My name is Sai Wisdom.

On December 19, 1977, a mental patient named Timothy Shaw walked into Secrest Elementary

School in Secrest, Pennsylvania, and murdered a second grade teacher with a chopping axe.

The Shaw murder was the last and a string of unexplained incidents which occurred at

Secrest in the fall and winter of 1977 and earned the school the nickname Horror High.

Here I will tell you the whole story.

In September of 1971, Joseph Tormy died.

Tormy had been the head janitor at Secrest since 1958 and he died of liver cancer.

In early 1977, a younger brother of Tormy's won some money in a state lottery and it was

decided amongst the family that some of the money would go toward the construction of

a family crypt in Evanston, 10 miles north of Secrest.

Three members of the Tormy family were disinterred during the summer and Joseph Tormy's body was

removed from his grave in Secrest Hill on September 10, five days after the school year began.

On Wednesday, the 14th, a city patrol car driving past Secrest at a little past midnight

reported that a light was on in room 21 which fronted the southeast side of the school and

looked out on high-town road.

The officer in the car called the school principal at his home and asked if any staff might

be inside Secrest.

The principal drove three blocks to the school to check on the light as he had a skeleton

key.

When he got to room 21, he discovered the body of Joseph Tormy, propped up in a chair

facing the blackboard.

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