Ghost school

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Story type: Ghost
Location: college
Source: Form Submission

I am a principal of a newly funded school that has been running for eight years. This encounter happened ten years ago when my husband and I when to look at a building that we could buy as the school which was an old mental asylum that went out of use just a few years before. The patients were currently situated in villas around the main building. The building was very old and pretty.

During the viewing we walked down a very long corridor that seemed to take us only to one room. We didn't go in but we could see through the glass in the door that the room was filled to the roof of old suitcases, hat boxes, over coats and other prized essentuals. My husband came to the conculsion that the things had been possessions that belonged to the patients and were took off them when they were addmitted. It did give me a shiver up my spine because I knew these people had never got out of the asylum alive.

We started to move down the corridor again when I heard loud banging. We decided to go back and see what was happening. When we looked through the glass a second time the suitcases were behaving absolutely astonishingly. They opened, shut, clothes tipped out, coat stands knocked over and shoes thrown aroud the room. It wasn't even that which scared me the most, it was the screaming patients that weren't actually there. It soon turned worse and the suitcases were being thrown at the walls and the clothes torn up and threw on the ground. I have never been so scared, terrified and froze to the spot in all my life. Needless to say the school never started in that building!