CHARLOTTE HAUNTS
Charlotte Magazine|October 2020
Charlotte buildings are dull and devoid of character, you say? You’ve not experienced the wraiths that congregate at the century-old theater, or the deathless matron of the college campus that predates the Civil War, or the forlorn presence that lurks in the Irish pub. Happy Halloween, everyone. Who’ll come knocking on your door?
TAYLOR BOWLER, GREG LACOUR, AND ANDY SMITH
CHARLOTTE HAUNTS

SCHOOL - SPIRIT

KAYLA GEORGE’S OFFICE is at the end of a long corridor on the second floor of Morrison Hall, a nearly century-old, Colonial-style brick box with arched windows that seems to crouch, as if playing hide-and-seek, behind the Walker Science Building and Sarah Belk Gambrell Center for the Arts and Civic Engagement on the campus of Queens University of Charlotte. Morrison frustrates your efforts to enter it. The front door sticks. You have to yank the handle like a lawnmower cord to open it. The staircase can be tricky to locate, and the stairs creak as you ascend.

George is Queens’ assistant dean of conduct and director of residence life and housing. So it’s appropriate for her to work in Morrison Hall, a dorm back when Queens was an all-female campus. She took the job in fall 2015. Once I’m settled in her office, provided with a cool drink on a sweltering late September afternoon, I ask when she first heard the ghost stories.

“Immediately.”

The most famous one, Queens’ own “Tell-Tale Heart,” occurred at—where else?—Morrison Hall. It concerns a young lady named Clara, who was living in one of the upstairs rooms. The Clara story has a couple of different versions, but its skeleton is this: Around the end of World War II, Clara wrote a Dear John letter to her soldier boyfriend, who was stationed overseas; she’d been seeing other boys. Yet her soldier was already on his way back. The letter never reached him.

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