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Think Again.
By Jill Johse
For those of you that think it’s Ella, CARRUTHERS Porter Haunting. The Texas Congress. PTA Building, Boy, Have I Got News for You!
What first piqued my interest in the PTA building was overhearing. A couple of staff members tell how they felt the breeze of someone brushing past them and then their radio being turned down. While I don’t believe there are spirits out to get us, as the poltergeist movies try to prove, I do believe that spirits roam their territory if they die before they were ready.
Could this be staff still in the building? No, these things happened when the staff had left. Gloria was clear about that. The building is not a huge building and Gloria is always aware of who’s there.
However, there are some things that have happened when the staff is still there. Besides the radio being turned down, one staff member has heard moaning. Another reported hearing her name being called and papers being rustled. On one occasion, three staff members together heard several heavy, loud knocks against one of the walls. This spirit does not want to hurt anyone, but he definitely wants him or her to know he’s there.
Yes, I said it again, he. How did I discover this? Upon completion of our interview, Gloria and I chatted while we put together several easels to be used the next day at the summer seminar.
While chatting, I kept my eyes on the older part of the building while hearing the elevator door open, a loud thump and papers rustling. Knowing that my mind was in the mode to want something to happen, I dismissed all these to being my imagination. I wanted something tangible, hearing wasn’t good enough.
At 8:40, Gloria asked me if I would like to take a walk through the old part of the building. I was shaking like Jelly and could barely breathe. Every hair on my body was standing straight up. I had to force myself to swallow and speak. “OK, We are going to walk out of here and go that way”, I said, pointing to the right, the way we had come “and we are going to look in that office”.
“OK, I’m right behind you”, Gloria said
We walked out and not being ready to go downstairs yet, I’m a glutton for punishment, I headed down the other hallway. I wanted to look in the rest of the offices and stuck my head in the first one. Slam! I could have walked right into him. It only took me half a second to notice the Spirit leaning against the wall on the left of the doorway. I saw shoes, pants, jacket and heavy shoulders as it took me less time to get back out into the hall. I spun around to see Gloria’s back as she was having no qualms about leaving me with this male apparition. The race was on to see which one of us was going to make it down to the bottom of the 1st floor.
It’s a he, not a she, that is haunting this building. He is in a Gray suit. While, I believe that Ella might be roaming her building too, I got the deep sense that it’s a he that’s causing the entire racket.
This is where my search will end, for now. Anyway, part of me wants to try and find out if the building was built on a small graveyard. In the meantime, this gentleman will have the free run of the building that he is. That he as is already acquired. Ella? Yes, I still think Ella is there. I picture her watching from a favorite spot. She has her arms folded around her in satisfaction, looking upon everything she has done over nine decades and looking forward to what’s to come, Generation after generation, after generation.,,,
