Job Corps Haunting

The Shadowlands

Job Corp Morganfield haunting

(another user explains her experience working at Earle C Clements)

By: bludlettingudie@hotmail.com

I'm an ILA (independent living advisor) at Earle C. Clements Job Corp in Morganfield, Ky. I started working there in march 06 on the night shift.
During my second and last week of training, the woman training me was telling me about the campus being haunted, reportings that students had made and even some experiences of her own. Then she had to leave the dorm for a minute so I was the only person in the dorm awake.
The dorm I was in is the only one in our campus with a female wing and I went to use the bathroom on that wing.
The dorm structure is shaped like an "L" with a door going to each wing and a large rubbermaid trash can at each door. The door going to the girls wing had to be held open with two wooden wedges where all other wing doors only need one. These wedges were place on each side of the bottom of the door and the door opened inward to the lobby in the bend of dorm. The trash can for that wing had also been left on the lobby side of the door way that night.
So anyway, I had to go use the bathroom on the girls wing and i'm the only person in the dorm awake.
Just as I got inside the bathroom door I heard a very loud bang from somewhere close to the lobby. The bathroom is in the middle of the wing.
The sound didn't scare or startle me and I started to ignore it all together but thought there might be something going on with one of the students so I walked back out into the hall and looked toward the lobby.
The wing door had closed on the trash can that was sitting there and had caused the bang i heard but no one was in the lobby or the hall. I didn't hear any students talking or moving around. No one had just shut their room door, so I just stood there a minute staring at the door.
Then the hair on the back of my neck stood on end and I got a cold chill. I walked to the door and didn't see the wooden wedges that had been holding the door open. I opened the door and saw them both laying out in the floor away from the door way altogether.
I called my co-worker and told her what happened. We laughed about it cuz we had just talked about the campus being haunted but I was spooked for the rest of the night and I haven't worked that dorm alone at night since then. I work 2nd shift now because there's more activity with the students and I was getting really bored on 3rds so i'm not there at night much anymore but that's the only supernatural encounter i've ever had in my life and I won't be forgetting it anytime soon.
I've never had a student complain to me about seeing shadows on the walls or people hovering over them at night but my co-worker that night said that students in the next dorm over used to get scared and report a shadow on the wall that would always go behind the same locker everytime they saw it.
At the time this happened to me, the dorm she was talking about was shut down and unpopulated due to remodleing. When it reopened a couple of months later I started working in that dorm but on 2nd shift.
One night after lights out (after 10:30) one of the guys on B wing walked out into the hall, looked at me and said "come tell these guys to shut up so i can go to sleep". I laughed cuz i knew there was really not much telling what the guys in that room where doing becuase they were always doing something silly at night before bed.
I went in the room of 6 guys and 5 of them were laughing. Then one of them explained that they were talking about ghosts and scaring their roommate for the fun of it. Turns out that they felt like the room was being haunted because they could hear something in the room at night but no one was up. They also said that the room would suddenly get real cold at night but it didn't happen very much.
I told them that the center was haunted and has been documented as such on the internet. It freaked them out because they didn't know. (it's not like the recruiters tell the enrollees before they decide to come to
morganfield) The dorm was shut down again shortly after that for repair and has since been reopened again but we had to move the students to another dorm during the repair so I'm not in that dorm anymore. That dorm is now the CO-ED dorm and populated. The dorm i had my first experience is in now shut down due to lack of staffing.
I thought you would like to hear about the Morganfield Job Corp from someone who worked there. Hope what I have told you is of some use.
The CO-ED dorm sits where the POW camp was back during the war. At least that's what my co-worker said that night we talked about it. She's been there for eon's, i'd like to think she knows what she's talking about.