Sep 6, 2026 · 1h 9m
UGA’s haunted history runs from wartime tragedy to Greek Row
Episode 389 - Haunted University of Georgia & Sorority Ghosts
The episode shows how a university’s institutional history, campus legends, and student folklore combine into a living haunted landscape.
- 1The University of Georgia’s haunted reputation is rooted in its founding, wartime use, deaths, and historic campus buildings.
- 2Stories from Joe Brown Hall, the theater, and Greek Row turn specific tragedies into enduring campus folklore.
- 3A listener investigation of Wilhelmina’s ghost escalates from underground tunnels and loud bangs to an inhuman wail and mysterious orb.
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The listener investigation reaches its most unsettling point when three bangs are followed by an inhuman wail, with a mysterious orb appearing in a photograph.
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Corinne and Sabrina frame college hauntings through their own sorority experiences, then turn to the University of Georgia’s campus, Greek Row, and layered paranormal reputation.
UGA’s founding, enslaved labor, Civil War-era hospital and prison use, and campus deaths provide the historical backdrop for stories attached to its buildings.
The episode moves through Joe Brown Hall, Waddell Hall, Candler Hall, Lustrat House, and the theater, where James O. James is said to alter playbills.
Greek Row brings benevolent and grieving spirits into focus, including Anna Hamilton at Phi Mu and Susie at Alpha Gamma Delta’s Wedding Cake House.
A listener’s search for Wilhelmina’s ghost ends with three bangs, an inhuman wail, underground tunnels, and a strange orb captured in a photograph.
The hosts close by connecting UGA’s student-led tours and broader Athens ghost lore to the way institutions preserve, perform, and share their haunted histories.