Angie Senter is a staff member and former student at Washington State University. She also has ghost stories. This month, she shared two of them with NWPB's Rachel Sun.
The following is a transcript of Senter's interview. It was edited for time and clarity.
Angie Senter: “So I came to WSU in 1998. I had one of those big lecture classes in Bryan Hall, and so the professor was super strict. You couldn't talk, you couldn't get up.
One day we were in there and about halfway through the lecture, we could hear a man's voice when we had a female instructor. And so she stops her lecture and does the 'professor glare' around the room to try to figure out who's talking, and it stops.
And then, a couple minutes later, it happens again. And she thumps her notes down on the lectern and is staring around the room. And it stops.
And then it happened a third time, but you could hear it more clearly. And it almost sounded like one of those police … like, ‘This was a 1043.’ And she goes, ‘Oh,’ she says, ‘I think my microphone is picking up a police scanner.’
And then you kind of got the whole room like digested that and they were like, ‘That's not really how microphones work.’
And I think the instructor processed that too. And so it just got kind of quiet in the room. And then there's that big, huge organ that's on the side of the stage, and one note played out of that organ.
And then it just went silent in this huge thing. And the professor is looking over there, and then it played another two notes.
And I was sitting up on top and I could see the keys go down. And she goes, 'Alright, I don't know what's going on here, but I'm done.'
And we're out. And she took her mic off and threw it down and left. And then she refused to have lecture in there again, and they had to move that big lecture to some other building on campus.
... I think in the whole time since then, I've been in Bryan Hall one time. I'm very suspicious and I look at the little organ the whole time.
So, the other story is more recent.
… So, what I do here is I run the events for the Carson College of Business. And we have several events a year for students, and we have the students swipe their WSU ID card into just a computer swiper.
We were running the Washington State Tax Forum. Couple of hundred students. And this female student comes and she swipes. And she goes, ‘Oh!’ she says, ‘That's not me.’
She swipes again, it flips up. She goes, ‘Oh, that's me. I'm good.’ So I was like, ‘Oh, OK.'
I don't think anything of it. It was a little technical glitch. No big deal. A gal came up to me and she was part of that, I think it's called Common Core Reading, here at WSU.
And she says, ‘Would you share your attendance data with me?’ And I'm like, ‘Absolutely.’
So when I got back, I shared the Excel with her … and she got back to me an hour or two later and she says, ‘There was one student on there I can't find in our system, and I just wanna make sure all students get credit. Do you know who the student is?’
So I just messaged back and I said, ‘No, I'm sorry. I don't, this just comes from the swiper system.’ She’s like, 'OK.’
Well, then she calls me on the phone about an hour later and she goes, ‘Hey, where did you get that student's information from?’
And she goes, ‘I just was really worried I was gonna miss a student. And so I did a little digging. That student has passed away. And it dawned on me because it was a male name.
And I said, ‘Actually, one of our students, it was a female, swiped in and a name popped up that was not her, that was a male name.’ and she's like, ‘OK, so we're never gonna talk about this again?’ And I was like, ‘Yep.’ And then we hung up the phone.
And so now the joke around here is if we pass away and have to haunt a tax conference, we're gonna be really upset."
