The University of Northern Ireland is the eighth most haunted university in the United Kingdom, according to a recent Knowledge Academy research.

One of the biggest suppliers of educational training courses worldwide, The Knowledge Academy, has assigned a "spooky score" to 64 UK universities based on the quantity of gravestones, cemeteries, destroyed buildings, and paranormal stories that can be found within two miles of campus.

With five claims of paranormal activity at Queen's since its founding in 1845, the Knowledge Academy gave the university a score of 7.64 out of 10.

“Though the university only had five reported paranormal encounters, its proximity to a staggering 216,699 memorials spread across 30 nearby cemeteries creates an undeniably creepy atmosphere,” the group stated in their final assessment.

Queen's campus is known for its strange happenings, which range from ghostly figures wandering aimlessly around the corridors of the Medicine and Dentistry Building to the sombre screams of departed students emerging from the campus library late at night.

“With the notorious haunted Cairndhu House nearby, students report feeling watched by unseen eyes as they make their way to class each day.”

Both the University of Bath and the University of Liverpool received scores of 8.28 from the Knowledge Academy, making them the joint most haunted universities in the United Kingdom.

The top five most haunted universities in the United Kingdom were Bishop Grosseteste University, the University of Kent, and the University of York.

The University of Strathclyde (9th), Oxford Brookes University (10th), Liverpool John Moores University (7th), and the University of Exeter (6th) rounded out the top ten.