Haunted Texas Colleges
College life in Texas isn’t just about football games and finals. Some campuses are carrying a few… extra credits. Across the Lone Star State, students report ghostly footsteps, haunted dorms, and spirits that seem to have stuck around long after graduation.
At Texas State University in San Marcos, the red-roofed Old Main towers above campus like a gothic castle—and it has the ghost stories to match. Legend tells of a woman who jumped (or was pushed) from the balcony more than a century ago. Students still report flickering lights, cold spots, and the sound of rustling skirts in empty hallways. Across campus in Sterry Hall—known to some as “Scary Sterry”—residents talk about doors that open on their own and shadowy visitors wandering the corridors.
Texas A&M in College Station has its own haunted history. The spirit of Roy Simms, a meat lab foreman who died in a grisly elevator accident in the 1950s, is said to still check the faulty equipment in the old Animal Industries Building. Students have also spotted a woman in white near Francis Hall and even reported feeling phantom nips from Reveille, the university’s famous canine mascot, buried near Kyle Field.
At Texas A&M–Commerce, David Talbot Hall (once the university library) is home to strange lights, unseen footsteps, and eerie laughter echoing through the stacks. Some believe it’s the ghost of a boy who fell through a skylight in the 1930s. Others say it’s just tenured ghosts making their rounds.
Over in Austin, the University of Texas is home to the Littlefield House. Built in 1894 and gifted to the school, the home carries the sorrow of Alice Littlefield, who reportedly suffered disturbing visions after her husband’s death. Today, visitors report phantom piano music and soft weeping from upstairs—signs that Alice may not have moved on.
And at St. Edward’s University, the spirits span the sacred and the spooky. A ghostly figure reportedly haunts the theater catwalks, while a former brother is said to linger in the main building after a fatal fall. Students also tell stories of a mischievous little girl named Danielle who roams the dorms asking if you want to play.
From dorm room whispers to haunted lecture halls, these campuses remind us that in Texas, some students never stop showing up for class.
