These Haunted Halls

In the quiet old school buildings, in the silence of its halls, are the echoes of the ages, are the voices of the past. Sometimes one can hear or see the specters. Other times one only senses that the buildings are looking at them, sizing them up, recognizing the presence. Muffled footsteps are heard in the empty gymnasium. The sounds of doors opening or closing are heard in unoccupied hallways. Motion sensor surveillance cameras start recording when no one is in the building. Children's running footsteps are noticed in a deserted choir loft of the old chapel. A ghostly janitor vacuums in a locked dormitory room to the amazement of onlookers. Young lovers dance a waltz after hours, oblivious to the school principal looking on. And a spectral voice whispers messages of distress over a P.A. system late at night. Such are some of the paranormal experiences reported by students, teachers, police officers and administrators at a school that has operated first as a boarding school, then as a charter school and now as a military ROTC high school in rural, central Delaware for over one-hundred years. Its empty quiet halls are never really silent but will always whisper messages to those that have a mind to listen. In these pages you will experience what so many have experienced at St. Joseph's Industrial School...should you wish to attend.

Robin M. Strom-Mackey is the Director of Delaware Paranormal Research Group and has been investigating the paranormal for eighteen years in central Delaware and the surrounding areas. The group has investigated many of the region's most notorious haunts. Author of Anatomy of a Ghost; A Guide to Analyzing the Dead and On the Hunt for the Haunted; Searching for Proof of the Paranormal, Robin has written extensively about ghosts for her paranormal blog and in her books. You can visit her online at www.delawareparanormalresearchgroup.com. To see much of the evidence collected from this or other investigations you can view the Delaware Paranormal Research Group channel on YouTube. Find her on Facebook at Robin Strom