School Ghost Stories or Strange Things.

JLP
Sun, 28 Nov 2004 23:24:36 +0000

Heheh… that’s funny.

At my SCHOOL (not college) we have a ghost in the theatre that messes with the lights, sound, etc. during shows sometimes (she gets riled by all the people in the audience.) Sometimes she shows up in cast pictures, and sometimes the SMs in the attic can hear a baby crying over the headset (sometimes even a woman singing a lullaby to the baby…) The legend is that, when the theatre was being built, some kids stole a skeleton from the science department and were GOING to do something funny and prank-ish with it, but there were about to get into big trouble, so they ditched the plan. They couldn’t return the skeleton without getting caught, so they broke up all the bones and threw them over the walls of the theatre into the space between the concrete. But the kids got caught anyway a few weeks after–after the concrete had already been poured to finish the walls and the theatre ceiling had been raised–and the tale got out. It’s pretty widely believed (SOMEBODY did some research, backtracking through the company that sold the school the skeleton, etc.) that the skeleton was that of a poor mother from India who died in childbirth, and her parents sold her body for money. The skeleton ended up in our science department, and eventually in our theatre walls, and the ghost (friendly!) of the woman sings to her baby, messes with our lights, and just generally likes to joke around. Well, that is, if you believe in ghosts (or my really poorly told tale).