THE STORY
Reported Haunting
Kemper Hall is one of Wisconsin's best-known haunted schools. Students, staff, and visitors have reported apparitions of former nuns, phantom footsteps, mysterious voices, and shadow figures throughout the historic building. The campus has been the focus of paranormal investigations for many years.
Once known as Durkee Mansion, the 1861 Kemper Hall was home to early settler and Senator Charles Durkee. After being donated to St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church, Durkee Mansion was turned into a girls’ boarding school and now operates as a recreation center. Today, folks say the building is haunted by ghostly nuns who have been seen looking out of the windows.