"Love is in the Air" As well as the Afterlife

"Love is in the Air" as well as the Afterlife
Plymouth State University
Plymouth, New Hampshire

Nothing like a good love story to get the ladies emotions going, but if your a ghost hunter, as myself, there is also nothing better (technically speaking, of course) than a tragedy that has left two lovers searching for each other for ages. Let's explore the legends, as well as ghosts, of Plymouth State University.

First, let's start with the ghost stories that are attached to the university before we go into the historical details;

Mary Lyon was madly in love, but her and her lover kept their relationship in secret by hiding in the tunnels that were built for the students so they wouldn't get cold walking from their dormitories to their classrooms. The tunnel collapsed, killing them both and now they both haunt Mary Lyon Hall and Blair Hall.

Here's what happens: sounds coming from the basement of Mary Lyon Hall; students will hear noises and when they go down to investigate there's nobody down there (students are not allowed in the tunnel and parts of the basement are roped off); Mary Lyon is said to haunt the tunnels where she desperately tries to get to her lover after all these years. Another spirit, who has a more negative reputation, haunts Mary Lyon's Hall; this spirit is said to be malicious and has a certain negative energy about the place and a feeling that something wants them out of there.

In Blair Hall; students will lock the doors, shut the lights off, and leave when they come back the lights are turned on and drawers are pulled open and this is said to be where Lyon's lover haunts. Rowdy students? We can't always blame them.

Another Hall has had a dark past as well, a suicide that has left a young man behind in the land of the living. The young man has been seen before, wearing a jeans and a flannel shirt, floating between floors. People also report seeing objects, such as a punching bag, swaying back and forth as if someone is punching it, but there's nobody there. They also claim to hear balls bouncing and the feeling of being watched, but their not by the living at least.

Here comes the most unfortunate part of all this, since the story is so neat, the legends of the young man in the flannel shirt may be true, but it's time to break the myth: according to my source there has never been a student by the name of Mary Lyon, or if there has, it has gone unnoticed, and the facility is actually named after a highly respected teacher of the same name. Even though the theory of it being a love story between Mary Lyon and someone else is gone, that doesn't mean that the story derives from another love story.

I would like to thank Nick Greenwood for his very informative email regarding the history and what happens in the university.

Other sources: Shadowlands.net

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James Paradie is a paranormal columnist as well as a paranormal investigator who has been seen in such newspapers as the Northcountry News, Littleton Record, the White Mountain Shopper, and the Trendy Times. His stories can also been seen on paranormalnews.com where he is a regular contributor.