History & local legend
Ulman Hall at Delaware Valley University has housed students since 1923. Some of its stone came from Pioneer Hall, the National Farm School’s original building, salvaged after a fire earlier that year. The third floor later acquired a reputation for an unseen resident.
Jordan Walp lived there during the 2022–2023 academic year. In the fall, they repeatedly woke between one and three in the morning. Sometimes they saw a dark shape near the closet; on other nights, they only felt it watching. Walp told The Aggie Insider that the presence seemed to want to communicate rather than threaten them. They began drawing a tarot card before bed and said the nighttime interruptions stopped.
A professor recalled another student who complained that objects moved around her desk so often she could not work there. The newspaper collected both accounts in May 2025, connecting the experiences to the same dormitory floor.
