On Oct. 20, West Circle Drive will be a little spookier thanks to the Apparitions and Archaeology event at MSU.
The “haunted campus tour," now in its third year, is hosted jointly by MSU Campus Archaeology Program and the MSU Paranormal Society.
Annual haunted campus tour to take place Thursday
Students from the the university, which then was known as Michigan State College of Agriculture and Applied Science, play a card game in a lounge in Mayo Hall in the 1930s. Mary Mayo, the hall's namesake, is rumored to haunt this building.
Apparitions and Archaeology is an hour-long tour of six locations around West Circle Drive that have been chosen for their significance in campus lore and for reports of spooky occurrences, campus archaeologist Lisa Bright said.
Each site on the tour will have a campus archaeologist and a representative from the Paranormal Society, director of the Campus Archaeology Program Lynne Goldstein said.
The Paranormal Society will have different pieces of equipment made to indicate a presence placed at the sites and will demonstrate how to use them, Paranormal Society president Jared Gajos said.
Campus Archaeology Program and the Paranormal Society might seem like unlikely partners, but they’ve worked together well, Bright said.
”It’s a really nice way to get people to engage with history from two very different viewpoints,” Bright said. “I think it’s a really unique experience. It brings (students) closer to part of MSU’s past.”
The tour, which is free and family-friendly, will begin at 7 p.m. Oct. 20 at Beaumont Tower.
“You never know what’s going to happen,” Gajos said.
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