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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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