History & local legend
Fortess Hall is a residence building connected to Ravenhill Mansion on what is now Thomas Jefferson University’s East Falls campus. Former students have described unexplained disturbances inside their rooms.
A former student who lived in Fortess in 2002 recalled a stack of paper plates flying off the top of a microwave and across the room. The same resident described a television changing channels on its own and a closet door opening without anyone touching it. They posted the account in 2014.
A parent writing in 2011 described different experiences reported by a daughter and her roommates in the basement. They heard their door handle rattle and footsteps whose source they could not place, found objects moved and felt drops of water land on them while they slept.
