Students living in Freeman Hall do not shut all the doors to the parlor. If they do, the ghost might get them.

Campus security guard Marie Chase said she knows most of the ghost stories on campus, and Freeman Hall is haunted by a special woman.

“I know it’s the ghost of the lady Freeman is named after,” said Chase, junior in animal science. The hall is named after Alice Freeman, who was born in the late 1800s.

Chase said there are a few stories that spread about the haunting of Freeman Hall. If the doors to the parlor are closed, the ghost is in there. She said another tale says “if you close the doors, she will get mad and open them.”

Sarah Gross, sophomore in math and Spanish, said she doesn’t know much about the Freeman ghost, but she has heard something about the parlor doors.

“If you shut all the doors she is supposed to appear,” Gross said.

Amanda Ferguson is the resident assistant on Busse Floor in Freeman Hall and abides by the tradition.

“Leave one door open at night or she’ll get mad,” she said.

Ferguson, junior in psychology, said she isn’t scared of Alice because “the doors are shut all the time.”

The doors being shut could very easily mean the story is not true, but it could also mean Alice is in there, Ferguson said.

Chase, who knows many campus ghost stories, also told a tale of a man haunting Birch-Welch-Roberts Hall.

Chase said a long time ago two security guards were walking around campus when they saw something they’d never forget.

“A guy was standing on the big white balcony so they yelled at him because he wasn’t supposed to be there,” she said. “He jumped off the balcony to the roof.”

The jump from the balcony to the roof is a two-story jump upward, she said. From there the man ran inside one of the windows on the top floor.

Chase said the guards called the Department of Public Safety, and DPS officials started chasing the man. The guards had no luck finding him.

Chase said DPS officers went into a room and saw the perpetrator run into the attic. “There, DPS found him hung. He had been missing for two weeks,” Chase said.

Cpt. Rob Bowers said he has worked for DPS for 25 years and the stories have been around since then, but they have undergone some slight changes. He said the B-W-R Hall ghost story used to be about Barton Hall.