Hello Everybody:
Welcome to my brand new blog! I decided to start the blog to serve a hub for all Saint Michael's College paranormal stories. If you read books on haunted places in Vermont Saint Michael's in Colchester is mentioned but there is a rather pathetically small passage included. I wanted to use this place as a tool to post stories and accounts from students, faculty, and staff reguarding their experiences late at night in some of our academic and office spaces. So please enjoy! I will post things as I recieve them and I hope this sight will grow to something bigger and put SMC on the paranormal map!
This morning I found the following story was posted on www.burlingtonfreepress.com on the right hand side under comments:
Ghost in Founders Hall at Saint Michael's College
Wed Oct 18, 2006 7:41 am
My junior year I was living in Founders Hall, shortly after 3 girls died a ghost started to appear in my room. At first is started out as my door locking and unlocking itself. Then it progressed into my TV randomly changing channels while the remote was on the other side of the room. Then eventually it took form and would watch me sleep. Over the years I have heard of other students experiencing the same sorts of things, usually after a campus tragedy is when it apears.
posted by Michael @ 1:46 PM
8 Comments:
Hey! I'm currently a junior at St.Mikes and I lived in Founders last year on the fourth floor. I experienced the same exact things happen to me all year. I was just wondering what floor you were on and maybe what room to see if there is any correlation better the floor or possibly the room number
Me again! Back to what I was saying about Founders Hall. I lived in room 402 I believe during my sophomore year. I would experience my door locking and unlocking by itself, my tv changing channels on it's own when my remote was on the bedside table next to me and my tv would randomly turn on by itself. I would also hear frequently knocking and banging on the walls, floor and ceiling in my room and I was on the fourth floor so the only thing above me was the locked attic which no one was in.....kinda freaky.
Me again with more to tell! I also experienced one night I packed my backpack for classes the next morning and zipped it all up and went to bed. I woke up the next morning and parts of my backpack were unzipped. Also once while I was taking a shower early around 5am in the bathroom, I got out of the shower and the sink turned on by itself. Also while in the bathroom another time I was in a toilet stall and the sink again turned on although I don't know if it was the same sink. But what is most creepy to me is that all of us on the fourth floor (all girls) would hear these footsteps in a dead run down our hallway between 7pm and maybe 11:30pm but what was creepy is that during the time when we heard the dead run footsteps they would be accompanied by a scream not like a blood curdling scream but like a playful scream like kids playing tag. But we would also hear them around 2-3am in a dead run down our hall but during this time there was no scream accompanied with them. And we would only hear them go down the hall once and that's it never more than once. But what's really scary is that I was talking to this girl who lived on the second floor of Founders and I told her about the dead run footsteps and she said she could hear them on the second floor! Now that means she heard them through a third floor hall full of loud noisy rowdy boys and the second floor ceiling!
Still me! Another story, I lived in a room that was right next door to the trash and recycling room and would often hear late at night these muffled deep male sounding voices in the trash/recycling room next to me. I'm pretty sure no girls on our hall have that deep of voices or hang out in the laundry room for fun at 2am. Another story, I was in my room one morning before class and I was sitting on my bed getting ready to leave when I looked over at my tv which was near my room door and so I happened to glance over at my door and something caught my attention. I looked at the space underneath the door and between the floor and I saw this dark shadow fly down the hallway to the right of my room. It was not a person because it had no legs and no sounds were accompanied with it. I later asked my hallmates and they said they all had their doors shut because this was an early class around 7:30 when I was getting ready to leave and none of them were up yet and so it couldn't have been their open door with their window projecting a shadow of traffic driving by.
And me still! Another different story, one night like any other I was getting done my homework and pushed my desk chair into my desk so it would be out of the way like always. So I went to sleep and woke up the next morning and my desk chair was turned completely around facing my bed like someone had moved the chair and sat in it and watched me sleep. But one of the freakiest things was this. I was on my way to the bathroom which was 3 doors down from my room and right across from the stairs to go down to the next floor and by the stairs railing there's a little square of space maybe 5 feet by 5 feet in front of the bathroom. So I walked down the hall and got to this landing square area by the stairs in front of the bathroom but there was this elderly lady standing there so I was polite and said hello but she didn't say anything back to me she just had this really creepy eerie smile on her face. So I went into the bathroom and washed my hands like I planned on doing because I spilled something on them and this took maybe 45 seconds. I walk out of the bathroom and that lady was gone nowhere to be seen. There's no way she got down the stairs or hall without me hearing it in the bathroom because the old floors creek really loudly because Founders is so old. So I don't know where she went or what she was because she looked as real as you and I do standing right there in front of me.
More still! Another small side story, frequently my light would flicker in my room and so I eventually decided to get a work order in to have someone come fix it. So the electrician came and replaced the bulb and it worked okay for maybe 3 days but then it started flickering again so I called for another work order and the electrician came by again and this time checked all the wiring and said it was fine that there was nothing that looked to be wrong with it. So the flickering continued until one day I had enough of it so I yelled "Stop it!" and the light stopped flickering for a long while but then eventually started up again maybe 3 weeks later and so I yelled again and it stopped for maybe 2 weeks and this cycle continued for the whole year I lived in Founders Hall. I would also hear footsteps and heavy dragging sounds on the attic floor above me.
More! Another freaky thing, so at this time I had a boyfriend who went to school in Pittsburgh and we would talk on the phone some nights to catch up and whatever. I would frequently put him on speaker phone so I could get some stuff done while I was talking to him and he would sometimes say my name to get my attention when I was distracted or couldn't hear him. So a little while after this I was in my room one morning after class around 10am doing homework and I heard this little boys voice yell "Heeeeelllpp!" it sounded very far away like he was falling but yet it was clear so I could understand it. Then right after that I heard that same little boys voice say my name! Now I don't know if ghosts can learn your name or not but it's weird how it never happened until I put my boyfriend on speakerphone and he said my name out loud. Also while we were on the phone, on many occasions we would hear beeping noises on our phones like someone was pressing buttons on the keypads of our phones. So we asked eachother and we both said that we weren't because we almost always had eachother on speakerphone so we weren't even touching our phones when the beeping would occur. It got to be very frequent and annoying like a beep then maybe 3 minutes later another one then again in a cycle and sometimes it would happen rapidly like 2 beeps in a row. And what we weird was that we would hear them and the other one of us wouldn't hear them. So we never heard the beeping at the same time. I would hear it and my boyfriend wouldn't and he would hear it and I wouldn't. And it started out just happening when I was talking to him on the phone but then I gradually started to happen when I was talking to other people like my mom, dad and sister. So one night my boyfriend got upset and started to tap to the ghosts and told them if they in the room with me to press a button on one of our phones. It took a while and maybe times of him challenging them to do it but the eventually did and they pressed a button and made the same beeping noise as we would often hear.
And finally!
I also know of other haunting stories my friends have told me. In room 205 my friend Hannah and Denise were roommates. They were getting into their beds on night and Hannah shut off the light switch near her bed and as soon as she did she heard a male voice whisper her name "Hannah Hannah" twice in her ear. So she asked Denise if that was her and Denise said no but she heard it and they ended up sleeping in the same bed that night. There was also another girl named Hannah down the hall and the ghost would bother her too. I've read about a boy committing suicude in room 267 of Founders and have been told that his girlfriend as the time of his suicude her name was Hannah so maybe that's why he was bothering them?
I also talked to another girl who told me about one night she and her roommate were going to bed and they heard a knock on what they thought was their to door so the girl Kate got up and answered it and no one was there. So she got back into bed and they heard it again and her roommate asked if someone was at the door again and Kate said no that the knocking was coming from inside her closet door.
Now I had always had a creepy feeling about Founders even before I moved into it because I had heard it was haunted but never believed it was true. I was actually a hardcore skeptic of ghosts and spirits but as soon as I had my first paranormal experience, I have been a hardcore believer ever since. Ever since my first experience I never felt safe in Founders and often felt like I was being watched or like someone else was in the room with me
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