Established in 1804, Ohio University was the first public university of higher learning, and is now the oldest in the state of Ohio. Located in Athens, it has five campus's altogether spread throughout the southwest region of the state. The university consists of 1,700 acres, 210 buildings, and a student to faculty ratio of 17:1. Pretty impressive.

One might ask just how this ancient campus makes it into the Most Haunted List? Well, for one it is said to have been home to extreme poltergeist activity. It is claimed that the Delta Tau Delta Fraternity stole a tombstone back in the day from the famously haunted Simms Cemetery. Immediately, weird poltergeist activity was experienced. The tombstone was returned, and that was the end of that. At the Alpha Omicron Phi Sorority, a slave named Nicodemus haunts their home. Before the house was a sorority, it was a private residence and also a stop along The Underground Railroad. The ghost of Millie Brown, who donated her house to the university, haunts the Brown House and is seen in the window.

The attic of the Jefferson Hall is haunted with a woman dressed in 1950's clothing who likes to flip on lights, unroll toilet paper, and flush the toilets. The Washington Hall has an entire ghostly basketball team from when they were killed in a bus accident years ago. A poltergeist haunts the women's dormitory in the Bush Hall and there is another entity who likes to play pranks by turning water faucets on and off and flicking the lights. In the 1970's, a female student living in the Shively Hall, was experimenting with cult ceremonies at the nearby Hanning Cemetery when she experienced a number of unexplainable events in her dorm room. To date, what happened to her is a still mystery. Countless other halls have had personal hauntings as experienced by students. A chilling story based on facts takes place at the freshman dorm of Crawford Hall. On Easter of 1993, a student named Laura fell to her death from her 4th floor window. After that, lights started flickering, doors would slam open and shut. Then one night, another student was awakened by his door opening and there standing was a silhouette of a girl who said, "I'm sorry, I've woken you," and closed the door.

Whew, this place has got my head spinning from all these ghosts, but we have yet to get to the good part. The most famous haunting of them all takes place at the Wilson Hall and it is also the hall featured on many television shows. It has been said there were many student suicides and various rooms no one will stay in for too long. Shadow figures are spotted in the halls, and the hall is said to have a curse because it supposedly sits dead center in the middle of the five "Pentagram Cemeteries" around Athens. That's right, all of the local cemeteries form an exact pentagram!