<p>This may sound like an odd question, but has anyone heard about any hauntings at Cornell?</p>
<p>Ooh yeah, or any urban legends? Those are always cool…</p>
<p>cornell is haunted</p>
<p>tell some ghost stories! :)</p>
<p>I’m intrigued, do tell :)</p>
<p>Some of us seek, others of us are found by restless spirits. After Willard Straight’s death, his wife Dorothy contacted a medium and they performed several seances in an effort to communicate with him. Unfortunately these seances were unsuccessful. </p>
<p>There are, however, other spirits that have been known to have appeared in the area. Jennie McGraw, the wife of Willard Fiske, who gave the original gift of the Cornell Chimes and for whom the clock tower is named, is rumored to have on occasion visited the tower after her untimely death from tuberculosis. She has not appeared in recent history, though. </p>
<p>In the late 1800s, there may have been a visit or two from the famed English writers/poets Longfellow and Browning. Hiram Corson, a Cornell Professor of Anglo Saxon Literature (1828-1911), apparently studied these 2 authors very closely, and was purported to have had numerous post-humous conversations with them. </p>
<p>A now-retired maid claimed to have seen a handsome young ghost in a tuxedo during her rounds at Willard Straight Hall. You’ll find the Ecology House tale in Q2 11/12/92, about claims that when it was a hotel, a devastating fire burned the building and killed several people. Some dwellers reported varied ghostly sightings and noises . The Admissions House (410 Thurston Ave) ghost is reported in 4/10/01 Q6. </p>
<p>Professor Daryl Bem, who researches the paranormal, says, “If you want to look more seriously at ghosts (or, more accurately, poltergeist phenomena), you can read the relevant chapter in the paperback book PARAPSYCHOLOGY: THE CONTROVERSIAL SCIENCE by Richard Broughton. More skpetical articles appear every once in a while in THE SKEPTICAL INQUIRER which is published by the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP). The late Carl Sagan was a member of this committee.” </p>
<p>Is a ghost a disembodied spirit with unfinished business, one whose body met an untimely end, still trying to finish its work in the world? Can you weave your own ghost story with your friends, over candlelight in a darkened room, perhaps with a few “special effects”? Can you help a restless spirit find peace?</p>
<p><a href=“http://ezra.cornell.edu/posting.php?timestamp=1066712400[/url]”>http://ezra.cornell.edu/posting.php?timestamp=1066712400</a></p>
<p>Ahh creepiness! But definitely interesting…</p>
<p>Nice, sounds like harry potter stuff, haha</p>
<p>I’m surprised there aren’t more sightings at the Ecology house, because I know what they are growin’ in there…;)</p>
<p>haha i heard about that. I also heard they made meth at wesleyan in the chem labs…
but yeah I hear kids grow weed in collegetown too.</p>
<p>Sheldon Court (a dorm in collegetown) is also said to be haunted. It used to be an asylum.</p>
<p>“It used to be an asylum.”</p>
<p>ha. go figure. :)</p>