THE STORY
Reported Haunting
Newberry College has accumulated decades of campus ghost stories involving former students and faculty. Witnesses have reported apparitions, phantom footsteps, mysterious voices, and doors opening or closing on their own in several historic buildings. The college remains one of South Carolina's better-known haunted campuses.
At Newberry College’s Keller Hall, a woman committed suicide by jumping from the bell tower during the Civil War era. She was distraught over the death of her boyfriend in the war. Witnesses have heard phantom screams coming from the tower and seen the woman’s apparition up there as well. And at the college’s Kinard Hall dorm, the second floor has a resident ghost. Students say it opens windows, cabinets and drawers and turns on water faucets.