Tahlequah Ghost Story

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This ghost story is said to have occurred in 2002 at the graduate campus of Northeastern State University in Oklahoma. Northeastern State University came from the former Cherokee Indian Seminary (which may have heightened their senses to the alleged supernatural) campus in Tahlequah. The campus is said to have a ghostly past that dates back to the 1840s.
The author said he was close to his last semester of graduate school and he was living in a dorm. Connected to the dorm was an add on to his school’s psychology department. He regularly went from his dormitory then on through the psychology annex as a shortcut to the library.
His first of three ghost sightings occurred when he left his room in the evening and took the shortcut to the library and went on to through the psychology shortcut. He said that in the annex there was the office of an important psych professor, who left his door open. Many times in the last three, or so, years he said he went by the professor’s office and saw him in the office at his big wooden desk and he would gesture to say hey.
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Then he continued with his business. He learned that the professor that he had just had a conversation with actually passed away of a heart attack in the spring of 2002.
There was a librarian who informed him said “the death occurring in the professor's office”—the very place where he had his “encounter.” He was confused and didn’t say a thing about his ghostly encounter to the

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