Haunted Sweet Briar College and the Ghost of Daisy Williams

At the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virgina you will find Sweet Briar College. The school was founded in 1901 as an all Girls school, as it remains still today. It is a center of learning in a other wise rural landscape. The school would not have been possible at all if not for its founder Mrs. Indiana Fletcher Williams. At the time of her death she owned a large plantation and great wealth, in her will she declared that all of her land and assets be used to fond a School for girls. She left over 8,000 acers of land and 1 million dollars to achieve this goal, she gave literally everything that she had. She did this in honor of her late daughter, Daisy Williams, who tragically died at the age of 16. Daisy was moved from where she was died in New York and buried in 1884 in the family plot. Her mother, and the founder of the college, is also burred there. The Williams family burial plot lies of the grounds of the college.

So here that story should end, but it doesn't. Daisy's spirit, perhaps restless after and early demise, remains still today at Sweet Briar College. One reason could be involving her monument at the family grave yard. It is said that at the time of the Indie's , as she is nicknamed, death the family realized her plans to give all of her wealth in honor of her daughter. It was too much for one relatives and in a rage they ripped out a stake from the wrought iron fence and smashed the small marble monument of Daisy's gravestone to pieces. Only the base remained, and on it was built a new monument. This statue, nicknamed the screaming statue, stands high above the cemetery. It is called the screaming statue because of the sound the wind makes as it passes through a hole in the statues hand.