DU is a good place to ask this: how many people here believe they have encountered a ghost?

[OldBaldy1701E]

49. I will try to make it brief.

So, on many occasions I was the last person at the school on any given day. I had a bike I kept there in case I wanted to ride around the area while I was working. It was around 8:00 pm that night and I was working on making DVDs of the Christmas pageant for sale in the student store. It was a bit tedious, so after the new batch was started, I decided to do the nightly lockdown. This entailed checking out the entire school to ensure that no one was in the building, then setting the alarm and riding my bike around the building to the entrance by my office, which did not have an alarm on it, but also did not have an outside handle of any kind. (If you wanted to come in from the outside, either someone had to open the door for you or you propped it open.) I did my rounds (on my bike. I used to love riding it up and down the halls with no one around.) After making sure that there was no one in the entire building, I rode to the front office, went outside the door, locked it up and set the alarm. I then rode around the building and came back inside. I put my bike away and went back to my workstation to check on the DVD burner.

I had been back inside about two minutes when I started to hear what sounded like two or three sets of bare feet running on the floor above me. My first thought was that the teacher who had a classroom above my office had two small daughters and therefore I had accidently trapped them upstairs, as the stairwells all had alarm sensors. Of course, I then thought that there was no way, as I had checked the entire school before I had set the alarm. I then realized that it must be some kind of spirit activity. I walked out into the hallway by my office and I heard a few faint giggles as the running got more pronounced. I went to the stairway doors and called up through the crack, "Now now kids. You know you are not supposed to be running in the hallways!" I then heard a giggle again and the running stopped. I returned to my office and started packaging the DVDs I had made. I heard a few other giggles and a few footsteps outside of my office door. I called out, "Yes, I am still here if you want to come in." I head what sounded like whispering and then the door rattled just a bit. I turned to it and smiled. Then, the sounds stopped and I did not hear them again that night.

That was the most active incident I had at the school. I did not worry about it, but I was told never to tell the students about my encounter. (I told a few anyway.) What I found amusing was the fact that I never had an issue walking around in that darkened school. I always felt a good vibe about it. So, its energy was not scary to me. I knew that some of the faculty would never walk around that place after dark. LOL.