Morrill Hall's lore dates to the Thanksgiving fire of 1912, in which it was the only building to survive the blaze. Legend has it that workers in the building smelled smoke in the vents but further inspection revealed no source of the strange odor. Used at various points for the zoology and veterinary science departments, it housed cadavers for medical training according to a 2002 article in The Diamondback. In the same article, a specialist in the paranormal inspected Morrill, concluding it houses abundant spirits.

Recently, workers in Morrill Hall found human remains under a sink while the building was undergoing renovation. Additionally, the staff in Morrill has heard noises late at night and found mysterious guano in the building's attic. Students often wander into the building during the fall to see the "haunted building."

The building, constructed in 1898, is the oldest campus building with its original fa¿ade intact. It was named after Justin Morrill, sponsor of the Morrill Land Grant act establishing federal land grant colleges, including the Maryland Agricultural College (later to become the University of Maryland.

Named after the first dean of home economics, Marie Mount Hall is supposedly haunted by its namesake, who reportedly did not want to leave the university after she died. Campus employees claim to have seen Marie Mount's ghost and heard her playing the piano on dark, stormy nights. An expert in the paranormal reported feeling the spirits of Mount and others in a 2002 Diamondback article.

Constructed in 1940 as an addition to Silvester Hall, the building's corridors and ceilings - a mixture of ashen, concrete walls and yellow floors - slant strangely to merge with the old construction. The building was first called, simply, the home economics building. It was renamed Margaret Brent Hall in 1959 after a colonial businesswoman considered the first American woman to request the right to vote.

"The Home Economics College at the University stands as [Marie Mount's] monument," wrote University President Emeritus Harry Clifton Byrd of the hall, in a 1957 memorial to the home economics dean. In 1969 the Board of Regents renamed it Marie Mount Hall in appreciation of Marie Mount's innovations in home economics at the University. Under her guidance, the "department of home and institution management" became its own division and later the College of Home Economics.

Then-University President Wilson H. Elkins may have known more than he let on when he wrote in a 1957 memorial, "The character of Marie Mount will live forever." Marie Mount used to house student dormitories, according to facilities management. There are still signatures of students who wrote their names on the walls of their old rooms.

HJ Patterson Hall

Less well known than "haunted" Marie Mount and Morrill halls, HJ Patterson is allegedly spooked. Once, a maintenance and structural trades manager in facilities management saw a stray shadow across the wall working alone in the building. He does not believe the shadow belonged to another worker.

Nicknamed "Steinberg Castle," the building is named after Maryland Agricultural College President Henry Jacob Patterson. It was built in 1931 and houses the department of plant biology, the department of natural resources, a soil testing lab and the Center for Agricultural Biology.