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Choking on Ink
My grandmother told me when she was in high school an old math teacher in his 60′s named Harold Davidson was teaching math and one of his students wouldn’t stop tapping his pen during class. The teacher went berserk and lost his mind. He snatched the pen and attacked the kid, lodging the pen down the child’s throat while his classmates looked on screaming. While struggling, the kid kicked the teacher in the chest with … Read entire article »
School Bathroom Bullies and Ghosts
Bullies Butcher Boy in the Bathroom Down here in Jamestown there are a bunch of stories about the old Pine Haven school. One story I heard creeps me out and makes me glad I’m a girl. They say one day a geeky boy went into the boy’s bathroom alone. While he was washing his hands one of the school bullies walked in and decided to play a little game. He and his buds snuck up behind … Read entire article »
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Let Me Ask You This…
Two students decide to go skiing for the weekend, and are having such a good time they decide to blow off the exam that they have scheduled for Monday morning in order to get some final runs in before they head back to school. They decide to tell the professor that they got a flat tire and therefore deserve to take the exam at a rescheduled time. Hearing the story, said professor agrees that it really … Read entire article »
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The Show Must Go On
I went to the same school for my entire academic career. The school was built a long time ago when the town was booming with oil. At the elementary school (formerly the high school) there is an auditorium. Creepy enough on its own, it actually has a legend that i have heard many versions of. The story goes that a very twisted man often terrorized the town and the schoolchildren. When he went "over the … Read entire article »
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The Watchful Painting
About 15 years ago, I was attending university outside of London. The school is famous for its art gallery that draws visitors from all over England. My final exams were given in a cavernous hall with dozens of enormous oil paintings covering the walls, from floor to ceiling. I noticed that one painting hanging to my right had been covered with a large British flag. Although I didn’t think much of it at the time, I … Read entire article »
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Aren’t You Glad You Didn’t Turn on the Light?
Two college roommates were complete opposites, one liked to study while the other liked to party. In preparation for their upcoming midterms, the studious roommate (Jane) planned a Friday night of studying while the partier (Mary) decided to go to a frat party. The two were friends, regardless of their differences, and while Mary got ready for the party, she tried to get Jane to go. Jane insisted on studying and Mary set out for the … Read entire article »
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Haunted School
There is this school in Danvers, Massachusetts that was actually built right over the real place where they buried the witches who were killed in the Salem witch trials. It used to be a part of Olde Salem. It is a school for people studying to be vets, plant nursery workers, etc., so there are a lot of animals and plants there. A lot of strange things happen there. Animals will get spooked by something no … Read entire article »
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Finals Week
On college campus’, during the week of finals, the dorms have set "quiet hours" so that people can study without being disturbed. Tradition has it that on the last night of finals at 12:00am everyone opens their windows and screams for exactly one minute. On most campuses you can hear someone tell the story that one year, between 12:00 and 12:01am, a girl was brutally raped and murdered and no one heard her scream for help … Read entire article »
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They Hurt Her
About six years ago in Indiana, Carmen Winstead was pushed down a sewer opening by five girls in her school, trying to embarrass her in front of her school during a fire drill. When she didn’t submerge, the police were called. They went down and brought up 17-year-old Carmen Winstead’s body, with her neck broken from hitting the ladder, then the concrete at the bottom. The girls told everyone she fell… They believed them. FACT: About … Read entire article »
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Bathroom Ghosts
Hanako, the ghost in the toilet, almost achieved the status of a national phenomena in Japanese legend 20 years ago, when a wave of stories of ghost-sightings swept through the nation’s school yards. Every child had a “Hanako” story to tell. The stories, of course, are many and varied but every schoolchild in Japan, at one time or another, has stood in dread and anticipation as he or she ventured into the school toilet alone. This … Read entire article »
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