The tours happening on some college campuses this week are not your typical college tour. Instead, these often-unofficial tours at schools such as College of Charleston, University of Houston, and others tell spooky tales of haunted halls and paranormal activity.

The ghostly spirits that some believe linger at colleges and universities are part of legends that you’re likely to hear about during a campus tour. These eerie events are often part of the school’s past and even current reputation.

Do you get the creeps easily? Check out what some believe makes these five campuses haunted.

East Tennessee State

This Southern school has plenty of reports about spooky campus events. The ghost of the school’s founding president, Sidney Gilbreath, is believed to still watch over Gilbreath Hall (think doors mysteriously shutting closed and lights being turned off). Then there’s the story of a former professor, Christine Burleson, who committed suicide in the 1970s but is believed to inhabit a portrait of her father in Burleson Hall. The eyes in the picture appear to follow students at this Johnson City, Tennessee school as they walk past.

Ohio University

The Athens, Ohio, school is believed to be one of the most haunted campuses in the country. Here’s just one of the stories: Room 428 in Wilson Hall, which might have been built on top of a cemetery, has been closed and sealed off. The legend is that the room wasn’t used anymore after students reported objects flying off shelves and smashing into walls and doors opening and closing. There also were sightings of the ghost of a female student who once lived there and “died violently after using the energy of the room to practice astral projection, a method where the human spirit separates from the body and travels on its own,” according to the local visitors bureau.

Kenyon College

One of many ghost stories about this Chicago school is about the “Greenhouse Ghost.” The school’s Shaffer Dance Studio used to be the pool, with a glass roof, hence the nickname “The Greenhouse.” The ghost is believed to be a Kenyon student who died there in a diving accident. A school publication reports that “one version has him bouncing too high, shattering the roof, breaking his neck, and drowning.”

University of Minnesota, Crookston

Reports of doors and windows opening on their own and students feeling like they’re being followed may not just be paranoia but paranormal activity in this school’s oldest student residence hall, McCall Hall. Author and researcher Chad Lewis told a local newspaper that the legend is that hall is haunted by the ghost of a young woman who simply refuses to leave the building.

The Ringling College of Art and Design

The legend at this Sarasota, Florida school is that a young woman met an untimely death in the stairwell of what now is the school’s Keating Center, a residence hall created out of a restored 1920s-era hotel. The ghost of the woman, who had been staying at the hotel, is believed to stir the paintbrushes in rinse cups on art students’ desks and walk the halls, according to the Sarasota Convention & Visitors Bureau.

–Lori Johnston