Mary Baldwin University (Main Building & Collins Theatre)

Mary Baldwin's haunting tradition centers on four named presences, each tied to a specific building or space on campus. Richard, described as a uniformed soldier, is reported primarily in the Main Building and Collins Theatre area. His characteristic phenomenon is touching or tapping shoulders — students and staff have described the sensation without finding a physical explanation. His identity as a soldier places him plausibly in the Civil War context of Staunton's occupation, though no specific historical figure of that name is documented in connection to the building.

Mary Julia Baldwin, for whom the university is named, is associated with a recurring anomaly: a child-sized handprint that appears periodically on surfaces in the Main Building. The specificity of a handprint — and the detail that it's child-sized despite Baldwin being an adult during her tenure — is a distinctive claim that appears consistently across the sources documenting the campus.

Agnes McClung is the least documented of the four named spirits; the Southern Spirit Guide identifies McClung Residence Hall as her hot spot but provides minimal detail about her identity or the reported phenomena. The Collins Theatre focus involves Tallulah Bankhead: stage lights in the theater are reported to activate, change, or respond in unusual ways that investigators and theater staff attribute to the actress who attended the seminary roughly a century before. Bankhead's documented attendance is confirmed through historical records; the light manipulation claims originate in student and staff reports accumulated over decades.