Why is el paso high school haunted

No one has seen Jack, he is accused of taking items that have gone missing and making noises — and will return the items and stop the noises when asked. Spirits of nuns have also been seen roaming the Catholic campus. Legend says, in the s, Joseph Huebner, who liked his liquor, accidentally drank kerosene instead of whiskey. When neighbors found him collapsed, they couldn't decide if he was dead or just drunk.

They took a vote, decided he was dead and buried him. Later, when Judge John F. Onion and his wife, Harriet, purchased the house in , there already were tales of noises coming from the house that supposedly drove horses of passersby into a frenzy.

At Mission San Juan, a visitor described the sensation of someone breathing on her; she didn't see anyone, but her family claims to have seen a clergyman with her. The story goes that a man murdered a blond woman in Room He chopped up her body and processed it in a meat grinder, covering the room with blood.

The man was caught by police, and took his own life. When the Dienger building was Boerne's library, the staff reported books moving and shuffling in older parts of the building.

Legend says Rebecca, an angel of mercy appeared near Mission Concepcion to save a Mexican soldier named Santos. In possession of a good luck pecan, he later saves her betrothed only to die in Santa Anna's final assault. So, the story goes that "when the sun is setting and the sanctuary is deserted, a spirit appears and tosses a pecan into the room where Jim Bowie died — in memory of Santos.

Employees have reported seeing the ghosts of a man in the back stairs of the third floor near the freight elevator and a sobbing, tall blonde woman wearing a pink dress in the third-floor women's restroom. They have also said a spirit causes the eighth floor toilets to flush on their own, and a gentleman ghost, donning an old-fashioned suit, has been spotted roaming the pressroom.

Legend says a bus of schoolchildren was crossing the railroad tracks at Villamain and Shane, when it stalled and was hit by a train in the s, killing everyone on board. The nearby streets are said to be named for the victims. Today, the children are said to push vehicles stopped on the tracks to safety, so other motorists avoid their fate. The legend has been disproven — the accident actually happened in Utah in , and the streets are named for the developer's grandchildren — but many motorists visit the tracks every year with talcum powder sprinkled on the back of their car or truck to capture the handprints of the ghostly rescuers.

Pop culture website ElPaso Professional Development. Teaching Moments. Classroom Innovation. Powered by your friends at. Subscribe Now! By submitting you will receive emails from Hey Teach! Beyond the classroom history , holidays. Happy Halloween from the Hey Teach Staff! Beyond the classroom. Spine-chilling accounts include lights switching on and off, apparitions walking up and down the hallways, sounds of rallies coming from the auditorium, and many more paranormal activities occurring at the old gym and tunnels at the school.

Photographic evidence of Ghost Girl dates back decades, including her appearance in the school yearbook. In the photo, everybody looks clear, but there is one girl seen in the second row from the bottom to the right who looks blurry and out of place.

According to the staff at the time, the girl did not appear in the original negative but did appear in the developed photo.

The most active ghost is known as "Uncle Charlie. There is also the "presence" of a little girl and a lady in a white Victorian dress. Outside the home, people have reported seeing the apparition of a "lady in blue," believed to be Octavia Magoffin, the wife of Joseph Magoffin. Visitors to the home have reported being tapped on the shoulder and feeling a cold breeze as they walked through certain spots in the home.

Firefighters who have worked at the station give accounts of feeling a presence behind them as they climb the stairs, feeling a cold sensation as if the ghost passed through their bodies, finding furniture randomly scattered, and seeing the big bay door open by itself.

Aoy Elementary School, a two-story historic building, was a hospital before it became a school. According to employees, La Negrita was a nurse who died in the area near the gym, where a girl's restroom is today. Few have seen her ghost, but she is blamed for the unexplainable noises in the building. Fire Station No. According to firefighters, something keeps the occupant of one particular bed awake at night.

The bed shakes, the blankets are tugged and whoever is in bed is plagued with an annoying cough. None of the firefighters wants to sleep in that bed, so it is designated as a "swing" bed for the firefighters who rotate from station to station. In , tragedy struck when an year-old park employee was killed when a roller-coaster car severed his arm. His ghost is said to be haunting the park, which closed in After writing this column, I received e-mails and phone calls, and some commented online about the article.