This story originates
from the High School I was in -- SXI. SXI was formed
by the Catholic Brothers and many Brothers had lived
their whole live in the school. It is believed that
some of the died brothers are now haunting certain
part of the school.
This story happened
fairly recent to a lady student of the school, who
has since left the school. Let's call her Maggie and
the story goes like this:
Maggie was a member
of the Board of Librarians. As such, it is not
unusual for her to stay back at the library until
late hours of the afternoon during days when she was
on duty. One afternoon, she was on duty as usual,
doing her job with other fellow librarians, in the
Board Room.
At about 4:30pm, she
left the party to go and ease herself. At that time,
there weren't many students in the library and the
school was very quiet then (schools in Malaysia
dismiss at about 1:30pm everyday).
The restrooms are at
the other end of the corridor. As Maggie walked back
to the library after finishing with what she had to
do at the loo, she heard some music at the end of the
corridor, near the entrance to the library. She
thought it must be the school choir having a practice in one of the nearby classrooms but as far as she
knew, her friends from the Choir were all home by
school dismissal.
As she got nearer to
the library, she realized the singing was actually
from the room next to the library. The room is
actually the only access to the roof-top on that
block. It was locked since many, many years ago when
one of the Brothers fell on the staircase while
walking up to the attic and killed himself. No one
has ever been inside ever since then, at least not
until 1996 when the school renovated and converted it
to the Astronomy Room. So, how could the Choir be
from that room?
Maggie recalled her
friends telling her tales of such singings in the
school area. Many claimed that it was the Brothers
who passed away in the school that were the culprits.
So, she quickly walked into the library hoping that
the ghosts or whatever it may be would not do any
harm onto her.
However, once she
stepped through the library doors, she saw the books
in the library started to fall off from the shelves
one by one. Soon, thousands of books fell to the
ground. The sight was simply horrifying. She could
see no one in the library when there should be at
least one librarian on the book loan counter.
Terrified, she ran
out of the library and went straight towards the
school office. She met the clerk in the office who
was surprised to see her in such state of shock. He
calmed her down and later asked her what happened.
Maggie told him all about what she just heard and
saw. The clerk, being in the school for more than 20
over years, knew all such stories and hence decided
to go and check it out. Maggie decided to follow him
as she doesn't want to be left alone in the office
either.
They went up there
only to find all the books were properly arranged on
the shelves and several students studying inside the
library peacefully. The clerk walked her into the
board room where Maggie's colleagues were still there
doing they work. She told them the story and many
believed her. Eventually, the news got to the advisor
of the Board of Librarians and she later decided to
have the library opening hours shorten by an hour....
as if that would make any difference!
