University of Denver is Home to a Number of Hauntings
“Most campuses as old as the University of Denver have their fair share of superstitions, legends, and ghostly stories—and DU is no exception.”
It’s Halloween season, so stories like this are starting to appear. Who knew U. Denver has so many ghosts?
From the school website:
Ghosts, Legends, and Things That Go Bump on Campus
Most campuses as old as the University of Denver have their fair share of superstitions, legends, and ghostly stories—and DU is no exception. You’ve surely heard about the ghost of Mary Reed, but do you know the story behind the legend? And how about other unexplained disturbances across the grounds? Read on, if you dare, to discover all the haunted happenings on our very own campus.
Restless sprits at the Reiman Theater
Built in 1928, Margery Reed Hall is rumored to be the second most haunted building on the DU campus.
Margery Reed, the eldest daughter of Colorado businessman Verner Reed and his wife Mary (yes, that Mary Reed), graduated from DU in 1919 with a bachelor’s degree in English and then took a position here as an assistant professor. During her studies at DU, she met a man named Paul Mayo, an adjunct faculty member and fellow DU alumnus.
They soon wed, but their wedded bliss was cut short when Margery died suddenly after returning from a trip to Peru. “Some people have said it was a jungle disease, but there are rumors that she had a falling out with her husband, who used an exotic poison on her while in Peru,” explains historian Phil Goodstein (MA ’75) in his book, “The Ghosts of University Park, Platt Park and Beyond.”
To commemorate her, Margery’s mother, Mary Reed, donated funds to build Margery Reed Hall, which served as home to the Reiman Theater and DU’s theater department until 2003.
But actors weren’t the only ones hanging out in the theater. “[Hundreds of performers] over the years have all been convinced there’s a ghost,” Goodstein says. “They claim strange whispering and odd echoes during performances; things were always slightly going wrong.”
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Comments
The ones that must terrify the students are the ghosts of dead, white, 18th-century males.
A 1976 University of Denver grad here….I’ve never heard of any of these so called legends.
Oh well.