History & local legend
The Second Single Brethren’s House in Bethlehem was built in 1748 and served as a soldiers’ hospital during the Revolution. Its later use by Moravian’s music department put students in rooms already associated with stories of nurses and hospital activity.
Katie Bahnck recalled taking her boyfriend through the building one Sunday evening during her freshman year. The second-floor corridor was quiet. Passing the Washington Room, he dismissed the ghost stories, and as they headed down the stairs, the door behind them made an unfamiliar clicking sound.
On the first floor, Bahnck said, a sudden clatter overhead became so loud they could not hear one another. It sounded like carts rolling and two dozen or more people running through the corridor they had just left. They fled through a side door. Later that evening, a music-department friend supplied the explanation familiar on campus: they had heard nurses pushing gurneys through the old hospital.
