The most famous haunted house in literature is about six miles from Hillsdale. At least that’s where Shirley Jackson puts it in “The Haunting of Hill House,” her 1959 novel of ghosts and ghostbusters. A character sends driving instructions to Eleanor Vance, so she can travel to Hill House: “You will come to the small...
Hillsdale College needs a ghost. Every college should have one, and the best already do. A tradition says that King Charles I, beheaded in 1649, roams Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford. The Harvard Gazette, an official publication of its university, has reported on spectral stories. The Syfy channel has produced “School Spirits,” a...
I don’t envy my students for much. They can keep their Hell Week and their Hillsdating. Yet they’ve made me jealous in one particular way: Loads of them have jetted off to Israel, traveled through the Holy Land, and come back with stories, knowledge, and—in the case of the now-married Brendan and Katie Clarey—matching tattoos....
Dow Journalism Director John Miller gives his top ten favorite horror movies.