Tuesday, August 14, 2007

From the telling of “Nina”

A girl named Jane lived the fourth floor of South Mandelle in 1975. When she went to bed one night and turned off the light in here room, she saw a shadow blocking out the light from the hall that came under the crack of the door. The shadow moved away and then came back and stayed. The next night the shadow came back but when Jane opened the door there was nothing there. The next night the shadow returned and Jane sprang to the door and opened it, but again there was nothing there.

Jane had a roommate, Louise, whom Jane did not like much, and to whom she did not tell anything about the shadow. The strange thing was that at exactly the same time as these things were happening to Jane and she was relating them to Nina, strange things were also happening to her roommate Louise, as she told Nina.

Louise started having nightmares that she was committing suicide be jumping out the fourth floor window. In her nightmare, she would be falling through the air and she would see the sidewalk coming up at her. Thus the two girls, independently and without knowledge of what was happening to the other, both apparently had a visitation from the girl who once committed suicide on the fourth floor.

[1977]

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