In June 1990 I gained employment as a school caretaker, the school building was early Victorian, two hundred years old. Before it was a school it was believed to be a work house where many children would have lived in poor conditions. The historical building was in need of some cosmetic work but the atmosphere was pleasantly warm and friendly, I always looked forward to going to work. It was like going back in time!
In July 1993 the school headmaster Philip decided to give the old building a complete face lift. I was concerned as I thought it would spoil the character of the building but never the less Philip said it had it had to be done.
The work was done during the school summer holidays, by a team of twenty men. They knocked walls down, put new radiators in place and even put up a new roof as the old one was leaking. It took about six weeks in total to complete but looked really nice once finished and we were all very pleased. We had good heating at last and no more puddles on the floor which was great.
Three months had passed since the school renovation when things started happening. At first it was only subtle changes but enough to raise attention. One early morning I was cleaning the library and suddenly heard the sound of heavy footsteps comming from the classrooms. The footsteps got closer and closer and then stopped immediately, I was puzzled at first I thought that one of the teachers must have come in early, but then I realised that all the doors were bolted. This chilling experience was the first of many more to come!
As the months passed I started to sense a hostility and I did not want to be there. The paranormal activity at the school started to increase, heavy furniture was being moved over night with no explanation, myself and some of the teachers heard the sound of voices whispering, doors would slam shut when I was the only person in the building. When I arrived at work I would often feel Cold spots in some of the classrooms, then I started to hear voices calling me by my name and door knobs rattling and water taps turning on spontaneously. I was beginning to feel very afraid of what was happening to me. The once cosy little school become a very lonely and scary place to be and I was terribly desperate for company especially during the evening time. I explained all the strange happenings to the headmaster and he dismissed it and said that there is most probably a logical explanation on these strange occurrences but I knew otherwise.
A month later a lady called Molly was employed as a school cleaner because the workload become too much for me to bare. She was very nice and I was delighted to have company at last! We soon become really good friends. Things started to look much brighter and I once again become relaxed and back to my happy self. Several weeks later all hell broke loose but this time we both started to hear and see things.
We were working late one evening like we often did, all the teachers had gone home. Molly and I decided to have a tea break and retired into the staff room. While chatting and relaxing I heard the sound of a piano playing in the distance but only I could hear it. We both got up and started to walk towards the school hall, the noise became louder and louder and now we could both hear the same thing. We assumed that a member of staff had returned to the school, but when we entered the hall the piano sound stopped immediately and the lid was closed, we looked at each other and froze. Feeling deeply disturbed we abandoned our jobs and went home. Molly was very upset by the strange happenings and felt extremely uneasy from that moment on.
After the piano incident the paranormal activity stopped, months passed and nothing out of the ordinary happened until one late Novembers night. I was awoken with a phone call from the local Police telling me that the school's alarm was going off. This was not unusual as it had happened to me many times before, due to a faulty alarm system that never got repaired.
I made my way to the school and entered at the back of the building which was the hall and turned off the alarm system. I decided to check the school for any evidence of indruders.As I walked down the corridor I heard heavy footsteps comming from some where in the building. At that moment I thought it must be an intruder and my only concern was my safety and the security of the school.
I checked every classroom one by one but saw nothing but I could still hear footsteps. I finally come to the end of my checks and walked passed the paint room, to my astonishment I saw a man sitting in an armchair just starring at me. He was very thin with prominent lines on this face. He was wearing a black cap, cream jacket and gray trousers. His eyes didn?t seem human they were very dark almost black, mysterious and uninviting. I felt like I was hypnotised and everything seemed to be in slow motion. He then disappeared right in front of my me and the atmosphere become icy cold. I ran out of the building as quick as a I could! What ever I saw on that dark night was not human and did not want me there.
Six months later the school closed down and I was made redundant. I was not sad to leave and I shall never want to return. It is now a medical school and I?ve heard that it is still haunted to this very day. For the last twelve years I have kept this ghost story a secret until now.
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