THE STORY
Reported Haunting
Macky Auditorium is associated with campus legends involving at least two resident spirits. Students, performers, and employees have reported apparitions, unexplained footsteps, and mysterious sounds within the historic auditorium, particularly when the building is otherwise quiet.
According to campus legend, Macky Auditorium has two ghosts. One is a young woman who was raped and murdered by a janitor in the 1960s when he found her practicing her opera singing. Although there sadly has been no phantom opera singing, a ghostly organ plays by itself late at night and her apparition has been spotted. Bloodstains from the murder are rumored to remain on the floor, now a professor’s office. The other ghost is a man in brown who haunts one of Macky’s towers.