Marietta College Alpha Xi Delta House

The figure known as George has accumulated a specific and consistent set of behaviors over roughly seven decades of sorority occupancy. Residents report faucets activating when no one is in the bathroom. Doors that were latched open or closed. Objects displaced from shelves. Appliances cycling on in empty rooms. None of these incidents have been explained by building maintenance.

The ghost is widely believed to be Governor White himself. One detail that appears in multiple accounts: a figure in a gray suit occasionally observed at the second-floor windows. Whether this constitutes a full apparition or a peripheral impression, reports have come from residents who had no prior knowledge of the house's history.

The most distinctive piece of local lore involves the building's staircase. According to chapter tradition, if a resident brings a guest upstairs with questionable intentions, the guest will stumble on the front stairs. The detail is treated less as a warning and more as a form of institutional mythology — the kind of story that gets passed down at chapter meetings and shapes how new members relate to the building.

The 2021 fire and subsequent two-year displacement interrupted the continuous habitation of the house, though no accounts document whether the displacement changed the character of the reported phenomena after the 2024 return.