By: Jordyn Henthorn 

With Halloween quickly approaching, students may be interested to know that Glenville State University has its very own cemetery on campus. The cemetery is located at the top of the hill behind Louis Bennett Hall and is home to one of GSU’s most famous spooky spirits, Sis Linn. The ghost of Sis Linn has been a campus-wide phenomenon since her murder in 1919. She herself was a graduate of GSC and served as a schoolteacher until her untimely death. Linn’s murder was never solved and has become a very cold case. Now, over a hundred years after her death, the spirit of Sis Linn still haunts our campus, perhaps looking to take care of some unfinished business.

Sis Linn’s ghost may have piqued the interest of GSU students for decades, but she isn’t the only notable person buried in the cemetery. Robert F. Kidd, whom our library is named after, is also buried on the hill behind Louis Bennett Hall. Kidd was elected to the House of Delegates in 1886 and became a senator in the West Virginia State Senate once from 1899-1914 and then again from 1923-1928 before dying in 1930.

In recent years, the cemetery has fallen into disrepair. Much of it is so overgrown with weeds that it is hard to spot the smaller grave markers, many of which are simply rocks. Additionally, many of the older gravestones in the cemetery (the oldest is from 1823) are falling apart. Some have had parts that have chipped off, presumably due to weather or erosion. Also, some of the bigger, more elaborate stones have been split in two (meaning that the pillars have broken off of the base of the stone and have been lost).