Milwaukee Ghosts and Legends by Anna Lardinois

Author:Anna Lardinois
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2018-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

A Gothic-style doorway leading to Johnston Hall. Author’s collection.

CARPENTER TOWER, the Art Deco gem of the campus, was opened in 1930 under the name of Catholic Knights Insurance Society Hotel. Later known as Tower Hotel, this residence hall is known to have a young former hotel guest who has yet to check out. A young boy, thought to have perished in a fire in the hotel, has been seen looking out of the upper windows of the building. The boy’s mournful stare to those below elicits more pity than fear in those who see him. Dubbed “Jeremy” by the students, his presence in a room is said to cause unplugged electronics to inexplicably turn on.

It’s not just the residence halls where spirits lurk on the campus, identified as one of the ten most haunted colleges in the Midwest by Mysterious Heartland. Two theater-loving spirits also make their presence known at Marquette University. HELFAER THEATER is supposedly haunted by the spirit of an art director who died in the studio. Visitors to the theater claim that he makes his presence known through banging and clanging noises coming from the catwalk. The VARSITY THEATER is said to be haunted by a helpful ghost that met a grim end. Rumor suggests that years ago, an unlucky projectionist working in the theater fell into an industrial fan and was sliced to bits. Today, the custodial crew credits him with helping lock up and turn out lights at the end of shifts.

The gorgeously ornamented, Gothic-styled JOHNSTON HALL was completed in 1907, and the current Media Center was at one time Jesuit living quarters. Tragically, in August 1963, a priest fell off, or leaped to his death from, the fifth-floor balcony that faces Church of the Gesu. Those willing to venture to the fifth floor at night report a great deal of unexplained activity, from sounds of disembodied footfalls to doors opening and closing on their own. In the 1990s, a few ghost-hunting students representing the campus publication Marquette Tribune conducted a nocturnal investigation of the fifth floor of the building. The students documented the discovery of cold spots and strange noises, saw an unusual blue light and caught a shadowy figure on tape. All of this strengthened the assertions that the building is home to a restless spirit. Complicating all of this are the persistent rumors that Johnston Hall was built on Native American burial land, making it a cursed endeavor from the beginning.

The campus building with the most reported paranormal activity is certainly HUMPHREY HALL. The location of Children’s Hospital from 1923 until 1988, the building had a fully equipped basement-level morgue when the University acquired it. While extensively remodeled in 2015, that has not stopped its tiniest residents from making themselves known. Small bands of ghostly children clad in hospital gowns are seen, and heard, all over the building. Giggling and playing games, these playful spirits have been caught on security cameras and observed disappearing into solid walls when curious spirit seekers have gotten too close to them.

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