Haunted Schools: Part 1

Believing the Bizarre: Paranormal Podcast

Believing the Bizarre | Paranormal Podcast

Society & Culture, Science, Comedy, Natural Sciences

4.7 • 781 Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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This week, we dive into the dark hallways and shadowy corners of America's most haunted schools just as students head back to class. We explore two particularly eerie Schools: Pocatello High School in Idaho, where urban legends tell of a tragic suicide pact from the 1940s-50s that left one girl hanging from the top lockers (which were subsequently removed), and a ghostly wet child who supposedly drowned in the school's former pool. The campus is also known for phantom piano music echoing through an empty auditorium and unsettling sounds from the theater's changing rooms. Then we discuss the much more historically documented El Paso High School in Texas, built in 1916 over underground tunnels that once served as a morgue during the Spanish flu epidemic. With alleged deaths on campus, sealed-off rooms discovered years later, and even a mysterious figure appearing in a 1985 school photograph, this institution has a deeply troubling past. We also share two compelling anonymous stories from Reddit - one involving a Catholic preschool next to an 1800s cemetery where staff regularly encounter a spirit they call "Mary," and another from an Ohio behavioral school with such intense paranormal activity that it's now being demolished. Patreon⁠⁠: Support Believing the Bizarre and get tons of extra content by joining our Patreon. For updates, news, and extra content, follow Believing the Bizarre on social media: ⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Discord⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Shop Merch⁠⁠: You can rep Believing the Bizarre and buy some unique merch Want to send BTB something? Ship it here: 3570 Executive Drive, Suite 218, Uniontown, Ohio 44685 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:00.4	It's our rumored ghosts really running around your school halls at night?
1:05.9	Can an old building actually keep his memory of the dead?
1:11.6	Have you ever been face-to-face with a ghost on campus? Today we test the believability of haunted schools.
1:16.6	You know, Welcome to Believing the Bazaar.
1:42.5	We're diving to the unknown and the unusual.
1:44.6	And tell you whether or not we find it believable.
1:47.8	School is coming back into session, Tyler.
1:50.7	Awesome. I spent 25 years there. I can't wait to spend another second. That's not an
1:56.1	exaggeration. My master's program, three years. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know how long it took. It took a while. I was there for a good amount of time. But as we all know, summer comes to an end. And this is a time to focus on school again. You get the little ones ready for school. Somebody was like, they did a countdown on Spotify. Like previously, they're like, it's this many days since they haven't done a mimic episode. But somebody else was like, it's been this many days. Tyler's always talking about sports references. Oh, yeah. So let me just add that in here. It was such a cool experience leaving school. And like, because fall is football and you're excited, you know, sports, football.
2:35.8	But it's always like school, too.
2:33.0	It's like a good and a bad. It's like, not that school is inherently bad. But, you know, it's like summer's over. I have to start school. But at least I get football. And but now you just work all the time. I'm such a dog. So it doesn't matter. but so when football comes, it's just, it's just adding football.
2:34.0	Nothing else is coming with it.
2:35.0	That's what's nice about it.
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