At one time, during the college's early years, there was a cholera epidemic on campus. One of the rooms on fourth floor Main was used as an infirmary, a room facing south towards Morgan. It was formerly Room 305, but during the renovations in the summer of 1983 it was split into two rooms, one of which has the more easterly of the two "eyebrow" windows. One young woman confined there with cholera was nonetheless visited reguarly by her fiance. Since he couldn't come into the dorm, and she couldn't go out, he would climb to the top floor of Morgan and wave across to her window in Main. He happened to be there in his usual place in Morgan on the night of a terrible fire, and as he watched, his sweetheart was consumed by flames.

Many people have lived in those rooms in Main and, although none have reported specifically of the ghost of a girl waving at the window, many have complained of a wide variety of strange happenings -- unexplained knockings and other noises, feelings of uneasiness, small objects being moved about when no one was in the room, and so forth.

Before the renovations, M305 had been a triple. Three students living there in the mid-1980s experienced several of these odd phenomena, and took to talking to the spirit which shared their room each night before going to bed. One night they forgot and one of them fell asleep on a couch they had. In the morning when she woke up the folds of her clothes had left marks on her skin, which is not uncommon, but these marks took the shape of words. I was never able to find out what the words said, but the girls were able to get the Dean of Students to give them an immediate room change, which was very much discouraged and hard to get in those days. They all moved to Weld and would never live in Main again.

There are no further documents in the Wells College Archives to either prove or disprove the accuracy of the stories presented here.

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