Some visitors never leave Sacramento State alive. But then, they don?t exactly arrive with a pulse.

Transported in cardboard coffins and wheeled by gurney down the long white hallway atop the second floor of the biology building, these wrapped human bodies roll slowly past empty classrooms before reaching their final destination – the examination tables.

The 17 male and female cadavers, who have donated themselves to science, reside behind closed doors and covered windows that face out onto the heart of campus. One body has been preserved at Sacramento State for 15 of the 20 years it has been dead. The dissection lab, aside from housing human organs such as brains and hearts, also features skeletons and entire human heads preserved in jars of formaldehyde.

But dead bodies in Humboldt Hall are not the only peculiar happenings on campus. The bells that chime throughout the day and night are mysteriously nowhere to be found, unless of course you count the synthesized recording that erupts from a speaker on top of the University Union. The chimes, which are programmed from a small hidden room on the second floor of the Union, can be found behind a camoflouge door in the study area, not far from the large fireplace that remains unused.

Beneath the depths of Sacramento State lies an underground steam tunnel that, since its creation in the 1950s, begins at the central plant and continues underneath the music building, studio theatre and the backside of the library until coming to an end at the University Union. The tunnel, which has an eight-foot diameter, is used to distribute the heating and cooling on campus.

After-hours in the Union, to a select few, adds its own spine-tingling details. According to one member of the janitorial crew who would like to remain anonymous, around midnight during his graveyard shift one evening, he was on the second floor of the Union and found all of the purple chairs in front of the fireplace spinning. He was the only person on the floor

Andy Duoung contributed to this report