I just came back from a short vacation with my family in Williamsburg, VA. It was a lot of and very interesting. On our first night, we went on a ghost tour of colonial Williamsburg at night in complete darkness. I thought it was really interesting because our guide took us around to famous places such as the College of William and Mary and colonial houses and told us spooky ghost stories relating to the specific stops along the tour.
Ghost Story: One story in particular caught my attention. It was on the first stop along the tour at one of the buildings of the College of William and Mary. In the colonial era, around the 1600s, this building was constructed for an Indian boys boarding school. There was heavy fighting between the colonists and Indian tribes in Virginia and the colonists came up with an idea to make peace. They constructed a boarding school for Indian boys to teach them their religion, language and way of life. The Indian chiefs agreed to send their young boys to the school but the boys were very unhappy there because the colonists weren't nice to them. Many boys tried to escape despite the restrictions set upon them by their headmaster. However, there was one boy who found a rope and was able to climb down from the top floor of the building where they slept. Every night after he climbed down, he ran around and was able to climb up to his bed in time for dawn. One night, he was not in his bed at dawn and the colonists searched for him and they found his body in the forest. Today, according to professors, students and local townspeople late at night they sometimes see a ghostlike figure running around the college or hear noises coming in or around the building where that boy was forced to attend boarding school hundreds of years ago.
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