I was not alone in dreading the come of lights out in our high school dorm. Many have begged their parents to be transferred to another school, while those who were left had to pray so hard for the haunting to end. Sometimes, it just gave them a short respite. And then, it started all over again.
Others have heard chains being dragged by some sort of prisoner, others have felt hands touch their faces as they lay. We just had the assurance that the scare would not be so fatal or so horrid that someone would not wake up the morning after, being together in a dorm filled with boys with two rows of 40 beds. But, we were used to wake up with one classmate gone, with nary a farewell. Only the bullies and the economically challenged or the ones with the strongest faith were left behind.
I had heard the slap of wet feet walking on the cold smooth cement floor of our dormitory, starting from the back where the statue of the bloody crucified Christ was standing, arms outstretched. Then, it would come closer and closer, until, I was so positively sure that it now was at the foot of my bed. I was an adolescent then. I remained shaking under the sheets, never daring to peek as the wet feet went around my bed many times. I’m quite sure my dorm mates heard them too, but like telepathy, we all knew we’re all under our covers praying so hard. Those feet had no body, because as the city lights shone through our windows, and we could still see through our bedsheets, we were so sure not a shadow moved, or that somebody, not even a prankster, did walk. But the steps of wet feet even had echoes in that dormitory. It was the sophomores’ dormitory.
I was thankful that when we moved to the juniors’ and seniors’ dormitory, those places were not haunted. They told us that a sophomore was found dead in the showers during one morning when the students had to freshen up for the mornings’ classes.
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