This is a completely true story that happened about 8 years ago in Los Angeles.
A friend of mine and her husband run this very strange museum (The Museum of Jurassic Technology). It is like a joke kind of museum with very weird objects and sounds. It has always spooked me whenever I went in there. It is VERY dark and the exhibits are so odd – old creepy bones, old books, just a lot of weird stuff.
She and I (her name is Diana) belonged to a study group with some professors that used to meet every Friday at the museum, in the back. To get there you had to walk through the dark museum, but in the back was a modern, bright, normal kitchen.
Well one Friday we were all in back, the museum was closed and it was about 11:00. We were all concentrating really hard on our work when I heard a woman’s voice coming from the museum area. It was very clear. I don’t know what she/it was saying, but I heard a woman speaking very clearly. So I said, “Diana, I think you left one of the exhibits on.” Some of them had recordings that played if you touched a button. She acted sort of weird – just brushed it off. A few minutes later I heard the voice again, and again I said “I’m sure you left one of them on. I can hear a woman talking.” So Diana kind of rolled her eyes and went back to the museum part, came back and said no, all the exhibits were off and the whole place shut down. But she was acting rather stiff and uncomfortable about the whole thing. So then we started studying again.
After about half an hour, I heard the voice again, just vaguely, and I was about to say something when this man in our group, an Art professor, said, “There’s someone out there, Diana. A woman. I just heard her say “Is anyone is there?”
At that, Diana finally confessed what she hadn’t wanted to tell any of us. She said “Well, we are all educated people here, so I didn’t want to mention it.” She was very embarrassed. But she said, ever since they had put in a particular display of objects, they had had visitors tell them about seeing an old woman. She mumbled “We think this place is haunted.”
Keep in mind these were all Graduate students and Profs – not people inclined to believe in this sort of thing. The Art Prof. said “No, there’s someone there. I heard an old woman asking if anyone is there. You better go out and check.”
Diana went out and came back and said “No, no one is there.” Anyway, she said that recently a very old lady had died and had given the museum a bunch of antique Victorian Christmas ornaments, and ever since they had put them in a display, the “hauntings” had started. People said they saw an old woman and when they turned around, she was gone. People left the museum very scared. Some said they heard a woman whisper in their ear.
When she told us this I immediately asked if it was a particular room, and she said yes, how did you know? I said, because that room is always freezing every time I come here, and I always get a spooky feeling from it.
Eventually, they had to get rid of the ornaments, and when they did no one ever complained about anything again.
Well, all I can say is I am positive I heard that voice. And so did someone else. We both heard it, and yet there was NO ONE in the museum at the time.
This is all true! I am a very skeptical person, but this is one event I cannot explain.
Sent in by Roz, Copyright 2009 TrueGhostTales.com
Check out The Museum of Jurassic Technology’s website at www.mjt.org