Central Elementary, Sparta

Michigan · United States · School

Night cleaners at this old Michigan school report talking, music and footsteps in an empty building, and a short bearded man in the first grade corridor.

The reports at Central Elementary in Sparta, Michigan come from the night shift cleaners, who are the only people in the building when any of it happens.

They describe voices, music playing, footsteps and cold spots. Doors open on their own after being locked and checked. One cleaner felt something touch his arm with nobody near him.

The figure they describe is consistent: a short bearded man, seen a number of times in the first grade corridor.

The building is old and has been altered and extended repeatedly over the years, which is the usual explanation offered for why an institution accumulates this sort of thing.

A short man with a beard is an oddly specific and un-ghostlike description, and it has stayed the same across different cleaners over a long period, which is the part worth recording.

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Where is Central Elementary, Sparta located?

Central Elementary, Sparta is in Michigan, United States.