The Scariest Places on Campus

It’s Halloween, but you may not have noticed, since Harvard is a pretty scary place year-round. Midterms lurk around every corner, and HUDS can often jumpscare with diversions from the online menu. But the scariest thing about Harvard might just be some of its buildings. To celebrate this, we’re rounding up some of the most frightening places you may have the misfortune to visit while you’re a student here.

Massachusetts Hall

We’ll start with the scariest email 20 or so unlucky prefrosh receive each summer. We can imagine it’s very nerve-wracking to live right above the president’s office. Plus, FM says it’s haunted.

Pusey Tunnel

This tunnel has literal phones in case you get lost! Is there, like, a minotaur lurking around the corner or something? One can only guess, but it's definitely eerie enough to make you think twice before entering.

Annenberg in September

There is literally nothing scarier than walking into a room with your entire class and not really knowing anyone. Plus you’re carrying your lunch on a plastic tray — high school levels of trauma for sure.

Tatte on a Sunday

A full family complete with two toddlers and a dog spawns every time you turn your back. Don’t make eye contact. Get your coffee and run! RUN!

Vanserg

If you told us Harvard was developing a vibes-destroying engine in the basement of Vanserg, we would believe you. What an unsettling place. Why are we walking on rocks to get inside?

Any alumni tailgate

These people get SO MAD when you so much as glance at the trunks of their brand-new SUVs. The look I got from this one blonde lady at the last H-Y game? Genuinely bone-chilling.

Lowell House’s secret laundry room

We’ve only heard legends of this place. But we worry that more than socks could get stranded there, left for dead, never to be found again in a forgotten, mysterious corner of the house.

Make sure to stay away from these places if you can to avoid being terrified. But don’t worry, your dorm is probably haunted anyway. Especially if you live in Eliot or Kirkland. Or the Yard. Or Dudley. Or—

(Cut-off to imply I’ve been taken away from my computer in a very scary and mysterious way…)