The boiler room

Illinois · United States · Execution site

Caretakers working late see a small boy in the boiler room, dressed in the style of the 1940s.

Caretakers at the old grade school in Maroa, Illinois report a small boy in the boiler room late at night.

He is described in very old fashioned clothes, of the 1940s, and others have seen him elsewhere in the building.

The school is old, probably built in the late 1930s or early 1940s.

The dating is worth noting because the clothing matches the building. If he belongs to the school's first years, then he belongs to the first pupils who ever walked into it.

Boiler rooms recur throughout this collection. They are the hottest, noisiest, least visited part of any school, they are where the caretaker works, and they are the one place in the building children were never allowed.

Which is exactly why a child in one is the version that gets remembered.

The building is a school property.

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Where is The boiler room located?

The boiler room is in Illinois, United States.