Continuing the series of Ghost Stories in St. Augustine.
My freshman year we experienced several ghostly encounters in the dorms. There were many nights where we were plagued with the sounds doors opening and closing at random which might not be unexpected in a dorm room where people are coming and going at all times of the night but these were doors banging quickly when all the doors in the dorm were hampered by plush carpet and really hard to open and shut.
Besides that there was an instance where in our room with no air conditioning and a stuck window I went to open the door to dash in and get a course book I had forgotten before heading down to lunch when there was an emphatic NO from inside the room and the door slammed shut in my face and locked. Both my room mates were downstairs at the cafeteria waiting for me!
We also had an instance where the door locks refused to open. We had two doors in our room and our room mate was on the other side having forgotten her key and my other room mate and myself were trying to open the doors for her but both of them had shut and stuck.
The elevators were another story. There were many jokes about the west elevator and it’s mysterious tendency to go to the Forbidden Fourth Floor, however I never experienced that. We did hear that our Dorm Mother had at one time been using the west elevator when she turned and saw a woman dressed in blue Edwardian style clothing in the empty elevator and that was why it was shut off at night so no one could ride it.
The east elevator, the one that we primarily used, was also only able to be set off by a key. It would not come down to the ground floor unless the key was used or someone was inside it. There were many times that it would open at the ground floor without being called and a lot of our dorm mates reported hearing a “there you go” in a male voice when the doors opened. This ghost, who it was collectively decided, was a former hotel worker was especially handy on days you’d forgotten your keys.
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