Ectoplasm, I think. It’s the look of the future. Here is a haunted courtroom in North Carolina, taken on a CCTV camera. Apparently when the security guards were alerted they rushed into the room and straight through the ghost.
I mean, you just don’t want to have to worry about appropriate office wear after you’re dead!
Yesterday my colleague told me that when my predecessor was working late in the office on her own one time (it’s a Regency building) she heard footsteps across the room and then the sound of paper shuffling. Needless to say, she was the only one there.
Apparently at the top of the building there is also a perfectly preserved, abandoned garret complete with ancient wallapaper. Two strapping blokes I work with went up there to have a look and came back down terrified! They reckon it’s probably the same chambermaid…
And here, for your delectation, is a picture I found on a site for a York ghost festival. Don’t ask me.
Apologies, by the way: I know this is a short, crap, rushed post!
4 Comments
February 13, 2008 at 10:29 am
A friend of mine worked in the Bodleian in Oxford many years ago. Most of the books were stored beneath ground at that time, and possibly still are. Walking along a subterranean passage with the book she’d been sent to get, she saw a man in eighteenth century dress shuffling towards her on his knees. Terified, she screamed and ran. Her colleagues understood at once what she’d seen. When she asked them why the man was on his knees, they explained that the floor of the tunnel had been raised recently, and nobody had told the ghost.
February 13, 2008 at 5:12 pm
Some of the best people I know are ghosts!
February 13, 2008 at 5:14 pm
Hi,
Unrelated comment or related only in being somewhat after the death of the event…
I just found out I was shortlisted for the Oxfam Poems for a Better Future in 2004. (ego-surfing) They never told me. I guess they told you you got a prize???
February 16, 2008 at 11:47 am
Charles: great story. You get the prize.
Nick, lovely to meet you!
Hi Emerging, well yes they did. Maybe they only told the people who placed? I’ve been shortlisted for prizes before and only found out after the fact etc.
But what I can;t believe is that no one has commented on the second picture above! Isn’t it SUBLIME? Hilarious and also strangely scary? What could be better!