Meet the ghosts students say are haunting them around UNC's campus
Posted Nov 7, 2019
At a University with nearly 230 years of history, there are bound to be some seemingly ghostly encounters from time to time. Between the legend of the Gimghoul Castle ghosts, a haunted room in The Carolina Inn and various academic buildings and residence halls leaving students with strange experiences, UNC has a wealth of spooky stories.
(Daily Tar Heel)
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