Friends! Long time,
no write! Last week was bananas. I know I posted a few times, but I feel I was
slacking.
I have a real life scary story that happened last week!
The derby league practices and plays at Memorial Hall in
Kansas City, Kansas. It’s a beautiful,
historical building.
One evening, it was my day to open the building up for
practice. I was there early, so people
could come and practice their minimum skills test items. I was the first to enter the building. When I entered the alarm should have been
set, but it wasn’t. The building was
unarmed. It’s happened a few times
recently, I just suspected that Memorial staff had been there earlier and they
knew we were coming. I walked to the big
auditorium. All the lights are out and
it’s dark in there. I started hearing
something make noises and garbled voices.
I shouted “hello” into the darkness, because, you know you’ll get a
response if someone broke in and such. I
put my derby bag down, but kept my keys and phone with me to go turn on the
lights and unlock the back door so people could enter. The chairs that we keep in a line were strewn
and there were medical gloves on the ground.
Weird. I picked the items up and
put the chairs back where they were supposed to go.
I unlocked the storage closet and went back upstairs. By that time, one of my league mates was
texting me, asking me if I was already inside.
She was in her car and a creepy person was hanging around her car. She drove up to the driveway (we normally do
not park there) and entered the building.
She thought he was on something as his behavior indicated that and she
didn’t want to take any chances. I told
her about the strange noises and told her I was glad she was there.
Nothing else happens during practices because we have around
100 people there. After regular practice,
we have an hour for advanced skills.
Only eight of us stayed for that.
Practice went well.
Afterwards,
we all geared down. I went to go start
shutting everything up. I was getting the
lights turned out when the group came up to me and one of the girls said she
saw someone in one of the locker rooms.
We went to investigate, but did not find anyone. I had already shut down the lights, so it was
hard to see. We moved on and I was
locking up the storage closet with two of my league mates, at the same time we
all heard something come from the locker rooms. It was barking like noises and came from that
hallway. We are in the basement and all
the doors were locked and there are no windows to let sound in. All three of us looked at each other than
bolted up the hallway. One of the people
decided to be brave, then thought the better of it. We all grabbed our things, got outside, and
called the police and the building manager for Memorial. The police and the building manager both
arrived at the same time. I let them
into the building and they investigated.
We just followed them, squished in between the officers. We checked all spaces and places in the lower
level and entry level (the top floor is armed and if anyone was up there, it
would set off the alarm) and NOTHING! It
was guessed that the intruder escaped out of the north side doors.
After all of that, we locked the doors, set the alarms and
we left.
I made a post on our Business Page stating to never be alone
in the building and always have a friend when going places in the building
alone. Not to scare anyone, but to make
sure people are safe.
Someone commented that their child was down in the locker
rooms during practice. Teenage introvert
that had headphones in. That explains
one thing, but doesn’t explain the barking noises, three of us heard.
Our conclusion, it’s a ghost.
Memorial is known to be haunted. They do ghost hunts there. Patsy Cline is one of the suspected
ghosts. Memorial Hall was the last place
she performed before dying in a plane crash.
Memorial staff even thinks she comes and visits.
Now, I’m terrified to go downstairs in the dark, even with a
friend.
Do you believe in ghosts?
Do you have any ghost stories to tell?
Freaky! A real life ghost experience!
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