{"id":2498,"slug":"huntingdon-college-montgomery-alabama","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Huntingdon College's Red Lady is a ghost that moved campuses. The first sighting was at the old Tuskegee Women's College in the nineteenth century — a woman in scarlet with a scarlet parasol, glowing red, walking the dormitory's 'Sky Alley' all night and never seen again. When the college moved to Montgomery in 1909, the legend should have stayed behind. It didn't.","The second Red Lady is the one Kathryn Tucker Windham fixed in 13 Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey — Martha (or Margaret), the New York girl sent south by her father's will, who arrived with red drapes, a red bedspread, and an obsession nobody explained. Shunned and homesick, she died in her room in Pratt Hall — by suicide in the legend's telling — and stayed: the Red Lady of the third floor, a vindictive turn from the first lady's wandering.","Windham's account — the only written source — made her Alabama's most famous campus ghost, and Pratt Hall's residents still report the red glow under the doors and the figure in the halls. Two women, two campuses, one color — the archive's most portable haunting, a ghost that followed the school.","Huntingdon College is the archive's Red Lady file — the Montgomery campus haunted by the scarlet ghost that followed the school from Tuskegee, Windham's Martha still walking Pratt Hall's third floor."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Huntingdon College is the archive's campus-ghost file — the Red Lady who appeared at the Tuskegee original and again at Montgomery's Pratt Hall, the legend fixed by alumna Kathryn Tucker Windham.","A ghost that followed the college keeps her color — the file's suggestion being that the Red Lady's hold is the red: the drapes and the glow and the parasol, the unhappy girl in the color nobody would explain."]}],"name":"Huntingdon College","aliases":[],"type":"UNIVERSITY","type_label":"University","cats":["LOCAL_FOLKLORE","HAUNTED_PLACE","EDUCATIONAL"],"groups":["hauntings","institutions","legends"],"desc":"The Lady in Red—the 1910s suicide in Pratt Hall.","full_desc":"Huntingdon College is a university in Montgomery, Alabama. The Lady in Red—the 1910s suicide in Pratt Hall. HauntHunt files it with haunted places, local folklore and education. Ask the file who haunts it and it answers: Lady in Red. The dossier holds 1 reported claim, 1 legend, 1 documented fact and 1 named or described presence — documented record and retelling kept side by side. The site is open to visitors.","address":null,"city":"Montgomery","county":null,"state":"Alabama","postal":null,"region":"South","lat":32.348503,"lon":-86.267307,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"ACTIVE","access":"PUBLIC","access_notes":null,"ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":null,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":"University","research_notes":"Campus batch; VERIFY task auto-queued.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":59.4,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":0.3999999999999999,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":1969,"type":"NAMED_GHOST_LEGEND","description":"The Lady in Red is said to walk Pratt Hall. The institution's reports concentrate where the confinement was worst — the building's own floor plan supplies the map. The story is documented as legend — recorded and retold, never verified as fact. Sources including 'Huntingdon College' keep the claim in circulation. The name travels further than the proof; the sightings keep renewing the lease.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":"Lady in Red","where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Huntingdon College","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huntingdon_College","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"The Lady in Red legend is documented campus folklore. An institution with this much documented suffering needs no embellishment; the record speaks. The record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. The detail is preserved in 'Huntingdon College'. It's the sort of fact that gives the haunting reports their context.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Huntingdon College","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huntingdon_College","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"The Lady in Red is said to walk Pratt Hall. The institution's reports concentrate where the confinement was worst — the building's own floor plan supplies the map. It's a documented legend: the telling is real, the contents remain folklore. Sources including 'Huntingdon College' keep the claim in circulation. The story outranks the documentation, which is how you know it's folklore.","earliest":null,"evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","source":{"name":"Huntingdon College","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huntingdon_College","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"entities":[{"name":"Lady in Red","claimed_identity":"Lady in Red","verified":null,"summary":"The Lady in Red is said to walk Pratt Hall. Institutions that held suffering rarely shed their reputations, and Huntingdon College in Montgomery, Alabama held its share. 'Huntingdon College' carries the account. Named presences persist where anonymous reports fade — the file's name here is Lady in Red.","behavior":"The Lady in Red is said to walk Pratt Hall.","area":null,"first_ref":null,"source":{"name":"Huntingdon College","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huntingdon_College","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Site access varies; verify before visiting.","last_verified_at":"2026-09-18 11:32:55","source":{"name":"HauntHunt generic access guidance","url":"https://haunthunt.com/about#access-guidance","publisher":"HauntHunt editorial","type":"DIRECTORY","authority":2}},"sources":[{"name":"Huntingdon College","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huntingdon_College","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":{"title":"Huntingdon College","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huntingdon_College","desc":"Methodist college in Montgomery, Alabama, US","extract":"Huntingdon College is a private Methodist college in Montgomery, Alabama. Founded in 1854 as Tuskegee Female College, it originally operated as a women's institutions and was later affiliated with the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. The college relocated to Montgomery in 1909 and adopted its current name in 1935, and transitioned to a coeducational institution.","img":"https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Huntingdon_College_Flowers_Hall.JPG/960px-Huntingdon_College_Flowers_Hall.JPG?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail","score":104,"lat":32.35,"lon":-86.285},"counts":{"claims":1,"history":1,"legends":1,"entities":1,"sources":1}}