Most haunted universities in the world

29Oct,2023

During the Nazi era, many professors from Heidelberg University were sent to concentration camps, and it has been claimed that within their old classrooms the chalkboards erase themselves

Heidelberg University, Germany

There have been sightings of armed sentinels crossing the campus and of the “blue boy”, a little boy whose face is entirely blue.

Gettysburg College, USA

St Andrews is said to be inhabited by a number of characters including phantom monks, ghostly women, a piper and a ghost ship. 

University of St Andrews, Scotland

The University of Northern Colorado is so keen to make students aware of its ghostly residents that a whole page on the university’s website is dedicated to them.

University of Northern Colorado, US

The spirits of people who were hit by the atomic bomb released by the US on 9 August 1945 are said to inhabit the campus of Nagasaki University.

Nagasaki University, Japan

A woman with long braided hair and no face haunts a road that runs alongside the Chinese University of Hong Kong and preys on young men who are walking alone

Chinese University of Hong Kong, China

This secondary school in Toowoomba was used as military quarters during wartime, and as such, many ghost stories have sprouted up starring the school as the featured location

Downlands Sacred Heart College, Australia