Ghosts of Kenyon College: Haunted Halls, Tragic Tales, and Campus Legends

Kenyon College may look like your average picturesque liberal arts campus, but behind the ivy-covered walls are ghost stories that’ll make you rethink walking across campus alone at night. In this episode of Twisted and Mysterious, we dig into the legends, tragedies, and hauntings that make Kenyon one of the most famously haunted colleges in America.

We cover the Old Kenyon fire of 1949, where tragedy left behind more than just scorch marks, and the chilling story of Stuart Pierson, a student killed by a train during what many believe was a fraternity hazing gone horribly wrong. Then we dive into the mystery of phantom wet footprints in the old pool building—because apparently, even Kenyon’s ghosts like to take a quick swim. And of course, we couldn’t skip Caples Residence Hall, the towering dorm so unsettling, it feels like the ghosts are majoring in “making you nope right out.”

And yes… before you ask… we know our fan makes it sound like we recorded this episode in the middle of a windstorm. We promise we weren’t reporting live from a haunted hurricane—we’re just two podcasters battling technology and the heat, one spooky story at a time.

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