We watch horror movies all the time, run back to our bed when we turn off the lights, and avoid looking at mirrors when our bladders demand to be dealt with at three in the morning. Whether you believe in ghosts or not, students at Skyline College have some interesting stories to share of the unusual, unknown, and unexplainable.

One of the creepiest buildings at Skyline College is the Pacific Heights building, and it only seems worse at night. Whether it’s the old pipes, brick walls, long windows, or the bathrooms, something does not feel right in there. Freshman Timothy Soliman not only understands this, but he felt it the moment he walked into the building; describing the building as having a “dark aura”.

After his afternoon history class, Soliman waited for a friend who was going to meet him in the building in half an hour. A couple of students went in and out of their classes, but soon he was alone, browsing through social media on his phone in front of the long hallway. Soliman said he then heard this loud crying and groaning from halfway down the hallway, seeming to come from a woman with her face buried into her hands. At first not minding it, Timothy decided to call out to her and ask if she was okay. The woman dropped her hands to reveal her face, but that was the problem:
She didn’t have one. Soliman described the face as all flesh, slightly outlining what would be a face. He felt her stare at him for a few seconds before she ran out the building.

Overwhelmed and unsure about what he saw, Soliman decided to go out and check for the woman, thinking maybe it was his vision messing with him or the lighting in the room. However when he went out, there was no one to be found.

Many art students with classes in the oldest building on campus, Building 1, have experienced the unexplainable as well. For example, several times during a late evening art class Elaina Revilla experienced art supplies and books falling from shelves with the windows closed and no one around. Other students, like Ken Villa, did not see or hear anything, but felt uneasiness in certain parts of Building 1. Villa describes the entrance to the theater dressing room as a “staircase to complete darkness.” Although he has never seen a ghost or heard any sounds, the pitch
blackness at the top of the staircase is a “type of scary I do not want to deal with,” he said.

The girls’ bathroom near the library always seems to be empty, but it usually doesn’t feel that way. Being one of the biggest bathrooms on campus, the chilly feeling inside would make anyone feel uneasy.

Freshman Rachel Dacuma especially hates using the bathroom there.

“I only use the bathroom at the library when I really need to,” she said. “Usually when you’re using a bathroom with many stalls you can just sense if someone else is there– like you just feel it, but whenever I use the bathroom there and I know I am alone, I really don’t feel like I am.”