Haunted Bowdoin College

Bowdoin College boaststwo centuries in higher education, and that rich history is laden with curioustales and ghostly happenings. Eerie legends about Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,Nathaniel Hawthorne, Joshua Chamberlain and other distinguished graduates arestill whispered in the halls of their alma mater. A dungeon complete withskulls and skeletons hidden beneath Appleton Hall plays to society’s darkestfears about secret college societies. The many untimely deaths at Hubbard Halllend credence to its haunted reputation. Misfortunes of Coleman Hall residentsmight have a connection with the building’s site atop the remnants of thelong-closed Medical School of Maine. Author David Francis reveals Bowdoin'sspooky and maybe even ghostly history.