by David Adelman

Created on: May 18, 2009

The Vanier Ghost

After aimlessly wandering the halls and harassing grey-haired teachers and faculty, I was hoping at least one of them heard of the "Vanier Ghost". Some simply replied "I am the Vanier Ghost", in which I simply laughed in response. Some had no clue what I was talking about and gave me that "you're wasting my time" look. But! Some of them actually had pieces of the story which I put together in the best way I could. I will now in as best detail as possible try to explain to you the events that resulted in the Vanier Ghost, and I hope that I will not get hunted by this long dead apparition.

It was the late 1800's, closer to the year 1900 in which modernization was slowly sweeping across the globe and religion was slowly becoming less important- with the separation of the church and state soon to come...

Vanier College used to be a nunnery that much we know, however, no one knows where the following events took place on campus, so we will simply refer to this crypt-like location as the J-wing. There was at this time, two nuns, whose names have been long forgotten, but for the sake of this story, we shall call the older one, a veteran nun, Sister Helga and the younger one Sister Delilah. Now Sister Delilah was very beautiful, and being an orphan was taken against her consent to become a nun. Delilah always wanted to explore the outside world, but what she wanted was something unthinkable, she wanted to love and be loved by a man. A few years passed, and Delilah was around 19-20 and everyday as she worked in the fields to plough the grain, she would watch the young milkman fill up his bottles from the nun's cows. A few months later, they began to date in secret. Delilah absolutely loved him, and she would walk around with googly eyes whenever she wasn't with him. Sister Helga, watched and loathed Delilah, but being a sister she couldn't do anything. Everyone loved Delilah, everyone asked about Delilah, everyone cared about Delilah, and no one even batted an eyebrow over Sister Helga. So Sister Helga schemed and schemed, and one day she had an idea. She wrote a letter, pretending to be Delilah's lover, telling her to meet him by the J-wing stairwell, late at night because he had something important to tell her. She then slipped it in an empty milk bottle and left it on a bench that Delilah usually took her work breaks on. Delilah, being young and naive, found the letter and was overjoyed, thinking that her lover was going to propose to her and sneak her away from the nunnery forever. So late at night, Delilah, dressed completely in a white gown, waited and waited for her lover to come. Sister Helga approached her from behind and beat her to death with the same plough Delilah would use to work every day. Sister Helga, covered in blood, with eyes burning red, realized what demonic psychotic mistake she just made, buried Delilah under the loose bricks in the stairwell and then jumped out of the window of the highest floor, which was the fifth floor. As she fell, she made a silent prayer in a strange form of Latin.

From that day on, students, faculty and unlucky passersby's hear and see, a young woman dressed in a white gown, floating around lost and depressed, searching for her fianc to be. But some have the most horrifying experience of seeing, a sadistic, red eyed Nun, slowly walking up stairs towards the window and then disappearing...some even heard what she says in a strange Latin dialect, something to the effect of " The dead will never rest to find their soul mates". So don't skip class, because she might find you.

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