okay folks--it's ghosting time.

hey everyone! okay, i have a cool story. it's kind of long, so if you're not too interested in ghost stories on my campus, you should stop reading. anyways.
okay. so you all know about DuBourg Hall and how the exorcism happened (for those who don't, please refer to previous blogs. you'll probably want to check out september's...i think it's in that one). ANYWAYS! so last night (monday night) we had a ghost hunter come to SLU to take people around the fourth floor at night so they could ghost hunt, right? regrettably, i could not attend, because i was scheduled to work, which is actually quite strange because i haven't worked on a monday since august....hm.....well, i've been exploring the fourth floor with tom and a couple others about three times now, and so i thought i knew it pretty well, even though there were some doors i couldn't get through because they were locked.
well, the ghost hunter took them to places that i hadn't been in yet. my friend ashley was among them. so she was telling me about how they had a thermometer and some electromagnetic reading thingy, and how they would go into a room in the dark, and he would speak to the "spirits" in the room, and announce why they were there. so then everyone would stand there waiting for something to happen. in some places, nothing happened. but then in one room the bulbs in the lights suddenly flashed and popped, and right before that happened the girl holding the thermometer announced that the temperature had dropped from 86 degress to 45 degrees. and then the elecrtomagnetic thing that had set up in the room that starts making noises when people move close to it started going off, even though no one had moved.
now, even though i was like, huh cool, ghosty stuff, part of me was skeptical because they were using equipmennt that he brought and maybe he had rigged stuff just to freak everyone, right? well, then i found out some even creepier stuff...
so when the lights flashed and popped, it happened between 9 pm and 9:20 pm. remember that. then, this girl that ashley was with had been taking pictures with her digital camera, and noticed these spots on the pictures that looked like rain drops. so she asked the guy about it, and he started talking about how they were called "ghost orbs" and showed them pictures that people had taken of ghosts, and the spots in those pictures looked exactly like the ones in this girl's pictures! ghost orbs are ghosts, but just in an orb shape.
so at this point i was like, wow, that's pretty creepy, but i was still a little skeptical. but just keep reading. it gets weirder.
so then ashley tells me about how she was telling our friend lindsey all about the ghosthunting later that night. lindsey is in a play here at slu, and she was at rehearsal at xavier hall, which is about a five minute walk from dubourg, while the people were ghosthunting. she had wanted to go, but was stuck in rehearsal. so lindsey was telling her all about the ghost orbs in the pictures, and lindsey looks at her and says, "shut the fuck up." and lindsey was like, "what??" in response, lindsey pulls out her camera and shows ashely pictures that she had been taking of the stage while at rehearsal, and covering the picture were ghost orbs. also, that night, three brand-new bulbs burst in the lights sometime between 9pm and 9:20.
how freaky is this??? but keep reading....!!!!
so this afternoon (tuesday) after hearing all of this from ashley, i run up to lindsey's room to see the pictures. and let me tell you, they were so eerie. we decide to go to dubourg and look around some more. so she takes her digital camera, and we creep up the fourth floor. the place i wanted to take her was locked, so we decided to go through this door into a set of rooms i hadn't been in yet. we explore one room, and then go into another. these rooms are not furnished, and are falling apart, and the floors are all ripped up, some of the ceilings are exposed, and all the crawl spaces leading into the attic are open. so we go into this really sunny room that has a table set up in it, and some curtains on the floor that construction workers had recently taken down. she's freaked out, and wants to leave, but i'm walking around the room and i hear her camera clicking. she had taken pictures in the other rooms we were in, but we saw nothing. as i'm walking around this room, i hear her breathe in sharply, and she goes, "margaret...." so i walk over to her. she points to the picture she just took of the room, and there are two of those ghost orbs. she starts saying she wants to leave again, but i grab her arm and tell her to just take more pictures, and that we're fine. so we keep exploring, and she keeps taking pictures, but no more orbs showed up.
aaaa!! how FREAKY and EERIE and HAIR RAISING is THAT???? the ghost hunter might come back, he said, because he sensed some definite vibes and he might make a documentary. i also took lots of pictures the other times i was up there, so i can't wait to get them developed!! maybe i'll see ghost orbs, too!!!