The third floor

Pennsylvania · United States · Church

A nun from the convent walks the third floor after school. She has no face, and the pupils who stay late are the ones who see her.

A nun who lived in the convent at this school near Pittsburgh died many years ago, and she is reported walking the third floor of the main building after school hours.

She has no face, and that is what she is known by.

Almost everyone who has seen her is a pupil who stayed behind for something: rehearsals, practice, a club. The building empties at the end of the day and the ones left in it are the ones who report her.

A faceless figure is an old form and it turns up worldwide, but attached to a nun it has a particular force. A habit already frames the face and hides everything else, so a figure in one is defined almost entirely by the small area a habit leaves visible.

Remove that and there is nothing left to recognise.

The school is in use.

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The third floor is in Pennsylvania, United States.