4 Spooky Stories That Show Miami University Might Be Haunted
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4 Spooky Stories That Show Miami University Might Be Haunted

Look into your colleges spooky past this October.

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4 Spooky Stories That Show Miami University Might Be Haunted

I attend Miami University, and every Halloween season, spooky rumors resurface about our campus and its spooky stories. There are four main stories that I hear about each year: Ron Tammen Disappearance, Peabody Hall, Reid Hall Murder, and Wilson Hall.

The first spooky story is about a Miami sophomore who was just like every other college student and was an RA and in the band.

Ron Tammen's Disappearance

On April 19, 1953, Ron Tammen left his residence hall to go get new sheets because someone had put a fish in his bed. He came back, changed his sheets, and started studying for his psychology class. His roommate came back later in the day and the lights were on, but there was no Ron Tammen.

Tammen lived in a resident hall called Fisher Hall, which was originally Oxford College for Women. It was later converted into an asylum and sanitarium in 1880. The owner of the property had multiple buildings along with this, and it was said that there were underground tunnels that were connecting all of the buildings.

In 1925, Miami obtained the building and started converting it into the Fisher residence hall. A day after Ron Tammen's disappearance, his roommate started a search for him. Unfortunately, Tammen was never seen again and still no one knows what happened to him. There were rumors that there were sights of him, but there is still no confirmation on whether he is alive or dead. Once the building was torn down in 1987, they searched extensively for remains, but nothing was ever found.

Peabody Hall

Before Western campus was a part of Miami University it was Western Female Seminary. They would often go back and forth and had a cordial relationship with Miami University. The administrators always controlled the encounters between the all-female western seminary and the all-male Miami University.

The principal of Western Female Seminary, Helen Peabody, was always opposed to coeducation. Some say that now that men are allowed on western and that it is a part of Miami University, she haunts Peabody Hall. Some even believe that they have been able to see her spirit wandering around haunting men who step foot on western campus.

Reid Hall Murder

40 years ago on May 9, 1959, Reid Hall RA Roger Sayles was shot and killed while trying to break up a fight between two residents. According to witnesses, Sayles fell into a nearby door and left two bloody handprints on the door. While Sayles was dying, his killer ran to a nearby phone booth and shot himself in the head. They say that the handprints were varnished into the wood in the Reid Hall door so all could see. In 2008, Reid Hall was torn down in order to make room for Farmer School of Business.

Wilson Hall

This hall was built in 1924, not as a residence hall but instead as a hospital for those with mental and emotional illnesses. In WWII it was also used as barricks for soldiers. Today it is said to be haunted by those who were in the hospital and the soldiers that were there.

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