We Only Come Out At Night- Smashing Pumpkins

"We only come out at night... The days are much to bright."



My roommate and I are convinced that our room is haunted. Which doesn't exactly make sense, since this is a brand new dorm, but there is something here that feels... out of place.

When I lived in Tocik, the girl's freshman dorm, I have had two paranormal experiences. I lived on the first floor, room 104. When I was in the bathroom putting some toiletries away, I heard a girl's voice say "hello" right behind me. When I turned around, no one was there. A few months later, I was getting out of the shower and I distinctly heard the violin playing. I thought it was my roommate who played the viola. When I opened the door and poked my head out to make a joke about my roommate's nerdy instrument, no one was there, and the music stopped. I knocked on my suitemates' door to see if they were playing music. When no one answered, I opened the door and no one was there. I later found out that years ago, a girl hung herself in her room, which was now converted into the first floor lounge. The lounge was not even 20 feet away from my room.

Last year when I lived in Brisson, I was in the communal bathroom in the middle of the night. I went to the bathroom and after I washed my hands, I just stood there. I felt very strange in the bathroom at that moment. I stood in front of the sink, really concentrating on listening, to see if someone else was in the bathroom. A few seconds later, the radio turned out at full blast. Needless to say, I booked it out of that bathroom.

Now this year, my roommate and I are both noticing weird things going out around the room. When I was messing around on the computer Tuesday night, I kept noticing weird lights going by in my peripheral vision. At first I thought it was just headlights going by, but the blinds were down. Whatever, I still didn't think anything of it. Then I noticed a ruby light reflecting off my lamp: My matt, black lamp. Not silver, reflecty mirror lamp... Black. Not reflective what so ever. I got up from my desk and pretended I didn't notice anything.

Then this morning my roommate, Kristen, told me about what happened to her last night. She said she woke up at 3:30 in the morning and heard and unrhythmic clicking going around the room. She said it started by my bed, made its way around the room, and then persistantly clicked above her head in bed. Now when she told me about this, I blamed it on the piping in the walls, kind of getting this idea from "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" when Cheif keeps talking about the noises the pipes make in the wall. But I'm starting to think... Maybe this room is haunted.

The dorm is brand new, there's no history of death here. But maybe the ground is haunted, and who is to say that these ghosts can't roam the campus as they please? I'm toying with the idea of trying to contact one of these ghosts... But I don't really wanna fuck with all of that, haha! I need to think about this... anyway.

I just got done completely decorating my room all Christmas like! Our window is lined with colored Christmas lights, Kristen bought those little rubber sticky snowmen and Santa's to stick on the window, and we wrapped lights around the post of our lofted beds. We even have our own little foil Christmas trees. Mine's blue, Kristen's is pink. I'll probably leave her present under that tiny tree... or by it. The tree is only about 8 inches tall! The finishing touch will involve a trip to CVS because I need to find the perfect Christmas scented candle. I'm leaning more towards Egg Nog or Christmas cookies. But then again, when it comes to Christmas, I feel like you need to splurge on Yankee Candles. They really do have the best scents for the holidays.

Anyway, I think I'm going to watch Jerry Springer before going to class to discuss Emily Dickenson, haha. Quite the transition.