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I don't really buy into ghost and monsters, but I have to admit something is in Rhodesia Louisiana something I cant explain away so that is why IM here. It was 9 years ago but not something i will ever forget.
There is an old school in Rhodesia Louisiana that has been closed since the 60's. It was the white school, when all the integration started they shut it down and built a new one. The property for reasons I don't know was left to decay. The derelict building constructed in the 50's became a home to transients and other undesirables so in the early eighties a 10 foot barbed wire toped chain link fence was erected. The three story building with gymnasium and auditorium attached and the surrounding property was all fenced in. What is left of the fence still stands today.
As you might have guessed the fence did not stop much, especially adventurous teenage kids. As kids we used to go to the old school for a place to hang out drink and act ... well like kids. The biggest attraction to this rotting old pile of bricks was that it was a rumored meeting place for occultist, so it was a great place for a group of kids to scare the crap out of each other, especially the girlfriends. It was also made like the Sistine chapel for all the Goth kids. Harmless fun for most the kids who went, just a creepy walk through and then sneak away before you get busted. There were although plenty of vandals scrawling graffiti and trashing anything they could. Not to mention the occasional bum or drunken hillbilly looking for young teen girls (neither did I see first hand but only heard of).
Now that you know the back story I will cut to the chase. Me and my friends had been to the school on many occasions but never heard or seen anything strange. It always had the creepy feeling to it, but a huge pitch black derelict building is going to have that feel to it. This time ended a little different though. A friend of mine who had never visited the school went with us. His name is Doug, as a kid he was a little wild and fearless (thank God he grew out of that).There where five of us all together, Justin and his girlfriend patty, Doug, and Mary and I.
The gymnasium has a trap door behind the stage that goes to the basement. The basement is one big room with a concert floor and large concert pillars that runs under most of the school. It seemed to be used in part for storage aside from maintenance type stuff. We had never been down because the ladder had rusted away years before we ever knew of the building.
Doug of course wanted to go down but my buddy Justin my self and the girls didn't want to. The girls where already creeped out and Justin and my self did not want to deal with the 6 or 7 foot drop, and then the climb out. As I'm sure you guessed he dared us in to it, challenging our young manhood. So although I was at the time overweight and less than graceful and my buddy Justin short, we went along with it. They lowered me down first because I was the biggest and then Justin lowered Doug's tall skinny butt down. We both helped catch Justin as he dropped down last.
At first it looked to be just piles of old trash and rotting 50's school equipment, the most menacing thing an old dog skeleton from where the poor critter must have fallen in and starved. The air was cooler by maybe 10 degrees but hey we where below ground, right? We weren't really spooked about being down there it was a lot of open space, we had flashlights and well there were three of us. We were having a good time checking out all the old stuff and exploring when the girls started yelling for us to come back up. So we went back to where the hole was to figure out how we where going to get back up.
As I tried to lift Doug up so he could reach the top of the hole Justin said ...."What the @#%^ is that! Me and Doug laughed at him and told him to stop playing and help. We of course thought he was full of it till he freaked and tried to climb both of us, knocking us over. He was crying and screaming now and I wont lie that scared the hell out of me. Doug was cussing him and calling him a baby when I saw it. It was about 200 feet away maybe more standing by a pillar. The first thing that came to my mind is that it was a person, maybe a bum or a Satanist living down here. I told Doug to shut up, " someone is down here with us" i told Doug.
Justin was crying and had vomited all over him self by this point. I tried to tell Justin it was just some guy and there where three of us and only one of him. He was not listening to me or Doug. I shined my light to where the guy was but he had moved, I assumed he was behind the pillar. The girls who assumed at first we where trying to scare them had freaked and left for the bronco. Doug openly yelled at the guy because he was now scared but not ready to say so. I decided the best thing to do was get the hell out of there. I told Doug that we would lift up Justin and then he could help pull him up when I lifted him, then they could pull me up.
The plan sounded simple but it didn't end up that way. We had not even started to lift Justin when we started to hear movement. Justin was literally trying to climb me and make me lift him out, I was getting mad by this point so I aided Doug's earlier yelling spree at the unwelcome mystery man. As Doug and I shouted threats and obscenities a response was prompted. There was movement the far left of where he should have been, a bit chilling because we had kept an eye on that spot. We shined our lights on a sight that still chills and confuses me.
The thing (I say that because I cant say what it was) was about five and a half to six feet tall. It was pinkish white in color, it was all out of proportion for a man. Its arms were large and it held them raised slightly at is sides, it seemed to have large hands but they where closed. It was not stooped or hunched over but standing straight up maybe even a bit leaned backwards. Its legs were bowed a bit and seemed to be bent slightly at the knees. Its most frightening feature to me though was its head, its head was shaped sort of like a watermelon stood on its end. It had a large mouth that I never saw open, small eyes sunken in its head so I never caught the color of them. Its nose didn't seem to be there and its ears were more like lumps or knots.
It just stood there as we shined our light on it never moving at all. I was frozen I did not know what to do or say, but Justin's further mental breakdown and Doug's new found panic pulled me out of my daze quick. We scrambled to get out doing as we had planed, we lifted Justin who once up snatched Doug up and then both of them lifting me. Once out we did not waste any time fleeing for our live from the unknown thing. We told the girls who never believed us and sort of blew it off (I think they didn't want to believe us) and acted like we where jerks.
As far as I know the girls never spoke of it as anything but a prank. Justin refused to ever talk about it again and wont till this day. I have spoken to Doug about it on and off over the years, but we have always felt that people would think we were crazy or call us liars if we talked about it openly. Recently though I have been dreaming of that night and would like to stop. So this is an attempt (hopefully not in vain) to make the dreams go away for good.
Now to end my tail. First off, I don't care if you think I'm crazy or a liar. I wanted to get this off my chest and I have. Secondly if you doubt my story you can check to facts and get a little satisfaction. I don't know if you can find Rhodesia on the web or the old school for that matter, I have never tried. If you can't and you live near oil city or Vivian Louisiana or even texarkana Texas, you can drive there and see first hand. I am not condoning trespassing at all (even though I know some people will), but you can see the school from the outside of the fence. If you are interested enough you can even contact the Rhodesia City hall about the building. Perhaps even take a look inside.
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