History & local legend
West Chester University’s Emilie K. Asplundh Concert Hall occupies the Philips Memorial Building, which opened in 1927. Its stage has hosted generations of performances, and campus ghost stories suggest that some of the performers never quite left.
In an April 2026 article for WCUPA Life Magazine, student writer Lucie Pecora collected accounts of figures appearing onstage, unexplained cold spots, and the scent of flowers. Students and staff associated those experiences with former performers whose attachment to the theater supposedly outlasted their lives.
