Once Upon a Time at UNI
by Paul Taylor
on July 6, 2022
at 6:26 pm
Hey folks, I just want you to know that I shared a weird incident that happened to me and a friend back in college that we have no explanation for. It starts at the 15:24 mark.
Check out the story HERE.
Maybe Augie took you back in time:
https://scua.library.uni.edu/university-archives/articles/halloween-traditions-and-ghosts-uni
Paul, That might be an interesting Halloween scenario hook for a future WS story; does Griffin High have an extra-dimensional space for a link to the past? I can just see Mindy and Barbara delving into that sitch☺️
I don’t know when you made your sketch, but this kind of hospital layout probably doesn’t date much past WWII.
At the time you mention, there might not even have been anyone alive who would remember that room, much less know where it actually was.
Shared memories, and I presume your friend has also seen this sketch, are funny things, ask almost anyone who has done jury duty, or is a professional hypnotist.
The anomaly might be explained by the both of you visiting an entirely different building at an entirely different time and then the two of you “remembering” that.
Yeah, memories are very fallible so I don’t want to jump to thinking it was only paranormal. It was just so weird. The drawing was done about a week after the incident. My friend made a drawing too before we shared too many details with each other. I kept adding new notes to the pic as we went.
That was super creepy. I can’t even imagine how it felt when you went back to find the hospital beds and equipment in the tiny storage room.
That’s reminded me of a time when I was in primary school, and a friend and I saw a workman walk out of a door in the outside wall of the main school building. The thing was, the door wouldn’t exist until a year later when the building, originally a 1960s prefabricated structure, was renovated, where most of the exterior was replaced with brickwork and extra exits were installed to meet the building regulations of the time.
Paul, Was the light switch a push-button style, a turning knob or a “modern” style toggle switch? It could give some indication of when the room was re-styled to remodel it for it’s use that you drew. I say that because the windows show a style that could have been large barn, carriage or vehicular doors which were remodeled into windows. 4 distinct large entry bays possibly large enought to allow vehicles. The 2-story room high ceilings reminds me of a building that was used for something completely different at first and then remodeled to fit a later need – possibly a building which would never have needed to be heated because it was not originally designed for people – (again, barn-like, factory or place to store some type of vehicle). But, later, used as a hospital. One might consider a use like a firestation, but the straight staircases would possibly nullify that since firestations used circular stairs to prevent horses climbing the stairs.
Either way, it was a real experience and a real identification, and you visited a real building that existed, as you saw it, at some point in time in …
The Twilight Zone. (Sorry, I couldn’t resist the TZ reference.)
Why is it that some people just seem to attract weird stuff to them?
I sometimes hate when that happens to me…