Ep 123 – Haunted College Tour Palooza part 11: East Tennessee State University

For the second episode in this year’s installment of our Haunted! College! Tour! Palooza!, we’re taking you on a ghost tour of East Tennessee State University. Founded in 1911, ETSU has no shortage of campus lore. Expect stories of an invisible young boy playing with marbles, a stained glass ghost that now haunts the university’s radio station, an eerie presence in the dorm showers, and more.

Somehow this is our first time covering a Tennessee college or university in our Haunted! College! Tour! Palooza! But trust us: it’s worth the wait.

But first, Zoey’s here with her Something Southern, in which we take quizzes from Lamar University and BuzzFeed to see what we should major in!

Something Southern sources: https://www.lamar.edu/academics/quiz.html and “This College Major Aptitude Test Is Scarily Accurate” by Tessa Fahey, BuzzFeed, Aug. 14, 2022.

Sources:

https://www.pigeonforgechamber.com/haunted-tennessee-blog-series-colleges/

“Haunted Tri-Cities: A look inside the halls of ETSU” by Kate Nemarich, WATE, Oct. 28, 2021.

https://www.etsu.edu/etsu-news/2022/10-october/halloweenspotlightlucilleclementhall.php#:~:text=From%20water%20faucets%20turning%20on,campuses%20in%20the%20United%20States

https://www.onlineschoolscenter.com/50-haunted-colleges-campuses/

“ETSU TOPS REGION’S ‘MOST HAUNTED’ LIST,” et online, Nov. 1, 2001.

“ETSU IS ONE OF THE MOST HAUNTED CAMPUSES IN THE NATION” by Katie Day, et online, Oct. 29, 2018.

https://www.facebook.com/ETSUOnlineEducation/posts/the-lucille-clement-resident-hall-is-believed-to-be-haunted-by-several-spirits-o/219149614926511/

“THE HAUNTING HISTORY OF ETSU’S RADIO GHOST” by Elias Murphy, et online, April 5, 2023.

“THE EDGE GHOST TRAVELS TO NEW LOCATION” by Taylor Maupin, et online, Oct. 31, 2021.

“GHOST WALKERS INVESTIGATE ETSU PARANORMAL,” et online, Oct. 29, 2007.

“LEGENDS TELL OF CAMPUS GHOSTS, HAUNTINGS,” et online, Nov. 26, 2000.

“WHAT HAUNTS ETSU’S CAMPUS?” by Elias Murphy, et online, Oct. 15, 2022.

ETSU’s 1985 yearbook, article by Deanna Lyerly, p. 84.

“East Tennessee Team Crash-Lands,” The Washington Post.

“ghost stories,” Pat’s Place blog.

https://www.etsu.edu/fachistory/

“Rest, rest, perturbed spirit: ETSU English professor attempts to give a university ‘ghost’
deserved comfort,” ETSU Media Relations, contact: Brad Lifford, March 17, 2011. (This is about research by ETSU professor Dr. Robert Sawyer on Christine Burleson.)