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Oct 27, 2009 11:58 pm US/Eastern

Ghost Living On Washington & Jefferson's Campus?

WASHINGTON, PA (KDKA) ― It's a haunted tale that has been passed down for decades.

The ghost of a Confederate soldier is believed to be living on the third floor of the president's house at Washington and Jefferson College.

But lately the ghost has been walking around.

"The cats live on the second floor, but they still see the ghost occasionally and you'll see their heads all turn at once and they see something we don't see," President Tori Haring-Smith said.

"There's a coat rack with metal hangers and we've been in the house in the summer when there [was] no wind, no doors open, no windows open and suddenly the metal hangers will go," she added.

"He has also gotten into the gas fireplaces," explains Haring-Smith. "So we'll turn them on, he turns them off. We turn them on, he turns them off."

The president says she's never seen the ghost herself but even as recently as this past Sunday, he's made his presence known.

"In my study, the remote control to the television was next to me so no cat could've stepped on it. … Suddenly, the television went on behind me, was on for about five seconds and then it went to snow for about 20 [seconds] and then it turned off completely," Haring-Smith said.

The president says she's not convinced the ghost is a Confederate soldier. The house wasn't built until 1892 – nearly 30 years after the Civil War, but she's sure there's someone there and at other buildings on campus.

"My office building is the third oldest building in continuous use on a college campus - it was built in 1793. We apparently have a colonial lady ghost and some of the faculty say they have seen her," Haring-Smith said.

The president says the admissions office used to be a funeral home and there may be spirits there as well.

Both then and now, she says, it has been considered the gateway to heaven.

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