It is almost Halloween, and San Luis Obispo High School students are looking for those fall thrills.
Ghost stories are a perfect start.
The supernatural has always been a strange fascination for most people; Are there truly souls left behind with unfinished business?, Ghosts of friends or family watching over us?, Demons patiently waiting with malicious intent? We may never know, but here at SLOHS, Expressions hunted down some of the most spine chilling supernatural tales.
“I’ve really only had one ghost experience, but I feel like it was more of an energy than a ghost. I have two sisters, and one is just about one and a half. My grandma passed away when I was five, so neither of my sisters got to meet her. About a month ago, I was going through old notebooks and I found my grandma’s old diary, where she wrote entries about me as a baby. I read through it, and cried like a bunch, but then I went out into the living room. My youngest sister, Ana, was there, and she was sitting on the ground playing. She looked at me, and then right above my head, pointed and smiled. In that moment my whole body felt warm, and I could definitely feel my grandma’s presence”, said senior Jayda Monreal.
All over San Luis Obispo there are so many haunted places, notably the abandoned orphanage Sunny Acres, or as some call it “Hell Acres”. There have been many reports of ghost sights, along with creepy rumors of it previously being a brutal insane asylum. The walls are covered in graffiti some of which is satanic and hellish.
Rumors also spread into downtown SLO where it is said that inside the Frog and Peach Pub there is a ghost of a murder lurking in darkness of the basement above the creek.
Or that in the SLO Cemetery the infamous Dorn Pyramid is considered a “knocking grave” and it is unknown whether or not someone is truly buried inside. This of course goes without mentioning the pyramid’s connection to the Masons of SLO.
“Personally I haven’t had any personal encounters with ghosts. I’ve seen TV shows and things like that where people claim to be finding ghosts, but it always seems really staged. I’m glad that some people do believe, though, in the supernatural, because if they ever did find something I’d be interested to hear about it. I won’t be actively looking, though, as the lack of evidence so far leads me to have my suspicions on the subject”, said senior Evan Clausen.
Overall a town like SLO, with a truly vibrant history, is bound to have many hauntings and stories of the supernatural, and people are always hungry for more mystery. Got a local ghost story? Tell us about it at [email protected]
