One of the most frightening nights of my life was spent exploring the Bennett School.

I lived in upstate NY, and it was kind of a right of passage to go to the Bennett School, climb in through the white boarded up window on the lower left hand corner, and explore. Just to give you perspective, that window is probably 15 feet above ground, and the only way to get in is to climb up a set of rotting stairs that are nearly impossible to see at night.

When you made your way in there was an unfortunate amount of graffiti that greeted you along the way. We would go to the theatre and take pictures of the group sitting in random chairs. After that, we would explore the building further.

I know it sounds corny and ridiculous, but one night when we were exploring, we decided it would be a good idea to bring a camcorder along to record the experience. At one point my buddy Tim was talking nonsense into the camera, which was on some sort of "Night time recording mode" that made everything green, and all of a sudden his eyes started to glow bright green for about 30 seconds. During that time his nonsense really turned into ridiculous rambling, and after the 30 or so seconds were up, his eyes went back to a normal color, and he continued chatting in a normal maner. -- While watching the tape later Tim told us that he had no recollection of the things he said when his eyes turned bright green.

Later that night, my buddy was walking with the camera and we entered a bathroom that had running water, that was already running when we entered. He had the camera recording, but for some reason it was at his side. On the camera, a 12-18 inch glowing rod was sitting in the tub, and none of us saw anything in the tub when we went in.

In another room, we opened the door, and were all hit with an intense amount of wind. When we left that room and continued to walk down the hall, we could hear strange noises coming from the depths of the building.

There is a large staircase in the middle of the building which is rumored to be a spot where several girls hung themselves back when it was a girl's school. While walking up that staircase, and quickly deciding to stop and retreat, one of my friends swore that she saw a rope dangling, that no one else could see.

Later as we walked down in the administration area, there were a few broken windows on doors, and one of the doors had in large red paint the words: "School's out!!" written on it. My buddy specifically focused in on that door with his camera and said out loud "That's right, School's out mother fucker!" -- Later when we were watching the film, the words were not on the door at all, although other graffiti, including red paint graffiti was clearly visible on the walls.

with regards to the theatre I mentioned, while looking at the pictures from us in the theatre, there were several seats that were filled with fog, or blurry smoke, which was pretty strange.

At the end of this night, we tried to go further into the building than we had gone before, and one of the girls we were with just started crying uncontrollably and we finally decided to leave. As we were leaving, the care taker who lives next door came outside with a flashlight and we all took off running faster than i have ever run before.

This place used to be a School for girls that rivaled the likes of Vassar. Once they shut that down, Timothy Leary occupied it for some time.

It was a creep show.