Military School Haunt

From: Katie (rtsgirl2002@yahoo.com)
Story type: Ghost
Location: my high school
Source: Form Submission

I had never been interested in the paranormal unitl about 6 years ago when I started to attend a local Military Academy. My first day there (touring the place), I began to have odd feelings while walking in some of the buildings. Kinda like I was being carefully watched and whatever it was made me so uncomfortable that when I sat down to talk to my family about attending the academy, I told them I didn't want to live there but just to attend classes as a day student. They, of course, told me that there were "hundreds of other students there and they seemed to be fine".

So to make a long story short, I moved in in December 2002, second semester. While living there, I witnessed too many happenings to write down all of them. Our school was dated back to the late 1800's and was formerly used as a safehouse for slaves. All buildings on the property were the origional buildings but had been remodeled on the insides to make accomodations for dormitories. My dorm was the 2ond oldest on the property. At lights out (bedtime, 10pm) if you dared leave the confines of your selected room, it was certain that something was going to happen to scare you back. We constantly heard footsteps, but these footsteps were heavy and sounded like our old dress shoes. Everytime we would hear this, we would open our doors to find no one walking down the hall. Doors opened and shut all night some nights due to the curious looking up and down the halls. Upon leaving your room, you would be followed by these sounds. Come to find out, our dorm used to be a male dorm and they used to have a fire guard patrol the hallways at night making sure everything was in order and the elected guard would have to be in full parade uniform...wearing dress shoes. We also constantly battled with a prankster spirit. This one would play tricks on us. It would unplug the alarm clocks in the rooms of our higher ranking officers (random rooms) so they would be late for morning formations. People who chose to shower earliest in the mornings would find themselves in the dark with freezing cold water coming from the shower,both happening at the same time. Whispering in ears as you walked through the halls, furniture moving overhead when no one else was in the dorm and finding nothing out of place upon inspection. Sheets missing off of beds late in the day only to find them later that evening replaced but made back up on the beds differently than taught.

The spookiest thing that happened to me was one morning while getting dressed...late for breakfast formation...I was drying my hair in the bathroom. I heard the door open and close and footsteps and then the footsteps stopped behind me. I was leaning forward with my head down as I always do to dry my long hair and a friend of mine, Liz, asked me jokingly why I was late. I laughed and told her that my alarm "quit working". She laughed back almost hysterically and began telling me what she had for breakfast, eggs,pancakes and sausage links with ranch dressing. I used to room with her and found this strange that she had eaten ranch dressing considering she hated it (I loved it and ate it on everything) and looked up to question her. When I did, I found I was alone, not only in the bathrooms, but in the dorm. I ran out of the dorm, more scared than ever and ran to the chow hall across the road,still with a half wet head, to find Liz and ask her if she had been in the dorms. She was sitting there eating eggs, pancakes and sausage links with ranch dressing! Upon questioning her, she said she had not been back to the dorms that day. We later talked and I told her about what had happened to me that morning and I asked her why she had been eating ranch dressing with her sausage and she told me that she did not know why and although it was nasty to her, she kept eating it until it was all gone. Others in my dorm also had experiences talking with this disappearing "friend".

It is a creepy place to visit and a creepier place to live. All and all, I am a believer in spirts now. I don't believe in "ghosts" per say, but restless spirits, good and evil ones. All my experiences have so far proved harmless. Just curious spirits passing time perhaps. I suggest anyone who has never experienced paranormal happenings to visit this location. Not only will it make you belive, it will help you to understand and not be afraid.