History & Haunting of : Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, U.S.A There are ghost stories on campus, but for a place as old as Dartmouth, they are rather few and far between. The oldest story known today dates from the 19th century, when several students supposedly conjured a demon on the third floor of Dartmouth Hall. Afterward a ghost was seen there occasionally, but there have been no contemporary sightings, so perhaps the spirit was set free when the original Dartmouth Hall burned in 1904. Stories of ghosts in Baker Library turn up now and again. In the 1940’s, the Library Bulletin reported that an employee was surprised on the third floor of the stacks by a specter dressed in gabardine. In 2002, a student reported a shelf of books on the seventh floor disappeared practically before his eyes. And there are rumors that the room below the spire is prone to eerie noises. Panarchy is an undergraduate society whose house, a grand Greek Revival building at 9 School Street, is said to be haunted. At the turn of the century it was owned by a physician who was thought to have hid his schizophrenic daughter in the attic, where she committed suicide. Some students have reported seeing the apparition of a young woman in the attic, others have refused to stay there due to a strange feeling in the room. The Alpha Theta house on North Main Street has its share of ghost stories. Laundry moves of its own accord, and refrigerator contents are sometimes found scattered unaccountably. In the basement, students have seen extra rooms that later disappear and gatherings of men in antique clothing. Some link these odd occurrences to 1934, when the building was known as Theta Chi House. That year, nine young men died from carbon monoxide poisoning while sleeping there. Because of the tragedy, the original structure was demolished in 1940, but some of the foundation remains, along with, apparently, the ghosts. ask.dartmouth.edu/categories/misc/50.html Photo 1 Dartmouth Hall by Kane5187 The original Dartmouth Hall, constructed in 1784, was the oldest College building until it burned in 1904. It was reconstructed the following year, and its replacement houses the Department of French and Italian Languages and Literatures, Department of German Studies, and Department of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures. Photo 2 Baker Memorial Library by Kane5187 Baker Library was built to replace the Wilson Hall library with money donated by George Fisher Baker in memory of his uncle, Fisher Ames Baker. The Reserve Corridor in the basement are decorated by a fresco by José Clemente Orozco called The Epic of American Civilization. Bakers iconic 200-foot (61 m) tower is often used as a symbolic representation of the College. Photo 3 Dartmouth College campus 44 College Street by Kane5187 Photo 4 Dartmouth College campus by Kane5187A view of the northeast corner of campus from the tower of Baker Memorial Library. en.wikipedia.org
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