Haunted Centre Storytelling

Storytelling is an ancient art form and valuable form of human expression. It is an interactive art of using words and actions to reveal the elements and images of a story while encouraging the listener’s imagination. Because it is cooperative, it asks for coordinated efforts between the storytellers and the audience, removing barriers and boundaries to connect people across cultures, distances, and times. Language is essential to storytelling, and storytellers pay particular attention to the words spoken, as well as the physical movements, gestures, and other nonverbal language cues. At the heart of storytelling is the narrative, something that moves the audience after it’s told. It can be playful and spontaneous; it can be a repetition of previous stories and texts; it can be transgressive and dangerous. But, above all, the storyteller aims to stoke the imagination of its listeners, creating characters, images, actions, and events that engender a multifaceted experience for the audience.

- from the National Storytelling Network

These videos were created as part of the Haunted American History course taught by Dr. Sara Egge in CentreTerm 2023 to tell the ghost stories of Centre College. They are based on the prior research available on this site.