From: Robert Mingee <rmingee@convex.COM>
Subject: Re: School Ghosts
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Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 17:42:03 GMT
Reply-To: rmingee@convex.COM (Robert Mingee)
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In article <20AUG199221331689@rosie.uh.edu> elee9sv@rosie.uh.edu (92H01722) writes:
>        My father used to go to school in an old school in Nagodoches Texas.
>The school would shake an knock over inkwells! Has anyone ever heard any
>school ghost stroies?
>

Well, I wasn't going to post this since many will dismiss it as overactive
imagination (I'm still not sure what to think about it myself), but since you
asked...

I grew up in a small town in Illinois and lived right across the street from
the school.  My best friend and another friend of mine were janitors there
(this was a k-8 school and these events occurred after I was already in high
school and no longer going to that school), so we would often be in the school
at night messing around in the library with remote controlled cars or playing
ditchem (a hide-and-seek variant).  A number of times while in the library
(with the hallway lights outside the library off), I would see a figure from
the corner of my eye standing in the doorway.  As soon as I would turn to look,
it was gone.  I didn't think too much of it, but one night it had happened 2 or
3 times, so I asked my friend if he ever noticed anything weird in the school,
and a look of relief came to his face and he proceeded to say that he had also
seen a figure in the doorway before (he told me this before I mentioned to him
specifically what I meant).  One other time we were in the hallway with the
lights off (I think we had been playing ditchem, but were done with that round)
and all of us were at one end of the hallway near the light switches, and we
saw the shadow of a human figure at one end of the hall (there was a small
amount of light coming thru windows at that end of the hall) that can't really
have been.  In other words, there was no figure there to cast the shadow.  As
soon as we turned on the lights, it was gone (obviously).

I found out later that a number of years back, 2 kids had a fight in the locker
room, and one of them fell and hit his head on the bench.  The kid seemed shaken
but OK, but that night at dinner he just fell dead from an injury he had
sustained when he hit his head.  Think of it what you will....

The only other strange experience I have had was on a plant trip to Chicago.  I
was staying in the Palmer House (I think), and in the middle of the night, I
felt like I was in a half-awake state, and saw a figure moving around on the
other side of the room.  I tried to open my eyes completely, but couldn't seem
to rouse myself completely.  My eyes closed again, and a second or
so later I felt something squeeze my hand.  I was *bolt awake* immediately,
and of course there was nothing there.  It could have just been a very vivid
dream, but I can't remember before or since actually feeling a physical
sensation during a dream.  I slept the rest of the night with the lamp on
beside my bed :-).

BTW, I really love this newsgroup (when I get the chance to read it)!

-- robert
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