America's Haunted Universities examines some of the most haunted locales in the country-U.S. university campuses. From haunted libraries to doomed dorms, journalist Matthew L. Swayne has scoured universities across the country to bring readers the most comprehensive look available at ghost encounters at these bastions of higher education. This guide explores the strangest and most enduring stories with first-hand accounts, historical analysis, and a re-telling of classic legends. Readers will find stories about long-dead college faculty who still appear in a spectral sense on American campuses, co-eds who met untimely ends, a haunted elevator, the carnivorous Penguin man, the ghostess with the mostest, and a poltergeist named Monkey Boy, as well as many other chilling and bizarre entities and encounters.