Ghostly Encounters
No one can explain the supernatural, which makes it intriguing to many. This school is no stranger to the paranormal, as it has its own share of supernatural events.
One such center is that of the auditorium. Teacher Mr. Paul Spencer had a strange experience while using a projector in the auditorium. “As I’m sitting there,” said Mr.Spencer, “I glanced over, and going into that projection booth, was a part of a leg, with nothing hooked to the leg, like it hadn’t materialized entirely.”
But that is not the only event in the auditorium. “In the auditorium, we have a light that once all of the lights go off, it will go off, seemingly for no reason,” says Mrs. Bitsi Bonner, “and then it will come back on. Since the auditorium is named after Fr. Tribou, we presume it’s his ghost because he loved the theater, telling us that we either kept the lights on too long because he was a very frugal person or as a sort of pat on the shoulder.”
In addition, room 209 is also subject to the paranormal. “During the summer, the cleaning crews come in and wax the floors, that kind of stuff, late at night,” said Mr. Tom Handloser, better known to students as Magist, who teaches in room 209. “The story goes that one cleaning crew was up here, 10 o’clock at night or so, and this one group came running down the halls and screaming, all of them hysterical. And their boss, who was down by the office, asked them what was wrong, and they said they had seen a ghost. And the boss asked ‘Where was it?’ And they said it was in room 209, in a chair, rocking back and forth.” Whether or not this ghost was real cannot be explained, but it is still true that something was seen that night.”
However, that was not the only incident to occur after hours in room 209.“A cleaning crew was up in my room one time,” said Mr. Handloser, “and they keep all the doors to the classrooms open so they can go in and clean everything, and according to them, starting in room 209, the door slammed, then Mr. Dodge’s door, then Mrs.Connell’s door, Coach Doan’s door, all the way down the second floor, they slammed, all in order.”
Another location would be that of Room 100, also known as Fr. Tribou’s room.“I was sitting in the office,” said Mr. Spencer, “and the intercom rang. It had a readout of what room the call was coming from, and it would be room 100, and room 100 was Fr. Tribou’s room. It’s now Mrs. Bonner’s room. So I went over and I picked up the phone, thinking someone was down there, and I needed to figure out what was going on, but there was nobody there. That happened a couple times a week, pretty regularly, getting to the point of being very troublesome. So at one point I got tired of that happening, so I unplugged the modular jack from that phone, and it rang anyway.”
In addition, this supernatural activity not only lends itself to the intercom. “The back part of the room would be dark,” says Mrs.Bonner, “and the lit part would be where the kids were sitting. If I ever turned the second bank of lights on, they wouldn’t turn on. I’d have to hit the switch ten to fifteen times to get it on. And when it did come on, it would go out. The reality may have been that it was an electrical short, but it was like Fr. Tribou was telling me to turn off the lights I didn’t need.”
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