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Welcome to Hillbilly Horror Stories. And now here's your host, Jerry and Tracy Polly and their dog Ninja.

We're going to confuse everybody but we're going to say welcome to the first edition of the Fear of the Week which is really not but it's the first night that it's its own show.

Just to make myself a little more sane I have to number it to be able to keep up with it.

This is number one opportunity to hear the other four or five or six that was here.

So we're going to start off this edition with we're going to be doing a small story. This one's a different kind of story than what we've talked about some haunted colleges before when the main show and the Patreon bonuses.

I can only think of one high school that we've done and that was from the Native American boarding school in Oklahoma the concho and the boarding school.

So when I can remember I think I kept looking at this one up in El Paso and I still never does story on them. We'll dig that one up eventually.

That school had been closed for several years. The school we're going to talk about tonight though is still open for business.

It's the Hibbing High School in Hibbing Minnesota and it's absolutely gorgeous and you'll find out why in a little bit.

The school was built in 1920 or at least it was started 1920. It was 1922 for it was completely finished and it was built as a trade.

And it's going to take some explaining but you'll see where I'm at here in a second.

I know that seems bizarre so let's go back a bit and learn a little bit about a history and it'll make a little more sense.

So the town of Hibbing started out as a small town known as Superior in 1892.

That's when Frank Hibbing settled in the land. Frank was a minor and he was sitting there exploring the land and he found that the area was loaded with iron which you could use to make steel which was very popular back then.

So within a year Frank moved here and people were flocking to Superior for the opportunity to work in the mines.

I bet. The town was about two square miles in size. That was it.

15 years later the name was changed to Hibbing as a fitting tribute to its founder.

By 1914 the economy was booming. It was at one point called the richest village in the entire world.

Well the Oliver Mining Company which was subsidiary of US Steel was the main company that was there.

The town in 1914 was valued at $84 million. Not bad for a little two square mile town.

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