Something seasonal to share with you.

If I’m the first one at work, and lately I have been, I’ll make the first pot of coffee for the department.  The coffee pot is in the work room between the departmental office and the conference room.  Because I don’t have a key to the departmental office (only the department chair and the staff who have offices in that suite have keys), I come in through the conference room.

Twice last week I unlocked the door to the conference room and walked in.  I didn’t turn on the light because there was enough light from the windows opposite the entrance for me to see.  So everything was in some degree of shadow.  The door to the workroom was in the middle of the wall to the left and was closed or nearly so.

The door swung open as I approached.  When it was about halfway open, it began creaking.

There was no one else there.

The joke has been that there was a ghost, and it was opening the door for me.  This wasn’t the first time that has happened to me.  Do I think there’s really a ghost?  Probably not.  Every time this has happened, at least to me, the door has not been completely closed.  I think it’s just the vibration of my walking across the room the makes it move.  As for the creaking, that’s nothing that a little WD-40 can’t fix.

On the other hand, my building does have a reputation for being haunted.  After all, three murders have occurred in it, including a decapitation…