Alice Lloyd College

Kentucky · USA · School

A mountain college at Pippa Passes where the halls keep their own hours.

Alice Lloyd College sits at Pippa Passes in Knott County, deep in the eastern Kentucky coalfields, founded in 1923 by a Boston journalist who came to the mountains for her health and stayed to build a school. It is small, it is remote, and generations of students have lived their whole college lives inside a handful of buildings. That concentration shows in the stories.

Cushing Hall, the Andersen Science Center and the Grady Nutt Athletic Center all carry their own accounts. Students describe bedsheets found torn, dormitory doors that were locked from the inside standing open in the morning, and books coming off shelves in empty rooms. In the showers, several have reported a rhythmic knocking from the vents that they compare to a heartbeat.

The figure most often named is an elderly woman. She turns up first in dreams, described in similar terms by students who had not spoken to each other, and afterwards some say they have seen her in a corridor or a doorway. Voices carry from rooms that are empty when opened, and stall doors in the bathrooms swing without anyone near them. Campus security staff, who spend more hours in these buildings at night than anyone, have added their own accounts over the years.

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Hvor ligger Alice Lloyd College?

Alice Lloyd College ligger i Kentucky, USA.