Halloween is said to be the time for goblins, ghosts and haunted houses. And, according to a U of M legend, Mynders Hall is haunted.
The dormitory was named for the first president of The University, Seymour Allen Mynders. It was built in the shape of an "E" in honor of his daughter, Elizabeth, who died before the building opened. Elizabeth is said to still roam the halls.
Senior education major Melody Bradley lives in Mynders Hall.
"I stay on the second floor of Mynders and it is usually late at night after midnight. I hear something knocking on the wall, like its coming from my closet," Bradley said. "I look in my closet to see if something fell, and everything is the way it was earlier that day."
"I don't know what's going on," Bradley said. "It's not the person in the room that lives beside me because I don't ever hear her.... I don't know what it is, but I believe it is her (Elizabeth)."
Teneshia Green, a junior African-American Studies major, also said she believes the dorm is haunted.
"My grandmama told me that around Halloween, Elizabeth haunts this dorm every year," Green said. "She (Elizabeth) stays in the living room so I don't go in the living room around this time."
However, Tiffany Young, first floor RA for Mynders, does not believe the dorm is haunted.
"I don't think it's haunted," Young said. "This is my second year here, and every noise I hear, there is always an explanation behind it."
But Young does admit to hearing things before.
"Last year when the RAs came back early, I was hearing stuff all the time," she said. "But I think it was just because I had heard the stories so much that I was making up noises. I have not seen Elizabeth."
Whether you believe in Elizabeth or not, just remember that it is Halloween, and something frightening is bound to happen, explainable or not.
