THE STORY
Reported Haunting
Ghost stories at St. Olaf College center on several residence halls, the library, and the theater. Students have reported apparitions and other unexplained activity, with some older accounts connected to the former Ytterboe Hall.
The four buildings rumored to be haunted at St. Olaf College are Hilleboe Hall, where children singing and playing piano have been heard; Kelsey Theater, where deceased Miss Kelsey has been witnessed playing the piano onstage; Melby Hall, where the apparitions of a man and a woman in Victorian clothing have been seen; and Thorson Hall, where the ghostly Red Hat Boy resides with his phantom dog. Red Hat Boy is believed to be a former student who once lived in the dorm.