Speaker 1: Welcome to Haunted Road, a production of I Heart Radio
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Speaker 1: When I was a kid, it was a pretty well
Speaker 1: known fact that my elementary school was haunted. And by
Speaker 1: a well known fact, I mean that every single one
Speaker 1: of us second graders was convinced there was a mean
Speaker 1: lady in the girl's bathroom who would appear in the
Speaker 1: mirror behind you. I'm not sure what she did beyond that,
Speaker 1: but that was enough. The teachers, of course, laughed us off.
Speaker 1: But nonetheless, that did not stop us giggling school kids
Speaker 1: from sneaking the lights off on each other, or gathering
Speaker 1: around the mirror and then claiming to see someone behind
Speaker 1: us before squealing and running out the door. It also
Speaker 1: meant when I had to use the restroom during class,
Speaker 1: I'd sneak to the one on the second floor, because
Speaker 1: you know full well I was not going in the
Speaker 1: scary lady bathroom alone. Until one day, when I was
Speaker 1: tiptoeing down the hall headed to my usual secret bathroom upstairs,
Speaker 1: I saw a teacher in the hallway. I had no
Speaker 1: excuse to be going upstairs, and I also actually really
Speaker 1: had to go to the bathroom, which meant I was
Speaker 1: forced to go to the bathroom of doom. I breathed
Speaker 1: heavily and went inside. I could feel my little, panicky
Speaker 1: self getting ready to run, but I put my head
Speaker 1: down and looked at my feet as I scurried into
Speaker 1: a stall. I held my breath and kept my eyes
Speaker 1: on the floor as I did my business. I'd be
Speaker 1: lying if I said I didn't briefly consider skipping the
Speaker 1: hand wash, but even then, germs were scarier to me
Speaker 1: than ghosts, so keeping my head down, I quickly ran
Speaker 1: the water and dispensed some of that weird, pink, powdery
Speaker 1: soap into my hands and rinsed. It was then that
Speaker 1: I let myself stop and slowly look up at the mirror.
Speaker 1: I saw myself. I could still see myself, then with bangs,
Speaker 1: something's never change and something else? Did I see something else?
Speaker 1: Not giving myself time him to answer, I ran out
Speaker 1: of that bathroom quicker than I've ever run from anything
Speaker 1: in my life. I got back to class, chest pounding,
Speaker 1: and tried to pretend nothing happened, because really I don't
Speaker 1: think anything did. But my little mind created a whole
Speaker 1: terrifying world in that moment out of a simple elementary
Speaker 1: school bathroom. Apparently, though, I got off lucky, because since
Speaker 1: then I've investigated a number of haunted elementary schools, some
Speaker 1: still very much in operation, but one that forever holds
Speaker 1: my interest because it defies all logic and reason and
Speaker 1: continues to exhibit some of the strangest and strongest paranormal
Speaker 1: activity I've seen on an ongoing basis is the seventeen
Speaker 1: thousand square foot for our school in Maxwell, Iowa, where
Speaker 1: it turns out that sometimes, yes, if you build it,
Speaker 1: they really do come. I'm Amy Bruney, and this is
Speaker 1: haunted road according to many sources. Unlike many of the
Speaker 1: locations we discuss, for our school doesn't have much of
Speaker 1: a sordid or traumatic history, definitely not anything that would
Speaker 1: warrant the level of haunting. The building is very much
Speaker 1: notorious for having, but the history is interesting nonetheless, and
Speaker 1: I discovered a few tidbits that happened nearby that may
Speaker 1: be contributing to the paranormal activity that goes on there today.
Speaker 1: It's fair to say that Ferrar, Iowa is almost a
Speaker 1: ghost town. How fitting, Today, the unincorporated community in Polk
Speaker 1: County comprises of the unused for our school building and
Speaker 1: one church, as well as thirteen houses. Notably, Ferrar's population
Speaker 1: numbered just forty two people in nineteen and today there's
Speaker 1: a whopping thirty residents. Ferrara owes its development to the
Speaker 1: railroad line that was developed through the area in nineteen
Speaker 1: o two. In nineteen o three, and was consequently named
Speaker 1: in honor of one of the railroad employees involved in
Speaker 1: the creation of that line. A post office was established
Speaker 1: in nineteen o four, and in nineteen nineteen CG. Gettis
Speaker 1: agreed to donate six acres of his farm to merge
Speaker 1: the area's one room country schoolhouses to offer the community
Speaker 1: a larger and more modern facility to the local children.
Speaker 1: The expensive project didn't please everyone in the surrounding community,
Speaker 1: but it won over the majority of folks with a say,
Speaker 1: and with that, the school boards voted and created the
Speaker 1: Washington Township Consolidated School District. On April first, nineteen twenty two,
Speaker 1: the school houses opening was marked by a celebration. There
Speaker 1: was an orchestra welcoming the community to celebrate their proud
Speaker 1: scholastic buildings opening. The school house filled with citizens from
Speaker 1: miles around the orchestra played on stage in the auditorium
Speaker 1: as a banquet served the hundreds in attendance. Not all
Speaker 1: citizens were behind the new building with its one hundred
Speaker 1: thousand dollar price tag. One disgruntled citizen refused to attend
Speaker 1: the celebration, calling it a monument to the arrogance and
Speaker 1: vanity of the school board with its boiler heating, electric
Speaker 1: lights and indoor bathroom facilities. How dare they? There's a
Speaker 1: cemetery across the street that's often mentioned in conjunction with
Speaker 1: the schoolhouse. It's also commonly joked that the cemetery population
Speaker 1: seems to be outpacing the living population in town. It's
Speaker 1: to the immediate west of the Turner Memorial MP Church
Speaker 1: established in nineteen The cemetery is often referred to as
Speaker 1: one hundred fifty years old. The oldest listed death date
Speaker 1: in Ferrara Cemetery is that of Ida Jane Longenecker born
Speaker 1: January eighteen seventy one and died April eleventh, eighteen seventy one. Interestingly,
Speaker 1: the cemetery is still currently active, according to haunting at
Speaker 1: ferrar dot com. On May three, two thousand two, once
Speaker 1: again a band played, a banquet served hundreds in attendants,
Speaker 1: and sadly the eighty year old schoolhouse closed its doors
Speaker 1: for the last time. Seems uneventful, right. I was able
Speaker 1: to discover a few bits of history that could maybe
Speaker 1: have something to do with Ferrar's haunting. So in August
Speaker 1: of nineteen six, fifth grader Nancy Pearson was killed after
Speaker 1: the bicycle she was writing collided with a vehicle on
Speaker 1: Highway sixty four in Ferrar. She had just received the
Speaker 1: bicycle at the beginning of summer and was racing her
Speaker 1: uncle down the street when the accident occurred. She was
Speaker 1: a student at Ferrar and she is buried in the
Speaker 1: cemetery across the street. If you look her up on
Speaker 1: finding grave dot com, you can actually leave virtual flowers
Speaker 1: for her, as I have done. She seems to be
Speaker 1: buried without any family nearby her. When Adam Burry and
Speaker 1: I were investigating Ferrar for an episode of our show
Speaker 1: Kindred spear It, we received snippets of information during a
Speaker 1: spirit box session. They included things like the words farm, knife,
Speaker 1: and April. Using that information, I scoured local news stories
Speaker 1: for anything that would correlate. That's when I found a
Speaker 1: news story about a young man named Terry. Terry's badly
Speaker 1: decomposed body had been found on a farm in close
Speaker 1: proximity of for our school. His body was found in
Speaker 1: April of nineteen and his throat had been slashed with
Speaker 1: a pocket knife. We proceeded to investigate the school while
Speaker 1: bringing up Terry's name, and after many communications using our
Speaker 1: spirit box and various e vps, we theorized that maybe
Speaker 1: his spirit had somehow ended up there. This isn't unusual
Speaker 1: for us. We found spirits tend to wander into heavily
Speaker 1: investigated buildings, especially those who need closure or help, and
Speaker 1: Terry certainly fits that bill. I didn't get to cover
Speaker 1: it on Kindred Spirits it. I was in contact with
Speaker 1: some who knew Terry in life, including a few close relatives.
Speaker 1: To this day, some are trying to solve his murder.
Speaker 1: Others told me everyone knows who did it, but they're
Speaker 1: afraid to say. Either way, it's clear the murder was
Speaker 1: drug related. Terry had already survived being shot multiple times
Speaker 1: on another occasion, and according to close friends, he was
Speaker 1: in a treatment center just before his murder and was
Speaker 1: afraid to leave because he thought he would be killed.
Speaker 1: Despite this, he was released at the end of January
Speaker 1: and was murdered by the end of February. As I
Speaker 1: said before, his body was not found until April. I
Speaker 1: cite that bit of history because we never would have
Speaker 1: discovered it if not for paranormal activity that led us
Speaker 1: to it. So now let's explore some other ghostly reports
Speaker 1: on the site. After sitting abandoned for five years, Jim
Speaker 1: and Nancy Oliver purchased the building in two thousand six.
Speaker 1: It quickly became apparent they were not alone. Voices and
Speaker 1: shadows were witnessed almost immediately. Nancy reports she once became
Speaker 1: unsteady on the stairs when a hand on her shoulder
Speaker 1: helped her catch her balance. She turned to thank her
Speaker 1: husband for the help, only to find no one there.
Speaker 1: On another occasion, the outline of a small boy was
Speaker 1: sighted on the well lit stairway descending into the gymnasium.
Speaker 1: The boy appeared to be about three feet six inches tall,
Speaker 1: with one foot on each step and holding onto the handrail.
Speaker 1: The figure stayed motionless for almost two seconds before disappearing.
Speaker 1: In one of the classrooms, Nancy saw the figure of
Speaker 1: a young girl with a long frilly dress and curly hair,
Speaker 1: and heard the giggle of a child. Even employees on
Speaker 1: site while the school was in operation reported odd happenings.
Speaker 1: While working as the janitor, a gentleman named Bill Webb
Speaker 1: often discovered the gym lights on after hours, even though
Speaker 1: he was sure he had turned them off. He also
Speaker 1: heard noises that sounded like people were walking around on
Speaker 1: the lower floor. In October of a local metal band
Speaker 1: named ghost Hive recorded music inside a classroom. Recording engineer
Speaker 1: Griffin Landa looked away from his computer for just a second,
Speaker 1: and in the next moment, when he turned around and
Speaker 1: looked at his computer screen, it flickered off. Just ten
Speaker 1: seconds later, the screen flashed back on and the volume
Speaker 1: for his headphones skyrocketed. Some apparitions have been seen a
Speaker 1: multitude of times. In addition to the small phantom boy
Speaker 1: on the stairwell, another child has been captured on an
Speaker 1: image sitting on the edge of the auditorium stage. According
Speaker 1: to the Paranormal Investigators of Milwaukee, there are other occurrences
Speaker 1: that happened quite frequently. People have claimed to see a
Speaker 1: shadow figure coming down the steps out of the principal's office.
Speaker 1: A boy was seen exiting the closet in room two
Speaker 1: oh six, the sound of voices has been heard throughout
Speaker 1: the school. Slamming doors have also been heard while nobody
Speaker 1: else is in the building, something I can about for personally,
Speaker 1: having experienced it multiple times while investigating there. Unnatural figures
Speaker 1: have been seen walking the halls, including a nine foot
Speaker 1: tall shadow figure that roams the third floor. Balls have
Speaker 1: been seen rolling around on their own in a classroom
Speaker 1: on the third floor that has now labeled the Ballroom.
Speaker 1: There's another theory, at times complementary to others, of a
Speaker 1: large entity often called the Principle. Johnny Houser, who we
Speaker 1: talked to about the Veliska House, believes that the Principle
Speaker 1: has control of everything in the school and has a
Speaker 1: low tolerance for disorder and chaotic activity inside the building.
Speaker 1: In researching for this episode, we saw the name John
Speaker 1: Tenney come up multiple times. Seems he has been too
Speaker 1: fer our on many occasions and has even performed a
Speaker 1: wedding there. It just so happens. We know that guy,
Speaker 1: so I've asked him to weigh in on what he
Speaker 1: thinks is happening in that strange schoolhouse in the middle
Speaker 1: of Iowa, and that is coming up right after the break.
Speaker 1: All right, So I am sitting here now with my
Speaker 1: dear friend and friend of the show. I feel like
Speaker 1: at this point Mr John Tenny, a cult researcher, great,
Speaker 1: big weirdo, total softie. How's it going, John, Good? How
Speaker 1: are you doing today? I'm good, I'm good. I'm excited
Speaker 1: to talk to you about Ferrar, just because I feel
Speaker 1: like you have a pretty good history with it. You've
Speaker 1: investigated it a few times. You're close enough with Will Conkle,
Speaker 1: who was the gentleman who was on Kindred, that you
Speaker 1: actually didn't you perform his wedding ceremony for he and
Speaker 1: his wife? Yeah? They met she was in a ghost
Speaker 1: group and he was the caretaker, and they met on
Speaker 1: one of her ghost investigations. And then when they got married,
Speaker 1: they decided to get married there. And since I'm ordained,
Speaker 1: they asked if I would come and perform the wedding
Speaker 1: on Halloween. Oh how appropriate. I think that's what the
Speaker 1: plan was for the school initially when the most recent
Speaker 1: folks bought it, was to turn it into an event space,
Speaker 1: which makes sense. It's beautiful, it's in a very beautiful area.
Speaker 1: For me with Ferrar, the thing is that it's so
Speaker 1: strange because it's that schoolhouse that's almost set in the
Speaker 1: middle of nowhere. Oh it is. I think the most
Speaker 1: recent like population count of that town was thirty So
Speaker 1: there's a cemetery across the street that is more populous
Speaker 1: than the town itself. So what has I think a
Speaker 1: lot of people stumped about Ferrar is the fact that
Speaker 1: there's not a lot of dark history. They're not any
Speaker 1: reported deaths that I can find. Although I did find
Speaker 1: a number of obituaries that cited people who were former
Speaker 1: employees who still thought back very fondly on their time there.
Speaker 1: I couldn't find really anything that happened inside the school
Speaker 1: per se. So why do you think it's haunted. I've
Speaker 1: been going to Ferrar. I think the first time I
Speaker 1: investigated there was about nine years ago, and I've been
Speaker 1: there a few times since, and every time I go
Speaker 1: it seems to offer me different experiences. And as a
Speaker 1: person who had my parents and family who were teachers
Speaker 1: and worked in the school system and I did too,
Speaker 1: I feel like for our is continuing to be a school.
Speaker 1: It's a place where you go to learn how to investigate,
Speaker 1: learn how you handle situations that you might not be
Speaker 1: familiar with. It's very strange that the location, which is
Speaker 1: a school, teaches you yeah, I mean, I guess so.
Speaker 1: And it's strange because over time it's almost for lack
Speaker 1: of a better term, spawning different types of experiences, like
Speaker 1: it's ever changing. I think by the time we got there,
Speaker 1: there was this report of this huge shadow figure that
Speaker 1: would appear in one of the rooms, which is do
Speaker 1: you think about that? That's so scary to think about,
Speaker 1: and you're like, how did this become this? Where is
Speaker 1: this coming from? And it's haunted. I mean we walked
Speaker 1: in and within five minutes we were hearing doors slam upstairs.
Speaker 1: We were trying to film, just doing the normal tour
Speaker 1: just to get info. And so it's just taken on
Speaker 1: this life of its own. And but really people have
Speaker 1: only been investigating it, I want to say, since the
Speaker 1: like two thousand six, I think is when they bought
Speaker 1: it or when it closed somewhere in there. I went there,
Speaker 1: I had heard stories about this tall, foreboding figure that
Speaker 1: was there, and the first night that I investigated, I
Speaker 1: saw what I thought was a very tall figure, but
Speaker 1: to me, it seemed like it had was in silhouette
Speaker 1: form and it seemed to have two heads, one up
Speaker 1: on top where a head should be, and then one
Speaker 1: almost at stomach level. And it was the craziest thing
Speaker 1: that I saw, and I sketched it and drew it,
Speaker 1: and after I investigated, internalized it and tried to think
Speaker 1: it and figure it out. And maybe a year later
Speaker 1: I saw randomly on television. I was just watching a
Speaker 1: television program and I watched the principle of a school
Speaker 1: walk a student out in front of them, and they
Speaker 1: had their hands on the child's shoulders and the child's
Speaker 1: head was at stomach level. And I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's what I saw. I didn't see one thing with
Speaker 1: two heads. I saw two entities standing looking at me,
Speaker 1: and one was just standing behind the other. Okay, that
Speaker 1: kind of gives me some interesting theories or ideas. First
Speaker 1: of all, the principal like, there isn't a entity there.
Speaker 1: They have nicknamed the principle, So I wonder if that's
Speaker 1: who you saw. They there is someone there that they
Speaker 1: give they've given that name to. But it also reminds
Speaker 1: me of as a child I wasn't I wasn't really
Speaker 1: a troublemaker until I was in high school, but before
Speaker 1: that there were a couple of times as a child
Speaker 1: where I did get in trouble, and I do remember
Speaker 1: getting caught once doing something I can't it's so silly.
Speaker 1: I was wadding up toilet paper and getting it wet
Speaker 1: and throwing it on the ceiling of the bathroom, and
Speaker 1: I thought that was great fun. And I remember getting caught,
Speaker 1: and I remember the extreme stress that went with that,
Speaker 1: like I felt awful, and I do remember being walked
Speaker 1: down the hallway. I do remember. And to make matters worse,
Speaker 1: my grandmother worked there at the time, and so for
Speaker 1: some reason, my grandfather showed up and he was going
Speaker 1: to see my grandma at lunch, and so he saw me.
Speaker 1: They had put me in the hallway, like standing in
Speaker 1: the corner, because that's what they did when we were kids.
Speaker 1: And that I wonder if there's something to the idea
Speaker 1: that that moment, that energy, that like feeling of just
Speaker 1: such dread, if that alone could still be there, not
Speaker 1: necessarily the spirits of someone, but that kind of imprint
Speaker 1: for sure. I mean, when I was trying to figure
Speaker 1: out my experience, I thought, oh, maybe it is the
Speaker 1: kind of combined dread and fear that kids feel in
Speaker 1: school when they've done something wrong, and maybe that somehow
Speaker 1: has permeated the building. But then I also felt too,
Speaker 1: if there was something that people call the principle in there,
Speaker 1: if it gave the air of a principle, then most
Speaker 1: kids do feel a kind of dread and terror and
Speaker 1: nervousness and excitement when that figure is around. And if
Speaker 1: that figure is still in there giving off that sense impression,
Speaker 1: maybe that's what we're picking up. And since we can
Speaker 1: only relate it to being young and not understanding and
Speaker 1: the fear of being young and the fear of being punished,
Speaker 1: we sense it as something bad, but it's really just
Speaker 1: something doing its job. I mean, that's something to think about.
Speaker 1: There's another report of a teacher in one of the
Speaker 1: rooms they even still I think they've called it her room,
Speaker 1: and spence along, I can't remember what her name is,
Speaker 1: And it's along those same lines, like there's a teacher
Speaker 1: in there doing their job, and so is there actually
Speaker 1: a teacher and they're doing their job or is it
Speaker 1: our conception of a teacher and they're doing their job
Speaker 1: that it is an interesting theory. When I was there,
Speaker 1: I thought it one of the experiences that I had
Speaker 1: that is actually recorded. I have the entire thing on
Speaker 1: video is I was doing an e VP session and
Speaker 1: my recorder wouldn't work, and I tested my recorder. I
Speaker 1: went outside and checked the batteries and tested it and
Speaker 1: it worked. I went back inside and it wouldn't work.
Speaker 1: And I literally stood in right behind the doors and
Speaker 1: inside the school, and the recorder wouldn't work. And if
Speaker 1: I leaned out and pressed record, it would work. And
Speaker 1: it was almost as if something in the school was saying, like,
Speaker 1: you can't do that in here, like it was turning
Speaker 1: my recorder off. Mm hmm. Yeah, there's rules. There are
Speaker 1: rules in a school. You can't play with a recorder
Speaker 1: while you're in class. What are you doing anything. We
Speaker 1: were doing a lot of research when we investigated, They're
Speaker 1: just trying to find something associated with the building. We
Speaker 1: did get some really interesting facts come from a spirit box.
Speaker 1: And then later I found a story nearby that correlated
Speaker 1: with these facts. We got the month of April and
Speaker 1: it said farm and then it said hutch or knife
Speaker 1: something along those lines. I could be misremembering, But then
Speaker 1: I found the story of this young man named Terry
Speaker 1: who was found murdered in a field very nearby a school,
Speaker 1: and obviously you can that's such a small town that
Speaker 1: shook things up, and so it led me to believe
Speaker 1: somehow he found his way into the school. I don't
Speaker 1: know if you even knew about this, but did you
Speaker 1: have any experiences with something that might fit that bill
Speaker 1: or might be terry. When I investigated there, I think
Speaker 1: the second or third time there seemed to be an
Speaker 1: individual or an entity in the school that wasn't associated
Speaker 1: with the school, and I could never figure that out.
Speaker 1: I've often thought about for our that I still think
Speaker 1: about it because it is such a strange place, and
Speaker 1: I did learn some weird ideas there. I really do
Speaker 1: feel like because it's in that location, because it's so
Speaker 1: far away from everything else, and because for so long
Speaker 1: people have not only gone to school there, they had
Speaker 1: parties and dances and the entire all the surrounding population
Speaker 1: would go there and celebrate because it was the big
Speaker 1: building that you could do things in. And I almost
Speaker 1: feel like if that gentleman died nearby, he would be like, oh,
Speaker 1: the school is a safe place for me to go. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And so when I found out later this was when
Speaker 1: I was researching there, I started reaching out to people
Speaker 1: who I knew this person, including his brother, and so
Speaker 1: basically what happened was he spent time in a treatment
Speaker 1: center and he didn't A woman wrote me on Facebook
Speaker 1: who knew him because her brother in law was in
Speaker 1: this treatment center at the same time. And apparently this
Speaker 1: kid was very scared to leave because he thought he
Speaker 1: was going to be killed that he and so he
Speaker 1: was within days of them making him leave, and his
Speaker 1: body wasn't found for months later. So if there was
Speaker 1: anyone who would be looking for a safe place, I
Speaker 1: feel like he would fit the bill. Yeah, for sure. Again,
Speaker 1: as someone who grew up with family that worked in
Speaker 1: the school, then working in the school myself. Let's I
Speaker 1: can't tell you how many times we had kids that
Speaker 1: and even not even kids, some adults when if someone
Speaker 1: was in a strange car or if there was a
Speaker 1: stranger in the neighborhood, kids would come to the school
Speaker 1: because they knew it was safe in the school. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and he was only nineteen or twenty, so there was
Speaker 1: a very good chance he even went to Ferrar at
Speaker 1: some point, so who knows. But yeah, it's interesting because
Speaker 1: it is such a small town and there's really nothing around.
Speaker 1: I can't stress this enough. You are in the middle
Speaker 1: of nowhere. It does kind of stand out because there
Speaker 1: aren't really many big buildings like that, And even when
Speaker 1: it was built there was there was some commotion about
Speaker 1: like how ostentatious it was, as they said, um for
Speaker 1: you know, what they needed, because I think at the
Speaker 1: time it was like a hundred thousand dollars, which was
Speaker 1: very expensive. They struggled to find students at one point too,
Speaker 1: they were literally busting them in from other districts to
Speaker 1: kind of fill this big space. And so I don't
Speaker 1: know what I'm quite getting at from that. I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: I guess I just it stands out. It does stand
Speaker 1: as a bit of a beacon in the in the
Speaker 1: middle of all this kind of corn all these cornfields,
Speaker 1: for sure. And you know, the first time I went in,
Speaker 1: we go to so many places as investigators that don't
Speaker 1: look the way that they looked when they were in operation.
Speaker 1: And for Art still looks like a school inside and out.
Speaker 1: It smells like a school. You walk inside, and it's
Speaker 1: got that that very distinct smell that you're like, I'm
Speaker 1: not sure if this is comforting or if this is
Speaker 1: bringing back memories that I don't want to think about.
Speaker 1: There's literally like art projects still up on the walls,
Speaker 1: there are books still on the shelves, like you could
Speaker 1: just walk in and conduct a class tomorrow if you
Speaker 1: wanted to. Yeah, And I think that familiarity really does
Speaker 1: draw entities sometimes that it might be confused or looking
Speaker 1: for something that seems like something they might remember. Now,
Speaker 1: what about the investigations. Do you think that is affecting things?
Speaker 1: I have felt that, at least in my investigations, Farrar
Speaker 1: has always seemed more active during the day when school
Speaker 1: would have been in session. I feel like at night
Speaker 1: you might encounter a stray teacher or a janitor, or
Speaker 1: perhaps some rampunctious kids. And I'm speaking entity wise, but
Speaker 1: I always feel like it was a lot like at
Speaker 1: night when I investigated. To get some type of activity,
Speaker 1: I would have to do something that was almost like
Speaker 1: being a naughty child. I would have to run through
Speaker 1: the hallways and slam the lockers and go into the
Speaker 1: principal's office and do things that would get some attention
Speaker 1: from a person being in a school at night. But
Speaker 1: when I investigated there during the day, it seemed like
Speaker 1: it was very active because it seemed like school was
Speaker 1: in session. M hmm. Don't think I ever investigated there
Speaker 1: during the day, but I had activity there during the day,
Speaker 1: So that's interesting that you say that. And the activity
Speaker 1: I got did sound like doors slamming and thin like
Speaker 1: it did sound like something in session. And I feel
Speaker 1: like maybe at night when people are investigating, the activity
Speaker 1: is more maybe imposing, because maybe whoever whatever is there
Speaker 1: is like it's nighttime, you're not supposed to be here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's the night shift custodian or like I said, a
Speaker 1: straight teacher, that's they're finishing up work. Yeah, the I know.
Speaker 1: Like that gym area, it's so funny because like they
Speaker 1: they have it has a very large gym. That area
Speaker 1: was the kind of although I didn't have a lot
Speaker 1: of activity there, that was the area that I had
Speaker 1: to go to buy myself a lot because the bathrooms
Speaker 1: were down there, and I do remember not really enjoying that,
Speaker 1: just that Jim felt very um. I don't know, there's
Speaker 1: something odd about the gym. I don't know what it was.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you had any experiences there. And
Speaker 1: then the bathroom itself, and no one wants to feel
Speaker 1: like they're being watched in the bath room, but I
Speaker 1: definitely felt like I was being watched in the bathroom there.
Speaker 1: The gym area is was strange for me because there's
Speaker 1: a door that leads off into the furnace area where
Speaker 1: like janitors would probably go, and whenever I was in
Speaker 1: the gym, I always got a weird sensation that there
Speaker 1: was someone in that kind of janitorial furnace room. The
Speaker 1: upstairs that has the auditorium. When I was there during
Speaker 1: the day doing investigations, standing up on stage and doing
Speaker 1: parts of plays and singing, the activity that was in
Speaker 1: the auditorium was very positive, as if someone was responding
Speaker 1: to me doing what I was supposed to be doing
Speaker 1: in the auditorium. But when I did that at night,
Speaker 1: it really was unhappy that I was doing it. That is,
Speaker 1: I would really like to see what your performance was
Speaker 1: like in the auditorium, like what were you doing? Were
Speaker 1: you reciting Shakespeare like I was doing some I brought
Speaker 1: a book of poetry and read poetry, and I did
Speaker 1: a little Frank Sinatra song and I had a recorder.
Speaker 1: I investigated it. Chad Lindbergh investigated with me there and
Speaker 1: he sang songs and did parts from play. He went
Speaker 1: full on actor on the auditorium and got responses. That
Speaker 1: is clever. Now that makes me want to go back
Speaker 1: and try again during the day because I just I
Speaker 1: think I did a lot of research in there during
Speaker 1: the day, and that's when I want to hear things
Speaker 1: happening around me. But I guess I was being studious.
Speaker 1: I was behaving. Yeah, you weren't being bad for once.
Speaker 1: For once, I was behaving. That is. I feel like
Speaker 1: it actually went up for sale recently, and now it's
Speaker 1: not anymore, because like I, I checked it right before
Speaker 1: I got on this call with you, and I was like,
Speaker 1: can we buy Ferrar? Is this a possibility? But it
Speaker 1: looks like it's been taken off the market. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I knew it had gone up for sale. I didn't
Speaker 1: know if it was still up for sale or not,
Speaker 1: but I was thinking about it to be because there
Speaker 1: is something really strange about that place that draws you
Speaker 1: to it and randomly throughout my days and I will
Speaker 1: just have straight thoughts about Ferrar. And I was a
Speaker 1: bad student all through school, and it's I find it
Speaker 1: strange that I still think about that school, probably more
Speaker 1: than my own. Yeah, that's interesting. Yeah, you'd have been
Speaker 1: drawn back there a number of times, so there's got
Speaker 1: to be some reason to it. There are no accidents.
Speaker 1: As they say, is there anything else about Ferrara? You
Speaker 1: think our listeners might want to hear about any other
Speaker 1: crazy experiences or thoughts. I will tell you this is
Speaker 1: a slightly funny story. But when I was investigating for
Speaker 1: the show Ghost Stalkers, at the end of every location
Speaker 1: that we investigated, as we drove away, I would jokingly
Speaker 1: and the whole crew knew this. They would get to
Speaker 1: the point where they would say, do it tenny, And
Speaker 1: as I was driving away, I would very almost ungraciously
Speaker 1: say goodbye to the location, and it was very humorous
Speaker 1: and very funny. And when I investigated ferrar during that time,
Speaker 1: on the last night, the last investigation, the last e
Speaker 1: VP session, the response that I got on my recorder
Speaker 1: was a voice not mine, giving me the exact same,
Speaker 1: not appropriate language, telling me goodbye. Interesting. Well, I have
Speaker 1: always since there was something a little sassy there, so well,
Speaker 1: good well, maybe sometime we'll get to go back and
Speaker 1: investigate it together. That would be really fun. Tell me, now,
Speaker 1: what are you up to? Where can people find you?
Speaker 1: What's going on in the world of Tenny? I do
Speaker 1: a weekly podcast called What's Up Weirdo, where I talked
Speaker 1: to my friend Jessica. It's just a conversation between two friends.
Speaker 1: My website is weird Lectures dot com and all of
Speaker 1: my social media is John E. L. Tenney Fantastic. I
Speaker 1: love the podcast. I love listening to you guys. It
Speaker 1: makes me feel happy because you two are such good friends,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, feel like I'm hanging out with you
Speaker 1: because I miss you, guys. That's what it was. That's
Speaker 1: what it was meant for. Yes, so well, thank you
Speaker 1: so much for taking the time. I appreciate it, and
Speaker 1: hopefully I will be seeing you very soon. You know,
Speaker 1: if a place has firmly planted itself in the research
Speaker 1: brain of John Tenny, something weird is going on there.
Speaker 1: For our school defies logic, but really doesn't the idea
Speaker 1: of ghosts in general defy all logic. I'd need to
Speaker 1: investigate a lot more at the school to get any
Speaker 1: sort of handle of what's drawing the activity to it.
Speaker 1: But I wonder if being one of the loan substantial
Speaker 1: buildings in the middle of acres of corn fields and
Speaker 1: houses that are sometimes miles apart. Could the school be
Speaker 1: some sort of beacon to wandering souls? The school at
Speaker 1: self never seemed to fit there, being such a large
Speaker 1: structure in a town of forty people. It was so
Speaker 1: big that students had to be bussed there from other
Speaker 1: districts just to keep it in operation. It closed not
Speaker 1: because it was falling apart, but because the community just
Speaker 1: didn't need it. They were tired of bussing over two
Speaker 1: kids from another district every day, so they built a bigger,
Speaker 1: newer facility and moved them all there. So for our school,
Speaker 1: defying all the odds, a school that some never wanted
Speaker 1: but that the community grew to love and rally around,
Speaker 1: now stands quiet and vacant, say for the occasional event
Speaker 1: or paranormal team passing through the building patiently awaits its
Speaker 1: next incarnation. I'm Amy Brunei and this was Haunted Road.
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Speaker 1: catch our investigation of for Our School on Kindred in
Speaker 1: season four, episode one. Haunted Road is a production of
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Speaker 1: The podcast is written and hosted by Amy Bruney. Executive
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