Lawther Hall, University of Northern Iowa

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Students say a soldier called Augie died in the hall when it was an infirmary. It was never an infirmary, and it has always been a women's residence.

Lawther Hall at the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls is said to be occupied by the spirit of a soldier named Augie, who is supposed to have died in the building during the period when it was being used as an infirmary. Students report noises, cold spots and objects moving.

The corrections here are worth more than the legend, and they come from people who know the building's history.

Lawther Hall has always been a women's residence. It was never used as an infirmary at any point. During the war part of it did house service personnel, but they were WAVES, the women's reserve of the United States Navy. There were no men.

So the soldier has no war, no infirmary and no death to point to.

What has stayed constant across generations of students is where the accounts come from: largely the fifth floor, or possibly the fourth, depending on who is telling it.

A haunting can be entirely real to the people experiencing it and still have a backstory that was invented afterwards. Augie is a clear case of it.

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Lawther Hall, University of Northern Iowa is in Iowa, United States.