Yates Elementary School
New York · United States · School
Pupils in Schenectady watched a girl in a brown flowered dress open a locked upstairs door and go through it. Their teacher checked. It was still locked.
The account from Yates Elementary School in Schenectady, New York comes from pupils, and the description they gave is unusually detailed.
They saw a young girl open a door on the upstairs corridor, across from their classroom, and go through it. She had short wavy hair and wore a brown flowered dress that came halfway down her shins, ankle socks and old shoes.
The children told their teacher.
The door is always locked, and the pupils had always assumed it was a cupboard. The teacher went and checked it, and found it locked as usual.
Children are not reliable witnesses about most things, but they are very reliable about clothes, and the period detail in that description is not what a child of the 1990s or 2000s would invent.
The school is in use.
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Where is Yates Elementary School located?
Yates Elementary School is in New York, United States.
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