THE STORY
Reported Haunting
Chowan University is associated with campus ghost stories involving its historic buildings and grounds. Students and staff have reported apparitions, unexplained footsteps, mysterious sounds, and other unusual activity attributed to unidentified spirits.
Chowan University has a ghostly “Brown Lady” on the third floor of its Columns Building. Her footsteps have been heard, and security guards have chased her thinking she was a prankster. And at Belks Hall, the ghost of a little girl who fell down the stairs while riding a tricycle laughs or screams, and a student who committed suicide also is rumored to show up here. A piano-playing ghost haunts the Music Hall, and at Mixon Hall, a student who hanged himself on the stairs haunts the second floor.