i type this i again have this feeling) i kept looking around but couldnt see anyone there. Yesterday i was walking down the hall and i heard a sort of rattling noise and i noticed it was one of the door hangers the RA put on all the doors the night before. The door hanger was shaking uncontrolably and i thought it was weird but kept walking then i noticed the next was shaking as well. I looked up the hall and all the other door hangers were still but as i walked near them they began to shake. Needless to say i ran away but i went back later in the day to investigate. There are no air vents in the hall that would make the door hangers move and i even put a door hanger on the each of the doors i went past and not one of them moved. my bathroom door just opened the ghost doesnt like that im writing this
ReplyDeleteI lived in Jeannie Murphree back in the late 1980s and we used to scare ourselves silly about the creepy lady in the painting in the parlor (it's probably long gone now), but I honestly don't really remember anything going on there for real, even though it was built in the early 1920s. It was connected to Reynolds by a hallway. I'm sure the sorority house is Chi-O - there were violent murders there in the late 1970s. Some girl actually asked to see where the girls died during rush while I was going through rush. (Some people have no class, I swear.)
ReplyDeleteGirl died in the 1940's. The old lady is one of the old deans who had a nervous break down and was sent to a sanitarium in the 1920s (1925).
ReplyDeleteFSu became co-ed in 1947
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