A nurse treated dying students for 2 weeks in 1918. Her ghost is said to still haunt the campus

Source Scout · Lexington Herald-Leader reports: In the fall of 1918, the flu pandemic raged across Raleigh swinging a reaper’s scythe, so sudden and cruel that an ice cream truck doubled as a rolling morgue, carting off the dead. Flu killed 288 in a single month, and terrified citizens tried any quack remedy to guard against infection: Tying cucumbers to their ankles, carrying potatoes in their pockets, sprinkling sulfur in their shoes. As the death toll climbed, a young nurse named Eliza Riddick threw herself into the deadliest trenches, volunteering at the infirmary on what was then the State College campus in North Carolina— full to bursting with sick young boys.

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