Many of you have responded to my requests, and have written to tell me of your own ghostly encounters at school and at home. I present some of these tales now for your delectation and delight.
Now it is up to the rest of you to decide. Do you believe the events described here really occurred? Or are they simply works of the imagination.
Either way…enjoy!
Freaky Fridays
by Catercow
One Friday afternoon at my school, the seventh grade was eating lunch and all of a sudden this kid just started choking and he couldn’t breathe. The creepy thing about it is that he wasn’t eating or talking or anything he was just sitting there. And the weirdest part of all is that when the ambulance came, they said that there was nothing wrong with him at all. And then later he told me that he could feel someone choking him.
Later on in the day, in my Math class (6th period), this girl went to the bathroom, and she came running back saying that when she was in there she knew she was by herself but when she came out there was a girl with curly black hair standing there, and she didn’t even hear the door open. Then when she started to turn away, the girl disappeared.
I heard from my friend in French class that this one girl (also with curly black hair) walked into the class room and her eyes rolled into the back of her head, then back again, and then she walked away. And I remember hearing my friends talk about how our school used to be a shopping plaza with a movie theater, and that a girl with curly black hair had hanged herself there on a Friday afternoon. So every Friday afternoon something odd happens.
Haunted Girls’ Room
by Angel4ever
My old school was haunted. If you were in the bathroom and were real quiet, you could hear the sound of someone crying. And sometimes the doors to all the stalls would open, and no one was there. But if you glanced in the end stall very quickly, you could see a girl with tear soaked cheeks, but when you looked back she was gone.
Haunted Boys’ Room
by SgtTor
I was in the 5th grade and supposedly the boys bathroom on the first floor was haunted. I was new to the school so I didn’t know. I went downstairs to use the bathroom. Right before I got done, the hair on the back of my neck stood up and I got the chills.
Then right when I zipped up my pants all the toilets and urinals flushed by themselves. Even the one I was using! I got scared and ran out. [I wonder if that was a ghost–or if the boys’ room just had toilets with automatic flushers! –Eric]
When I told the guys from my class what happened they told me that weird things happened there.
[And how come so many ghosts hang out in restrooms? –Eric again]
Haunted House
by Danae
My name is Danae and I lived in a haunted house. It had a huge backyard and freaky things happened to me in that house. I think it was built on a cemetary but I don’t know for sure. Here are some examples of the kinds of things that happened.
1. Sometimes when doors were closed all the way they would unlatch and open again.
2. When my sister and I were alone in the house we heard sounds. Not the floor boards creaking but things like whistles. My friend said someone was buried there.
We moved away from that place when I was 9 and I’m 11 now.
The Spirit of Theater
by a Former Drama Student
Hey, I’m writing to you about a school I used to attend where the theatre was supposedly haunted. I would deeply appreciate it if my e-mail address was left unknown.
The last school I attended had a really nice theatre. It made a lot of people from other schools jealous. Sometimes our drama teacher would let us go up to the catwalk to just kinda chill.
One time me and a group of 5 friends were up there hanging and the teach turned all the lights off so it was pitch black. We were up there for a few minutes when we heard scratching type noises and something that sounded like someone walking, but we were all sitting down.
As our eyes adjusted we could see that all 6 of us (me and 5 other peeps) were all sitting down–but as I looked up I could kinda see a shadowy figure seeming to stand above one of my friends. It disappeared and I thought I musta imagined it.
Then we were telling scary stories to freak each other out and we heard a clanking noise and we looked to where it came from, and we saw like a white figure, hard to see, but it seemed like we could make out a face. It was just over in the corner and we all looked at each other like “oh my god” and we looked back and it was gone.
Later that week we were all standing on the stage fooling around, and we turned the lights off again and laid out on the stage in the dark. It was just us and the teacher there, and the teacher was in his office. As we lay there we heard the clanking noise again and we all stood up and huddled together. We looked up in the direction of the catwalk, thinking we might see something but it was pitch black.
We calmed down again when one girl screamed and pointed at the catwalk and there was a white figure seeming to float up there. Then it disappeared. We all freaked and ran out of there.
Later on we were told that a woman died in that theater or something like that.
This is Eric again.
Well there you have it — a sample of unexplained events. What do you think? Real ghosts, overactive imaginations, or completely made up?
And remember–if you have your own ghost story, by all means send it to me, and I will add it to my collection, and post it here if you give me permission. Click here to send a message to Eric!
I’ll be seeing you.