Corriher Lipe Middle School

North Carolina · United States · School

Larry the caretaker was in the boiler room when it blew, in the 1940s. A teacher working late came back to the workroom to find all his rubbish gone.

Corriher Lipe Middle School at Landis, North Carolina lost a caretaker named Larry in the 1940s, when the school boiler exploded while he was in the boiler room.

The account that staff repeat most often comes from a teacher who was in the building alone late at night, cutting paper in the workroom. He heard someone in the corridor and looked out. There was nobody there. He heard it again, and searched the whole school. Still nobody. When he came back to the workroom, all of his rubbish had been taken away.

That is the detail that makes this one stick. A caretaker's job carried on after hours by something nobody could find.

Other reports from teachers working late describe small children heard but never seen, an older man moving along the corridors, and, on more than one occasion, the sound of teaching going on in empty classrooms. Doors slam and objects are moved. None of it is described as hostile, and most of it consists of the school simply carrying on doing what a school does.

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Where is Corriher Lipe Middle School located?

Corriher Lipe Middle School is in North Carolina, United States.