They say that when the borders between the living and the dead thin, the supernatural can extend into our world and manifest. These freaky occurrences can shake people up and usually tend to stick with them. We talked to some students who believe they’ve had a run in with the supernatural before and asked them what they saw. And boy did we get some stories…

“I moved into my childhood home when I was five. It was like a huge, brand new gated community, and it was built right by a thick mangrove forest. After two years of living there and settling in, I started seeing this little girl who was around my age. She was brunette and would always wear this tiny, pink, old-fashioned dress. I only ever saw her on the staircase. I used to talk to her about my day and my toys, but she never talked back. I stopped seeing her when we moved, but we ended up moving from that house because my parents kept seeing the little girl on the stairs, too!”
-Marcela Torres, senior

“I was home alone with my brother and we were just in our rooms relaxing and then I heard these slow but loud footsteps walk through my hallway and then stop once they got to my room. I think it’s my brother on the other side of my door so I said, ‘hello’ and there was no response. Dead silent — it wasn’t him. It was something else. I called my brother to go into the hallway and to turn on the light. I never told him what I experienced.”
-Sophia Victoria, senior

“I was home alone with my brother and we were just in our rooms relaxing and then I heard these slow but loud footsteps walk through my hallway and then stop once they got to my room. I think it’s my brother on the other side of my door so I said, ‘hello’ and there was no response. Dead silent — it wasn’t him. It was something else. I called my brother to go into the hallway and to turn on the light. I never told him what I experienced.”
-Sophia Victoria, senior

“In 2020, Jerry Herman’s estate bequeathed his portrait to the theater on campus which is named after him. One night during rehearsal, I walked by to check it out, tried to take a Snapchat and felt a chill. I looked at the photo and saw his eyes were glowing in it. I immediately deleted the photo, apologized to Jerry, and now every time I come into the theater, I say hi to him. Later that week, my ghost theory was confirmed when I shared this story with my voice teacher and heard lots of banging on the wall next door. I ran out of the studio only to see that no one else was in the department and the only possible cause of the sound was Jerry.”
-Scarlet Diaz, junior

“When I was a kid, we used to live in this old house from the ’50s and we had this playroom. In there I
had my Thomas the Train playset I had as a kid and, basically, in that playroom, stuff would get moved
around all the time without me touching it. I told my mom about this — she was very spiritual — and when
she walked in there, she could immediately tell that something was wrong and told me I can’t go in there
without her being in there, too. And then she would force herself to sit there with me when I would play
with my trains.”
-Andrew McCleskey, sophomore

design_valeria barbaglio. photo_nina d’agostini.