History & local legend
Walton Hall at Eastern University was originally the Walton family’s mansion on the Walmarthon estate. In 1961 a fire marshal closed its fourth floor, which afterward served as storage. Students developed another explanation for the locked rooms: the ghost of Suzie Walton, a young granddaughter of Charles Walton Sr.
Former student Bruce Miller collected the campus stories for an American Folklore paper in 1977. One came from security guard William Reynolds, who said he had let two male students onto the fourth floor during his night rounds. Hearing screams, he returned and found one student’s necklace tightening around his throat as though an unseen person were pulling it.
