Ghosts of the Art Barn

All college campuses have ghost stories, and Utah State University is no exception. There may even be a ghost or two haunting the Art Barn. John Seiter, a USU speech communication professor who once taught in the Art Barn, remembers that a number of his students said there was a ghost in the barn. In fact, some of his students decided that the Art Barn was haunted by a ghost pig. He explains how this story came to be:

"Antonio [a large ceramic pig from San Antonio that Dr. Seiter keeps in his office] ended up being in the barn, and it's the best conversation piece for a professor, especially a professor whose office is in the barn . . . My students joked that there was a ghost in the barn, and of course a lot of things started being attributed to this. It started as a ghost, and it ended up as a pig ghost . . . For a while they were blaming it on my pig, and then it went from my pig to it's an actual ghost pig. And they had a name for it; it wasn't Antonio. I can't remember what the name was, but, you know that banging [the building had steam heat] that happens at odd times when you're in class? Sometimes you're teaching and the banging would start and the students would go 'It's the ghost pig.'"

Dr. Seiter said that some of his students also thought that on rainy days the Art Barn still smelled like hay from its horse barn days.

What do you think? Is the Art Barn haunted? If you know any spooky (or funny) legends or stories about the barn, post a comment and let us know!