UPEI Haunting
This has been awhile in coming, but here it is.
During my time at the University of Prince Edward Island (where?:-)), I have heard of a number of campus hauntings. Asbackground, our campus used to be two campuses, St. Dunstan'sUniversity and Prince of Wales College. The two amalgamated inthe late 1960's (1968 I believe) to form the only university inthis province.
The first dates back to when the building currently in use by theHome economics department was used as a male residence. On thisparticular night, two students were in the town having a high oldtime. A snowstorm began to blow up and they started back. One wasslower than the other, so he asked his friend to go on ahead anmake sure the door was open because he knew he would not make itback before curfew when the front door would be locked. Thefriend went on ahead and made it just before the door was locked,but he was banished to his room to being so late.
Later, the second roommate arrived to find the door locked and noway to get in. He pounded on the door, but the priests woudl notlet him in, intending to teach him a lesson. An hour or so later,the first roommate, worried for his friend, heard a knock at thedormroom door. He went up to answer it, sure it was his roommate,but all that greeted him was cold draft of air. He looked down tosee a trail of water leading to the staircase from his doorway.Puzzled, he returned to bed.
The next morning, the second roomate was found frozen to deathoutside the front door.
Ever since that night, staff or students who are working late inthe building during a particularly blustery winter's night mayfind a cold breeze blow past them and look down to see the sametrail of water leading from a particular room to the staircase.
Such is the tale of Dalton Hall
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The next is a more uplifting storing surrounding the CassChemistry building. Father Cass was a benevolent soul and acaring teacher during the early part of the century. When hedied, the building was named in his honour as he had spent mostof his life teaching chemistry to the college's varied population.
It is said that Father Cass still roams the halls, looking afterhis students, even those who were born long after his death.
One night, two chemistry students were working late on a project.Despite the rule that noone is allowed to work alone in thebuilding in case something happens, one student decided to make aquick run down to the local Burger King for something almost butnot quite entirely unlike food to tide them over through the weeearly hours. The second student was left on the top floor to lookafter the experiment.
Not long after the first left, the second heard a noise fromdownstairs. Thinking it might be his/her partner, they wentdownstairs to see who was there. Before I go any farther, youmust understand that there is one staircase inside the building,thus one way from the main level to the top. The fire escape isaccessible from the second floor and up, but has never been useddue to it's advanced state of disrepair. There would be no wayfor a person to get through the building without being seen orheard. Also consider that sound travels VERY well in this emptybuilding at night.
To return to the story, they went downstairs to see who it was.Not finding anyone, nor hearing anyone in the building, they wentback upstairs. There they found the bunsen burner that had beenleft running was shut off, the gas shut down both at the nozzleand the wall, and the tube neatly rolled up. It was then thatthis student remembered the stories of Father Cass putting thingsaway that were left unattended.
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There is only one other historic haunting I can think of, but werefuted it with a bit of investigation. Apparently in Mainbuilding, before it was renovated, a certain room would be seenfrom the outside to have a light on. Not so strange you say, butif you look closely you can see a figure hanging from the ceiling.Apparently, one of the professors had hung themself in that room.Ever since then, the room could be seen from the outside to belit revealing a dim figure swinging slowly on the end of a ropefrom the ceiling. If you tried to find the room, you woudl findthe only door into it covered with boxes. Remove the boxes andunlock the door and you would find an empty light socket.
As I said, we disproved this. There was another way into the room(they forgot about my teleport spell ;-) ).
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The last story I will relate is a bit hard for me to believe,even though I was there. I am a skeptic by nature. I believethere probably is more to this world than meets the eye, psychicpowers may be possible, though I see precognition as beingincredibly perceptive and being able to deduce the future basedon a paranormal knowledge of what is happening in the world (beyondnormal human perception, that is).
It has been said by the women of Bernadine hall, the campus'swomen's residence, that the lounge on the fourth floor is a focusfor spirits. Of this I'm skeptical, but I have an open mind soI'll reserve my disbelief until I see proof either way.
On one particular night we decided to try a seance using theOuija board. Now, I have been described as being an excellentreceiver, one of the reasons they wanted me involved. Once I wasasked to try to describe a house as a friend of mine "walked"through it in his mind. I was able to describe the houseindetail, down to the colour and style of furniture and thegeodesic dome in the back yard. I've not been able to explain it,but I've haven't seen the place either. I'll reserve my judgementof what I saw until then.
Back to the story. Several of us took part in this, taking turns(male with female) on the board to see if we could find anything.Soon, we started feeling cold, and one of the more sensitive ofthe group began to take on a different personality. Now, we wereall trying to be open to spirits. I was trying my hand atautomatic writing as this was happening. The person affected wasat the ouija board. He began to talk as if he were a scared younggirl. At the same time, I and another friend got this increadiblyclear vision of a room in this building, but we could feel it wason the other side of the building on the third floor. My visionwas of looking out over a bed from a black room to an opendoorway. Standing in the doorway was a young woman wearing a kirtto just below the knee and shoulder length hair. I the light fromthe hallway was shining in behind her. I could feel fear of....thegirl? Something anyway... and a feeling that I had to get pasther into the light.
At the same time, one of the women had a vision of looking onto adark room on the opposite side of the building at a young womancowering behind a bed. The feeling she received was of concernfor the girl, who looked to be terrified, but of what she didn'tknow.
These stories were heard by an independant witness so we wouldnot trade information, so I'm at aloss to explain it. Was it avision of a person cowering in fear, or did we simply have apsychicly linked dream? Or did the independant witnesscollaberate with my friend to match her story to mine? I guessI'll never know.
By the way, there person who because "posessed" wasfaking it. Orr at least he appeared to be faking.
If you know of any other UPEI stories, I'd be happy to hear them,or any stories relating to Eastern Canada.