USCivil War
The daughter of a Confederate general who served as a nurse was known to poison soldiers from this side of the war.
What are Union soldiers (or Northern soldiers)?
The ghosts of two children of a former USC president are said to play in the backyard of this prominent campus residence.
What is the President's House/Residence?
This original feature of the South Caroliniana Library is sometimes heard creaking in use without anyone in sight climbing to the second floor.
What is the spiral staircase (or metal staircase)?
This former USC President whose namesake is honored at this museum is buried in a grave directly in front of a building also on the Horseshoe.
Who is (J. Rion) McKissick?
The university's Visitor Center hosts these free walks around campus where guides share famously spooky USC stories.
What are ghost tours?
This was the primary use of the USC campus by Confederate forces during the war.
What is a hospital?
USC lore suggests a ghost named "The Judge" haunts the top floor of this museum on the Horseshoe.
What is the McKissick Museum?
This performing arts building connected to the College of Education is a frequent site of strange noises and cold spots.
What is Drayton Hall?
Though no USC students are officially buried here, it is the final resting place for many honorable faculty and their families on campus.
What is The Horseshoe Cemetery?
This is the event traditionally held in Greek Village to celebrate Halloween.
What is Trick or Treat with the Greeks?
Before the war, Rutledge College contained all college facilities, including the library, chapel, and labs, as this USC's original institution name.
What is South Carolina College?
After his death, the spirit of this former USC president, Davison McDowell Douglas, was said to haunt a home on the corner of Pendleton and what Street?
What is Pickens Street?
A vault or crypt is located under this specific theatre near Preston, though its contents are a mystery.
What is Longstreet Theatre?
This is the specific year of the oldest known grave on campus belonging to the mother of a professor.
What is 1816?
This is the event that turns an area of campus into a haunted house.
What is USCream?
This was the place of essential "war dead" service that Longstreet Theater was designated for on campus during the war.
What is a morgue?
This dorm named after the judge who served as the first President of South Carolina College (USC) is allegedly home to the ghost of a former Civil War nurse.
What is DeSaussure College?
According to Transitions, this is the oldest building on campus.
What is Rutledge College?
This is the building in front of which McKissick's grave among others is located.
What is the South Caroliniana Library?
This performing arts center on campus is "transformed into that famous school of witchcraft and wizardry" for the annual Halloween at Hogwarts concert.
What is the Koger Center for the Arts?
After the war, the campus was temporarily shut down, then later reopened as the University of South Carolina during this post-war government era.
What is Reconstruction?
This building on the Horseshoe named after a Revolutionary War general is rumored to be haunted by a former USC professor.
What is Pinckney College?
This is the popular name for the burial ground dated to 1816 located on the edge of the Historic Horseshoe across from the South Caroliniana Library.
What is The Horseshoe Cemetery?
The earliest known person to be buried on USC campus grounds was the wife of this first USC President.
Who is Jonathan Maxcy?
The South Carolina Ballet performs this chilling production near the USC School of Music every Halloween season.
What is Dracula: Ballet with a Bite?