Lustrat House
Built in 1847 as a faculty residence on the University of Georgia's North Campus, the Lustrat House later passed through service as a house museum, the university president's office, and today the Office of Legal Affairs. In the late nineteenth century it was home to Dr. Charles Morris, who chaired the English Department; when the university moved the structure around the turn of the century, the embittered professor reportedly refused to relocate with it and died not long after. According to campus lore, after Joseph Lustrat's family took up residence beginning in 1904, they began to see Morris seated in his favorite chair by the fire, sometimes appearing as a gray mist that coalesced into a figure in a Confederate uniform moving through the rooms. The legend has been retold for generations and remains one of UGA's most enduring hauntings, recounted on the university's own ghost-tour scripts and library research guides.
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