THE STORY
Reported Haunting
Winona State University has accumulated decades of campus ghost stories involving residence halls and historic academic buildings. Students have reported apparitions, unexplained footsteps, mysterious voices, and shadow figures that continue to fuel campus folklore.
At Winona State College, two halls are rumored to be haunted. On Lourdes Hall’s 3rd floor, posters and pictures have been moved or taken off the wall, doors close and lock on their own, and voices can be heard when no one is there. On the 4th floor, which was once an infirmary for nuns, witnesses describe many of the souls who died there wandering, crying or talking. And at Richards Hall, one room is believed to be haunted by a former student who hanged himself in his closet in 1978.