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Join us as we welcome Renee Mallet, author of Haunted Colleges and Universities of Massachusetts.

Among the throngs of students attending colleges and universities
across the state of Massachusetts linger the apparitions of those who
met their untimely ends on campus grounds. In 1953, Eugene O’Neill, an
Irish American playwright, died in room 401 of the Sheraton Hotel—today a
Boston University dormitory. Named Writer’s Corridor in O’Neill’s
honor, the fourth floor draws students in search of creative inspiration
and a sighting of the ghostly writer. A grief-stricken widow roams the
halls of Winthrop Hall at Endicott College in her pink wedding gown. She
threw herself from her widow’s walk after receiving news of her
husband’s death at sea and is known to students today as the “pink
lady.” Author Renee Mallett offers these and other eerie stories from
dozens of colleges and


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