This is the worst one I’ve heard yet

sorry, no offense but your stories sometimes sound like fairy tales, you start the background with “one day” and “once” and stuff like that.

oo ho

g wiz

ur shiet ish ga*y a$$ h3ll gurlo or wat eva u ish welps its horible dumba$$ hahahahaha

Are all of you who respond like ten years old? People learn how to type and if you dont have anything intelligent to say – dont say anything at all.

I’ve just moved to winona last summer, and find your story interesting (St. Mary’s haunting) I’ve always got a strange feeling about that place mainly because its got that Catholic/cryptic feel to it (so I thought). I am very skeptical of stories like this one, but I am going to ask the locals about it. I’d like to hear more facutual info to make this story more beleiveable. -thank you

i have lived in winona for 14 years and i have been to saint marys many times even been in Heffron Hall but i have heard strange noises i have never had that feeling like someone was there everywhere i went i could feel it when i was in the bathroom i felt someone touch the back off my neck turned around and no one was there i left faster than i wish i would have but i was scared i have never gone back

sup dudes i think this story is gay and its not true i have lived in winona for 10 years and have been in heffron hall like 5 times and have never felt anything

Woa nelly!

That IS bad but i have heard worse!

Go to ghostsource.com!!!
There are good ones there!

OK OK Take this from a REAL MINNESOTA RESIDENT. This story is, as some of you may already know, only somewhat a fabrication. Yes there is a Saint Marys in Winona, yes there is a Heffron Hall and finally yes 2 priests did argue in this very hall and the argument DID end in one of the priests demise. HOWEVER…… The facts are not totally true. The priests were actually arguing over who turn it was to sneek into the little boys rooms and make them be naughty and who was supposed to stand in the hall and play ‘lookout’ for the perverted priest. Sick ******** them Catholic Priests.

I have lived in Winona for 22 years. I know St. Marys like the back of my hand. I’ve gone hiking, and exploring through there for as long as I can remember. I’ve had friends who’ve lived in that hall and others. Not a single one won’t admidt they think it’s haunted. I know it is, I’ve seen the ghosts. I’ve felt the hot and cold, I’ve watched the tv’s turn on and off for no reason and the channels go nuts! I’ve heard doors slam when no one was around. Every time i would go walking in the woods alone, something weird would happen. Like when my walkman would go dead even though i just put new batteries in. Or my CD would skip even though it has no scratches. It’s winona, it’s a black hole. You want a real scary story look up S.W Brown!! He’s buried in Woodlawn Cemetary. Thats a whole different kind of spooky. Thats evil spooky!

I am a student at Mary’s and there are weird things that go on in Heffron. I’m going to live there on the second floor and not the third. Here and there you will hear of things happening.

I went to St. Mary’s college basketball camp. And we stayed on the 2nd floor of Hefforn Hall. And one of the nights stayed me and a couple of the other girls stayed up in the third floor. We stayed in one of the rooms there. And we heard footsteps, we quick looked outside and no one was there! But the thing they have story they have up there isn’t all true. he was killed in the church. and they weren’t aruging about going into a little boys room. they werent Mikeal Jackson. Geez.there is alot more to the story!

Heres the real story.

The incidents first began in August of 1915 when bishop of the Winona diocese, Patrick Heffron, was celebrating mass in the empty chapel at St. Mary’s College. It was early in the morning and the Bishop was surprised by the sounds of someone entering the chapel. He turned to see Father Lesches, one of the college tutors, standing behind him with a gun. The priest fired and the first bullet struck Heffron in the left thigh, the second in the chest, puncturing a lung and the third bullet shattered the top of the altar. The assailant fled the church and the Bishop staggered after him, finally collapsing in the doorway of the chapel. He was discovered by Father Thomas Narmoyle, who had seen Father Lesches fleeing just seconds before.

Ten minutes later, Lesches was arrested by the Winona police. He was found in his room with the pistol and he made no effort to resist the officers. Interviews with the Bishop, who languished in the hospital for some time, revealed that the two men had known each other for seventeen years and had never gotten along. Heffron, committed to education, had single-handedly raised the funds to establish the college. He was respected and loved by the students but was known to deal ruthlessly with colleagues who failed him or who failed to meet the high standards that he set for the staff of the school. Father Lesches had never met those standards. He was known as an arrogant man with little tact or patience and few friends. Days before the attack, Lesches had pleaded with the Bishop for a parish of his own but Heffron believed the man to be too unstable of such a responsibility and refused.

Lesches was brought to trial in December with the recovering Bishop Heffron as the main witness against him. He testified that Lesches was mentally disturbed and unable to tell right from wrong. The trial lasted two days and the jury deliberated for only two hours. Lesches was acquitted on the grounds of insanity and was sent to the State Hospital for the Dangerously Insane in St. Peter, Minnesota. Lesches, although angry, cooperated with the doctors and by 1931, he was pronounced to be in sound mental health. Bishop Heffron had passed array from cancer in 1927 and his successor, Bishop Francis Relly, refused to sign the necessary papers to have Lesches released from the hospital. Lesches passed away in the hospital from a heart condition in 1943 at the age of eighty-four years. He had been hospitalized for twenty-nine of those years. His remains were returned to Winona and buried in St. Mary’s Cemetery, a short distance from the campus.

But that was not the last that St. Mary’s College would hear from Father Lesches…. In 1931, twelve years before Lesches died, another strange event occurred at St. Mary’s that many people claim the mad priest was responsible for… even though he was still in the state hospital at the time.

In May, shortly after Lesches was denied release from the asylum, a maid entered the rooms of Father Edward Lynch on the St. Mary’s campus. The priest was lying dead across the bed, his body charred all over as if it had burst into flames. His bible had also been burned but nothing else in the room had even been singed, including the sheets that he was lying on.

The priest’s death was a mystery although many blamed Father Lesches, although how he managed it was unknown. Lynch and Heffron had been good friends and an enemy of Father Lesches. The two men had lived nearby one another and had argued constantly. Had Lynch’s death been the result of some sort of curse? That same year, another priest on campus died in a fire and three others were killed in an airplane crash.

In 1921, a new dormitory on the St. Mary’s campus had been named Heffron Hall after the beloved Bishop. In 1943, shortly after the death of Father Lesches, students living in the hall began reporting strange footsteps in the night, tapping sounds and cold chills and drafts on the third floor. Papers lifted from bulletin boards in the upper hallway when no wind was blowing and no natural explanations could be found for the chilling spots. Students had other strange encounters on the third floor. One student claimed to be restrained by an invisible force while another came face-to-face with the ghost of Father Lesches himself. He struck the figure in the jaw and broke nearly every bone in his hand.

The stories continued for years and in 1969, staff members of a weekly student publication on campus launched an investigation into the haunting of the building. Photographers, researchers and witnesses were brought in and the team spent two nights on the third floor of the hall, using high-speed cameras, infrared film, equipment to measure changes in temperature and tape recorders. Also present was the faculty advisor to the student publication and several other staff members.

In the early morning hours, the equipment started picking up drastic temperature drops in the long corridor and natural causes were all ruled out. There was nothing to explain this, or the sightings that have continued over the years, save for the ghost of Father Lesches, still acting out from beyond the grave.

Winona, Minnesota is located in the far southeast corner of the state, along the Mississippi River and just across the border from Wisconsin. St. Mary’s College is located on the west side of the city and Father Lesches is buried in St. Mary’s Cemetery, about 2 miles from campus.

©Copyright 1998 by Troy Taylor. All Rights Reserved.

this is so nasty

this toally sucks

why won’t jesus will be on here anywaize!!!!

do you really believe in stories like this one? I meanhow do you even know if it’s true!?!

Umm…it is WSU’s Lourdes hall that is haunted…3rd and 4th floor!