Ghosts on Decatur?

So there's this warehousey kind of building down on the corner of Decatur and Marigny that's always popping up full of some indie scene of some kind or another. No budget coffee house. Art space. Experimental performance venue. That kind of stuff. A friend of mine likes to check out places like that, do a little urban exploring and see what all gets left behind once whatever it was falls through. What catches my attention is they say the place is haunted. I mean, old creepy abandoned building that can't keep a tenant longer than a few months, of course people are going to say there's a ghost or something haunting the place chasing business away or something. But the artsy kid says he was going by there this Sunday past and heard weird chanting and noises and stuff. Being the scaredy-cat little artsy fartsy kid that he is, he bolts.

So he tells my friend, who decides to check it out with some buddies. Inside he finds this:

  

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That's weird, huh? Said it was salt. Ghost hunters, maybe?

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This was lying next to it on the ground. What is that? Latin? A quick google search says it's probably part of an exorcism. What was going on here? Someone down on his luck property owner trying to purge the ghost and maybe get in a tenant that won't get scared off after a couple months? I tried to get a hold of the owner to get to the bottom of this, but I couldn't find out who owned it. If any of you loyal readers know, shoot me an e-mail so we can get to the bottom of this mystery.

Anyway, back to the story, my friend's buddy goes into this room. It's full of trash and stuff. My buddy is in the main room, poking around and stuff. He hears his friend scream. Like seriously horror movie scream. So he runs in there, and his buddy is just standing there, and he's like, "Dude, what's up?"

His friend turns around, crazy eyes like he's seen a ghost, and just says, "I gotta go find somebody."

Then he leaves, just like that. No goodbye, no nothing. Just walks away.

Crazy, huh? Later he shows me the pictures he took and we see this:

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He swears up and down he didn't see that while he was there or he'd have booked it like his friend did.

I checked the place out yesterday and I'm not going to lie. Gave me the creeps. Between the salt circle and the cold spots, I'm a bonafied believer that places is haunted.

Anyone else have any experiences with this place to share? Or if you don't, if any of you brave NO Strangers have the guts to check it out, share your story and pictures in the comments!

Stay strange!

-Steve