THE STORY
Reported Haunting
Several buildings at Villanova University have inspired decades of campus ghost stories. Students have reported apparitions, unexplained footsteps, mysterious knocking, and shadow figures in residence halls and historic campus buildings.
Villanova University’s 1963 gothic-style St. Mary’s Hall is rumored to be haunted. A ghostly light has been seen (and heard) playing the organ, electrical anomalies have occurred in many rooms, and splashes have come from the empty pool. Campus legend says the ghost is a pregnant nun who had had an affair with a priest and committed suicide. Other campus legends abound regarding some underground tunnels, but reports say these are actually only utility and maintenance passageways.