THE STORY
Reported Haunting
Heffron Hall at Saint Mary's University in Winona, Minnesota, is famously rumored to be haunted following the real-life 1915 chapel shooting of Bishop Patrick Heffron by an unstable priest. Residents on the third and fourth floors frequently document encountering unexplained chill winds and the rhythmic tapping of a phantom cane at night. Local lore also links the building's active paranormal energy to extreme urban legends, including sinks that allegedly run with blood and a mysterious 1931 fiery death.
Heffron Hall at St. Mary’s College is known to have a ghost, that of Father Louis Lesches, who murdered Bishop Patrick Heffron in 1915, and who may have been involved in the suspicious burning death of Rev. Edward Lynch in 1931. Witnesses have seen apparitions, experienced cold spots, and had horrifying experiences from blood running from the bathroom taps to being killed and branded across the chest with a cross. The letters A C M are often found scrawled somewhere after an incident; their meaning is unknown.