Haunted Colleges I: Chopticon High School, Morganza, (Maryland)

The high school of Chopticon, in Morganza , aims to prepare its students for university, while promoting independence, responsibility and academic excellence in students who Curiously, they have to live every day also with the presence of a ghost.

Maybe it's just a legend, a rumor that has been maintained over time in each one of the student promotions that graduate every year in Chopticon.Young people love these topics, there is no doubt , and the day to day in an institute becomes more distracted if they feed These ideas, these fears that instill in turn the new students who reach the first course.Maybe.

Anyway, this secondary school is considered today as one of the most "haunted" of the entire United States.We explain why.

A terrible murder...

Like all his stories Ria de fantasmas, the origin of the supernatural has its starting point in something dramatic: in a crime .We are in 1983, classes are about to end and Chopticon is practically empty in the evenings.Students have finished their schedule, and the classrooms, lie in silence after another day of work.

It is common that during these times before the end of the course, some professors correct exams in the afternoon or preparing the notes that they will give to their students shortly.This is what the young professor Mrs.Heather was doing. Focused on her homework and duties, she did not give importance to those who approached by the hallway to his classroom.

Haunted Colleges I: Chopticon High School, Morganza, (Maryland)

He was Mr. Lester Broome, whom they had hired to carry out maintenance tasks In the center, the reason why the young Heather slashed that summer afternoon was never discovered... But he did it .After killing her, he dragged her through the corridors to leave her locked in a bathroom.Something pointless, since the blood left along the ground, already gave a brutal clue about what happened. Inconceivable...

Lester Broome was convicted and imprisoned.It is rumored that he was in love with Heather and that, in view of the continuing denials by the teacher, this man decided to end his life cruelly. The whole center was shocked in those 80s .Students, teachers and the victim's own family, could never forget what happened...

A female presence in the classrooms

Has never hurt anyone.he asks for nothing, his cries and his cries are not heard.His appearance is not threatening either.The ghost that roams the Chopticon school is in returned in sensations and also in smells.Students say that there are certain parts of the school where sadness and sorrow "suffocate ".It is an uncomfortable discomfort that becomes more intense when one enters the bathroom where the teacher was abandoned, already lifeless.

Haunted Colleges I: Chopticon High School, Morganza, (Maryland)

Many students have passed through Chopticon and, despite the hustle and bustle, routines, nervous and restless life of all young people, there is something that everyone intuits: the pain. The classroom, the hall and the bathroom where the crime was staged are those areas where, sometimes, a female shadow can be seen wandering around.

There are days, when all the students are in the classes, when heels are heard passing through the hallway.When they open the doors, they see nothing, they see no one, but as many explain, one can feel "a perf ume »of a woman.We could say that Mrs Heather is not a threatening ghost, according to some experts on the subject.What she feels in Chopticon school is a « emotional footprint ».It is the echo of a tragedy, the imprint of a brutal and heartbreaking pain of a woman whose life was taken violently ahead of time.

Haunted Colleges I: Chopticon High School, Morganza, (Maryland)

And that, that trace of sadness, pain and helplessness , is what you can still feel and see yourself in this school.Something really curious.What is your opinion? If you liked this story we will return shortly with another haunted school.Meanwhile, we invite you to visit Loftus Hall, a haunted house in Ireland.

Image: claudio scallop, Kevin Dooley

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