Nights of Fright at Haunted Seminary Hall Tours

TAHLEQUAH The season for ghosts and ghouls has arrived, so get ready to get scared while touring haunted Seminary Hall at Northeastern State University.

The NSU College of Liberal Arts Graduate Student Association will host the second annual Haunted Seminary Hall every Friday, Saturday and Sunday in October, with a special tour on Halloween night. Tours start at 7:30 p.m.

Put a little fright in your step while learning about the rich and ghostly past of NSUs flagship building, Seminary Hall. The after-dark tours are for all ages, starting on the grounds outside of Seminary Hall and finishing with a floor-by-floor lantern-lit tour of Seminary Hall. There are no theatrics on the tour, all the creepy is genuine.

The roots of Seminary Hall are traced back to the National Cherokee Female Seminary founded in 1846 near Park Hill. The original building at Park Hill burned to the ground on Easter day 1887. Soon after the Easter fire, the Seminary moved to its current location, which is now home to NSU.

Florence Wilson, a woman with a troubled love life, was principal of the Seminary before and after the Easter fire. The love affair between Flo and the institution that later became NSU and her love lost during the Civil War are the focus of the tour, but many of the reported stories and sightings are told on the tour as well.

Tickets are $5 per person. All the proceeds from Haunted Seminary Hall fund graduate students travel expenses to present their research at academic conferences. Cameras are allowed during the tours. Some very strange things appeared in some of the pictures taken at last years Haunted Seminary Tours.