There Goes the Haunt

By Joy Apus

Her hair was long and dark. She wore white. She floated in the air. She wave at her and said, ‘hi.’

Here in this campus alone many tales are spread. There are more than 20 dormitories and halls and innumerable number of cottages in the campus where different creepy tales are said to be happening. One of the oldest halls of residence in MSU is the Hannifa Dormitory. It is a two storey boarding house with sixteen rooms, seven rooms on the first floor and nine on the second. The main door is facing the isles leading to comfort room. Once the visitors open the main door they are entertain by that door.s The positions of the room are facing each other like in the school dormitories. On the left side is a staircase going to the second floor which is similar in design with that of in the first floor.

According to the old occupants, the establishment was built during 1960’s. Just the thought of how old it is makes an eerie atmosphere. Forty years make a lot. Supernatural phenomena are expected to take place. Occupants, both new and old, have their own versions to tell.

One version said that the first tenants of the dormitory were soldiers and they occupied the cottage for about two years. If we are going to discuss it chronologically, the time is not enough.

I interviewed some students. Jovelyn Cabanig, a Management student shared something about the ghost who stayed at the dormitory. For her, these creatures very seldom harm people. They appear to mortals, usually to those with active sixth sense, to give information or to relay a very important message.

One day, a ghost appeared before a roommate of hers with an active third eye. The spirit said that she did not intend to do harm. She only wanted to tell the lodgers that the third-dimension people do not like the hall to be dirty and that it must always be kept clean at all times.

According to Cecile Baculot, an AB History student, while wide awake studying her Biology subject, she heard somebody singing upstairs. It was around one o’clock in the morning. After three nights, she heard her again. The next morning, she asked her hallmates about the voice she kept hearing. Odd that none of the other occupants heard of it when it was loud enough for everybody from the second floor to hear it! She got goose bumps as soon as she learned that. A week after, Filipino Major Guia Mae Pairat heard the same voice singing so instead of studying her lesson late at night, she went back to sleep and hid herself in blanket.

IT student Cherry Jane Rivasand said that an old occupant shared to her an incident that happened in room 7 two years ago. According to her story, there were two siblings who occupied the room. When the youngest was sleeping, the eldest went out. At the middle of her sleep, she heard someone calling out her name. She glanced at the other side of the bed, thinking that it was her sister but found nothing. She then looked into the foot of the other bed and saw someone standing in between the locker and the deck. The woman wore white dress whose feet did not land on the ground and had very a long black hair. Accordingly, the lady in white smiled at her and waved hi. She froze in shock and collapsed for couple of minutes. When she became conscious again, she shouted and ran outside the room. The next day, the siblings decided to move out.

There are still lots of incredible stories about ghosts here in MSU—in the different colleges and old offices. We may not notice but we bump into them everyday. When these third-dimension creatures decide to appear before you, are you ready? What would be reaction? Are you brave enough to look at them? Will you ask them something or remain frozen?