The Ghosts of the Upper School

By Jack L., Brandon S., Maggie S., and Olivia S.

Unusual things have been happening recently within the Upper School. In Ms. Zamora’s room, mysterious sounds have been coming from the roof. We do not know for sure, but we think that there is a haunting going on. The other day, our sidekicks, Midge and Liver, noticed the lights flickering on Parents’ Day. We think that the ghosts are trying to hypnotize us and turn us into zombies, so that we will obey them and be their minions. The ghost is tampering with the clock and he is trying to make us stay at school longer. Many teachers helped us in our investigation, including Mr. Lilley, Mr. Giggi, Ms. Fri, Ms. Purcell, Mr. Delehaunty, and Mr. Fredo.

            Mr. Lilley said it was probably the ghost of a past Latin teacher. He told us to go down and check out the old building. We are pretty sure that he was just trying to get us to leave him alone.

            Then we went down to Mr. Giggi’s room. Mr. Giggi said that the lights had been flickering and that his printer was going crazy, printing things out that weren’t supposed to be printed. The light sensor wouldn’t go off till he was at his desk.

We then went over to Ms. Fri’s room. She said that there were no strange noises or occurrences, but there were strange people right in front of her. Despite this, she did say that things were disappearing from her room.

Then, we went over to Ms. Purcell’s room… Crazy things happen in this room every night. After school, she always hears noises from her room. Then Harry Potter flew by on his Firebolt. Aside from that, Alice Hudson has been shocked by lights. Ms. Purcell thinks that she is being watched by her dead animals, and they mingle in the middle of the night. She is pretty sure that there is a spirit in the science room. We are pretty sure that this spirit is a dementor, for dementors cannot be seen by muggles. Therefore, we decided that the Ghostbusters crew is a bunch of Squibs.

Our final stop was to Mr. Fredo’s room. We saw him out in the hallway and then we asked him “Have you noticed anything strange going on in the Upper School?”

He then replied, “The only strange things I’ve seen is you guys…”