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My human provided me with some intriguing fodder for today's discourse, involving a post mortem annoyance that has crept unwelcomed into her dorm room. It appears that she is dwelling with a ghost. Now, before you dismiss this as a foolishly overactive imagination, brought on by an excessive love of Ghost Hunters, do appreciate two key facts: 1) whatever else she may by, my human is an exceedingly rational creature and nearly as intelligent as myself, so I hold her opinions in fairly high regard, and 2) a year or two back, Herriott Hall was investigated by a branch of the TAPS team right here in Iowa, and they found evidence of the paranormal. As for the rest, make of it what you will!

A few nights ago, at around 1am, the human was lying in her bed and falling asleep. She was alone in the room, the hallway was completely silent, and she believes that the two dorm rooms flanking hers were devoid of occupants. In any case, the two rooms are both female-inhabited. Her window was securely shut, all sound-producing objects (computers, phones, what have you) were turned off, and again, she was ALONE in the room. And yet somehow, the very distinct sound of a man coughing came from across the room, near her roomate's desk area. Naturally, she became very worried and jumped out of bed to turn the light on, but of course, there was no man anywhere (she looked in the hallway as well--no one). As I said, this human is not one to hallucinate or hear phantom noises...and there was no conceivable way this cough could have come from inside the room, and yet it did. A ghost? That is for you to judge, readers.

Last night, the human and her roomate slept peacefully in their beds, until around 5:30 in the morning. My human tells me that she was awakened by the sound of voices, which she initially thought was part of whatever dream she had been having. As she listened and noticed the moving light, she realized that it was the TV... the TV that had apparently turned on all by itself. Her roomate got up to turn it off after a minute or so, and the incident did not occur again. Still, TVs do not normally engage in such actions... did the ghost of room 413 strike again?

This series of unnatural events has greatly piqued my curiousity, and I am quite excited to move into a possibly haunted room in less than a week. I shall keep a keen eye out for other eery phenomena to report, so that together, readers, we may build up a body of evidence to prove once and for all whether or not Herriott is a haunted hall!

Cheers (and ghostly wails),
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