THE STORY
Reported Haunting
Berry College is haunted by the "Green Lady," a spectral mist often seen wandering along Lavender Mountain Road. Inside the historic Hoge Building, the ghost of founder Martha Berry is said to pace the halls and touch visitors with unnaturally cold hands. Additionally, Mary Hall is plagued by the mournful wailing of a student who tragically died in the dorm tower during World War II.
The hauntings at Berry College have earned it the nickname Scary Berry. The ghost of a female student is supposed to haunt Ford Hall. She hanged herself upon receiving news that her boyfriend was killed in World War II. Blackstone Hall has several ghosts, the most well known perhaps being Sepia Boy. A ghost named Ruth, a former house mother, haunts Morton-Lemley Hall. Martha Berry is believed to haunt the Hoge Building, and Oak Hill, her former home, is now a museum, and is rumored to be extremely haunted as well. Many more ghosts are known to Berry students, including the Green Lady, a green misty phenomenon seen walking between the two parts of the campus. She’s thought to be the spirit of a girl who drowned in the nearby creek in the 1930s.