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2005-2006 was my first year at the Savannah College of Art and Design and I requested to be put into the Oglethorpe House Dorm (aka O-House) because it was where the other sequential/illustration kids were. I heard the dorm was haunted but I thought nothing of it. Besides, I was on the 4th floor, everyone who had something to say about ghosts said it was on the 1st, 3rd and 6th floors, not the 4th, so I wasn’t worried. That is, until about a month after I had moved in.
Room 440 was the number and nothing odd had happened, but my room mate had mentioned some odd things happening the year before. Things like lights coming on while she was out, things moving across the room when no one was there, someone grabbing her leg when she got out of bed, but I didn’t really believe her until my first experience.
I was in the bathroom getting changed after a shower – it can get pretty muggy in Savannah so I did this often. (We have bathrooms in our dorm rooms, seeing as it used to be an old hotel) While I was getting changed, the doorknob started to turn. I didn’t notice at first until the door was practically open. I grabbed the doorknob to stop it and shouted to the other side of the door, something along the lines of ‘Hey! I’m in here!’. I thought it was my room mate who didn’t know I was in the bathroom. But I hadn’t heard her come in.
She kept on trying to turn the doorknob even though I was in there. I was getting pissed off, so I pushed the door closed and kept twisting the handle until it finally shut and I quickly jabbed the lock so she couldn’t open it again. But she was awfully strong for someone her size I thought because I was fighting her to close the door and I’m twice her size.
I finally finished getting dressed and stormed out of the bathroom, about to serve her a piece of my mind – but the dorm room was empty.

I asked her about it later, but she told me she hadn’t done and would never do anything like that.


My individual dorm room is haunted by at least two ghosts. The first I know is male – he tried to get into the bathroom while I was in there, and I sometimes feel a male presence in the room while I’m alone. Sometimes it gets so intense that I had to leave sometimes. He seems to be more active than the other ghost. I don’t know which one does it, but things in the room moved sometimes. For example, I left the room for ten minutes tops, I didn’t even go down the hallway – I would have noticed my room mate if she had come back and when I got back her chair was clear across the other side of the room and had been tipped over. Also, while the two of us were asleep someone had flipped on the overhead lights. We NEVER used the overhead lights unless we were doing a project, plus the fact that we were both sleeping?

The other presence I know is female because I’ve seen and felt her. I was lying in bed once, reading when I felt something brush against my feet. I thought my room mate had maybe gone by, because the foot of my bed was right next to the entrance to the bathroom. I looked up, but she was on her side of the room, working.
Another night, I woke up with a start and found that I couldn’t breathe. I think it was the man that time because it felt as if my body was being pushed into the bed. Every inch of me felt as if it had a weight on it, until it steadily went away and I could breathe again.
On another occasion I woke up, and actually saw a woman standing next to my bed. She had long dark hair and was wearing a white night gown – her hair covering her face. But she didn’t strike me as mean…and for some reason (even I don’t know why) I just rolled over and went back to sleep.

But there are also ghosts who haunt the building in general. There’s the hooker – the ghost of a woman who, when alive was a hooker that was thrown to her death from the sixth floor of the building. She walks the hallways sometimes, a phantom pair of high heels clicking when no one it there. I heard it twice. My blinds were open and I happened to look out the window to see if it was my room mate coming back. I happened to look at the time 10:30 pm. I heard the heels coming towards and passing my room, but there was no one there. The next night at the exact same time, it happened again.

Also, it’s not only my dorm room that’s haunted. I was in a friends room when we heard noises coming from upstairs, above her floor. I said to her “Sounds like they’re having fun up there” and she looked at me and said, “We’re on the sixth floor. There’s no ‘up there’”

So, whoever said that the fourth floor wasn’t haunted was DEAD wrong. Room 440 must be the exception.