Kim Walrath has worked in the Carlin Alumni House for almost 12 years and can recall four separate incidences of unexplainable behavior occurring in the building.

Walrath works as a senior specialist clerk for annual giving and works with Phone-a-thon to raise money.

She came in one Saturday by herself about three years ago to work on a project.

During off-hours, the alarm is set and will go off within 30 seconds of a person entering.

Therefore, whoever enters the building must shut the alarm off manually within 30 seconds of coming in.

Walrath had just entered the building and was preparing to shut off the alarm when she heard a faint conversation between and man and a
woman.

“The exact second I shut off the alarm, the conversation immediately stopped,” she said. “The alarm wouldn’t have been set if someone was
here.”

Walrath said she checked all over the building and nobody was there. She said the conversation may have ended because the ghosts knew someone was in the building.

Walrath said about eight years ago two Phone-A-Thon supervisors saw a “floating white thing” drift through the air in the back of the building during off-hours.

“They got out of there as quick as they could,” she said.

Two other supervisors said they were getting ready to leave a night shift and were turning on the alarm when they heard a man’s voice chuckling right next to them, Walrath said.

Walrath also remembers a Saturday morning years ago when she came in to work on a project by herself and heard a toilet flush loudly from the basement.

She ran up the stairs, looked around, made several phone calls and can only conclude that she was alone. She asked maintenance workers if the toilet could flush by itself and they said it was unlikely.

Walrath said she believes paranormal activity can exist and that it would be interesting to bring a psychic to the Carlin Alumni House and see what they have to say about it.

“I think the toilet is the only possible thing that could be debunked,” she said.

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