The Hallway that some spirit still trods.
Access: Open to the public when the building is open.
Directions: Walk in the front doors of Searles Science
Building and walk in far enough
to view the hallway that runs the building's length.
GIS: 43° 54‘ 33.74“ N --- 69°
57‘ 47.49“ W
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As with Hubbard Hall, the Searles Science Building's architecture, with its medieval turrets and castle-like facade, makes it easy to imagine it as the setting of a ghost story. People say it is a hard building to work in at night because it makes so many unexplained noises. You might be wrapped up in some experiment or math problem in complete silence when suddenly bang! an unexplained noise breaks you from your reverie. Was it a water pipe? Some shifting plaster cracking on the floor above you? Who can say?
Outside of its general "noisiness," Searles has one particular noise that has disturbed its occupants for years. When walking through the long hallways, people report hearing footsteps behind them as though someone was right on their heels. When they turn around, no one is there--except that a few people have said they have seen a white, shadowy figure darting away out of the corner of their eyes.
One legend had it that the shadowy figure is the ghost of a girl that fell from one of the turrets when Searles Hall was being built in 1894. More say that it, and the heavy tread you can hear, belong to the spirit of a custodian that worked in the building for years.
