Dove Hill

California · United States · School

He wears ordinary clothes and a name tag reading Michael T. Teachers working late see him on the basketball courts. He has no face, just flat skin.

The figure reported at this school in San Jose, California appears at night, dressed in ordinary clothes, wearing a name tag that reads Michael T.

He seems like a child in every respect except one. He has no face. Where it should be there is flat skin.

Teachers working late see him on the basketball courts. One approached him.

The faceless figure is an old form and it turns up across many cultures, including the noppera bo of Japanese folklore, which is centuries old. What is unusual here is the name tag, which is a very specific and very modern detail and pulls the whole thing into the world of an American primary school.

A name tag is what a school gives a child on their first day, or on a trip, when nobody knows who they are yet. Attaching one to a figure with no face is the sort of touch a story does not usually manage on its own.

The school is in use.

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Where is Dove Hill located?

Dove Hill is in California, United States.