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Lewis and Clark Classic Ghost Stories Lewis and Clark Classic Ghost Stories Lewis and Clark Classic Ghost Stories Forward by Alex Johnson Story by John Keagy, October, 1990 Lewis and Clark’s ghost stories are nothing new. We found this spine-tingling tale in our archives. Turn out the lights, put on some spooky music and celebrate Halloween early with this eerie tale from the October, 1990 issue of The Bridge Express.
The Unknown Ghost By John Keagy, October 1990 Typically, as every year around Halcoolness or warmth, it will never be loween time, all of the old Jason or known which, but when it hits, you Freddy movies come out. We either become aware of things that weren’t rent and watch them or see them on there before. A sort of Animalistic TV. Halloween is not a time for mass feeling comes over you that livens murders who can’t be killed, it is a your sense. You notice the moon is time for ghosts and spirits to roam full, considering it was two weeks the earth. Now all of you have heard ago, but you don’t care. about Harriet Haskell and the other ghosts that haunt this school, but noWhat happened that night up until body except for a few people know Halloween had never happened beabout the ghost that haunts the unfore or since. The time was around derground. Now I, as the writer of seven o’ clock, some of the girls were this story, could make this a really studying, walking around the campus gory story, but that is not my style. or in their dorms. That night it got My style is to scare, and I will try to pretty cold, there were complaints do that as best I can within the acfrom the third and fourth floors of ceptable limits of decent writing. Caldwell and Baldwin that there was Now I was told this story by an old no heat. That was only the start of janitor that used to work for the colthe troubles, soon the first-floor halls lege when it was still a girl’s school were ice cold, but the rooms were and he told me a spine-tingling story warm. Immediately we were sent to that only he and a few other janitors investigate, so the five of us went to knew about. the Boiler House. When we stepped outside, the temperature was warm“It was a dark and stormy night, that er than inside the buildings, so we night which was the night before Halwalked over to the Boiler House kickloween. The wind blew curling and ing fallen leaves out of our way. The gripping like an icy fist, it wasn’t winwind was slightly blowing, not strong ter or summer, but distinctly an Ocenough to move the piles of leaves on tober fall wind. The type where you the ground, but enough to stir up the can smell the harvest and a touch of smell of fall.
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