That’s strange, because when it comes to ghosts, the University doesn’t lack for stories. Ghosts and hauntings might seem at odds with Harvard’s rational, scientifically minded ethos, but “people seem interested to hear my story,” said Schuler.īaltrusis, who studied journalism at Boston University, said getting people at Harvard to go on the record with their accounts was difficult. “One account explains that early one morning, 40 years ago, a cleaning lady vacuuming alone in Wadsworth House saw a grim character in a tricorn hat and cloak silently come down the stairs and go out the door,” wrote Drake P. What exactly do people think they’ve seen at Wadsworth? Oh, just apparitions clad in colonial garb. Baltrusis believes that there is ghostly activity at Wadsworth that is residual, or, “a playback or recording of a past event.” (Baltrusis is offering Cambridge Haunts ghost tours Fridays through Sundays through Nov.
Haunted Hotspots Map: Click here for an interactive tour of Harvard’s most ghostly sites!īaltrusis spent months investigating paranormal phenomena at Harvard and in Cambridge for his second book, “ Ghosts of Cambridge: Haunts of Harvard Square and Beyond.” Buffering lore with history, Baltrusis details how Wadsworth House played a part in the Revolutionary War, and came to be George Washington’s first headquarters. File photo by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Staff Photographer Bouldin ’86 told the Harvard Crimson in 1986.
“I hear them rumbling about all the time,” Hannah L.
Apthorp House, the residence for the Adams House Master, is purportedly haunted by the ghosts of Revolutionary War soldiers, including General John Burgoyne.
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