Miller Hall (Rutgers University)

The haunting of Miller Hall grows directly out of its documented past as the McDede Burial Company's mortuary. With a building that once prepared the dead, the stories that have attached to it are about lingering activity: faculty and staff describe unexplained noises, footsteps in empty corridors, whistling, and small movements with no clear cause.

Campus lore offers two framings, both noted in Rutgers' own retelling. One holds that the activity belongs to the mortuary's operator, still keeping to old routines in the building he ran. The other suggests it traces to the former dead who passed through the funeral home before it became a university hall. Neither is tied to a specific named person in the documented sources, which keep the legend general.

The stories are low-key by ghost-story standards — sounds and a sense of movement rather than apparitions or dramatic events — but the mortuary origin gives them an unusually concrete hook. That hook is why Miller Hall appears in both the university's haunted-campus account and independent campus-history write-ups as one of Rutgers' notable haunted buildings.