As a child I attended the Christ Church Primary school, local people will know it. It looks like most old school buildings typical of the era which it was built. I believe the original building dates back to the 1800's.
When I attended in the early 90's the school library was located in the attic and had tiny windows which overlooked the main assembly hall. I remember always having an uneasy feeling when going up the old staircase to the library. What made it worse was the teachers used to send you up there either alone or in groups of two or three children. The library itself was eerilly quiet, which you expected from librarys but something just wasn't right up there.
During my last year there I would quite often work in the library, we was often sent to work on specific projects. I always remember dreading being one of the children sent up there. I hated the place. Back in those days schools were lucky if they had a computer, we had a
relatively new cd-rom computer which was located in the library. One morning when I was 11 I was up there alone, typing up some work and felt really uncomfortable. I felt as if I wasn't quite alone. I could hear little shuffling noises and thought at first I was hearing things or that another child had been sent up there for something. Nothing, I was still completely alone. Getting back to my work I heard a thud, as I looked round a few books had been pushed off of the shelf. I put them back, as I sat down again the same thing happened. After returning from a second trip to put the books back I returned to find the computer had switched off. Not knowing what to do I went back downstairs and got my teacher.
From that day on I knew something wasn't right about the library and I knew it was haunted.
Later on that year we was sitting in the hall during assembly. I remember something catching my eye. As I looked up at the library windows I saw a little boy looking out. I didn't recognise him as a pupil from the school. It was a very small school and you'd know all of the pupils, even if not by name. I whispered to my teacher who looked up and said "There's no-one there" as I looked back he'd vanished.
On another occasion I remember sitting outside the staff room late one evening. My Mum used to attend the school governors meetings, I used to go along and sit quietly outside with either a book or something to amuse myself with. I didn't mind it but it was always very eery sitting on a chair in the middle of the staircase. This one evening everyone was in the staff room. I knew there was no-one else in the school as everyone had gone home. I was happily reading a book when I heard footsteps on the staircase. Fully expecting another parent or school governor to be walking up the stairs I ignored it. No-one came up the stairs and more interestingly no-one had come down them either. I snuck up the next flight to see if any lights were on, which there wasn't. The whole floor was in complete darkness, even the library was dark. It was petrifying. As I quietly snuck back to my chair hoping I hadn't been caught I heard the same thud. I knew it was the books again. One thing was for sure I was not going up to that library in the dark to find out.
One playtime I was talking to one of the teachers who had been at the school a long time. I remember asking her if there were any ghosts in the school. She looked at me and said "Apparently there is a ghost in the library of a little boy" when I told her what I'd heard and seen she said "There you go then, it's not just me that saw him"
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