General information about Peterhouse can be found on Wikipedia.
The college website can be found here:
https://www.pet.cam.ac.uk/about-college
The Cambridge Ghost Book, Halliday and Murdie, 2000, has a chapter on ghosts of Peterhouse. Accounts seem to focus on the area of Peterhouse adjoining the churchyard of Little St Mary’s Church; a Dean of Peterhouse even performed an exorcism in the area. There is a story of a ‘Blue Lady’ haunting F staircase which forms part of the original 13th century building.
It was in 1997 that there were several supernatural sightings. There were many witnesses. These events were reported in the national press and it was suggested that the ghost was that of James Dawes, a fellow of Peterhouse who hanged himself in 1789. The authors, after consideration of the facts around the case, state that this is one of the ‘most striking examples of a haunting in Britain in recent times.’
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