As I stated in the last post, I had a personal ghost experience when I went to El Paso High School for a choir competition. Now while I believe in ghosts and spirits and the supernatural, I also thought that the hype surrounding the school was just that. I know that it’s made the news over and over and it was a pretty popular attraction for ghost tours during Halloween. I figured that since it was popular and the school made a lot of money, whatever spirit was there, if there was one, was being exagerrated. However, it was during this choir competition that I was proven oh so wrong. It was during my junior year and it was my first time going to this school. The minute we got there, the atmosphere changed, at the time I thought it was because I was nervous but now I think it was because of something else. We had to wait in a line with the rest of the other schools at the entrance and that was the first time I had seen the graduation photo with the girl. Of course, on the way to the school, everyone in the bus was talking about how the school was haunted and I thought that they were exagerrating about the photo until I saw it for myself.
I remember that just looking at the photo sent chills down my spine, it wasn’t terrifying…it was just really unnerving. It made me uncomfortable to look at it but at the same time, I couldn’t look away. I knew it was making me uncomfortable but I just couldn’t look away. After 5 minutes or so, I overheard some of my choir mates talking about sneaking up to the 4th floor to go to the bathroom where the cheerleader killed herself. I decided to tag along, I wanted to see what all the fuss was about. We had to wait until our director was busy, we had asked him and he allowed us but warned us about trying to go to the 4th floor. Naturally, we did anyways and once we got up to the bathroom, there was this eery silence that fell over all the girls. While the other girls were exploring, I had to actually use the bathroom just then, so I went into a stall to do my business. Halfway through, I heard one of the girls screaming bloody murder. I think it was particuarly scary for me because I was still trying to finish peeing, once I was done, I rushed out of the bathroom to see all of the girls by the window. I aksed what was going on and they said that as they were talking about leaving, they saw the window open and a girl jump out. At first, they thought I jumped out when they realized I was still in the stall. One of the girls screamed when she saw that they window couldn’t open because it had been nailed completely shut.
I was freaked out because I didn’t see it and we decided to leave then. I told them to wait for me to wash my hands and on my way over to the sink, one of them started running water. I was still a good 2 feets away when the water turned on and the rest of the girls were by the door. This time, it was my turn to scream, the rest of the girls ran over to me and saw the sink. At first, they thought I was messing with them until a second sink turned on, and then a third and finally the last one. We all screamed and turned for the door when we heard a window pop open, turning around we saw the girl standing on the window ledge before she jumped. Once again we screamed at the top of our lungs and booked it out of there, we screamed the entire way down to the first floor. Once we got down there, everyone looked at us like we were crazy, my choir director came to us already knowing what had happened. We asked if anyone heard us screaming but they all said no. I know that there were three floors between us but we were a group of 5 girls screaming all at once, someone should have heard something but everyone said they heard us screaming as we came down the stairs, not before.
For the rest of the competition, me and the other girls had to stay by our director’s side, we couldn’t speak to anyone else or to each other but honestly that was a good thing. I don’t think there was anything that we could have said to each other. What happened to us was contained with us, we told no one what had happened. I don’t think anyone would have believed us if we did. Till this day, the only thing that’s known is that some girls went up the the fourth floor and got freaked out by whatever they saw. My advice to you, if you go to this school or want to check out the fourth floor bathroom, don’t.
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