The bell tower at Loretto

Texas · USA · Cemetery

The bells have not rung in years, and the tower is lit at night. Something moves in it, wearing the same habit as the sisters who teach here.

The bell tower at this academy in El Paso, Texas is illuminated at night. The bells have not rung for years.

There is movement up there.

Some say it is bats, or birds, and that is a reasonable thing to say about a lit tower in west Texas.

What people who look properly describe is a shadow wearing the same habit as the sisters who teach in the school below.

The habit is the whole of the observation. A bat is a bat. A shape with a recognisable silhouette, in a garment the observers see every day of their working lives, is a different claim, and the people making it are the ones best placed to know what that outline looks like.

Loretto Academy was founded by the Sisters of Loretto in 1923 and stands within sight of the border.

The school is in use.

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