You right mirage about hostels schools associated with ghost stories.
Niksik…I was in boarding school in Kodaikanal…run by catholic nuns too. And no shortage of ghost stories either. I remember there was a deserted shack in the back garden which had an association with a ghost gardener..cos we saw no-one there and yet these small bitter apple (crab apples we called them) used to grow seasonally. Our act of defiance was to get into the garden and pluck the crab apples and run out screaming in fear…we were truly scared. And of course the one about “this dorm is built on a graveyard and some child sacrifice was carried out…blah blah”