Haunted Schools

University of Virginia

-Charlottesville, Virginia

Following the death of Confederate surgeon Bennett Wood Green in 1913, the physician's collection of books was bequeathed to the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. The tomes were placed in the Rotunda library, which the doctor's ghost is then said to have haunted. Moreover, when the collection was shifted to the Alderman Library in 1938, the ghost apparently went in tow, as staff and students have recounted hearing eerie footsteps and feeling as if they are being watched while in the building. Also located within the library is the Garnett Room, named after Muscoe Russell Hunter Garnett, another benefactor. This room is believed to be haunted by the spirit of Garnett's former doctor; an admirer of his patient's books while both men were alive, he now looks after the collection, it is said, in death.