{"id":1422,"slug":"pace-hall-troy-university-troy-alabama","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Pace Hall, built in 1947 on the Troy University campus, shares its haunting file with a neighbor: Shackelford Hall, the 1930 dormitory next door. Together they carry the standard furniture of campus ghost lore — a suicide legend, unexplained sounds, small objects in motion — handed down the way residence halls always hand it down, from one cohort of eighteen-year-olds to the next.","The anchor story belongs to Shackelford. Tradition names a young woman 'Sally Shack,' said to have hanged herself in the building after her fiancé died in a war. Students tell of two residents who reportedly returned to their room to find pens levitating — and who vacated it the next day."]},{"heading":"The Ouija session","paragraphs":["The Pace Hall account is more specific. In the 1990s, students reportedly ran a Ouija board session attempting to contact whatever was said to inhabit the building. What followed, in the retelling, was a paper clip tapping against their window from outside and objects moving about the room — alarming enough, the story says, that the university had the room cleansed.","The file's evidence for all of it is a campus newspaper feature and the ghost-book circuit — the Tropolitan's 2014 Halloween piece and Alan Brown's The Haunting of Alabama — which is exactly the pedigree campus lore carries. What is documented is the buildings and the tradition itself: dormitory poltergeist stories are among the most durable folklore American colleges produce, and Troy's two old halls keep theirs in circulation."]}],"name":"Pace Hall — Troy University","aliases":[],"type":"COLLEGE_DORMITORY","type_label":"College Dormitory","cats":["HAUNTED_PLACE"],"groups":["hauntings","institutions"],"desc":"College dormitory in Troy; research record.","full_desc":"Pace Hall — Troy University is a college dormitory in Troy, Alabama. College dormitory in Troy; research record. The archive files it under haunted places. The dossier holds 1 reported claim and 1 legend — all telling, no verified spine yet, and the file says so plainly. Access details are unverified — research before visiting. The dossier keeps the place and the story in the same record — which is what the archive is for.","address":null,"city":"Troy","county":"Pike County","state":"Alabama","postal":null,"region":"South","lat":31.80196,"lon":-85.96713,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"UNKNOWN","access":"UNKNOWN","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":null,"research_notes":"Discovery pass. Precise location, historical chronology and current visitor conditions require independent enrichment. Confidence concerns provenance only.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"LOW","score":40.6,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0,"source_quality":0.3999999999999999,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":662,"type":"POLTERGEIST_CLAIM","description":"The guide recounts poltergeist traditions. Pace Hall — Troy University's file is thin on proof and long on persistence — the standard profile of American place-lore. 'Alabama Hauntings — County by County Part VI' preserves the telling; the record keeps it filed where it belongs, as lore. Small phenomena, steadily reported: the file's most honest kind of haunting.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.5,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Alabama Hauntings — County by County Part VI","url":"https://www.southernspiritguide.org/alabama-hauntings-county-by-county-part-vi/","publisher":"Southern Spirit Guide","type":"BLOG","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"The guide recounts poltergeist traditions. Pace Hall — Troy University in Troy, Alabama carries the report the way old places do — as part of its identity. The account has a collector's pedigree — written down as legend, which is the most honest status it can hold. Sources including 'Alabama Hauntings — County by County Part VI' 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":"Alabama Hauntings — County by County Part VI","url":"https://www.southernspiritguide.org/alabama-hauntings-county-by-county-part-vi/","publisher":"Southern Spirit Guide","type":"BLOG","authority":4}}],"entities":[],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Access details are unverified; research 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":"Alabama Hauntings — County by County Part VI","url":"https://www.southernspiritguide.org/alabama-hauntings-county-by-county-part-vi/","publisher":"Southern Spirit Guide","type":"BLOG","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":0,"legends":1,"entities":0,"sources":1}}