Several buildings on the campus of Penn State University are said to be haunted. The most well-known, perhaps, is the spectre of Pattee Library. According to the story, in November, 1969 a graduate student by the name of Betsy Aardsma was in the library doing research for one of her classes when she was stabbed to death between the shelves of books. The assailant was never found, which may be the reason that Betsy's ghost still wanders the aisles of the library in the dark of night. One student's story is that one night after searching for a book in the very aisle that Betsy was murdered that she was strangled by unseen hands in his dorm room.
Another ghoul said to haunt the campus is a gruesome spirit wielding an axe that usually appears around Halloween time.
Schwab Auditorium has two ghosts:
- The ghost of a former president of the school, which is reputed to be rather friendly.
- A rather noisy ghost rumbles around in the attic, pushing around chairs and other stored items; they say it's most noisy during exams. After one professor had to stop a test because of the racket, he ventured into the attic with a couple of football players to confront the pranksters. They found nothing except fresh scrape marks on the floor.
Across the street from the auditorium is the Botany building, built in 1909. The ghost here is the plant-loving life of the former president (the one who haunts the auditorium). This spirit shows her displeasure when the building's plants are not properly cared for. She'll dump garbage from the trash cans onto the middle of the floor, unplug computer printers, and flick lights off and on.
