Ghost Stories

There was a time at QC when ghost stories abounded. There was the story of the lady that could braid her own hair, with her head on her lap. There was the story of the ghost that haunted the uncompleted building next to the assembly hall. There was the story of the girls with no feet, that sauntered across the school. There was the toilet ghost.

Couple all the above stories with girls approaching puberty where mood swings and temperaments fluctuated like the British weather, and you had a recipe for alarmist behaviour.

Some people took to crying, others to 'casting out demons', others took to not allowing any random person to braid their hair. Girls who had previously braided their own hairs, with their arms stretched upright to reach the hair ON their heads stopped, for fear of being called witches.

People moved in groups. Some people didn't move.

Having spoken to some friends from other schools, it appears, the same 'ghosts' also haunted those schools too, at the same time, no less. Someone obviously watched too many scary movies the previous summer.