Aerial survey · USDA NAIP · public domainA campus classroom building where students report a woman in 1920s dress in the corridors and auditorium
1423 E University Blvd, Tucson, AZ 85721
Research updated June 2026
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No fee. An active university classroom building; public access is limited to common areas during operating hours.
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Multi-story campus academic building with elevators; level campus walkways outside
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University of Arizona campus building · Subject of a campus ghost legend
The Modern Languages Building serves the University of Arizona's language departments, with classrooms, faculty offices, and a lecture auditorium used throughout the academic year. It sits near the center of campus off University Boulevard, an ordinary working academic building whose notoriety is entirely a matter of folklore.
The central campus legend holds that human remains were uncovered during the building's construction, generally dated to around 1965, and that the disturbance is the source of its haunting. That construction-remains claim is the part of the story that has not been corroborated in primary sources; it circulates through ghost-lore collections and campus storytelling rather than through any documented archaeological or news record. For that reason this entry is held for review rather than published.
What is consistently reported, across student journalism and local ghost lore, is the sighting itself: a young woman in clothing described as 1920s-era seen in the building's corridors and auditorium. The historical backstory remains unverified; the recurring report is the building's actual claim to a place in Tucson's campus legends.
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The recurring report at the Modern Languages Building is a young woman seen walking its corridors and auditorium, described in the accounts as wearing clothing of a 1920s style. The sightings are reported across years by students and staff, the kind of slow-accumulating campus story that gets passed down through departments and student newspapers.
Campus folklore supplies a backstory: that human remains were discovered during the building's construction in the mid-1960s, and that the woman is a victim connected to that ground. The Arizona Daily Star and the University of Arizona's own student coverage have recounted the building's reputation, but the construction-remains origin is not established in any primary record, and it is reproduced here as legend, not fact.
Because the founding claim is uncorroborated, this site is held for review rather than published. The sighting reports themselves are consistent in their details — the corridors, the auditorium, the period dress — and they are what keep the Modern Languages Building on Tucson's list of campus ghost stories, regardless of whether the origin tale holds up.
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The Modern Languages Building is an active University of Arizona classroom building, not a tour destination. Visitors can walk the common corridors during normal campus hours; classrooms and the auditorium are in use for instruction. The ghost story is part of campus folklore and is not interpreted on-site.
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