Woodland School
Pennsylvania · United States · School
A man is said to have burned to death in the basement. Pupils describe him at the windows, and smoke from the stack of a school that no longer burns.
The story pupils at Woodland School in Munhall, Pennsylvania tell concerns a man who burned to death in the basement.
He is described looking out of the windows and moving about the building, and the detail that keeps the story going is the chimney: smoke is reported coming from the stack.
No record has been produced for the death, and it should be read as school folklore.
An addition from November 2003 makes clear how much has grown around it. Alongside the caretaker there is now a second figure that pupils call the smiley face man, which is the sort of accretion that happens when a story is handed down through a school year after year.
A disused boiler stack on an old school building is exactly the kind of object a legend attaches itself to. The school is in use.
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Where is Woodland School located?
Woodland School is in Pennsylvania, United States.
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Accounts are drawn from local folklore and visitor reports.