IRL Spirit List

When taking a photo class for school, I based a couple projects on mock ghost photos, whose techniques ran the gamut from slow shutter speeds to superimposition. It was really fun, so I organized the few I have into a Spirit List, not unlike the one from the Fatal Frame series, which checks off all the ghosts you've snapped (and ultimately unlocking a lens for your camera), and wrote out the names, locations and descriptions as if they were real ghosts in a real list. Some of the places are NOT from San Jose State University (namely the clock tower hall in the Frightened Man photo [in reality a photo from my Universal Studios visit, the clock hall from the set of Back to the Future] or the walkway bridge in Bridge Woman [a walkway bridge downtown that attaches 2 hotels]), but I figured weaving pieces of these places into this fictional, and haunted, school campus would be kinda fun. Maybe one day I can make a full set.

Name: Climbing Man

Night: 1st Night

Location: Student Union

Description: The spirit of a student who never left the union building. He used to be a bowler with strong fingers.

Points: 2,000

Name: Running Children

Night: 1st Night

Location: Student Union

Description: Children playing tag in the building. They don't seem to realize they are already dead and continue to play.

Points: 1,000 each

Name: Beckoning Arms

Night: 1st Night

Location: Student Union

Description: The beckoning arms of studying students past, begging for just "one more day before the exam!"

Points: 1,050

Name: Wandering Man

Night: 2nd Night

Location: Student Union

Description: He wanders the building searching for something. He somehow cannot rest.

Points: 3,000

Name: Hallway Ghost

Night: 3rd Night

Location: Science Hall

Description: A spirit that roams the science hall. It creeps from door to door, aimlessly searching.

Points: 1,850

Name: Frightened Man

Night: 4th Night

Location: Bell Tower Hall

Description: He recalls the Turning so vividly, he cannot rest peacefully.

Points: 500

Name: Bridge Woman

Night: 4th Night

Location: Twin Hall Bridge

Description: Crossing the bridge between the school halls during the Turning, she fell. Now she wanders back and forth, unable to enter either building.

Points: 2,000

--Dio (10/04/10)