The gym at Lost Creek

Kentucky · United States · School

Turn off all the lights and walk round the gym fifteen times. The lights come up and a voice tells you to get out.

The instructions at this school in Perry County, Kentucky are precise. Go into the gymnasium, turn off all the lights, and walk around it fifteen times.

The gym lights up again, and a voice tells you to get out.

If you do not leave immediately, the accounts continue.

The man behind it is said to be one of those who built the gym, who was working at the top of the structure and fell, and he was not the only one who fell during the construction.

Eastern Kentucky is coal country and the men who put up buildings here were the same men who worked underground, in an era and an industry with an appalling safety record. Falls during the construction of school gymnasiums are entirely plausible and rarely well recorded.

The school is in use and the building is not open to visitors.

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Where is The gym at Lost Creek located?

The gym at Lost Creek is in Kentucky, United States.