I work in this building that is reputedly haunted. I've worked ther now for probably 5 years or so I'd guess. The house was built somewhere around 1830 give or take a year or two and, to my mind, is a beautiful place to work and I'm desperate for the lottery to come up so I can buy it and turn it into a home. I just love it.
Well, my colleagues and I do like our ghost hunts and we've been looking around online to see if there was anything relatively near that we could take part in. Glasgow, Edinburgh, Darlington etc. All a bit of a trek. All of a sudden, Fee suggested that we do the building I work in. So, we got permission from the relevent bod and we've arranged the stopover for this Friday evening. I'm really looking forward to it.
Although I love the building, I don't much care for being there after dark. It's not particularly creepy inside but it's not somewhere you'd feel happy being alone. Perhaps it's just 'cos it's rather big. Who knows? There's something like 25-30 rooms there ranging in size from a small toilet to large rooms over 20ft square any anything in between. There are attics too but sadly, no cellars that I'm aware of although looking at the photo I've attached, it looks like there possibly might be. They could just be vents for under the floor to stop it getting too manky under there I suppose.
The plan for Friday is for us to descend there at 10pm and do a quick recce of the building. We'll then 'go dark'. We're planning on ouija sessions, séances, table tipping, lone vigils and things like that. I'll also be taking recording equipment and having things for the ghost(s) if they exist to play with to let us know they're there. The state of play at the moment is that we're possibly going to be using the attic as our main hangout but we'll see how we feel when we get there... There is a bed settee in the main lounge (now a teaching room).
In my teaching room on more than one occasion, a couple of things have happened albeit nothing much to comment on...
Early on in the beginning of this academic year (beginning of October-ish 2011) during a class with 20 students or so we'd been talking about the place reputedly being haunted and then, a little while later, from nowhere, with no-one standing near it, the projector screen shot up (like a roller blind). It was a relatively new screen that has never done it before or since to my knowledge. With the same group a week or two later, the mouse on the computer screen that's linked up to the projector started moving around the screen on its own. I asked it to stop and it did. I asked it to start again and it did. The poor students were absolutely terrified and still talk about it now. Practical joke? Who knows? I think we'll be concentrating on that room a bit!
As you can see from the picture above, there are two rooms downstairs with large bay windows, originally the one on the left of the picture was my teaching room. It's the exact mirror image of the one on the right which is now my teaching room instead. I didn't like the room on the left. It's colder somehow (as in welcome rather than temperature) and it also feels darker. So, I decided to swap sides and the atmosphere in my new room is so much better but it does feel 'active' rather than the other one just being a bit grim.
Really looking forward to it. Probably because I've got my heart set on a Chinese takeaway!
S
