Throwback Thursday: Hauntings at Potter Hall at WKU

Over the past couple of years, we’ve brought you stories of hauntings and ghosts around WKU’s campus in Bowling Green. Continuing that tradition, this week we’re visiting Potter Hall. They say it’s been haunted for almost 40 years.

Originally built in 1921, Potter Hall was designed to be a women’s residence hall. Students lived here for more than 70 years until it was converted into an office administration building in 1994. Rumors of a ghost haunting the Potter Hall basement started in the 1980s. 

According to a 1997 issue of the College Heights Herald news, funeral papers confirm a female student did pass away here in April of 1979. Theresa Watkins committed suicide in room seven in the basement, where she hung herself from the steam pipe draping the ceiling in her room. 
Legend says her spirit haunts the building and prefers moving items to places they don’t belong. Some even claim that she answers to the name “Allison” when being sought via Ouija board.

Another Herald article from 2003 states that current Potter Hall office employees notice odd and unusual happenings on the ground floor at night. They claim to be haunted by a ghost charmingly called “Penny,” who leaves pennies scattered across its pathway wherever she goes. 

Just a few years ago, the SyFy channel visited the campus with paranormal investigators and found evidence of activity in Potter Hall. They reported sounds of laughter coming from nowhere and a spirit supposedly answering direct questions making an alarm goes on and off.

Find out more about the other haunted spots on campus on the WKU ghost stories website.