Believe it or not, legend has it that our school is haunted! Yes, the school you all go to! If you all remember Mrs. Overman, she was the 7th-grade language arts teacher that was obsessed with ghosts! She always read the scariest ghost stories to her class, leaving students horrified! Apparently, supernatural things occurred in her classroom. As she was retiring, Mr. Kuehner had to find someone else to teach 7th-grade language arts alongside Mr. Bender, another fellow teacher. Thankfully, Mrs. Maulick, the learning support teacher at that time, got the job. As Mrs. Maulick was in the classroom (which is now Mrs. Miller’s room), nothing, and I mean nothing supernatural occurred. However, when I would walk in the hallways, I would hear every now and then about a “so-called” ghost in Mrs. Maulick’s room. Then, I got really invested...so, I started investigating. The story goes like this. In the summer of 2019, Mrs. Maulick was moving into her new room. She was getting everything ready for the upcoming year. Ya know, hanging posters and organizing things. As she was at her filing cabinet pulling out random papers and files, someone walked into her classroom which at the corner of her eye happened to look like a human figure. I know what you’re probably thinking, “Why wouldn’t it be a person?” But as Mrs. Maulick turned to greet whoever was there, it disappeared! Like it was just...just gone! Keep in mind that she was the only one at the school and it just so happened to be late at night. Mrs. Maulick was terrified as she quickly gathered all her things and sprinted down the hallway as fast as she could. But it wasn’t over yet! Just as she was running down the hallway, the night bell started to go off! Also, keep in mind that someone had to have physically turned on the night bell, but as I said before, no one was there! As panicked as she was, she kept sprinting to her car and left to go home. A few days later, back in the classroom, Mrs. Maulick was cautious as she did her work. While working, the door connecting Mr. Bender’s room and her room suddenly opened...and Mr. Bender wasn’t even there! Nobody was! Even some custodians have seen and heard some pretty creepy things too, so it wasn’t just Mrs. Maulick. Back in the day, before SVMS was even built, that whole area or piece of land belonged to the Lenape Indian Tribe, also known as Lenni Lenape (which means “true people”). Lenape Indians were in the states of New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and of course, Pennsylvania. Could it just so happen to be that the Lenape Indians somehow haunted the area before we came? And now that our school we go to has been haunted, and we were so unaware?! I’ll keep investigating this and keep you updated, but promise me this; beware of the seventh-grade hallway, for no one will know what secrets it holds…
Thanks for reading.
❤ - Julie
