5.
My sister was like 5 yrs old, playing outside with a few kids, when a middle-aged man approached her and asked her to help him look at his gas meter. She started to go with him, but her friend (same age) screamed “No, Beth!! He’s a STRANGER!!!”, which caused the man to run off. Later that same week, that man was arrested for raping and killing a little girl, just a block away from where we lived.
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Ooh! I went to a Jesuit college, so naturally we have hordes of ghosts and otherwise-unsettled spirits roaming our campus. My favorite is from my freshman year: A few years ago, an RA was moving into my former freshman dorm and getting all of the room checks/paperwork/general RA crap done. As he walked into the last wing of the building, he noticed that all the mattresses were flipped on their sides so that they were perpendicular to the bed frames. He restored them to their natural positions and called the other RA’s together to tell them what a funny joke they played. None of them had any clue what he was talking about, since they were all taking care of other dorms. The next day, he woke up early to go for a run, only to notice that once again, someone had flipped the mattresses back onto their sides in the middle of the night. He put them back normally, went for his run, and went about his business, checking rooms in a different building. The very next morning, the mattresses were — you guessed it — perpendicular to the bed frames.
Impressed, pissed off, and slightly creeped out, this RA decides to stake out the building 90’s style with an RA buddy that night after restoring the natural order of the mattresses from the dorm just across from the original. As the hours drift away to the tune of the Mission Impossible theme, he notices that all of the lights on this floor simultaneously turn on (a feat that should’ve been impossible to coordinate between the sheer number of rooms and shitty, 1900’s era built-by-the-lowest-bidder engineering). As the two sprint back into the dorm, they’re greeted by a young Jesuit priest who tells them that “the problem has been taken care of.” They find the mattresses in what is the widely-accepted position for the torture devices, and go their separate ways. The next day, the RA goes to the Jesuit quarters on campus to thank the priest, and sees a picture of him on the wall while waiting to meet with the headmaster. He points to the picture and says, “Father, do you know where that priest is? He was in [DORM NAME] last night, and I wanted to thank him for helping me out with a bit of a problem.” The elderly Jesuit laughs and says, “Son, Father So-and-so died when I was undergraduate here!”
To this day, Jesuit ghosts are known to haunt that same dorm, offering aid in conjugating Latin verbs and finding lost objects.
