Virginia Intermont College, located in Bristol, Virginia, closed in spring 2014 following financial troubles, but despite that, there is still a girl walking its halls.
Of the tales to tell, this one is on par with ETSU’s Christine Burleson. According to a small website called Virginia Haunted Houses, the girl was impregnated by one of her professors before taking her life. Twice.
When Vera found out she was pregnant, legend states that she hung herself and, as she was doing so, accidentally knocked over a candle, starting a fire. The building was restored, but the echo of her death supposedly remains, and her body has been seen in the room where she died.
A small blog on LiveJournal run by a user by the name of Dannyboy8406 states (as of 2006) that Vera was a student during the 1920’s and was one of the most famous ghosts on campus, even being included in their alumni newspaper. Unfortunately, while further research did reveal that the newspaper did in fact exist, locating the article about Vera proved very difficult, though content about the spirit is plentiful, especially in video format throughout YouTube.
The most interesting part of Dannyboy’s blog is that he claims that years later Vera showed up, apparently alive and well, living in Texas, having been unaware that she had been thought dead for seventy years.
Unfortunately, there are no names attached to the one or two sightings, and no sightings attached to most articles that can be found about it. The most common result was actually a YouTube video from a channel named Hillbilly Deadtime Stories. They included some additional information. For example, renovations attempted on Vera’s room resulted in another fire.
They provide the name of a woman named Jamie Smith, a security guard, who had walked past the room one moment and, when she returned, the table in the room was set for a dinner of some sort.
Regardless of the stories, the sightings and the sources, the college may be gone, but the story of Vera lives on and will continue to do so. There is only one question. If Vera did in fact live out her life, then who did?
Thank you to R. Davis for telling me about the ghost of Virginia Intermont College.
