THE STORY
Reported Haunting
Several buildings at SUNY Cortland are associated with longstanding campus ghost stories. Students and staff have reported unexplained footsteps, apparitions, objects moving on their own, and mysterious activity in some of the college's oldest residence halls.
State University of New York Cortland is no stranger to the spirit world. Rumor has it that the ghost of a bleeding football player appears every year in Clark Hall’s Room 716. And at Brockway Hall, the ghost of a former cook has appeared standing at the top of the stairs. At Cheney Hall, the story of a ghost named Elizabeth is a favorite of students. She is said to have been pushed down the stairs from the fourth floor by her boyfriend in the 1980s, and has remained here in spirit ever since, along with a mural designed in her honor. Witnesses say she appears as a misty apparition with outstretched arms. Degroat Hall is also rumored to be haunted.