History & local legend
North Hall at Slippery Rock University is associated with Emma Guffey Miller, a former university trustee who helped develop the campus. University historian Bob Watson spent decades collecting students' accounts of a woman they believed to be Emma.
One student described a late-1970s experience in a second-floor room: a cold draft passed through, the closet door opened, and a short, pale woman dressed in black stood inside. Other residents told Watson they saw a woman's reflection while brushing their hair, or felt fingers moving through it when no one else was beside them.
Watson also repeated a remark Miller supposedly made during her lifetime while looking from a North Hall window: she loved the place and thought she would stay.