This place is freaking haunted. NO JOKE 
SMCC is a community college that is built on the grounds of a 200+ year old fort. It's been around since sometime in the 1800's or earlier, and saw the Civil War, WWI, and WWII. Before the fort was a settlement from some of the very first Maine colonists.
There's a freakin' graveyard on campus that the colonists used, so old that the writing on most of the headstones have eroded away, and many of the headstones are simply flat stones with no markings they stuck in the ground.
The first few times I heard noises last semester when I started, I dismissed it as the fact the buildings are very, very old (most are the original fort buildings), and they were just settling and such at night. ... "Huh, those footsteps were probably just the wind." ... "Did I just hear a door? Naah..."
As you may already know, I'm a Security guard here at SMCC. Most of my shifts are at night, meaning I have to go through buildings by myself locking doors and turning off lights. I used to have no problem with this.
I used to be able to go into dark rooms without a second thought.
I used to be sane.
Here's just SOME of the most recent experiences I had, all of which were very late at night when the employees and students are long gone:
- In Howe, a former hospital when the fort was still active, I heard a muffled voice down a hall soon after I locked the door and was about to turn off the secluded lights. I searched the building, shouting "Security!", but nobody answered and I couldn't find anyone. I didn't hear any of the doors open, so nobody left while I was searching...
- In Cates, I heard a door open and scrape across the carpet. This especially freaked me out, because it came from the direction of a door that I had JUST checked to be locked.
-In Tech, I was going up one of the staircases and heard a door below me, perhaps 2 levels, click as if it was opening/closing. The building was dark and I was the only one in it.
-Mckernan, the hotel that everyone says is haunted. I turned off a light in a locked room, then an hour or so later it was on again.
(Other guards have seen dark apparitions, heard footsteps, and one heard someone slapping their hand on the bars holding up the handrail on the stairs, like a kid running down the stairs and hitting the bars on the way down. Not to mention the lights turning themselves on again after they leave, like what happened to me.)
Mckernan, Cates, Captain's House, and areas of other buildings also give you a strange feeling in your gut, as if you really, REALLY shouldn't be in there.
I couldn't sleep last night at all. I think I'm going crazy.
...I don't think I'm an Atheist anymore
SMCC is a community college that is built on the grounds of a 200+ year old fort. It's been around since sometime in the 1800's or earlier, and saw the Civil War, WWI, and WWII. Before the fort was a settlement from some of the very first Maine colonists.
There's a freakin' graveyard on campus that the colonists used, so old that the writing on most of the headstones have eroded away, and many of the headstones are simply flat stones with no markings they stuck in the ground.
The first few times I heard noises last semester when I started, I dismissed it as the fact the buildings are very, very old (most are the original fort buildings), and they were just settling and such at night. ... "Huh, those footsteps were probably just the wind." ... "Did I just hear a door? Naah..."
As you may already know, I'm a Security guard here at SMCC. Most of my shifts are at night, meaning I have to go through buildings by myself locking doors and turning off lights. I used to have no problem with this.
I used to be able to go into dark rooms without a second thought.
I used to be sane.
Here's just SOME of the most recent experiences I had, all of which were very late at night when the employees and students are long gone:
- In Howe, a former hospital when the fort was still active, I heard a muffled voice down a hall soon after I locked the door and was about to turn off the secluded lights. I searched the building, shouting "Security!", but nobody answered and I couldn't find anyone. I didn't hear any of the doors open, so nobody left while I was searching...
- In Cates, I heard a door open and scrape across the carpet. This especially freaked me out, because it came from the direction of a door that I had JUST checked to be locked.
-In Tech, I was going up one of the staircases and heard a door below me, perhaps 2 levels, click as if it was opening/closing. The building was dark and I was the only one in it.
-Mckernan, the hotel that everyone says is haunted. I turned off a light in a locked room, then an hour or so later it was on again.
(Other guards have seen dark apparitions, heard footsteps, and one heard someone slapping their hand on the bars holding up the handrail on the stairs, like a kid running down the stairs and hitting the bars on the way down. Not to mention the lights turning themselves on again after they leave, like what happened to me.)
Mckernan, Cates, Captain's House, and areas of other buildings also give you a strange feeling in your gut, as if you really, REALLY shouldn't be in there.
I couldn't sleep last night at all. I think I'm going crazy.
...I don't think I'm an Atheist anymore
