The Haunted School

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Jim Harold (1:30)

A haunted school. Up next on Jim Harold's Campfire.

SPEAKER_6 (1:43)

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Jim Harold (1:49)

Next up on the campfire is Laura and I'm going to, I'm going to spill a little bit of beans on myself here, a little bit of the tea.

I was sitting on the wrong call for about 10 minutes and Laura was patiently there waiting and then I realized I was on the wrong call and here she is. So Laura, just a saintly person, saintly person for waiting all that time while Jim got his act together. And Laura also, thank you for doing God's work. You're a teacher and you had some strange experiences surrounding all of that. So tell us what happened.

Laura (2:24)

Okay. So I'm going to kind of keep where I teach.

I teach at a school in Eastern North Carolina.

Shelley (2:29)

I'm not going to say the name. Makes sense.

Laura (2:31)

And it's a pre-K through 12 school.

We have a lot of buildings and typically depending on what grade level you teach in is what building you're in. But ever since COVID, I've been in... I teach high school, but I've been in a building that is first to third grade, which is only relevant for the story. And I've had three kind of peculiar experiences. And if I hadn't had all three, I might've been able to brush it off, but I actually just had one in August right before the school year started. The first one happened maybe 2022 I was here on a Saturday doing some work on campus, teachers do that. And I was the only person on campus. And I know I was the only person on campus because when I came in, I had to drive all around the campus to get to my building, not another car there. I'm in my classroom working, and I kept hearing sounds outside the external door so I could look out to the windows. And there's a sidewalk that leads to a courtyard. Nobody should have been there. I kept hearing like kids running up and down making sounds. And I heard it a couple of times, ignored it. I heard it a third time and went outside because what I thought was another coworker from a different building who has children maybe had showed up and I was going to go see who it was. Opened the door, there wasn't anybody there. I was so sure that I had heard the voices that it actually walked all around my building. I went to other buildings and nobody was there. And I thought, well, maybe I was just hearing stuff. And I went back to my room and I heard it again. And it's the distinct footsteps of kids running and giggling, laughing.

And it kind of freaked me out, so I left.

And then the other one happened last school year. I was in my room and I have a different schedule than the other classes around me because I'm in an upper school and they're in lower school. And I had my door closed and I was going to make an external phone call using the school's phone.