A Skating Ghost

It is just a regular day at Ellison Hall, now home of the College of Arts and Sciences. Linda, an adviser at the college, is staying late to finish up some degree checks for her students. Linda is known to stay late and finish her work, as she is a young woman who has no reason to hurry off and get home. She has graduated from the University of Oklahoma herself a few years prior to becoming an adviser at OU. She is sitting in her office this particular night when she starts to hear noises. It sounds like a rolling office chair, but she figures someone else had also stayed late and maybe they were rearranging their office. She continues on with her work but starts to get hungry. Linda starts to walk to a break room to get a snack. While walking, she hears the rolling noise again. She peeks into offices and realizes nobody else is in the building. She thinks to herself, “There better not be any students in here messing with stuff." She gets back to her office and eats her snack. She finishes up her work and gets ready to go home for the night. She makes sure to lock her office door before going.

The next morning when Linda gets to work, she notices that her office door is already unlocked. She swears that she had locked it the night before, but maybe she did forget she thinks to herself. She also notices that her trashcan in spilled over and she knows that she did not do that herself. Linda decides to ask her coworkers if they had been in her office or knew if anyone had been. They all tell her they had no idea who could have gone in there. They decide to look at the security cameras to see if anyone had left or entered the building after Linda left last night, but they saw nothing. Linda and her coworkers are a little nervous now, thinking that maybe the culprit is still in the building somewhere. Linda takes initiative and calls campus security to come look through the building. Campus security finds nobody, but they do find some small wheel tracks down one of the hallways. One of Linda's office mates says "My kid has roller skates and those look identical to the tracks he leaves on our sidewalk." Everyone in the building finds this odd since nobody there is into roller-skating.

That night Linda has some more work to do as well as another one of her coworkers. They both stay late to get their work done, when suddenly they hear giggling and a rolling noise. They know they are the only people left in the building, so they go out to investigate in the hall. The giggling is getting louder and louder. Linda and her coworker wait in the hallway for who they think is going to be a student causing mischief. Suddenly they hear a crash in an office. They walk down the hallway and into an office. They see a shadow from behind a desk. The shadow is quite small for a college student. When the owner of the shadow stands up, it is not a student, but it is a small boy wearing roller skates. The small boy rolls straight by the coworkers while giggling away. The two coworkers turn around to follow the boy but when they get into the hall, the boy is now gone. Linda decides to look up if Ellison Hall is haunted because she cannot believe that maybe she did see a ghost. She then finds out the history of Ellison Hall and how it used to be an infirmary. Linda never stays late to finish her work now.