THE STORY
Reported Haunting
The Manor at Franklin Pierce University is the subject of campus ghost stories involving unexplained footsteps, apparitions, and mysterious voices. Students and staff have reported shadow figures and doors moving without explanation inside Peterson Hall. The building remains one of the university's best-known paranormal locations.
Franklin Pierce College’s The Manor, aka Peterson Hall, was once a brothel run by an Edna McGuinness. Her large portrait is said to still hang in the stairwell leading to the second floor. Edna’s apparition has been seen looking out the window and a piano has been heard playing although there is not one on the premises.