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5 min readThe University of Georgia campus in Athens has accumulated over 240 years of history—and according to the hosts of Two Girls One Ghost, that history has a way of bleeding into the present. The episode walks through the school's founding in 1785, its role as a Confederate stronghold, the conversion of its chapel into a hospital and later a Union prison, and a 2015 construction project that unearthed the remains of 105 enslaved people beneath campus grounds. All of this, the hosts argue, creates conditions where hauntings are not surprising.
The most documented haunting: Joe Brown Hall
The most famous paranormal location on campus is Joe Brown Hall, built in 1932 as a men's dormitory. The campus legend says a student died by suicide during Thanksgiving break in 1971, and his body decomposed so badly that the smell could not be removed. The wing was sealed off, creating what students call the "stairs to nowhere"—a staircase that leads to a brick wall with a painted portrait of a hallway.
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What you'll learn
- 1 (00:00) **Episode Intro & Host Banter** - Sabrina and Corinne welcome listeners back and discuss the start of the school year, setting the stage for a haunted college episode.
- 2 (08:45) **History of UGA: A Haunted Foundation** - The hosts explain why UGA’s 240-year history makes it a paranormal hotspot, from its founding to the Civil War.
- 3 (15:53) **Joe Brown Hall & The Stairs to Nowhere** - The hosts detail the most haunted building on campus, centered on a tragic death and a sealed-off wing.
- 4 (21:33) **Waddell Hall: The First Campus Murder** - The story of a soldier’s tragic return home from World War I and the violent crime that left a haunting stain.
- 5 (26:05) **Demosthenian Hall & Robert Toombs** - A literary society hall is haunted by a brilliant, expelled alumnus whose ghost is tied to a dramatic, lightning-struck oak tree.
- 6 (31:35) **More Campus Hauntings: Candler Hall & The Lustrat House** - Two shorter stories: a fatal gun accident and a stubborn professor who refused to move out of his home.
- 7 (35:50) **Haunted Theater: The Ghost of James O. James** - The campus theater has a playful actor ghost who demands credit in the playbills.
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Show Notes
We’re heading back to school, but this campus has a few residents who never graduated. We’re exploring the University of Georgia, one of America’s most haunted college campuses, and digging into its 240+ years of ghosts, murders, tragic history, urban legends, and seriously creepy campus lore.
Then we’re heading down Milledge Avenue, where haunted sorority houses come with reports of mysterious knocking, sobbing, shadow figures, objects moving on their own, and a piano that plays by itself. Plus, one helpful ghost might just have a thing for matchmaking.
See the stunning Alpha Gamma Delta sorority house here.
Watch the video version here.
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New Episodes are released every Thursday and Sunday at 12am PST/3am EST (the witching hour, of course). Corinne and Sabrina hand select a couple of paranormal encounters from our inbox to read in each episode, from demons, to cryptids, to aliens, to creepy kids... the list goes on and on. If you have a story of your own that you'd like us to share on an upcoming episode, we invite you to email them to us!
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Edited and produced by Jaimi Ryan. Original music by Arms Akimbo!
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