Pemberton Hall - Eastern Illinois University
Charleston, Illinois, United States
Other · local-legend
The Story
Residents have told stories of Mary Hawkins walking Pemberton Hall at night to check on her students. An archived campus newspaper also records scratching at doors, mysteriously rearranged furniture and a white-gowned visitor who vanished near the fourth floor. The same article quotes a hall counselor rejecting the alleged murder story and explaining the floor’s closure as storage and unfinished space. Concise original paraphrase of an attributed folklore source; historical details not independently established.
The Hauntings
Residents have told stories of Mary Hawkins walking Pemberton Hall at night to check on her students. An archived campus newspaper also records scratching at doors, mysteriously rearranged furniture and a white-gowned visitor who vanished near the fourth floor. The same article quotes a hall counselor rejecting the alleged murder story and explaining the floor’s closure as storage and unfinished space. Concise original paraphrase of an attributed folklore source; historical details not independently established.
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