An Argusville Adventure

So...Sunday night, Liz Reynolds and I were just driving around and whatnot and we were out by Harwood when I remembered hearing about people talking about a supposed "haunted school" in Argusville.

We consulted ChaCha and got directions to Argusville from Fargo. We got to Argusville and looked for the school. Since it's a small town, we found it pretty quickly. We wanted to get out and investigate, but it was close to 2:00 in the morning and we weren't prepared at all. Plus...the whole town was just kind of creeping us out.

So, we went home with plans to try it the next night: Monday night.

Liz got to my house at about 9:30 PM. We originally had invited Nora and Phoebe, but we'd learned that neither of them could go. So, we were sitting in my driveway, texting and calling people to see if they could come. We didn't really get any takers, except for when I decided to text Alec. He said he'd come.

We were off to Argusville. We got there with no problem once again. We parked near a field that's by the school, called Bill's field, and we started to walk around the back of the newer/lower part of the school. All of the doors were locked, but there was a window that was completely out, and Alec decided to crawl through it. He got in and opened a door from the inside for Liz and me.

We investigated for about 30-40 minutes. We saw the gym, auditorium, a locker/changing room, the basement and boiler room, some bathrooms, a few classrooms, and some other rooms that really gave no indication of what they were, since there wasn't much for furniture or anything.

We just walked around, looking at things and peeking into rooms with our flashlights. It was pretty interesting, but nothing scary really happened.

We started to head back to where we came in, and we were confronted with some double doors that we hadn't taken yet, so we went through them. However, as we were going through them, we all heard a noise that sounded like a door opening, and we were all afraid that there was an actual person in there, looking to get us into trouble, as there were "NO TRESPASSING" signs all over the building.

After we heard that, we were all kind of freaking out a bit, trying to find a different door out that was close to where the car was parked. We tried one, but it didn't budge. We went back to the area by the gym, which was consequently right by the car, and there was a door that opened. Before that, though, Liz and I swore we heard some really peculiar swooshing or swishing sort of noise that went on for at least 10 seconds. I don't really know what it was. It could've been anything, normal OR paranormal. It was creepy, though.

Eventually we felt like it was safe to leave, so we quickly walked back to the car and hopped in.

So, basically, nothing spiritual or supernatural happened. It was a creepy and fun adventure, though. Someday I think we'll go back with a bigger group to do some real investigating. Tonight we were just kind of scoping things out.

Even though we didn't see any ghosts or hear any voices or anything, it was still fun and exciting. I'd do it again. Next time I want to try to get into the taller, older building, though... I suspect that's where the supposed spirits are, even though everyone always talks about the lower level's auditorium.

It was kind of weird being in an abandoned building that's like...right across the street from people's houses and whatnot. They closed the school down about 10-12 years ago. I don't really know why, but I'm assuming it's because they didn't need or couldn't afford to have a school in such a small town, so they just merged with West Fargo or Casselton or something.

It was just strange walking around that school, thinking that only a decade ago, it was a real school that kids attended. Now it's almost beyond repair, it's such a mess. It could be saved, but almost EVERYTHING would need replacing. It's strange that there's so much damage after only a decade. It's almost kind of sad.

Anyway, that's my story of the long weekend. :P