Highview Horror


    These weird things happened in Nanuet, NY when I went to 
Highview Elementary school (it holds 4th and 5th right now). 
I swear that this is true and an old friend of mine could 
prove it too.


    Here's some background though. Highview is about 100 years 
old and some parts of the school still are old looking. Although 
the halls are carpeted and much is restored, it just has the 
feeling of being old. The chairs in the auditorium/ gym look at 
least 50 years old, are wooden-fold-downs, and many you unable to 
sit on at all. The floor is a typical basketball court, and nearby 
on either side of the small stage are renovated locker rooms now 
used as storage and an office. In the old locker room on the left 
there is the gym teacher's office at the very bottom of the stair 
case. But on the right... no one really knows what's there besides 
storage and accumulating dust.


    Around comes lunch time and my friend and I are talking together, 
as usual. Everyone seemed to be really excited because we would be 
graduating soon and after the long winter, its finally nice and warm 
outside. We were left behind in the classroom and just strolled out 
not taking notice that we were alone. We walked down the hall and took 
a left to cut across the gym, down to the lower-playground. I opened 
the door and we jogged down the stairs, making echoes as we went.


    As we reached the bottom of the steps I thought I heard a soft 
sniffling sort of noise, almost like faint crying of a girl. It was so 
quiet in the gym, but I literally stopped walking. My friend bumped into 
me and said a little annoyed, "Why'd you stop?" I responded, "Do you hear 
that?" She listened for a second then just said again annoyed, "What?" 
The whimpering went on, I thought it was my imagination and just shook my 
head. But as we neared the door on the right, my friend said, "Oh umm, 
yeah. I hear that." I turned and we both were worried. Was there a 4th 
grader crying somewhere? I looked behind my friend at the chairs to see 
if anyone was sitting there but there wasn't.


    Because the noise was so faint, I didn't rightly know where it was 
coming from at first. Then I realized were it was coming from. I was kind 
of scared to say it, because we had heard of many freaky Highview ghost 
stories. So nervously I said to my friend, "Is it just me or is it coming 
from there?" I pointed to the right locker room. "Its not just you..." she 
replied.


    Being little gutsy kids, I motioned for her to follow me. I poked my 
head down into the doorway and down the small flight of stairs. The corner 
blocked my view, but the sound got louder, so we knew we were on the right 
track.


    I didn't want to go any further, who knew what was down there? I 
whispered to my friend, "No way am I going down there." I turned to walk 
towards the door, but then I heard a voice that chilled me to the bone. 
"Please... help me. She's going to find me and hurt me." My friend and I got 
so freaked out that we pushed each other numbly out of the way for the door 
outside. My friend opened the door so quick that it almost hit me in the 
face! We went outside into the sunlight peaking through the leaves. I was 
breathing so hard and just looked at my friend. The only thing we said to 
each other for the rest of the day was, "Oh... my... god."


    We were both so shook up that we never told anyone. Besides, who would 
believe us? Thinking this we kept quiet for awhile. Then it happened again, 
except this time slightly different. 


    We figured what are the odds of it happening again and why bother to go 
the long way around the building? As we walked across the basketball court 
floor we heard the whimpering again. I quickly had a flash back to the first 
incident and ran towards the door outside. I heard my friend following and as 
I closed the metal door the last thing we ever heard was a shrieking scream 
of a little girl and the bang of our door closing.