THE STORY
Reported Haunting
Arcadia Academy served at different times as a school, a Civil War hospital, and a Catholic girls' academy operated by nuns. Apparitions believed to be former nuns have reportedly been seen moving through the building, while visitors describe footsteps and voices in otherwise empty rooms. Other reports include doors moving on their own and unexplained activity in areas once used by students and hospital patients.
This academy was originally built as a Methodist high school in 1840, and it was once used as a Civil War hospital. After that, it was a girls’ Catholic school until it became a bed-and-breakfast and antique store. The nuns who used to run the school here are said to haunt the place, and in fact are said to be buried in a cemetery on the grounds. Photographs taken here have picked up orbs, vertexes and strange mists, and some are said to be seen on the establishment’s web site.